What's been added
recently?
Play Breaking Away online
Lord knows how long Board Space has been offering players the
opportunity to play
the game online, but they are. Chances are, they even wrote to us
and asked permission.
A Canadian stockist
We have to admit we are not really set up for bulk orders here at
Fiendish Towers. It's not that every game is hand-crafted by cunning
gnomes, but we do assemble each game as each order comes in.
Anyway, Racing Line Hobbies of Ontario has shown the patience of
Job in waiting for us to fulfil what for us is a biggish order.
From about March 2016 onwards they should have Breaking
Away in stock and some extra teams as well, so check them out if
you are ordering from t'other side of the Atlantic.
Some nifty paintwork
Some people have the patience, skill and eyesight to paint
their Breaking Away cyclist counters. Steve Holmes is one of them.
Web site overhaul
The web site has been given a long overdue overhaul. It still looks
like it was designed in the nineties by someone still living in the
seventies, but what the hey?
Mind your language
The rant about people who cannot pronounce the letter H correctly
has probably elicited more feedback than anything I have written since
the infamous vasectomy article I did for Take That You Fiend!
magazine.
I've updated the comments section at the bottom of the article and
sneaked - not snuck - in a few new abuses of the English language that
are doing my nut in.
Price increases
The Royal Mail was privatised/sold for a song back in October 2013,
since when UK postal prices have soared almost as fast as the chief
executive's remuneration.
We've held prices back for as long as we can but in some cases
recently it has cost us more to post the game than the amount we are
receiving for it, so the prices have been increased.
Breaking Away resources
We have some rules
for Breaking Away in Italian. Our thanks go to Leonardo Loria for
doing the translation. Check out the fantastic version of the board he
has made, as well!
We once sold a batch of games thanks to a mention in Cycling
magazine and as most of these purchasers are unlikely to be regular
gamers, it has finally prompted me to write a quick
guide to the first couple of turns of Breaking Away.
On the resources
page we have added some very nice colour game aids: an A4 colour
movement log sheet and an A4 colour Sprint Cards sheet. Both are in
PDF format. Beware, the Sprint Cards file is about 5Mb in size.
I only wish I could remember who sent these to us about 3 years
ago, so I could credit them. If it was you, please get in touch!
A FEW MORE FAQs
We have added a few more Frequently
Asked Questions to the Breaking Away section. I really need to
rewrite the rules and put a few more examples in.
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