What games are you BUYING? ARCHIVE

I've been finding good stuff on my FLGS'clearance table recently. Today's purchase: 1775: Rebellion.

bfkiller wrote: I picked up The Convoy the other day after spotting it on a clearance table at my FLGS about 12 hours after first reading about the game. Looks cool. Much lengthier rulebook than I was expecting, though.

I enjoyed playing this asymmetrical two-player card game. But, it's only because I'm a sucker for post-apocalyptic themes. We had to constantly refer to the rule book, however, and that was a drag on game play. The artwork isn't as nice as 51st State or The New Era. I have it up for trade. I prefer Revolver.

Gregarius wrote:

Mad Dog wrote: Where is the BGG shitstorm on this like that other game with Thule's abducting women to be "wives"? It's exactly the same thing.

They're abducting those walruses to be wives?

Stop being racist and/or specieist, they have a perfect right to marry a Walrus if that is what they want and the Walrus is in agreement with it.

How on earth you get abduction from that romantic scene, I have no idea. Some people are just far too PC for their own good.

Too toothy for my tastes. But if that's their thing and the walrus consents....

ThirstyMan wrote: How on earth you get abduction from that romantic scene, I have no idea. Some people are just far too PC for their own good.

Can someone help me here a bit? Is this really the cover of the game box?



It would appear to me to be a cheesy photoshop of a walrus mounting an Eskimo, but as best I can tell it's the actual box cover? Is there a thematic element in this game that I need to know about before bringing it out with the church group?

Sagrilarus wrote: It would appear to me to be a cheesy photoshop of a walrus mounting an Eskimo, but as best I can tell it's the actual box cover?

I think the walrus is actually right behind the eskimo, who's crawling on the ice for some reason, I don't see any mounting going on that might shock any puritans.

Yeah, Eklund games and graphic design...

Eklund does all his own graphics. The individual images are often fine but the composition is rather lacking.

His graphics are about as eloquent and tight as his rules.

I guess nobody remembers Vikings: Warriors of the North and this thread. boardgamegeek.com/thread/1041527/anyone-...ing-daughters-aspect about objectification of women due to raiding other tribes for wives.
If you read the description for Greenland instead of just looking at the box cover you'll see the game includes "raiding other tribes for wives."

Personally I dont care but think its interesting how they'll overlook it this time. Perhaps because its from a designer they like instead of an unknown.

Mad Dog wrote: I guess nobody remembers Vikings: Warriors of the North and this thread. boardgamegeek.com/thread/1041527/anyone-...ing-daughters-aspect about objectification of women due to raiding other tribes for wives.
If you read the description for Greenland instead of just looking at the box cover you'll see the game includes "raiding other tribes for wives."

Personally I dont care but think its interesting how they'll overlook it this time. Perhaps because its from a designer they like instead of an unknown.

Perhaps people are more comfortable with wives being stolen, rather than daughters. I know several couples that more or less volunteer for such things.

Because Eklund takes a more historical/simulation approach while that Viking game was more game than simulation?

Snatched up CSIs last copy of Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, as well as FFGs newest LCG, Warhammer 40,000: Conquest, and The Howl of Blackmane (Space Woves!) 'War Pack' expansion which was on sale. Also, Pocket Battles: Celts vs Romans, which completes my non-fantasy collection of that series. Oh, and Dark Heresy Second Edition: Forgotten Gods splatbook, also on sale. Plus a bunch of little misc. items we all need, including a Stormtrooper dice bag for no real reason (okay, it was on sale).

Should I feel guilty buying myself gifts before Christmas? I've already got stuff for everyone I intend to buy for, so…

Sagrilarus wrote:

Mad Dog wrote: I guess nobody remembers Vikings: Warriors of the North and this thread. boardgamegeek.com/thread/1041527/anyone-...ing-daughters-aspect about objectification of women due to raiding other tribes for wives.
If you read the description for Greenland instead of just looking at the box cover you'll see the game includes "raiding other tribes for wives."

Personally I dont care but think its interesting how they'll overlook it this time. Perhaps because its from a designer they like instead of an unknown.

Perhaps people are more comfortable with wives being stolen, rather than daughters. I know several couples that more or less volunteer for such things.

Ugh... isn't the wives that are being stolen someone else's daughter and are not wives in the raided tribe?

The real answer of course is PC outrage is mostly hypocrisy filled bullshit. The type of people who spend their day looking for something to be offended by are the ones who drive non events like Viking and/or Walrus-gate.

As to new games. I really haven't bought anything in a while. Nothing super exciting lately.