Rallyman GT showed up today. It seems to have a lot of love here on the forums, so I’m optimistic.
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Bought the latest cutesy food with personality game Abandon all Artichokes on pretty much a whim. The deck builder without costs ideas sounds interesting and an easy way to get the seven year old involved with deck building.
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I just found a Canadian shop that had stock of the dice pack, doors & chests minis, the ghost soul minis set for the base heroes, and the Samyria and Victoria hero packs for Sword & Sorcery. So I grabbed 'em. The first three I really wanted to have to flesh out my collection. More dice really should have been included in the first place, the ghost soul minis really help with tracking on the board, and the doors & chests are pure fluff but I wanted 'em. I didn’t really have any burning need for the hero packs, but at $12 each it wasn’t too hard to twist my arm. I (will) now have a roster of 9 to choose from. Pretty hard to argue with having a bear form/companion option and Victoria looks like she’ll match up nicely with Ryld.
[EDIT] Failed to note a nice set of interception and miscommunication tokens for Decrypto (along with a promotional card set by Rob Daviau) and a bag set for Teotihuacan from the BGG store. The bitset adds some extra panache to my already-amazing XL edition. The bags for Teo should make setup a breeze while allowing me to keep my current storage solution of “just throw it all in there” in place.
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Was helping out with an elderly neighbor’s yard sale setup and snagged Mysterium and 7Wonders, plus an expansion and a bag of maybe six little Chessex d6 dice sets for $3 total. The guy said he doesn’t know where they came from, but thinks that “an ex girlfriend’s kid left them there on a visit a few years ago and clearly doesn’t miss them.”
I’ll consider them “rescues”.
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My FLGS is having a 25% off sale on their used games, so I perused the selection yesterday. Tempted by a number of things, but went home with Small World and Dungeon Lords for a grand total of $33.50.
Small World is missing the main insert (which actually looked pretty good in the picture in the instructions) and the actual instruction booklet, replaced with a color photocopy of it, stapled together in the upper corner with the front page beginning to tear off. A little bummed by that, but the actual components all appear to be in good quality, and at least the unit tray is there! Have not fully.gone through the Dungeon Lords box to verify component quality, but the rulebooknis a tad beat up (but it is there!).
Not sure when these will hit the table, but they are games I have been a bit interested in for a while now.
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I’ll occasionally put a few speculative bids board game auctions and forget. Usually that means I end up with a message a week later saying I was outbid and lost the auction. This time, I’ve won an incredibly cheap copy of Quadropolis. Odd thing is, I’m not sure why I bid on it or if I even want the game. I guess we will find out!
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Not often I post purchases, but terribly excited by the arrival in the post today of Imperial Struggle. From GMT and ‘spiritual descendant’ of Twilight Struggle. Which I have been consistently owned at online by @Captbnut …
One for me and son number one, when he catches the mood and I grok the rules !
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Skipped on the P500 on this one but my friend did so eager to try it
M-M-M-M-M-Mega Haul!
I had a few packages wash ashore over the weekend. A BGG auction win with:
- Billionaire Banshee - I really have no good way to justify this; it would have been brilliant when I was younger, but literally all of my friends are in long-term relationships, so this one may struggle to hit the table; but I really hope it does! I think a subset of those friends could play and have a good time in the “theoretical singleness” that the game suggests for those currently in relationships.
- Mission: Red Planet (1st Edition)† - I’ve been interested in this design for a long time; when first getting into the hobby, I heard about this game but could never remember its name – after a while, I kind of forgot about it but then heard it mentioned a few times over the past 6 months or so on podcasts, in favorable light. So when I saw it up for cheap in an auction, I grabbed it up.
Most of the cardboard that finds its way to my house and onto my shelves are refugees from other collections. A surprising amount of shrinkwrap arrived over the weekend!
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Smartphone Inc - My Kickstarter pledge for Smartphone Inc arrived; for all of the excitement this was drumming up in 2019, I haven’t heard anything in 2020 about it yet. I am stunned to see the “Dice Towers Essentials” badge on this box – either they are changing what DTE means or this is a lot lighter than I am expecting. I should watch a playthrough video of this one to get re-excited about it; that’s truly the worst part about Kickstarter – all of the excitement seems to be front-loaded during the campaign and then, afterwards, you end up with a 20lb box stuffed full of Kickstarter exclusives and bundled expansions and… well, this is a BIG box and it is crammed full with so much stuff that I felt anxious while organizing it.
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Fireball Island – Apparently this is not affiliated with Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey; what’s more, it’s just a HUGE box filled with flimsy plastic! – I’m just kidding (but not about the plastic or the size of the box). I knew this wasn’t a grand strategy game; I picked it up for the “Restoration Games Pay What You Want” offer (I hope they did well on that promotion). It’ll definitely be a fun lark when I can get people back around my table.
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1883 - Building Railroads in Northern Italy‡ - This is a kitchen-sink of an 18xx: it has incremental capitalization, random events (mostly unheard of in 18xx), concessions (government bonuses for completing routes), a bus company, a co-op company that players take turns running, mergers, and gravity trains (that are cheap and add bonus income, but may break down based on a die roll – DICE IN 18xx!?) – The first edition (which is all that is currently available) has some known major flaws but there are errata downloads (and purchaseable kits) to correct the mistakes. I really should have passed on this one, but it’s definitely one that’s easier to get ahold of in Europe than here in the US, so I could hardly resist when I saw a small publisher(?) post on BGG that they had some available on their website.
†: That’s 6 new Bruno Faidutti games this year, up to a total of 7. Two Faidduti’s still on my wishlist as well.
‡: I may have made this part up… but it’s definitely Northern Italy.
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My Ixians & Tleilaxu expansion arrived. The box was crushed and torn but the contents are unscathed. 
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You know those “I bid on a game and forget about it. And then I won” stories? Yeah. I got Through the Ages: a New Story of Civilization. Got it for a good price compare to how much you get it on eBay and GeekMarket
Thanks to the SUSD people here for introducing the game to me. Will I tolerate it as a board game? We’ll see.
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People buying Splotter games, where do you find them?
Splotter has a very small inventory on their site. Otherwise secondary market.
Yeah, OK, I meant which secondary markets?
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I would imagine it depends on the game you’re after but FCM and The Ketchup Mechanism, Antiquity, and of course Bus are all routinely available from a FLGS or OLGS in Canada. I wouldn’t expect them to be hard to source elsewhere.
Anywhere well priced? I mean you’re on your own there. Going all in on FCM/TCM will set you back $300 here.
[EDIT] In late I see.
Ahh, well, I live in the US, so it’s fairly easy to find stuff in BGG auctions and/or BGG marketplace. That’s where I would look. I know a lot of different locations have healthy Facebook (or other social media) Buy-Sell-Trade groups.
I’ve bought a few games from Japan before and shipping was quite affordable coming this way – no idea about the other direction. If you see something in the US and I can act as an intermediary, I’d be glad to do so.
EDIT: All of my Splotters have come from BGG auctions and BGG marketplace transactions
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Thanks for the offer. Shipping is insane from the US, so it would have to be a crazy-good deal. For example, by USPS, a guy sent me Napoleon’s Triumph for $80, which worked out only because the game was free. I know other services are slightly cheaper, but still…
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Bus is very likely a stand-out these days due to the larger print run by Capstone
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That’s crazy. I bought a game used from Japan and shipping was $20 (it tooks nearly 3 months… and only 1 month of that was on the water… the rest was customs limbo)
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Antiquity 3rd ed at retail is news to me. Canada shipping isn’t too bad IIRC.