Just bought for coop with Mini Ross.
I’ll let you know how we get on.
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Had a couple of hours to kill in Manchester, went to Fanboy3 and didn’t buy a thing.
Plenty of games, nothing really excited me
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There’s a good sale on MiniatureMarket.com with 40% off everything, so they’ve been picked pretty clean, but Deal with the Devil is still there for something like $31. I am so tempted, but it is a game that requires exactly four players and from reading the rules, it looks like it would be a bit difficult to teach, so it would likely never hit the table. Would love to play it someday, though.
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It’s really interesting as a game.
Wouldn’t own it but I’m keen to play again.
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Underwater Cities.
It was on one of the advent calendars I check. For a good price. And I’ve considered it before. I heard good things about it. But I decided against it after being asked why I wanted it and I couldn’t really come up with anything but “I don’t have a Suchy game yet and this is supposedly good”
And my geekbuddy analysis confirms it. Many people have it ranked at least 8+
… however I wouldn’t be posting here if there weren’t other considerations. When we come to people I actually know a bit better than the average BGGer the rankings are suddenly lower. And when @lalunaverde says it compares more to Agricola than TM and another person mumbles bad things about luck of the draw… I am thinking maybe I should get back to Agricola after all these years or just keep playing the big Rosenbergs I have.
And it has a long playtime listed 80-150min and I got other solos of similar weight that play faster and I don’t even get all my other stuff played at multiplayer.
And there must have been reasons I didn’t buy it previously, right?
So here is me convincing myself that a cheap price does NOT mean I have to get something I was at some point interested in.
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I have a thingy that checks boardgameprices for games I’m interested in. And sometime I find myself thinking “hmm, if I’m still havering over it when it’s ten quid, do I really want it?”.
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I have UC, but now I don’t know when I’d ever choose playing UC over Ark Nova. Its definitely in my pruning pile. It’s decent at what it does, but I get similar/more satisfaction from other games.
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This, all this. It’s the best thought experiment on buy/not buy, in my opinion of course.
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I successfully resisted the half-price Coffee Traders in milan-spiele Advent Calendar last night. I was interested at some point but price and Lacerda-esque rules complexity and no solo pushed it off the list. But seeing something I considered for 50+ instead of 100+ moneys was a bad temptation.
So far no Advent Calendar game shopping at all.
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I resisted taking a punt on various unfamiliar games from DRACO IDEAS but if anyone had been hanging out for a reason to buy Tetrarchia from them, they have a birthday sale of sorts at present (a flat €9 discount on orders over €20, which represents a good discount for a €30 game). You might lose it again in shipping mind, and I take no responsibility if you insist on adding their Roman Empire themed neoprene dice tray to go with it. I may have purchased one of those.
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I also seem to have decided not to buy Whitehall Mystery despite having been interested in it for years while it seemed to be out of print (I think because SUSD said it was fab). Now that it’s back on sale, I re-read the description, and I really just don’t want a game about a murderer who is leaving dismembered body parts scattered around London. It’s not the only game with a murderous theme, but that’s just incredibly grisly and awful. I’ll take Scotland Yard chasing after Mr X for an unspecified offence, thanks. (I’m imagining that Mr X failed to renew his car registration and things just escalated.)
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It’s an interesting one. I assume the designers set out to make a smaller player count of their own Letters from Whitechapel, and went looking for another unsolved crime of about the right period. But it could just as easily be rethemed… it’s not as though there were body-part-shaped tokens.
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True, reading more it does sound like there’s no reference to the crimes outside of the manual.
Someone on BGG suggested a Paddington Bear theme :).
Marmalade Mystery would definitely be more my cup of tea.
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Looks, on a whim, at GMT’s American Civil War game Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah.
Playing Time: 300–1200 Min
Decides that’s enough of a look.
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Was tempted by Steam Up: A Feast of Dim Sum, as it is incredibly cute, but after some research it sounds like the game does not have a lot of strategy and works better as a kids game. Plus, set up is a bit fiddly. Decided to pass on it.
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My plan for 2024 is to not buy anything. I’ve managed this before. Boom or bust probably isn’t the healthiest way to handle buying games, but it’s what I’ve got right now.
So I haven’t bought Kutna Hora and I won’t be buying Terra Pyrimides.
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Just total up the cost of 18Svea from All Aboard Games, £49 for an 18XX curio is too much.
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We were staying 4 days in Hamilton after the Christmas (hence the radio silence that last few days on my end of the line) and I was strong to avoid buying a copy of Paladins or Wayfarers for only 85NZD in a game shop there. What I did instead was buy some books with a gift card from my birthday haul…
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In years past, I’ve found it very easy to not buy things in 2024. However, this year, that will be quite a bit harder!
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I’ve already managed to buy the new Concordia expansion. But my plan for the rest of 2024 is to not buy anything else.
Except maybe Cascadia. But that’s all.
Oh, and maybe a Lost Ruins of Arnak expansion. But absolutely nothing else…
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