Bought the Mexico & China expansion for Age of Steam to treat myself.
Manage to win Senji for a tenner! Lucky lucky! I usually see it going 25 or 30 at least
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How much do the expansions for AoS go for? Iām still playing my way through the maps included with the KS version. Iād love a better 2 player experience than the included one though.
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I have the older edition so I procure them from the used market.
Personally, I wont pay more than the standard fare for expansions.
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I have resisted the urge to buy various pretty games in French (but language independent) by instead picking up Bear Chess Ice Team (though it managed to sell out where I was originally going to buy it while I was looking at other games) and some other small box games Iāve been eyeing up: Tea For 2, Matryoshka, and Opale.
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Ice team selling out is so bizarre. If you told hobby games playing folk about a game where the goal is to just improve your chances of winning with a final dice roll I canāt imagine many Hobby games playing folk would even consider that good and bin it straight away.
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But thatās basically London Dread isnāt it?
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I think thereās a few games with that mechanic - favour to the pharaoh sort of has it too. Itās more of a how āat this point how much prejudice can Shut Up and Sit Down overcomeā puzzle. I sort of love it but also sort of resent what it implies. I mean - not long ago they managed to get the wheels turning on an Ā£80 (or was it Ā£100) social deduction game right?
Donāt underestimate just how many people there are for whom that is right up their street!
As long as the probabilities are properly manipulatable then Iām all about that sort of game. I still have fond memories of Poker and Killer Bunnies because of that.
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Anyway, all that aside, I have something to contribute to this discussion again!
The dreadful compromise in me has just risen to the fore and bought the three Aeonās End expansions (The Nameless, The Void and The Outer Dark) that I didnāt already have to bring me up to date with all the content before the Legacy game. Oh my god did I say how much Iāve been absolutely hooked on Aeonās End? I think I might have mentioned it once or twice.
But thatās not all! Iāve also got Santa Monica coming. Iām a big fan of Wingspan, itās really gone down well with my family, so I figured another aesthetically gorgeous low-rules-overhead card tableau game wouldnāt go amiss. Besides, thereās a place in Santa Monica that Iād really like to visit after seeing it in the first few minutes of this documentary about Slim Gaillard.
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And London Dread died on its sword! Itās funny, Iāve never seen anyone talk about that game other than (a) to talk about that final roll, or (b) to sell it on in trade groups. Iāve never heard a single good word about LD.
Itās still sat on my shelf - at the time I wanted a coop game that wasnāt another Pandemic and the art sold me. I should really give it a shot sometime.
I donāt think SUSDās audience can even be collectively grouped as āhobby gamersā anymore (except in the broadest sense of the word). They have such a wide reach from āgeneral internet nerd cultureā (which seems to be predominantly from the video game sphere?), to newcomers who have 3 or 4 games and want guidance as to what to get next. Itās quite a diverse crowd.
Any small part of that audience would be enough to sell out a game like Ice Team - no publisher would prep manufacturing to predict a review pushing those kind of numbers. Much of the audience wonāt have those prejudices. I doubt the Ice Team and Blood on the Clocktower Venn diagram would have much overlap!
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I quite enjoyed the primary game, though it was pretty tough. But the time limit and the endgame spoiled it for me.
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Itās a shame, I heard they had plans for an expansion that would swerve the endgame away from a random roll. They obviously didnāt hit those numbers! Wish they would at least provide some sort of PnP for that part of the game (in whatever development form itās in) to allow players to see how it would change the endgame.
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Buses and trains, amigos. Buses and trains. 
My order arrived. Did it as the lockdown has been eased since the 4th of this month.
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Bus is a no-brainer as Im going down the Splotter rabbit hole.
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Ride the Rails - well, I love my Cube Rails. And itās by John Bohrer (aka Harry Wu, David Peters, Martin Wallace, etc). Also bought the France & Germany expansion.
Age of Steam: Mexico & China expansion not shown
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Are you as bothered as I am regarding the form-factor of the boards?
Too thick. Other than that, itās fine, I guess.
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I sold some old stuff on eBay and proceeded to go on a bit of a splurge, the first part of which arrived yesterday. Iām very excited to play the expansions for Star Wars: Imperial Assault, Jabbaās Realm, Return to Hoth, and Twin Shadows.
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Didnāt he get banned from BGG for harassing people?
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Thats what I heard, yep.
Iām not a train games fan, but he doesnāt seem like the kind of person Iād want to support. Not to mention the dodginess of a white guy using an East Asian pseudonym.
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