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11 Jul 2024 20:20 - 11 Jul 2024 20:22 #342600 by Cranberries

cdennett wrote: 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.


I think I can get the Mission Pack for $30 at a 2nd and Charles near me.
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12 Jul 2024 12:03 #342607 by cdennett

Cranberries wrote: I think I can get the Mission Pack for $30 at a 2nd and Charles near me.

Sounds like a steal to me, I'd grab it if you can. If you end up not liking the game, you'll easily get your money back when you pass it on.
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21 Jul 2024 10:20 - 21 Jul 2024 14:22 #342633 by southernman
I'm continuing to pick up games if they show up for a very good price, they will get played ... sometime (or be sold way in the future without any, or much of a, loss):
Claustrophobia
Arkham Horror: TCG + Dunwich Legacy Cycle
Eldritch Horror + 2 Expansions
Frostpunk + Frostlander Exp
Undaunted: North Africa
War Of The Ring: TCG

I do have a (small) pile for sale, just been too busy to post and manage, and am being very careful with Kickstarters (only backed two this year) so not too crazy on the "games in" front.
I am getting games played with a small group from the new club so that is my defence for this mild accumulation.
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22 Jul 2024 10:33 #342641 by Rliyen
Thanks to a helpful BGG,er, I was able to pick up the Shadow of the Horned Rat Expansion for CitOW.

Rliyen is PLEASED. YES YES!

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25 Jul 2024 14:27 #342659 by Gary Sax
That thing might as well be a box made of gold.
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03 Aug 2024 01:59 #342706 by SuperflyPete
I got a copy of Lords of Baseball coming, which is easily the best sports game I've ever played. Absolutely stellar.

Also, got Duelosaur Island, I like the OG a lot and this has the same feel for 2P. Very happy with the purchase.
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03 Aug 2024 04:39 #342708 by Nodens
Great to See you posting again Pete. This place could use a bit more life
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04 Aug 2024 00:29 - 04 Aug 2024 00:32 #342713 by Cappster_
Picked up the English release of Comic Hunters today. I had heard a little about it, mainly from Tom Vassel, but today, I stumbled onto some pictures on BGG.

Yall. Never in my life have I been so motivated to drive to a big-box store to impulse-buy a game. Comic Hunters kicked me square in the nostalgic hangles. It's essentially a set collection game, with four mini-games to keep the set collecting interesting. One is a standard draft, one is a Coloretto knock-off, and one is a standard bid-then-pass auction. The fourth one is the kinda unique one. But in the end, you're just trying to have the best set of symbols at the end of the game.

But the art. The art is a collection of Marvel comic covers. And they did a solid job selecting the covers. Some of my absolute favorite covers from my favorite artists are included. There are a few Walt Simonson Thors, particularly the Beta-Ray Bill's first appearance. Spider-Man #1, from Todd McFarland. There is lots of good stuff that most people with a passing knowledge of Marvel Comics would recognize.

Anyway. I have a copy now.
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04 Aug 2024 16:46 #342719 by hotseatgames
I was at Gen Con for 2 days, and for the first time in my Gen Con history, did not buy a board game. I looked at several, but EVERY SINGLE TIME was shut down by the following:

1. Insanely expensive prices, often for things I could get for less on Amazon and then wouldn't have to carry.
2. Enormous boxes that would have been impossible to carry around, and the con is so goddamn big I was forced to park many blocks away
3. Campaigns, campaigns, campaigns. Who has the time for this shit? Give me a good single session game with lots of replay.
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04 Aug 2024 17:20 #342721 by charlest
Funny enough, this was the first year in a long time that I actually bought something. The two Eclipse 2nd Dawn expansions were included in a bundle at half off the retail price. Hard to say no to that.
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05 Aug 2024 14:06 #342733 by KingPut
I played Lords of Baseball twice at WBC. Once 4 players and once 3 players. It was a lot of fun. It should scales well with any number of players. The guy in our group that owns the game bought the expansion so we could play it with up to 8 players. I'm worried about longer term replay value of the game so I see playing this only once maybe twice a year.
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06 Aug 2024 11:14 #342736 by cdennett
I also mostly avoided purchases at GenCon. I just picked up Jenna Felli's latest stuff, but otherwise just bought some t-shirts and crap tonne of dice for my son, as it was his first GenCon. I did, however, decide to buy some stuff online after demoing it at the hall, so not sure if that counts or not...
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31 Aug 2024 13:32 #342843 by southernman
Carrying on picking up a few games when found for a good/excellent price but sold a small bundle as well for more than I have spent, so both boxes on shelves and expenditure going in the right direction.

Sold (for very good prices):
Descent: Journeys in the Dark (2e) + 5 expansions
Zombicide Green Horde + No Rest for the Wicked expansion
HEXplore It: The Domain of Mirza Noctis


In (for good or great prices):
Agemonia
Nova Aetas Renaissance
Vampire: The Masquerade - Chapters
(this has a lot of errata to incorporate when playing but even the part digital new KS, out in a year or so and which I was eyeing up, was a lot more expensive than the $85 I picked this up for)

When I get to play them is a completely different question ... but I'm not going anywhere and have keen gamers around.
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31 Aug 2024 16:52 #342844 by Shellhead

southernman wrote: Vampire: The Masquerade - Chapters[/b] (this has a lot of errata to incorporate when playing but even the part digital new KS, out in a year or so and which I was eyeing up, was a lot more expensive than the $85 I picked this up for)


I had a group that was playing Vampire: the Masquerade - Chapters on a monthly basis. We stopped in May, about 2/3 of the way through the adventure, partly because Minnesotans like to get outside more and do stuff during the five months of warm weather each year. But also because I kickstarted the digital assistance app for the game, because we were getting frustrated with the incomplete print errata. The game offers a great story with some very memorable scenes. The investigation mechanic and the branching dialogue trees are enjoyable. The sneaking mechanic is okay. The combat system is a bit disappointing but works well enough, though the fights tend to feel easy despite supposedly scaling up for our four player group. I haven't seen any recent updates for the app and also the character expansions that I kickstarted, but hopefully they do a better job of playtesting this time.
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03 Sep 2024 17:28 #342866 by Shellhead
In the mid-'70s, Joan Jett and Lita Ford started a rock band with some other teenage girls, and had a real hit single with Cherry Bomb. Their bass player, Jackie Fox, later went to Harvard Law School (along with some rando named Barack Obama), and became an entertainment lawyer. Then she designed a board game that got published this year: Rock Hard 1977. You can read more here:

slate.com/life/2024/09/games-board-new-j...runaways-gencon.html

Despite the fact that Rock Hard 1977 is essentially a euro worker placement game (my arch-nemesis) and the board looks a bit like a colorful spreadsheet with a typical euro vp track, I am going to buy it soon. The game is very much based on Jackie's experience in the music industry, and apparently delivers a very strong sense of setting and theme. Aside from that board, the components appear great, especially the guitar picks and the amps that come complete with dials that go to 11. The play money is almost too real, right down to the texture, and the graphic designer added a lot of neat little touches throughout the game. Beyond all that, Rock Hard 1977 is perfect for an upcoming game session that I have scheduled with an old friend and his girlfriend, because they are both musicians who are relatively new to board gaming. And I can potentially enjoy even a euro worker placement game if it completely nails the theme, like say Sons of Anarchy.
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