You’re on the money.
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It’s a great game, only played 2 player with my mum that didn’t quite get the rules for route building.
I can’t quite purchase NP for some reason, but that map on Trans Siberian looks lovely
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As mentioned above, I bought Il Vecchio from the used shelf of my FLGS this weekend. Popped it open tonight to find it completely unpunched! The manual may have been flipped through, but that was about it from what I could tell. So essentially brand new game for $20. I’ll take it. Maybe I will get really lucky and Cutthroat Caverns will be the same 
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Picked up Royal Visit (because pretty) and Red Cathedral (because interesting looking and compact). I’d been considering them both for a while and they popped up at a decent price on the same store, so why not?
The curse of having just organised my shelves.
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Found out there was a 4 player travel sized version of Blokus, so I bought it.
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Coloretto | Board Game | BoardGameGeek because I need lighter games to play with the family… this is really good
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@bruitist how’s Royal Visit?
I have no idea yet, it’s only just been dispatched 
And it’ll likely be a while before I get to play it.
Fair enough… I really love iello games (plus they are French) so looking forward to Little Factory – IELLO and apparently a new theme for Biblios…
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Seen here with an ordinary anthropomorphic reference pear, you can see the form-factor for TSR is almost that of Pandemic. And, in my opinion, is a better usage of shelf space than the Northern Pacific box (which, don’t get me wrong, is lovely!)
But, to your point, the game boards are night and day (well, actually, they are Canada haha, just kidding, it’s the northern United States and Russia…)
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I LOVE the Z-Man style flat format. I hate taller, narrower boxes like the one on top.
As for the Canada map, I’m sure we’ve got a Chinook somewhere but I believe Vancouver is the only Canadian stop on that board. 
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You know, I feel pretty silly now. I’ve not actually looked at the cities on this map and was going by (faulty) memory that the Northern Pacific was a Canadian railway.
Well, egg on my face.
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Heheh, I had to look up most of the cities first just to make sure (some of those are RIGHT on the border per the map, but Duluth and Grand Forks stuck out like a sore thumb). Sure gets flirty with us though. 
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Bought Manhattan by Andreas Seyfarth. Played it a while back so I sold the larger older edition to buy this one instead - smaller and prettier: BoardGameGeek
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I went ahead and filled out my 18Mag pledge manager. That’s yet another 18xx game purchased this year (with 1 more planned, if Lookout Games can manage to get 1880 to hit shelves this year)
The errata pack for 1840 is being provided by way of the 18Mag pledge manager… a practice I’m not always a fan of. The 1861/1867 errata pack will, likely, be offered as a free addon to Grand Truck Games’ Kickstarter for 1889… which is not something I was planning on pledging for. Hopefully Josh over at GTG can come up with a good alternative.
pillbox’s 2021 Purchase Tracker as of 2021-03-04: 5.3
Tracker
- Codename: Fifteen (0.1)
- 1860: Railways on the Isle of Wight
- Anachrony: Infinity Box
- Bucket of Bolts / Artefact (0.1 each)
- 18OE (Codename: Easterly Alacrity)
- Northern Pacific (Codename: Boreal Pacifism)
- 18Magyarország
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A local game shop (dropping the friendly, I don’t tend to like to shop there) has had a wooden copy of Flick 'em Up! on their shelf for ages at a pretty crummy price (common for the place). It’s been getting harder to come by though, and with the Giant edition pretty much becoming a pipe dream at this point, I had decided I’d bite the (wooden) bullet and grab it.
I offloaded some games that were languishing on the shelf and didn’t look to have a brighter future on the other side of the pandemic. Lots of new space made, and a happy excuse to bring it home. Thankfully the expansions are still fairly easy to come by online but I won’t be dallying.
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I own both expansions. I haven’t played with them yet. But man are they hard to store. The storage concerns alone made me question their value.
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Oof, are they a lot? They didn’t look to be much in terms of bits, though too many more multi-language manuals and we got trouble…
I just can’t figure out how to get almost any of the expansion components into the wooden edition box. I got some of it in there, but then I don’t have room for any of the rulebooks. It’s a pretty strange mess for a publisher to put people in.
The expansions do come with canvas bags. Which, I guess, is suppose to be the publisher’s answer? I dunno. The wooden box is hard enough to keep on a shelf… now I have 2 canvas bags to deal with now (and 4 rulebooks)
I can probably tolerate the rulebooks being a storage issue. I’ve already got a drawer for book games, RPG’s and whatnot. It’s not a game I’d need to keep the rules handy for… but all those scenarios!
[EDIT] Oh shoot, Red Rock has a whole new box (the cardboard stand) too?
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