Not a new purchase, but last week my Overboss pledge showed up.
Tile laying game in the same world as Boss Monster, so fun art and it’s co-designed by Kevin Russ (Calico).
We still need to to try the Command Cards, but enjoying it so far. Also hoping the bigger board (4x4) helps move the market at 2, which seems a little stagnant on the normal board (3x4). Hoping the extra placements will help.
The sound is quite similar.
My partner insists the origin of the Erklärbär is that back when it was still named Heidelberger Spiele they had a bear mascot at their booth at SPIEL which would be early 2000s (it had to be because we already called our druid raidleader in Kharazahn Erklärbär and that must have been 06 or so) and from Heidelberger it spread to every other publisher and now of course Heidelberger is renamed to HeidelBär.
Yeah, so I am not 100% sure this is the correct origin but it’s definitely at least that old.
And a good Erklärbär definitely cares about the game they explain to you 
This is getting off-topic so I’ll stop after this, but it’s one of the things I really like about game demoing at least with the companies I’ve done it with – nobody wants me to be a salesman and get people to buy stuff that I don’t personally care about. For that matter if the visitor sits down, plays a demo game, and says “eh, not for me”, that’s a better outcome than them buying a game based on the sizzle and regretting it later.
Bought three Tokyo games: Tokyo Metro, Jutaku, Judohanbaiki. There’s only one person to blame here @EnterTheWyvern
I’d be interested to hear what you think about the latter two.
I won’t be blamed for the last 2. I got rid of them years ago. The wooden blocks one is more fun but my friends don’t like dec games. The many games in a box one has a pointless drink vending machine which doesn’t work. So I got rid of it.
Tokyo Metro remains great.
Last of my maths trade goodies arrived. Excited for this. I’m hoping the return of all doesn’t stop me playing games outdoors in April.
I got notification that my order for Xia shipped yesterday. I checked in to see what that meant for stock overall and lucked into a surprise single copy of the Sellsword Mk II ship, so that’s coming too. Happy with that hard-to-find pickup.
Well not bought but given, as my father in law spontaneously decided to give me two games (I suspect he bought them to try with my mother in law and they didn’t like these two…) and I am now the proud owner of Hanamikoji (surprisingly mindbending for a supposed 15min filler) and Targi which, on first play, was interesting in that I thought I was nowhere near competitive until we counted up points and I was only two points behind. So, on the whole, quite interesting!
My wife and I had a little escape today, just driving around and stopping here and there. Last place was our FLGS, and I was just going to buy the Wasp hero pack for Marvel Champions, but then looked at the shelf of used games.
Cutthroat Caverns has been on my radar for a bit, ever since seeing SU&SD’s review way back when. Looks like good fun. For $20, it seemed like a decent price.
Then saw Il Vecchio by Rudiger Dorn, creator of Istanbul which we really enjoy. For $20, we decided to take a chance on it.
Could not justify $55, so I put Wasp back.
Then spent $5 more on a card box which I can use to better (or at all) organize my Arkham Horror TCG cards, which are not fitting in the base box anymore
Bought The Boldest by Sophia Wagner. Big fan of Noria, which was one of the best Euros I’ve played last year. Very keen on trying this one.
Panic Lab - same style as Ghost Blitz. Hopefully this has more longevity than the latter
Schotten Totten 2 - because Knizia and I love Schotten Totten/Battle Line
I bought Jetpack Joyride because 2 years after playing it at Spiel with the same people we met at the Alubari table I decided I did after all have to have this (I played my first Alubari solo the other day).
It’s a boardgame jump and run and I had a lot of fun playing even though I do rarely enjoy realtime games.
Had a moment of weakness and bought Railroad Ink Blue for a bit cheaper than usual.
Still holding off Root but got Survive: Escape from Atlantis and Oh My! For some dumb fun.
Dammit, i thought I’d stopped buying games…
Today, ordered Scape Goat, Bandido, and Nidavellir
This past Saturday was an exciting day! In addition to the normal, background-level of excitement induced by a dizzying amount of toddler-originated activity, the FedEx, UPS and USPS all contributed to new and exciting unplayed games!
USPS, actually, didn’t. Instead, USPS brought me someone else’s replacement components for Anachrony: Box of Infinity. Apparently there was a mixup at the fulfillment center and I received the components that someone else needed, and that person received my replacements. Wonderful. Oh well, Mindclash Games is very friendly and assured me that the correct replacements would be on their way soon.
FedEx seems to be the Kickstarter-fullfillment-parter-of-choice lately and delivered 2 different projects:
1861 / 1867: Railways of Cold Countries That Look Inordinately Large On Common Map Projections – Excited to get this and read a bit more about the 2-player rules provided (they’ve been available for a while, but it’s just so much nicer to read a physical rulebook). 18xx collection status: I don’t yet have 18 of them, which is a shame.
Millennium Blades: Collusion and the mini-expansion I was missing – So, I really don’t like the box that they decided on making for this project. What should be a “big box” or “omnibus collection box” turns out to be “inadequate to meet the needs of almost anyone” and another case of “we can’t make both sleevers and non-sleevers happy, so we’ll compromise and nobody will be happy”. In addition, one of the inserts broke during transit. No matter, I went ahead and notified L99 that they can just send the replacement insert when they send me the sleeves that I had ordered as an add-on (to make the best of a bad situation), that they forgot to account for.
And UPS was the carrier of a huge collection of orders from an online game store that had been combined for free shipping and then held back by a couple of pre-orders:
Crystal Clans: Leaf Clan – with this finally arriving, my CC collection is complete. I probably should have just avoided CC altogether and I might have if I had future-vision and could see Summoner Wars 2 coming.
Ashes: Frostdale Giants – this was the last of the Ashes expansions other than the ones that I ordered directly from Plaid Hat and was then notified that they were out of stock, so I’ll receive them as soon as they print up the Ashes 1.5 version of them. So, Ashes: nearly complete
Food Chain Magnate: The Ketchup Mechanism and Other Ideas – quite possibly the strangest subtitle for any game. Bought it mostly for the new milestones (yes, I know, most people don’t even use the milestone cards) and the coffee module. The other modules look like a nice way to keep the game fresh, but… to date, I’ve only run through a 2-handed solo game to try to learn the rules (spoiler: I made lots of mistakes), so I really have no business owning this expansion. But, still, it’s a lovely box packed to the limit with the typical Splotter insanity brilliance.
Pan Am – I don’t really know much about this game other than it has a lovely aesthetic and an accessible theme.
Trans-Siberian Railroad – So that’s the second game in this post that features the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Do I need more cube rails games? No, absolutely not. But Tom Russell’s output is always interesting, so I took a gamble on it. The box size is nearly perfect, and definitely a ways better than Northern Pacific, which I had thought was pretty nice.
pillbox’s 2021 Purchase Tracker as of 2021-03-02: 4.3
As in: I’ve read and heard from numerous sources that a lot of people print out and laminate sheets that show all of the milestones, and then circle or cross out milestones as they achieve them or they become unavailable
Played it last week. Lovely game. Imagine TtR with a notch up in complexity, and VPs in the shape of Pan Am stocks. I’d play it any time.
That’s about what I was after: Ticket to Ride +
