Comments on: Tom Lehmann

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 26 May 2007 23:56:02 +0000

Tom is indeed a gentlemen, and both those games (along with CMC) are on my must buy list this summer.

By: Mikko Saari

Mikko Saari — Thu, 24 May 2007 09:15:11 +0000

The Rio Grande distribution deal is a boon, getting JKLM Games would be hard otherwise. I hope it also means stricter quality control, as the graphic design of JKLMgGames has been pretty horrible so far.
William, the difference between us is the fact I don’t enjoy Zavandor quite a lot =) The one time I played, we ended up having a rather long-winded discussion on how it should be improved (which was fun, so in the end it wasn’t that bad) — Tom seems to have dealt with most of the issues we had.

By: William Attia

William Attia — Wed, 23 May 2007 20:44:11 +0000

Thanks for the nice words about Caylus Magna Carta, although that’s not the topic of my comment
I have had the chance to meet Tom at the Gathering last month, and I played both Phoenicia and Race for the Galaxy there. For some reason I haven’t appreciated my only play of Phoenicia as much as I thought I would — I haven’t played Outpost, but enjoy Zavandor quite a lot, and Phoenicia seems to fix several of its problems. Maybe I just didn’t like losing the game that badly, and I will like it better once I play it again — which I will definitely do.
As for Race for the Galaxy, it is definitely the best game I have played in 2007 so far (even though I have lost badly most of the time).
And Tom is a very, very nice person, too.

By: Linnaeus

Linnaeus — Wed, 23 May 2007 18:51:01 +0000

Yeah, I think Phoenicia is going to be a must buy for me, as well. I need to get onto JKLM Online and give it a try before it comes out just to confirm.
I’m really glad Rio Grande came to a distribution deal with JKLM. There have been a few games out of JKLM that I’ve been interested in, and until now they’ve been hard to get. If I’d had to gice Phoenicia a pass because of it, it would have been a real shame.