What board games are you BUYING?

Jackwraith wrote: ... most of the other (sadly now dissolved) Prospero Hall output.

I've been out of the loop for a little while, what happened to Propsero Hall?

Also;

NOT BUYING: A copy of Camp Grizzly and expansions popped up on a local FB buy/sell page. My excitement to quickly nab it was brutally murdered when I saw the $900 (US $550) asking price.

Kmann wrote:

Jackwraith wrote: ... most of the other (sadly now dissolved) Prospero Hall output.

I've been out of the loop for a little while, what happened to Prospero Hall?

Funko sold the back catalog to Goliath, and most of the staff was not kept on. It's like buying the Harlem Globetrotters but firing all of the players.

Talk about a bad move.

A friend gave some expansions to the DC Deck-Building after hearing how much my boys enjoy it, but it’s been a lot of not buying otherwise.

Visited a few stores this weekend and held Sail, Earthborne Rangers and Green Team Wins in my hands at some point. I’ve heard great things about all of them and am sure I would enjoy them as well, but I put them all back. I already have Fox in the Forest Duet, the Arkham Horror LCG and Just One. Are these new games really going to supplant them? I’ve been playing a lot of Dominion and Hansa Teutonica lately, and it just shows the emptiness of variety.

I’m holding onto a lot of games on the chance they excite my boys, but I really feel I could cull down to 20 or so and be completely happy.

DarthJoJo wrote: I’m holding onto a lot of games on the chance they excite my boys, but I really feel I could cull down to 20 or so and be completely happy.

Good luck with that, my kids could not give a fuck about board games.

I bought all of Brewmeister's holdings of Nightfall. And I also started looking for bookshelves for my games. There's an unholy pile in my office that needs a bookshelf to call home.

Picked up the new Feast for Odin reprint. Expensive but I'm a big fan of Arles and some of his other games solo.

Recently picked up a couple of decent deals on FB boardgame groups, these are pretty reliable and safe in the UK and people are happy to be paid with Paypal for further protection:
Clash of Cultures with the Civilizations expansion
Fallout with both expansions
Both games are quite good, not ones I'd grab for a first choice play but decent designs that I will play.

Earlier this year also picked for very good prices:
Reichbusters
Civilization: A New Dawn plus expansion
Unsettled with all expansions
Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth plus a few expansions

That'll keep me busy for a year or so ... and then there's some big kickstarters as well. I have a new club to visit and a new group I host for so I have games to keep me going for quite a few years now.

I finally found the Arkham Nights promotional Great Old Ones for 2e Arkham Horror at a good price. My collection is complete.

This month I won a near-complete collection of Millennium Blades from a BGG Geeklist giveaway. It's the base game, Set Rotation, Collusion, and all but one of the mini-expansions. I didn't even have to pay for shipping! I found out I won a couple days before Level 99 had their reprint Kickstarter for the game, which I was going to back if it wasn't for this. I already love the game and was incredibly lucky to get this, so I bought a crap ton of sleeves to protect this. It's all around 2400 cards, so I spent about 7 hours over a week-and-a-half to sleeve them all. No regrets. I now have a spare copy of the base game I plan to give to one of my friends when we meet up at GenCon this year. It's in my top 5 games of all time so this will get play, especially as the storage the Collusion expansion comes with (two TI4-sized boxes with organized dividers), while bulky, will make it easier to sort and set things up.

That's a great prize! My Millennium Blades has been shelf toading for a LONG time. I can't get anyone interested in trying it.

If memory serves, you don't like TTS right? I pitched it to some of my friends who already enjoy CCGs that it's basically a love letter to them. To my non-card gamer friends, I said it is a real-time tableau builder with loads of zany effects. It also helps that my friends love Argent so them learning it's the same studio makes them interested.

If you ever get to play it. have it set up ahead of time. There is a crap ton of cards to sort and shuffle together.

I've played it before. It's just been a long time. And I do not enjoy TTS, it makes every game take 2x as long. So Millennium Blades would be unbearable.

I found a copy of 2012 Power Grid at the thrift store, nabbing it moments after it was placed on the shelf, for three American dollars. Then I traded it plus 15 bucks for a copy of Space Hulk: Death Angels, because everyone on this site keeps raving about it, like ketamine raving, and I am essentially a sheep. But then my OCD friend found out there were five pieces missing from Power Grid, so I just paid him the difference (another $25) and will part out Power Grid to offset the cost. Edit: I found some replacement cubes that don't match but will work with Power Grid.

Death Angel is a fantastic game, you made a good choice. One thing: if you're plating it solo the rules say to play with 3 teams (6 marines). Turns out with the way the spawning math works, this is one of the harder configurations. I highly recommend you start with 4 teams (8 marines) instead. The game is still hard, but much more forgiving.