Sounds like too much work tbh. Still waiting for El Grande BETA 
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Oh no, I’m only on 545 of 61! 
(tbh I’m barely using BGA any more, just carrying on with existing groups there rather than playing with strangers.)
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I have never played with strangers. Playing MMOs soured me on randoms.
750 is beyond my means. i am happy playing beta versions:) but do keep us informed of the juicy future 
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I’ll be there with bells on.
Side note, when we were discussing “The El Grande Big Box” Box, we realized that it translates to “The The Big Big Box Box” and that has delighted me ever since.
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I can invite people to an alpha game. I’m just trying to clear my books slightly at the moment
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I sold my copy of Wasteland Express Delivery Service to a friend last week (just pending delivery), and I sold Black Rose Wars to another friend last night, who rather unexpectedly convinced me to part with… Xia. 
I’m actually more ok with this than I expected to be. I don’t usually part with a game if I think I might regret it, and I actually don’t think this will end up breaking that rule.
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I’m still looking for Xia at a non-massive price… but I seem to remember you’re not in the UK.
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That was part of what swayed my decision. The trade was to a local friend who wanted a complete set and had been having trouble sourcing anything beyond the base box without looking at extortionate prices. Given there are a few copies among my friends, and how often it would get played at home, it wasn’t too hard a trade/sell after all.
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Finally pulled the trigger on (or should I say at?) Oh My Goods. I had faith in Pfister so I kept trying it out. And I can see that all the parts in the game should come together into something that plays well. But I finally believe they just don’t, so off it goes. I also have better portable games now.
I wonder if Lookout/Pfister feel the same - they keep revising the rules and releasing expansions to patch gameplay, pursuing that “this should work!” feeling and then trying again when it doesn’t quite.
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I keep waiting to play a Pfister game I really love. I still hope it might be GWT. It wasn’t Oh My Goods, it wasn’t several others… it makes me sad I want to like his games. Oh my Goods had to go after my partner gave it a thorough thumbs down.
Have you taken Isle of Skye for a spin? GWT is great but a bit rickety. Isle of Skye is, in my opinion, near perfect.
You need the Druids expansion to make 2p work, though. It’s really a 3-5 player game.
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I don’t enjoy Isle of Skye much. I feel it needlessly complicates Carcassonne. Also round goals as almost the only scoring mechanism… Same reason I dislike Cartographers. One of my few/only? gripes with TM, GP and now Clans is that I am not free to design my strategy because of those stupid random goals but Isle of Skye giving them a comeback is even worse. I haven’t played the expansions. The game was one of my „bought it because it was a cheap bundle“ acquisitions.
If I ever get to play the expansions the game may make an official appearance here. Also our gaming friends own the same bundle….
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Well, can’t argue with not enjoying it. I can share the window through which I do enjoy it, though…
On the first, I’ve always seen zero overlap with Carcassonne. For me, it perfects the Suburbia/King Ludwig model and I put it on a spectrum with those two.
For the second, yeah, round scoring objectives can make things stressful. But in Barrage/TM/Gaia Project, you’ve got this task to do and the round scoring goals keep knocking you away from those goals, providing extra hoops to jump through and forcing you into mistimed actions. For Isle of Skye, those round goals ARE the game. They don’t interfere with my strategy or force me into compromise because they aren’t in tension with any other goals. So rather than a stresser, they function to keep each game unique and fresh. Also, by coming back around 3x each, they let you stick with a strategy or even move your actions earlier or later, providing flexibility. The “now or never” stress is reduced.
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Maybe we need that thread about different games that are connected for us. I have played both Suburbia and Mad King Ludwig only as app but wouldn’t have connected the games with Skye. For what its worth, I don’t think Skye is bad but it isn’t something I want to play either. It irritates me that roads don’t have to connect 
but if the expansion enables 2 player I may yet convince my partner to play another game.
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I have really enjoyed Oh My Goods over the years but I wouldn’t feel confident trying to convince someone about it.
The time it hit was a group of euro gamers and we used this variant but with Celestia cards to make the stack instead of reducing the card pool. We all accepted the randomness and had fun playing around with what we got.
For a filler I found it had a little promise of euro combos time but the card draw sort of took some pressure off and made the whole experience a bit more light hearted. In some ways I found the market hit in a similar way to Quacks, which would make sense as it’s push your luck
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Haha this is very true. Stressful decisions between different priorities are my jam
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I saw the new GWT has meeples with cowboy hats. Having resisted buying this game for years this might be enough to push me over the edge.
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There are photos of the new GWT???
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Nice! Was looking in the wrong bit. I can’t believe the cowboys STILL aren’t on horses though. They’re not walking around with their cows like some low bit shepherd!!
Love the design. Not world’s apart, but definitely a lot nicer colour scheme and softer implementation all round. I’ll probably wait for the expansion to come before upgrading
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