I (literally) slept on a chance at a single-copy restock of the Frontier Town expansion for Shadows of Brimstone at my preferred OLGS a couple of months back, but didn’t miss out this time. I postponed a new campaign once I saw how amazing the town elements were in The Blasted Wastes (an “Other World” I didn’t plan on adding immediately), and really wanted to ensure I could get that juicy “topside” depth before I got started in earnest. There is still so much I plan to add casually as time goes on, but this one really felt critical to enriching the total experience. It’s been a while since I’ve played and I couldn’t be more excited to get back at it with a whole new dimension of nonsense to cope with.
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I am coming to realize that some of my collection growth in recent years is due to migraines. The headaches induce a lot of self-pity in me because I just lose my free time to these episodes and my game time. I sit there stare at games and I am completely unable to play anything and somehow it‘s always the week-ends. So my need to make myself feel better coupled with an inability to do much beyond listening to podcasts (about games) makes me prone to treat myself with a bit of „add to cart“ therapy.
Cue yesterday, it‘s my day off and the pain came on promptly—sometimes exercise seems to trigger an episode… meh. So sometime next week I will have more games than I planned to have. I barely kept myself from buying and backing even more. The amount of money I spend seems to match the strength of the head-ache. Yesterday was bad.
- Ankh (I only partially blame SVWAG—I‘ve been wanting one of the big Eric M Lang games and it was either this or Blood Rage and yes yes I have Kemet. I know Kemet is almost exactly the same niche). It was a good offer for the German retail version…
- Lost Ruins of Arnak + Leaders. I blame my recent realization of having too few female designers in my collection, also having played on BGA, I enjoyed it quite a bit.
- Space Base Command Station. We like Space Base. My partner has now processed my recent string of wins.
- Krazy Pix: I sold my family edition of Krazy Wordz sometime back even though it was a fun game. I wanted to replace it with the grown up version only to find out they had a new edition out that came in a huge box. Miffed I never bought it. The other week I saw that this one is by Sophia Wagner so similar reasoning to Arnak and then I saw pictures of the game on BGG and decided that this looks even more fun than Krazy Wordz.
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I hadn’t realised the new version of Libertalia was coming so soon! It’s apparently out end of next month, so I’ve pre-ordered it. It looks lovely from everything I’ve seen of it (and much nicer than the old art) and I love Paolo Mori’s deisgns.
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The French version of Everdell came in our FLGS on Friday. It is now in our home. Been lookimg gorward to this one for a while, by all accounts it’s really good and it looks STUNNING.
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I am taking away my notifications from the Facebook Board Games exchange group. I bough Tales of Arabian Nights second hand yesterday, one that I had been looking for for over a year (maybe even 2).
That makes a game a month this year, without crowdfunding. This must stop.
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I’m not buying any games remember? I have so many to play? Leave me alone, no it’s an old copy of MicroMacro - Crime City the shrink wrap and unopened status is just to fool you…
I am weak!
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Well the floodgates have opened, not Pillbox levels but still
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Goodcritters - a few comments of the excellency of this game (Well Tiefe Taschen) from a person who I know is socially awkward. £21 ka-ching
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The Last Spike - an Acquire-like game in 30 minutes. Again comments from people I trust. £13 ka-ching
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Renature looks fun but possibly fragile gameplay. Absolute steal at £10 plus postage ka-ching
Bank chips review tomorrow.
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Popped into local game store and picked up Undaunted: Normandy on a whim
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I was very tempted by Sentinels of the Multiverse Definitive Edition for £60, but managed to resist the urge. (Got a text this morning saying my account is overdrawn, so good job I didn’t!)
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Just ordered Unmatched: Redemption Row and Unmatched: Hell’s Kitchen from the Restoration Games website. Sadly, turns out one of the containers they received was not the HK set, so that’s actually not expected for two more weeks, at which point they’ll ship out together. If I had noticed that, I may have just ordered RR and gotten HK at retail, since now I’ll be getting them pretty close to retail release at this point.
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Got these today:
- Toledo War
- Reign of Witches
- Republic of Virtue
All by Amabel Holland! And they are cheap, and are literally just a deck of cards. All 3 can fit inside a deckbox.
Also bought Riftforce and Osaka exp for Tokyo Metro. I know that Tokyo Metro is based, so Osaka is an obvious purchase.
Not sure if I will be keen on keeping Riftforce as I already have Blue Moon and Battle Line but I’ll keep an open mind.
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I would definitely like to try this with you at some point
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I’ve been vaguely looking for Go 500 Racing Dice Game for a few years – I don’t think it’s ever been widely exported from the USA – and Amazon UK have just got a batch in. Not a masterpiece, certainly – broadly it’s a Yahtzee-like – and the rules in the box are a bit rubbish, but there’s a variant on BGG that tweaks things a little and introduces the idea of track sections with speed limits, and that makes things much more fun.
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arrived yesterday 
I had planned an evening of getting to know a game (Ankh being the only new to me game here) but instead I stress bought more games.
Red Cathedral and Sleeping Gods
But tonight things seem better. So:
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Wow, that’s some nice table presence. You have to tell us how it compares to Blood Rage.
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I think the more apt comparison is with Kemet. I have not played that many games of Blood Rage and those have been a while but it seemed defined by card drafting/playing. What Ankh and Blood Rage have in common is giant minis…
Hand for scale
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Definitely not very similar to Blood Rage!
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My only experience with Kemet was Blood & Sand was a bit of a disappointment, but then again, we were 5 playing it, it was quite chaotic, and I did not have much of a chance to explore my options. I cannot wait to try it at 3 or 4 instead.
Ankh has felt intriguing since day 1 for me, but I haven’t really wanted to dig in much into it, because it looks very much like a game I will love, but I will struggle to have it hitting the table.
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I have only played Kemet with two and while that is fun it is a bit like a fight in a telephone box that is not bigger on the inside. I think Kemet with 3 would be pretty awesome. Possibly four. I hear very good things about Ankh at 2 players. And 2 player is where we’re still at mostly. My favorite thing about Kemet is definitely the skill tree and the action selection pyramid. Oh and “wandering victory points” ….
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Can anyone confirm (or deny) that the new edition of Kemet still has “Slavery” listed as one of the white powers?
Because gosh that was something.
To be clear: specifically as a white power.
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