There’s also the fact that Skytear is a 2 player game, and GoA requires at least 4 (though I have seen a few people that really love it at 2, that’s not the norm).
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A purchase from this week and 2 games delivered from KS. I will have to source some weak lemon drink soon I think.
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The team play is partly what sold me on GoA. Very few games scale well IMO (it’s a myth sold in marketing!). Games are either a 2p or 4p and never the twain shall meet. I could still be sold on owning both for that reason, but we’ll see!
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Because I have little to no willpower, and because it is nice to get things in the mail, I went ahead and ordered Chinatown. I remember not being very interested after SU&SD’s review of the game, but the Let’s Play they did last year really sold it for me. I have heard that this and Lords of Vegas scratch the same itch for some, but I saw enough reviews saying there were enough differences to own both. We’ll see if I agree, I suppose.
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Chinatown is definitely one of those games that interest me, but I feel like none of my friends/family like to negotiate much… or at least don’t like to negotiate with me 
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Uhh, everyone: I did a thing. I did a pillbox thing.
I bought Aeon’s End. But, oh… oh I didn’t just buy Aeon’s End; I bought way too much Aeon’s End.
After the discussion in another thread, I subscribed to Aeon’s End on BGG and started getting notifications whenever people posted about it. Well, I was surprised at how much activity there was: it brought even more attention to Aeon’s End - enough that I browsed to the GeekMarket listings. It was there that I found a bundle of Aeon’s End stuff. It was pricey, but not exceedingly so, compared to buying AE products new (it’s currently between printings apparently and retail prices for it are off the charts). I had already looked at late pledging for the whatever-whatever expansion, but the add-on pricing for Waves 1-4 is really steep.
However, this bundle I found. Expensive? Yes, but no, not when you see the jaw-dropping amount of content that arrived:
- Aeon’s End (2nd Edition)
- Aeon’s End: Buried Secrets (cards still in shrink)
- Aeon’s End: The Ancients (cards still in shrink)
- Aeon’s End: The Depths
- Aeon’s End: Into the Wild (cards still in shrink)
- Aeon’s End: The Nameless
- Aeon’s End: The New Age (cards still in shrink)
- Aeon’s End: The Outer Dark
- Aeon’s End: Shattered Dreams (cards still in shrink)
- Aeon’s End: The Void
- Aeon’s End: War Eternal (cards still in shrink)
- Aeon’s End: Broken Token Organizer
- Another Broken Token Organizer
- Aeon’s End: Accessory Pack 1
- Aeon’s End: Playmat
My mind is reeling trying to do an inventory. So far I’ve discovered, of the packs of cards that are opened, only 1 of the randomizer cards was actually sent.
Anybody with experience with the A-series cards, let me know (I think it’s The Ancients Accessory Pack). For whatever reason, some of the packs of cards are unwrapped, but the pack that starts with card A123 is still in shrink.
Also: I want to know why and where from came the two different series of non-designated cards. Like I have two different sets of cards numbered 10-33, 42-51, 100-119, 130-134, 140-159, 165-174, 180-184, 190-205, 215, 217, 222, 230-265. There may be more, but those are the ones I’ve inventoried so far (everything that’s not in a shrinkwrap)
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As far as I recall, Aeon’s End and War Eternal both use straight numbering rather than having a set designation.
The Accessory Pack cards are not needed to play the game; they’re extra Sparks and Crystals so that you can leave each mage set up ready to play, rather than having to build their deck at the start of the game.
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El Dorado and Welcome To are regularly played in our house. Always big hits with new people too.
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Played both. My personal preference is to Lords of Vegas.
Chinatown is too arbitrary at the start, and then it pivots hard to predictable and mathsy somewhere in the middle. I dont have the appetite to play Chinatown anymore, when I can just play Bohnanza.
Lords of Vegas’ randomness is more interesting. Sure, you have no control over what property you will get or which casinos we pay off but that bit is thrilling and the trading and dice rolling for reorganisation is always interesting.
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I’ve found that, in Lords of Vegas you need to remind people they can trade by actually trading.
Once the lightbulb goes on it’s a lot of fun.
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Sweet baby Christ Jesus on a fish bike that’s a lot of Aeon’s End.
I just bought the Targi expansion which I’m super excited about. Targi is one of the best beige 2-player games in existence.
I also bought a couple of sets of nice dice to play some of the Solo print’n’plays that Quinns has been waxing lyrical about over at the old place.
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Was playing Targi earlier today, such a good game. Would be interested to hear how the expansion plays.
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I have been weak, and after all the money I have not spent during lock down, I ordered two games on sale online on my wish list, Werewords and Ticket to Ride- Europe. I admit that not having that many party games last Friday that are more “open” to non-gamers did the trick. That, and the 10% discount too.
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Nice looking boxes too, Mr Quinlank
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Based on my grand total of one play for each game (so take my opinion with an appropriate portion of sodium chloride), I’m going to buck what appears to be the popular opinion and say I preferred Chinatown by a mile. Lords of Vegas is possibly objectively “the better game” but I just didn’t have as much fun, despite winning. Chinatown I had an absolute blast with despite getting decimated. It may have been a factor of “being in the mood for negotiation” at the time rather than the games themselves, but that’s usually a good indicator for me.
But still my favourite negotiation game of all time is Sid Sackson’s I’m The Boss, which I think is the negotiation game for people who don’t like negotiation games. It’s also the take-that card game I’ll reach for if it’s one of those rare instances where I’m in the mood for a take-that card game.
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I’ve been discovering Sid Sackson recently – BGG’s 1 Player Guild had a Bowling Solitaire championship, and Can’t Stop is the default “learn the interface in a solo session” game on Board Game Arena.
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Chinatown and the downfall of Pompeii
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VOLT, £17 delivered on eBay. Good news if true, and if not I can get a refund.
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Picked up Detective, not entirely sure we’ll like it
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I want to get this - I think its one my family will play