What board games are you BUYING?

hotseatgames wrote: Store sells SEAL Team Flix. Store closes. Coincidence?

The store I picked mine up at recently moved to a bigger location. STF gives and STF takes away.

I picked up Northern Pacific today, as the new RGG version is cheap and I really enjoy the PNP copy of it that i made a while back (before it got picked up for full on release). Its a fascinating stripped to the metal take on railroad games/incentive manipulation. its been hit or miss if people like it or not, but a round takes 10-15 minutes so if they don't no big loss. and i love it personally.

So I went to pick up Seal Team Flix from the place where I have store credit, the place that’s going out of business. And I have more store credit. Use it or lose it, so my boy finds Ashes Rise of the Phoenix Born and says it looks really cool. So it goes on the pile. Everything in the store is 25% off, so still more store credit. Buy a Wings of Glory plane to finish it up.

Then the guy comes out with three of my games that never sold — Struggle of Empires which is a doozy that I had priced to sell, Source of the Nile, and Storm Over Stalingrad.

Good problems to have, but problems nonetheless.

So, Ashes Rise of the Phoenix Born . . . any good? It says 30 to 120 minutes so I’ll have to schedule three hours when my boy plays.

I ran an Ashes meetup in my area that was mostly attended by Netrunner expats. The game was really solid and I still think its resource system in particular is fantastic. Unfortunately Plaid Hat got acquired not too long after and that led to about a year of no new expansions, which then led to the playerbase bleeding out. We treated it as a board game night for a while before it just fizzled. Now there's a bunch of expansions that I don't know anything about. Maybe they're good?

Ogre 6th edition for $13 from Google express (Dicey Goblin). I've....never played Ogre, so at that price it's worth a look

- Exceed Fighting System, Street Fighter edition. Will this be the game that finally merges my teenage obsession with my middle aged board game nerdery? TIME WILL TELL. BattleCon and Yomi were fun but too complex, in that I’d beat anyone I introduced them to.

- Happy Salmon. Camping trip with the extended family coming up in June. This travels well and is light enough for non-gamers and/or nieces/nephews, but cards don’t combine well with typical windy camping conditions. Positive harbinger: my 4yo spawn loves this and wants to play with various stuffed animals as dummy players.

- Zoo Ball. Dexterity games are fundamentally silly and this looks to embrace it rather than fight it.

I had the rare desire to buy a game so I picked up Monolith Arena. Looks great.

I am looking to buy a copy of Merchant of Venus. The only 2 places I know to look right now would be ebay and BGG market. Any words of advice on the BGG market such as mistakes to avoid?

I just tore the shrink off of “Stephenson’s Rocket” the last game Grail Games will produce, knowing this will go out of print and the edition is stunning. And “Root” because, well Root I guess. The group doesn’t have anything like this game and I easily convince myself they are amenable to anything.