My FLGS was clearing out old inventory for Black Friday, so had a lot of stuff marked to $5 or $10. Picked up Harrow County: the Game of Gothic Conflict for $10, down from $65. It’s an asymmetric game which usually interests me, but unlike most I’ve seen, it appears to play in 30-45 minutes.
I have not read the comic it is based on, but the premise sounds good. It can also be played solo, so I figured for $10, it was worth a shot.
I did some shopping…
Different strokes and all that, and I hope this isn’t true for you (it isn’t for lots of people), but I’ve become increasingly convinced that for me at least, more is usually worse.
Carcassonne being the exception that proves the rule.
And the rule doesn’t apply to things like Concordia maps or Flash Point: Fire Rescue buildings, of which I can’t get enough.
Oh, I definitely don’t apply that mindset to all games! Sometimes more is worse, and I’ve certainly refrained from buying expansions on that basis.
Funnily enough, I’ve always really enjoyed Carcassonne, but own no expansions (but I do have three different base game variants). The only ones I regret not buying when I could have were those tiny cubes with just a handful of tiles, such as the extended river (which I haven’t seen in shops for about a decade).
Yeah, it seems they have moved away from them.
Is Hunters and Gatherers one of them? If not, it should be - it’s great. I possibly prefer it to the standard game.
One specific point for this which I don’t see mentioned much: say you have a deck of 20 cards and a strategy is to collect the four X cards. You can work out how many card draws you’re likely to need. Now an expansion adds 20 more cards, including four more X cards—but they may all cluster in the bottom half where you can’t get them.
I am thinking that the English version of this year is the German of last year.
It will probably be difficult to translate as it is more puns than text… we had so many laughs this morning.
“Hey make me a Yuppi-Ta!”
From Dragonmeet bring and buy
Thats a massive wallet game
1:1 scale Agropolis
Giraffe fact: There are some Acacia seeds that can only germinate and begin to grow after they have moved through the digestive tract of a giraffe
(Also an acacia fact, so very good value)
Giraffes are like humans: The neck of a giraffe can be around eight feet long and weigh up to 600 pounds, but it has the same number of vertebrae as a human neck.
Giraffe are not like humans: New-born baby giraffes can start to balance and walk on their massive gangly legs within a few hours of being born, whereas new-born humans are totally useless.
Conclusion: Humans need to evolve massive gangly legs.
My pre-order of Unmatched: Steel and Silver and Unmatched: Realms Fall arrived!
I also finally caved and purchased Thunder Road: Vendetta, as it just sounds like chaotic fun!
FINALLY My copy of Rebel Princess has shipped, been hanging out for this one. We like trick takers, and this one seems to be pretty popular.
And it appears that after 2 months off we are gaming again this weekend. I hope I haven’t jinxed it by saying so…
Picked up Tales of the Arthurian Knights within a day of backing the KS for the anniversary edition of Tales of the Arabian Nights. Karma? Kismet? Whatever it is, I am looking forward to trying TotAK!
Also picked up Thunder Road Vendetta: Carnival of Chaos, which makes the game an arena-battler which I have zero interest in playing. But I do want the extra car so I can play with 5 players, and I’m hoping some of the other elements will work in vanilla TRV, which I love. And it wasn’t expensive.
Now if I can just find the stupid Big Rig and Fatal Five expansion for that game…
Due to reasons I went on a bit of a shopping spree the other day:
Most of these are expansions or small boxes.
The additional shelf-space needed will mostly be taken up bei Dune:Imp-Up, Saltfjord, Mistborn. And I feel like Dune:Imp I need to then decide which version to keep.
The various advent calendars contain more offers (Ora et Labora, Atiwa → each less than 20€, Waterfall Park) which I am interested in and there is a couple more FOMO games (Clank! Catacombs expansion, Lord of the Rings Duel). Leftovers from Spiel that have yet to appear on the market (Altay)
Got Caverna + Caverna: Forgotten Folk + promos on various trades. This is the best trade deal in the history of trade deals. Maybe ever. 
Reacquire Cuzco for £15 from a club member to see if I enjoy it again. Tikal was such a 
game when I played it in BGA and on the table. So Im curious on this and Mexica again. Do I still feel the same way or…?
