What board games are you BUYING?

SuperflyTNT wrote: It took every ounce of restraint not to pick up Escape From Colditz 75th off of Amazon today.

Fuck... Me Want. I just know it will be a beautiful paperweight.

I picked it up a while back when Mini Market had it for cheap. It is a very nice paperweight. No regrets in the purchase.

After maintaining pretty well for a few months I ended up with four new games in the last month-ish:

13 Days
Animals on Board
Gorechosen
High Frontier 3rd Ed


All but High Frontier were bought used, so I think I did OK on actual spending. Haven't actually gotten to playing any of them yet but I've got a 3-player High Frontier situation setting up for a couple months from now.

I'm most excited about Gorechosen. Hoping to play that this weekend.

If you have any inclination to get Escape from Colditz, the Osprey 75th anniversary edition is LOVELY. It's really well done, very high class production and they preserved some of the cool idiosyncrasies of the past editions, like the faux Red Cross kits, historical background, and miscellaneous ephemera. The rules are cleaned up but not bowdlerized, and there are some things in place to speed it up a bit. It's still wonk as hell and the POWs always win, but it's still a fun, one of a kind experience. The illustrations are especially nice, Osprey's high standard of depicting military history subjects really shines in this one.

Get it before it's gone...I don't think it will be around for long, it strikes me as something that will suddenly dry up.

wadenels wrote: After maintaining pretty well for a few months I ended up with four new games in the last month-ish:

13 Days
Animals on Board
Gorechosen
High Frontier 3rd Ed


All but High Frontier were bought used, so I think I did OK on actual spending. Haven't actually gotten to playing any of them yet but I've got a 3-player High Frontier situation setting up for a couple months from now.

I'm most excited about Gorechosen. Hoping to play that this weekend.

That's a great list. Gorechosen is phenomenal. I just broke 13 Days out again last week and had a great time. Animals on Board is my favorite Euro of the past few years.

Michael Barnes wrote: If you have any inclination to get Escape from Colditz, the Osprey 75th anniversary edition is LOVELY. It's really well done, very high class production and they preserved some of the cool idiosyncrasies of the past editions, like the faux Red Cross kits, historical background, and miscellaneous ephemera. The rules are cleaned up but not bowdlerized, and there are some things in place to speed it up a bit. It's still wonk as hell and the POWs always win, but it's still a fun, one of a kind experience. The illustrations are especially nice, Osprey's high standard of depicting military history subjects really shines in this one.

Get it before it's gone...I don't think it will be around for long, it strikes me as something that will suddenly dry up.

Rat bastard....

I got it. I figure that worst case I can sell it for what I got it for if I don't play it.

The last touches for graphic design on Destroy all Monsters was made last night, so I took a chance on ordering the board and a few other related components on dye sublimated neoprene. The resolution will surely suffer, but am curious to see by how much.

So, other than the rule book which I am still laying out, all elements of the retheme are on their way to me as a final product. Good to have this project finally in a playable state other than hobbled together boards and hand made cards.
Litko, Inked Playmats, and Printer Studio were the chosen services.

I've had my eye on the new edition of Doom for a while and was finally enticed to bite the bullet by a ding-and-dent copy at my FLGS today. I need yet another DOG (Dudes On a Grid) game like I need a hole in the head but my son loves the video game so at least I know we'll play it. Besides, as far as FFG's licensed DOG's go, I'm hoping this game does what the old version of Doom (I didn't like the Descent mechanics) or Gears of War (no interest at all in the theme) didn't do for me.

Some buddies and I came across Battle Companies which is a Mordheim like campaign based skirmish game for the LotR game. I have experience with LotR having played Legends of the Old West about a decade back. Great system.

I fell into a very cheap deal on a big lot of LotR. Excited to paint this up later in the summer.

Has anyone played Too Many Bones?

I have a friend who has recommended it highly, but the price point is a bit high to jump in. I am tempted though.

Any input from this motley crew?

Pete has been looking into it based on Steve Avery's love of it. It's just silly expensive right now.

That is what is keeping me from it. 250 for the whole shebang makes me pause.

Agreed. That better be one hell of a game for that much dough.

stormseeker75 wrote: Agreed. That better be one hell of a game for that much dough.

Their insistence on making everything neoprene (for tactility & branding) drove up the price considerably.

Recently I picked up the Stunt Race expansion to Pitchcar... it's always been one of my favourite games. This expansion (extension... whatever) was not as loved as I thought it would be so I held off for years thinking it wouldn't make much of a difference.

I was wrong. It is awesome. It's not simply aesthetics.. going up and down the ramp is considerably different than normal Pitchcar and being able to bring the track back around on itself and go under other parts does change the game a decent amount... plus it looks absolutely incredible. We play almost every night now and it's jumped up to my Son's number one game (I think his list would be something like Pitchcar, King of Tokyo, Dice Masters) and it's reached a point now where he legitimately beats me on occasion. That's not a good sign, he's only five (six in a month) so I need to start kicking his ass real good so that he doesn't get all uppity. Luckily he can't compete in Carrom still... basically he just counts how many pieces he has left on the table when I win and he competes against his last score that way... I'm trying to teach him to enjoy losing.

There was some other racing game that instead of a disc used a ball.. a Z-Ball? Something like that. I know Uba loved it but I can't remember what it's called. Anyone know?

The ball flicking game is the one with the bicycle theme, isn't it?