Lost Treasures of the Eurogames Reclamation Project

Michael Barnes wrote: The Swarm also came in...I'm odddly really excited about it, it looks crazy. I read the Wikipedia entry about the book, it's not giant crabs, it's pfisteria-infected crabs.

I'm curious about The Swarm. It shows up in math trades and auctions all the time, and usually going for dirt cheap, but I've still never gone for it.

Legomancer wrote:

Michael Barnes wrote: The Swarm also came in...I'm odddly really excited about it, it looks crazy. I read the Wikipedia entry about the book, it's not giant crabs, it's pfisteria-infected crabs.

I'm curious about The Swarm. It shows up in math trades and auctions all the time, and usually going for dirt cheap, but I've still never gone for it.

The Swarm wasn't a half bad. Kind of reminded me of a more sophisticated Sunken City(Talk about a lot euro). With a dash of point salad.

Wadda ya know, it IS a euro.

I've been calling it dERP in my elite social circles.

Ah, it's been a topic of conversation. Are you blaming the ERP for the Obama presidency?

Michael Barnes wrote: Ah, it's been a topic of conversation. Are you blaming the ERP for the Obama presidency?

Campaign Manager 2008 is a dERP approved game, right? I mean, you can get it off Tanga for less than a McDonald's value meal, which I thought was chief amongst the numerous criteria.

Misinformation. Many ERP approved titles are highly collectible and command prices of $199.99 or more on Amazon.com.

Michael Barnes wrote: Misinformation. Many ERP approved titles are highly collectible and command prices of $199.99 or more on Amazon.com.

Which games will you be convincing people to buy in 2024? I have some spare kickstarter money to invest.

Well fuck. I broke down and bought Java and Hera and Zeus from someone on BGG for $105 shipped. I had no idea what Hera and Zeus WAS until I started actually looking into the kosmos 2 player games and I realized it's stratego-esque, which means I have to own it.

I think I might be out-Barnesing Barnes. I started doing this on my own late last fall, and then the whole ERP kicked off and I got even more into it.

Hera and Zeus
Java
Tikal
Attika
China
La Città
Shipyard
Serenissima
Lost Valley: The Yukon Goldrush 1896 (Which I suppose is technically a brand new game, but not really)
Jambo
Evo
Hansa
Hoity Toity
Carcassonne The City
Carcassonne The Castle
Samurai
Race for the Galaxy
Jaipur
Navegador
Taj Mahal

Still in the market for:
Targi
Lost Cities
For Sale
Perry Rhodan: The Cosmic League
El Grande (Holding out for a reprint)
Maharaja: The Game of Palace Building in India
In the Shadow of the Emperor

Welcome to Fortress: Second-tier Euro.

My results are a little more modest as I never really went through the blowout purging my shelves of everything remotely Euro/German. I've always kept a good dozen or two "ERP Approved" title on my shelves.

I've brought in four games so far, two are reacquires of games I traded away Manhattan and Jambo. Then there's only another five or so that I'm looking to hunt down trades on.

EDIT: Oh...My...The remedy for the Common ERP Cold - Diskwar expansions are on sale for $14 each at CoolStuffInc. I've been waiting for the right sale to check out the few items I had sitting in my shopping cart and this may be it.

Yes, I saw those Diskwars expansions and jumped on them. $14 a piece is going to be the low price for some time on those. Had to dip into the ERP budget, but hey. It's all good.

Damn Stoney, that is a NICE list of games right there. I'm going to award you an ERP Honor Badge, very impressed.

Hera & Zeus...man, I didn't like that one at all. Lots of folks loved it. Not me.

Maharaja, I need to try again. Another that I sniffed at in 2004, might have a better appreciation of it now. It was pretty well recieved, if I recall correctly.

Never got around to Perry Rhodan...it looked pretty cool.

The thing you start to realize about the "second tier Euros" is that's actually where a lot of the best stuff is. The things that are regarded as "first tier" tend to be the BGG crowd-pleasers that don't do crazy things, have odd themes or are dismissed as "family" games due to a lot of luck or whatever. Robert Martin, AT founding father, used to always say "you know when you see something is ranked in the sixes at BGG that it's probably a really good game". This is so very true with the more family-style Eurogames. Almost every ERP title I've brought in is like a 6.51, 6.92 or 6.03 whatever.

I played a solo of Journey to the Center of the Earth last night...it's kind of awesome but it has exactly that crazy things, odd themes, dismissed as family game business going on. The first part is going down through the mountain, using cards to move three mutually-controlled explorers. You have to have equipment to get through rocks/over pits and so forth and then again to dig up fossils. You need water stones to keep them preserved. Then you get on this little boat at the mushroom forest and cross the underground sea to the lost city, getting hit with ball lightning, losing fossils and watching sea monsters fight. Then it's a ride on an exploding volcano to get out. It's REALLY neat, but it does seem like it might be about 15 minutes too long- mainly because the first part isn't really 33% of the game, it's more like 60% and then the sea part is 30% and the volcano 10%.

It should not have been in a $50 big box. It should have been in little half-sized box. THere isn't really much to it. It does really bug me that the goose is on the box twice.

21 pages in and I'm still the only person to mention Lords of Scotland and Court of the Medici? Poor, underappreciated Richard James...

I'm going to chalk this up to anti-jingoism. Don't dismiss his Euro chops just because he's from California!

EDIT: These games are $10-$15 each, I should add.

You'll never convince me that most of these ERP games are on the same tier as El Grande, Tigris, Catan, Ra, etc.

bfkiller wrote: 21 pages in and I'm still the only person to mention Lords of Scotland and Court of the Medici? Poor, underappreciated Richard James...

I'm going to chalk this up to anti-jingoism. Don't dismiss his Euro chops just because he's from California!

I hold Court of the Medici up alongside Battleline and Cold War as the best short 2p gaming in my collection.