What board games are you BUYING?

Because of my own (limited) game design experience, I am often on the lookout for insights into the methods of other designers. So I just realized something. Psycho Raiders has 54 cards, not counting the oversize character cards. 52 cards in a normal deck of cards, plus 2 jokers. I bet they prototyped the game with a normal deck of cards and just wrote all over the white space on the cards.

In my quest to fill the Ancient AT gaps in my collection, I bought a copy of Starship Troopers this week, and an 3M copy of Aqcuire. My Avalon Hill collection is getting quite robust now. Really only a few things left to get with Magic Realm. That's my next target.

I like seeing GW Warrior Knights and Blood Royale on the shelf. Lookin' Good!

However, you are missing three crucial Avalon Hill titles:


I pimped my copy out with some sweet minis.

So, I couldn't resist it.

My U.S. Civil War showed up last week, then yesterday fast food magnate arrived.

Got my copy of Fast Food Magnate as well. Plus purchased Triumph & Tragedy. I didn't realize this was by the same guy (Craig Besinque) who did Rommel In The Desert, which is one of the best block games - actually best war games - ever. If I had realized that it would have been an instabuy.

My quest for early-to-mid 00's FFG stuff continues. I recently got Runebound 2nd ed through a BGG auction, so I've tracked down copies of Al-Kalim and Frozen Wastes. After getting Tannhauser in a math trade, I'm picking up the stuff that's hard to find before turning to MM for the last of the figures. Acquired the Novgorod expansion for a ridiculously low price on eBay. I thought I would certainly get sniped, but it never happened. I gave up on finding a decently priced FFG copy of the Daedalus map and bid on a French copy. For the figure expansions, I've decided to leave the Shogunate stuff out (kind of an arbitrary cut-off and kind of don't care for the faction), and picked up some of the others that are dwindling: Hoss, Matriarchy Troops, 2 Frankenstahls, Asteros, and I just found a seller for Hoax and Oksana.

New games? Not sure I want any at this point.

In the last 7 months I bought exactly one board game and that was from a portion of the money I made by selling off some of my prized possessions. However, having received my first non-training pay paycheck, I thought I ought to treat myself and...

I bought a copy of Adventurer off of ebay! It's an old "album game" by Yaquinto about either a sci-fi bar room brawl or a battle aboard a spaceship. It uses the same system as their more famous game Swashbuckler.

Buying games made in 1983 is how I stay relevant in this hobby.

Chapel wrote: In my quest to fill the Ancient AT gaps in my collection, I bought a copy of Starship Troopers this week, and an 3M copy of Aqcuire. My Avalon Hill collection is getting quite robust now. Really only a few things left to get with Magic Realm. That's my next target.

Damnit, Chapel. I had an extra copy I would have gladly sent you.

Just received this game called Eufrat and Tygrys. Over here, on the banks of Vistula river "Tygrys" means "Tiger", so i'm assuming it will be a fierce battle between this most dangerous predator and that "Eufrat" animal. Got to look it up in my dictionary. Hope that it will be a nice one.

I was thinking to make one more purchase. Now, Hyperborea or Merchants of Venus, that is the question.