Welcome: Which games do you have or want?

[EnolaGay]

View attachment 1850285View attachment 1850286View attachment 1850287View attachment 1850288View attachment 1850289Latest arrivals, except for Marine Parks expansion for Ark Nova all Kickstarter arrivals. A few all at once. Good timing as wife’s finished Uni for year and eldest (she’s helping study for exam) is done Tuesday. Then ‘officially’ into gaming season to attack the backlog of unplayed games and expansions.

Kickstarter arrivals, all in for Dead Reckoning, Tiny Epic Crimes (who had a shipment stolen, that they tracked down and got back ), Scholars of the South Tigris and the Covenant expansion and Neoprene Mat (a bit larger than the board) for Return to Dark Tower.

Dead Reckoning is a great game, also has a great dice tower.


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[Andre]

Latest purchases - Destinies Witchwood, as we both enjoyed base Destinies, and Freelancers. The latter a follow on to Forgotten Waters. After how much fun we’ve had with Forgotten Waters, at 2,4 and 6 player counts, as soon as we heard about it, ordered it.

 

[Andre]

Have been slack with posting games arrived and backed lately, so it’s time to cross the Rubicon and get back to it.

Foundations of Rome (all in) arrived today.
With a decent storage system. IMO, you’ve become a serious collector when decent inserts for games make you happy.
Neoprene mat is also well done, in it's double sided. One layout optimised for vertical, one for horizontal layout, so suits different tables / player counts.

 

[Andre]

Latest shelfie. Getting closer to having to buy another shelf.

 

[Achy Blakey Heart]

WTH:

• Cuba Libre
• Sleeping Gods
• Pax Pamir
• Anything Uwe i dont already have

 

[Andre]

First of today’s two deliveries - Dawn of Madness (wave 1). Narrative horror game that is a prequel of sorts to Deep Madness.
Two years late, which is largely due to the amount of story for each of the four Wanderers (the characters going insane) grew, to now 70 odd pages of small font for each. Of course had to get the miniatures version and the Neoprene mat.

 

[Andre]

The second of todays deliveries. Deep Madness all in. More horror, though not story driven like Dawn of Madness.

 

[Heater39]

Any recommendations for lightweight/ party games that are good with a big group (6-10)? I have codenames which is good fun but looking for some others to add to the repertoire

 

[Andre]

Any recommendations for lightweight/ party games that are good with a big group (6-10)? I have codenames which is good fun but looking for some others to add to the repertoire

Just One is a favourite of our gaming group. There's a word you have to guess, with each person getting their word to guess in turn (these are off cards with the words). Everyone else can given only a one word clue (hence the name). The hard part is if two or more people give the same word or variation of word (so clues like climb and climbing) those clues can't be given to the person trying to guess. The clue givers can't talk to each other, to say 'I'll do the obvious one!', so it can actually get harder at higher counts, as everyone avoids the obvious clues, fearing they'll clash.

If you aren't playing with kids or the easily offended, then Cards against Humanity is a decent choice as well.

 

[HairyO]

Just One is a favourite of our gaming group. There's a word you have to guess, with each person getting their word to guess in turn (these are off cards with the words). Everyone else can given only a one word clue (hence the name). The hard part is if two or more people give the same word or variation of word (so clues like climb and climbing) those clues can't be given to the person trying to guess. The clue givers can't talk to each other, to say 'I'll do the obvious one!', so it can actually get harder at higher counts, as everyone avoids the obvious clues, fearing they'll clash.

If you aren't playing with kids or the easily offended, then Cards against Humanity is a decent choice as well.

There is a kids version of Cards too.

Jackbox is fun if you all have devices and a big tv.

 

[Andre]

A couple of Stonemaier game additions arrived today. Gears of Corruption expansion for Expeditions (more options, plus meant to help fix the swingyness you get in the base, depending on which random starting combo's you get), plus Tapestry neoprene mat (tried to get earlier, but always out of stock).

Also wife's latest KS delivery, Terminus, arrived.

 

[NTRabbit]

Atomic Mass Games announced that Star Wars: X-Wing and Star Wars: Armada have ceased development, so while they will continue to support tournaments and such, no new SKUs wil be developed and all existing product has ceased production and is going OOP.

So, if there's something you always wanted, now is the time to get it, because a lot of it had already been out of stock for months or sometimes years, and it's not coming back

 

[Chief]

I got the Armada starter on sale but the ships were too expensive to justify it. Played it twice.

 

[Macca19]

Any recommendations for lightweight/ party games that are good with a big group (6-10)? I have codenames which is good fun but looking for some others to add to the repertoire

Dixit is great with lots of people and has a ton of addons you can buy

 

[Andre]

Any recommendations for lightweight/ party games that are good with a big group (6-10)? I have codenames which is good fun but looking for some others to add to the repertoire

Another one we've played a fair amount is Word Slam. Two teams, of any size 2+. You've got a hidden word or phrase, but rather than you write a clue like Just One, you have a bunch of cards with verbs, nouns, prepositions and adjectives, which the clue provider lays out for their team. Both teams are trying to guess the same word/phrase, but they see only their teams clues.

However you can obviously hear the other teams guesses. The guessers on a team are free to talk amongst themselves. It continues until one of the teams guesses the word/phrase. There are various level of difficulty words/phrases to guess, depending on how much you want to hurt your head (or have drunken by that point).

Each word a different person on the team is the clue giver. The clue giver obviously can't speak or do anything other than put out the cards (except point at cards once exasperated and groan in frustration as your team keeps missing your blatantly obvious clues ).

 

[Andre]

Call me Snake. Escape from New York arrived.

So now have this, They Live and The Thing. Still looking for a second hand copy of Big Trouble in Little China to complete the John Carpenter 80’s action movies made into board games collection.

 

[Andre]

Latest arrivals. Honey Buzz - Fall Flavors expansion.





Flock Together - A pick of the wife, as Andrew Bosley art, whose her favourite board game artist. Look Everdell like, which we enjoy though.



Then of course, the dystopian Australia - Waste Knights was my choice.

 

[Andre]

Newest Kickstarter arrivals - Ring of Chaos, Wizards & Co., a couple of roll and write versions of Cascadia and River Valley Glassworks. Also got Dice Forge and Netherlands map for Ticket to Ride at Games World. We’d played Dice Forge many times on BoardGameArena, with it finally back in stock to get to play the physical game.

 

[Andre]

Concentric Gaming convention was on here in Adelaide this Friday night and weekend, which as always ended up leaving with more games then we started with. Picked up Tang Garden, Mysterium, Destinies - Sea of Sand and Windmill Valley.

 

[NTRabbit]

Probably for the best I didn't know that existed, budget's a bit tight lately

* Bookmarks for 2025

 

[Andre]

Probably for the best I didn't know that existed, budget's a bit tight lately

* Bookmarks for 2025

Definitely worth going. You can get on their mailing list on their site at https://con-centric.com.au/ so you'll get plenty of notice of tickets for next year (as they sell out long before the convention).

 

[GETSOMENUTS]

Hey all, been quite a few years since Ive posted on BF. Heres a shot of (most of) my collection. Havent got anything recently but have a few games coming through Gamefound: The other side of the Hill, Masters of the universe Battleground, Scarface 1920 and Fief England.

 

[Andre]

Latest Kickstarter / Gamefound arrivals. Diatoms - a pattern placing game.



Unconscious Mind - you are shrinks.



Then the latest Red Raven arrivals. An upgraded version of Islebound, Roam - an older game we didn’t have yet and Creature Caravan (the latest in the Azrium series - Above and Below, Near and Far, Now or Never the others), plus the Azrium RPG book. Though that more for the art and lore, as no time to play RPG’s as well as board games.

 

[Andre]

A couple of smaller birthday gifts for my wife from a friend - Dragonkeepers and Mycelia - she didn't bother wrapping but her remaining birthday presents, our ‘official’ Christmas presents, plus the last months Kickstarter / Gamefound arrivals are wrapped and under the tree.

Except Nemesis. That would have dominated the tree. Wave 1 arrived, which is everything except Retaliation (so original and Lockdown) stuff. All in on this (except paying thousands for painted figurines, damn not that rich ). We also all got a Hoodie. I’m Space Racoon, youngest is Space Cat (real cat checking out the competition) and wife is Space Platypus (that part of Wave 2).

 

[SonOfScray]

Not expecting Santa to bring much tomorrow but I really want the next expansion to Flamme Rouge to come out.