AoS Team is the publishing moniker used by French designers Alban Viard and Ludovic Gimet for their Age of Steam expansions. In 2008 American Michael Webb also became a member of the team. The maps they produce are self-published, and are released in small print runs which are predominantly made available at Essen, although efforts are generally made to make releases available in North America in some form. In a general sense, AoS Team is committed to publishing creative new maps that feature significant changes from the AoS base game. As a result, most of the maps released by AoS Team are intended for experienced players.