And if there's anything left, expansions for Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Phoenixborn. Or should I get expansions for games I love? My son already had my money spent for me: get all the new expansions for Doomtown: Weird West Edition. It needs to be a space theme - I already have Merchants & Marauders, which covers me for the Sid Meier's Pirates! video game itch-scratching. Xia looks like the best fit on the market to me, though Star Wars: Outer Rim might be an option, but that's quite pricey too with expansions. And I do want a board game that reminds me of the video game Elite, where you have your own ship that you can upgrade and where you can do missions and trade and do a bit of piracy. Same old! Oh well, maybe some folks are right and rolling dice to move will make me hate the game.

This one is just not meant to happen! And now, when I have the bucks, it's out of print again. Sometimes, not all of it was in print at the same time. One thing that had made this elusive was I wanted it all, partly because I expected to play it solo. What about the older games that I very nearly bought before? Xia: Legends of a Drift System came to mind. And the big bundle was a reasonable price. Even if it's been remade two times since. What about Terra Mystica? This seems to be a 'gamers' game' that according to some users is the greatest game ever made. expansion, and a new Gamefound edition is being done), and Sagrada (I love transparent dice! But is it as good as Azul?) Games like Terra Mystica / Gaia Project (look a bit boring and ugly in places to me), Eclipse (maybe I'm better off playing my Space Empires: 4X?), Project: Elite, Targi, Caverna (I'm not into the dwarves theme), Navegador, Food Chain Magnate (awful board and high price inc.

Maybe it's safer to stick with slightly older games, where hopefully there aren't going to be a ton of new expansions. I like to have everything for a game, but with some games, I don't think they're worth the total cost. What would the wargamers make of that, when they are still playing games from the 60s and probably back to Ancient Egypt times?Īh shoot, I forgot about my main issue with shiny new games: I don't like that loads of games come out with expansions now.

I asked folks on BGG what the 2020s games were like for them, as if I'm some dinosaur with my 2010s games. I'd been ignoring the elephant in the room: the fact that I don't own the #4 ranked game on BGG.

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