What board games are you BUYING?

It's just a stack of Age of Steam Deluxe games in the locked case at the thrift store. The components and boxes are really nice. I think overall there are something like 20 maps in this bundle. The whole thing is heavy.

So the story was that some guy pulled up in a pickup truck, the bed filled with boardgames, and told the thrift store that his son got married and doesn't have time to play these. There are a lot of unopened Kickstarter games, stuff like "Armageddon War". They had Cthulhu Wars, and a bunch of stuff. There's still a copy of
8.4
A Glorious Chance: The Naval Struggle for Lake Ontario in the War of 1812 for $40 bucks, and as much as I like the idea of a solo Age of Sail game set in the thrilling context of war with Canada, the reviews are tepid, even though it has an 8.4. I think I'd have more fun with Nemo's War for $30 on Ebay.

I picked up Seafall NIS at my FLGS for 15 bucks. Anyone actually play this one? I want to see if it's as bad as they say.

lol, you might have a problem.

hotseatgames wrote: lol, you might have a problem.

**gives side eye to Lords of Ragnarok**
Maaaaybe.

WadeMonnig wrote: I picked up Seafall NIS at my FLGS for 15 bucks. Anyone actually play this one? I want to see if it's as bad as they say.

[snigger] ..........

Buys in the last six months:
6 Siege: The Boardgame - when this showed up on eBay for a good price it was a no-brainer to bis on and when no one really bid against me it was a decent score, even better when I opened it to find it had an map expansion inside as well.
Star Wars: Outer Rim + expansion - great condition used copy, for when I want a shorter or even solo option to Firefly.
Middara: Unintentional Malum Act 1 - again when a used copy showed up for a very good price I jumped on it. Yes, it gets added to the pile of narrative dungeon crawlers but it will get played !
Monster Hunter World: Wildspire Wastes - couldn't afford Primal so this at a knockdown price will fill that niche on the shelf.
Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship - watched some playthrus and decided it was good enough to join my LotR stable.
Beyond the Rift: A Perdition's Mouth Card Game - just happened to see this somewhere on BGG and it sounded fun, watched some playthrus and then an online shop had it at a fire sale price so decided it was an omen. And it is a very clever and fun card dungeon crawler !
The Mandalorian: Adventures - this just sounded a well done light game so picked up a new copy since it was cheap.
And a couple of games picked up that I got rid of years ago but decided I wanted new plays of them:
Nexus Ops - the FFG reprint, doesn't look as good as the original AH copy I had but it's for playing not staring at.
Teenage Mutant Ninjas: Shadows of the Past - I really enjoyed the dice sharing mechanics even though the missions were a bit unbalanced and there is no co-op mode. IDW followed up with two second editions of it and a Batman game both more refined and having a very good co-op mode but those are nearly impossible, or very expensive, to find in the UK and with IDW going out of business a few years back they won't be getting reprinted so likely won't see them.

Sales in similar period (yes, I do get rid of stuff )
Cosmic Encounter + 2 expansions - played this enough, and not as fun with lower player counts that I have these days.
Cthulhu Death May Die Seasons 1 & 2 - Played it a few times but just wasn't getting in front of other games I preferred.
Fallout + both expansions - Played all the missions and with the bundle being OOP I just couldn't ignore the big cash I could get for it.
Star Trek Frontiers
This War of Mine Kickstarter - I've backed the new edition.
Clash of Cultures + expansion
Age of Steam + 3 map expansions

IDW Games is actually back. They just Kickstarted a new RPG. No idea if they will bring the TMNT games back though.

Would be great if they did.

Talon had been sitting at our thrift store for a month at $30 so I talked them down to ten bucks. It has mixed reviews.

Wkover: "The perfect game for guys who were in their teens and twenties 40 years ago. Not sure why this would appeal to anyone currently under 55, unless they're one of the many bastard sons of William Shatner. Though, come to think of it, Bill S. might have a few illegitimates over 55 as well. That dude could SOW OATS.

Anyway, in our first try, it took one player the entire game just to get within decent shooting range of the enemy ships. Uh, ok.

I'd rather play Battleship: Galaxies. It's simply more fun."

Cole Wehrle: "I've played X-Wing, Armada, Federation Commander, and Star Fleet Battles. This game is better by every meaningful metric."

Edit: I was rifling through the contents after waking up at 4:00 a.m. and saw that Talon: 1000 was also in the box. I'm sort of wondering if I'm living in a simulation, and if so, how can I hack it.