Also just want to express my delight that one of the activities you can do for the “earn money” action is “Herding Nerfs”.
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Bought the new Renegade edition of Acquire and sold the older 1999 Avalon Hill edition. The latter one is sought after for a good price so I don’t mind selling it. The components are nice and seem very similar to the latter.
Also bought more summoners for Summoner Wars 2
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Bought these from Travel Games and also a couple of them from Joe Reese (from the Train Rush podcast)
Also received my copy of Acquire from the post. No unboxing video, but this is easily the go-to edition if you want to buy Acquire. The production is nice and indeed similar to the 1999 Avalon Hill edition, albeit slightly smaller (but that’s a good thing in my book). Unless you want the ultra cheap 3M edition copies on eBay for like £15, that’s also a good option. But board gamers want the glam.
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The new Aliens expansion (We’re in the Pipe Five by Five) was available for pre-order, so I grabbed that. More to be a completist than anything else. The games aren’t perfect, but they are still pretty good fun.
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I went ahead and ordered Zoo Vadis from Bitewing Games’ site, which appears to be fulfilled by BoardGameTables.com. Shipping was a flat $4, so I was comfortable paying retail to ensure I got a copy rather than waiting for another online retailer.
And speaking of online retailers, Miniature Market was having a sale (just like they do every week) and I saw God of War: the Card Game on sale for $10. It’s a co-op so I can solo it, and it sounds fun, plus I like the game it is based on, so for $10, I am willing to take a chance.
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Escape the Dark Sector. Well, just the big box as I already had most of the rest of it. Not bothered about the game mats…
Oathsworn came a month early too! Now… Just to finish Gloomhaven…
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I stress-bought a couple of small games:
I can see my collection of small imported games increasing now that I know about Travel Games… Unfortunately they didn’t have any copies of Galaxy Cat Extension left
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Bought Cat in the Box again. I sold it back in the day for stupid price.
Someone in the club did a giveaway so I manage to nabbed:
- Sleuth by Sid Sackson
- Carson City the Card Game
- Thrown - a trick taker from Wizkidz
- Sunrise City - doesn’t seem like my thing, but the 3D building on a shared map sounds lovely.
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Got my 2nd order from Travel Games: Enemy Anemone, Odd Socks, Ptolemy. The last one is a 2 player trick taker so I’m curious on how they would do it. I thought Catchy! has a great concept but a bit flawed
I also requested Cine Pipoca from the shop. Fingers crossed!!!
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Recent arrivals.
- Voidfall: crowdfunding, I am pleasantly surprised at my enjoyment so far. Would not be backing a game like this this year
- Castles of Mad King Ludwig (along with a postcard from friends that arrived this week of Herrenchiemsee one of the eponymous castles): crowdfunding. Tile laying. The campaign for the expansion seems to have sucked for people who only wanted the expansion.
- GWT Sheeps: moving compensation shopping. I’ve been waiting for the cow-less iteration ever since @Captbnut taught me the OG version. I’ve had a look and setup a solo but had to quit after a few turns. Seems like I made the right choice. The sheep are lovely.
- Star Wars Realms: moving compensation shopping. I blame @COMaestro and this household’s love of Star Realms.
I also pre-ordered the expansions for Ark Nova and Cascadia to prevent myself from hunting stuff at SPIEL that I will be buying anyway. Also Fair prices are not always fair.
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The things I buy at SPIEL tend to be either a pre-order or crowdfunding pickup (save the postage), or something that will never reach UK retail anyway (the tiny companies in the back halls).
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It arrived! Already posted about Nerdzday haul. Additions here are Sequoia and Habitats. I’ve been crazy impressed by Allplay / Boardgametables.com in terms of their operations. As we deal with $30 shipping and $100 for Lords of Vegas or $150 for Cyclades with 18 month production cycles these folks are quietly churning out $20 and $40 games with immaculate art, high end punch board, free custom meeples, $4 shipping, on 6 month cycles. Their games aren’t stunning but they are good so I’ve been snapping up a few.
If I ever get a boardgametable it is now definitely going to be from boardgametables.com as their quality is showing here. These are also the folks reprinting Through the Desert later this month…
@yashima, ha ha Star Wars Realms. Star Whelms. I blame @comaestro too. Let us know how neuseeland is!
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I can tell you: it’s great! (We visited for our honeymoon, so another reason to buy this edition. I doubt I’ll ever get to go again. But I would love to.)
Hope to get the game to the table soonish.
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We visited in one of our five “welp, this is the last trip before we have kids so let’s make it a big one” trips during our long infertility journey. What a place.
But the game??? 
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It looks a lot like GWT, except that cows = sheep, rails = ships and cowboys/indians = floods (I think, not sure about the latter). Also the player meeples have different skin tones as colors and cowsheep-boy hats in player colors that you can switch around.
The sheep are beautiful.
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I “bought” Rankster from La Mame Games by donating money to a charity and then they shipped the game to me. Rikki overlooked our donation for some weeks before he reacted, so that’s what the apology for. I already thought it didn’t work for some reason (e.g. no more copies available) but well the money went to a good cause, so I didn’t care much. But luckily it was just the normal swamped by emails thing.
Played a lot and it is just a fun, easy and quick party game. Enjoyed it a lot with my parents in law.
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I bought Trick of the Rails and will attempt to blame @lalunaverde, even though it is my lack of willpower that’s clearly at fault 
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Good luck and have fun. It’s very opaque
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I’m an Onitama completionist but I finally have an expansion that won’t fit in the core box…
Light and Shadow gives you a “ninja mode”, which either one or both players can use. You have fewer pawns, but one ninja, who moves on a hidden board using the same card you just played. If the ninja lands on someone, they’re captured; if someone lands on the ninja, the ninja is captured. You have two lanterns per game which let you ask “is the ninja in this specific row/column”.
Sadly I think I’m a bigger fan of Onitama than anyone else I know.
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Love Onitama, haven’t played in a long while, but it was always a good time.We don’t have Light and Shadow, though, only sensei’s Path and Way of the Wind. Never managed to fit the figurine from WotW in the core box, however.
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