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It is just as you describe. I thought it was awesome at first. You should read the first couple of paragraphs of Bobak's Super Spy review: http://www.neo-geo.com/reviews/neo-r.../superspy2.htmQuote:
Originally Posted by Lagduf
That's a pretty good way of putting how my feelings changed very quickly on Formula D.
I was on one of my nerdy Wikipedia-photo-scavenger hunts (for lack of a better term), and I ended up snapping a photo of Fantasy Flight's HQ. I didn't go in, but I thought of ya, 'Duf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:20...tasyFlight.jpg
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Originally Posted by Bobak
Nice. Such a plain building for one the largest board game publishers in the world. The disparity in size (and profits) between the number one publisher and the rest in the top five is pretty amusing. But Hasbro is such a giant.
LOL.Quote:
Originally Posted by GunstarHero
Is it wrong that I now want to play The Super Spy?
Got some new stuff:
- Descent: The Tomb of Ice
- The 4th Expansion to Descent, this one has some pretty cool new heroes that sort of break the mold in terms of character design. The hero characters are pretty far out there including a Yeti and a gnome or child (or something) riding a wolf. I think that's awesome though.
Also adds some cool new mechanics to the base descent game such as "feat" cards for the heroes and a "stealth" die. Basically stealth characters are really hard to hit.
Also introduced some nasty new monsters, 6 new scenarios, and of course a bunch of badass new treasure cards.
- Wings of War: Famous Aces
-Ok so this game has been out for awhile and I just never went and picked it up. It's great. Super simple, super awesome and all using cards (though they have miniatures of the planes now!) This is WW1 Air combat. Super simple, fun and action packed. I really like how you have to plan your planes move three "cards" ahead and that movement by all players is simultaneous, leading to you trying to outguess and outmaneuver your opponents.
This is published by Fantasy Flight Games in the USA but was actually developed by Nexus the wonderful guys behind the fantastic War of the Ring and other titles.
I definitely see myself picking up the 2 other box sets and the booster packs, though I think i'll stay away from the miniatures for now.
I also sort of want to pick this up:
Call of Cthulu Living Card Game (LCG)
- I enjoy CCGs and other Card Driven games. Though in terms of CCGs and other collectible games they eventually devolve in to a money pit and power creep starts to slide in to the later expansions in order to keep players hooked.
Fortunately this is an LCG - meaning you buy the boxed set and get everything you need to play. Then a few times a year the publisher (in this case FFG) will release a series of fixed expansion boosters - meaning you make a single purchase and get all the additional cards. No need to buy dozens of random packs, because there are none. And they're suppose to keep the balance pretty good too.
This game intrigues me for some reason even though I already own Arkham Horror. Though I feel Arkham is best suited for more player (4 ideally?) while this is a 2 player game. It seems neat and I like how you battle it out to "win" the story cards. It almost seems like it is a very tactical game in terms of what cards you should play.
He is completely right about many mass market games such as Candyland and Life! Probably even monopoly too because all that is is an exercise in buying strings of properties where it's most probable a player will land on.
Lots of meaningful decisions there.
This was the chaser:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20090110after.gif
that looks pretty fantastic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lagduf
I'm a lovecraft fan and the art for it looks great, do these games kind of have story
to it or is it just playing against other folks?
Call of Cthulu probably doesn't have much of a story too it, unless you consider the action of the players and the cards they use to be the story.Quote:
Originally Posted by rarehero
Arkham Horror, on the other hand, has a bit of story too it. It's more narrative than Call of Cthulu LCG is. Arkham Horror is a cooperative game (meaning it's a number of players playing together to win vs the "game system.")
I think in this case Arkham Horror is a little more pulp action than dark Lovecraftian. Or at least that's my feeling. I'm not really a Lovecraft fan at all, I just like a good game and an interesting setting.
You can download the rules to both games at Fantasy Flight Games' website.
There was already a Call of Cthulhu card game. It was called Hecatomb and it was really awesome.
I've been waffling back and forth on whether or not Wings Of War is any good. I'll look it over once in awhile and get interested, but promptly always find something else I want 'first'. It's just one of those games I keep putting off.
I've made a few trades this week. I traded Formula D and Dominion for Stone age & Pirate's Cove.
Funny, I traded my Formula D track pack expansion for Dominion a few weeks back. When I opened Dominion I was at a total loss for enthusiasm after looking at the cards. I can't freakin believe how highly ranked Dominion is at BGG, I mean it's seriously unbelievable. It's almost a complete joke of game design, and I can only conclude that it's extremely low difficulty level is one of the reasons it's so highly regarded.
I suppose some of it is my fault, as I didn't realize the term 'deck' has changed to mean a pile of the same card 10 times. It's absolutely laughable, you look through these 'decks' and it's seriously the same exact card 10 times. That's what constitutes a 'deck' of cards in Dominion. Could be the most liberal use of a noun I've ever seen. There's more variety in a pack of Bicycle cards for pete's sake. I really hated this game from the moment I took a look through the box and put it up for trade the same day I got it. I didn't even bother playing it and my game group didn't even have any interest as we all looked through it too.
Anyone try the Age of Conan boardgame yet?
Looks pretty good and the guys at the Conan.com boards all seem to think its great.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/27848
I never played Dominion but based on what I read about it I I didn't see what the fuss was. But then again my primary interest is most definitely not in Eurogames.Quote:
Originally Posted by GunstarHero
I heard Hecatomb was good, but it's a CCG and now out of print. The only out of print CCG's i'm really interested in is the Middle Earth CCG by ICE and I still want to pick up a two player starter set of Wizards of the Coast's Netrunner which is supposedly a pretty solid and balanced game with the two deck starter set.
I think I felt like you with regard to Wings of War.
It was an impulse purchase - something i'd wanted but i'd been spending my money on other games I desired more.
duf you need to get in on some online Brass to get you into the euros.
I finally made the purchase but haven't received it yet.
My friends are tryin to get me to play Twilight Imperium. You have any knowledge on that one? I hear its long as hell. Like 6 hours.
I hope your friends are experienced at Twilight Imperium as I hear it can be quite long unless everyone knows what they are doing.
Are you playing with or without the expansion?
I've heard it fixes some things people didn't like in the base game but of course opinions on this vary.
I've read the rules and I'm interested in playing it but I never got around to because if I wanted to play it i'd have to buy it.
The only new Euro i'm interested in at the moment is Steam.
I tend to favor games featuring direct conflict something that not all Euros have.
I hope the rerelease of Railroad Tycoon ["Rails of the World] hasn't been put on hold, I was looking forward to it. The Rails of Europe map was great.
I think they've only played twice now and that may be why it took so long for their games (I know the first was at least 6 hours).Quote:
Originally Posted by Lagduf
I'm not sure. I'll let ya know I think we're going to be playing next weekend along with some euros im bringing over (I think we'll play the euros first since they take max 2 hours usually).Quote:
Are you playing with or without the expansion?
I've been reading up on this one as well. It will probably be my next purchase...either that or Automobile (another Martin Wallace game).Quote:
The only new Euro i'm interested in at the moment is Steam.
Six hours doesn't actually sound too bad.
I would have been worried if it was in the neighborhood of 8-10 hours.
Yeah, it's basically a monster of sorts.
I really don't mind spending an entire afternoon on a game, as my friends and I used to do with out Descent: Journey's in the Dark sessions.
It just takes regular play and planning to get things done.
We'd always have a preset meeting time, we'd play at my apartment, and I would have everything set up and ready to go before I arrived.
Playing some games does require some planning as it's really akin to planning a mini-event. Some titles you can't just play out of nowhere.
Helped of course that we all more or less knew the rules inside and out.
Got 6 new games this past week:
-Toledo
-Royal Palace
-El Capitan
-Chang Cheng
-Talisman 4th edition
-Tomb
I've been hosting a regular board game night every 2 weeks at my place. Met some pretty cool dudes on BGG, and have a regular group of 4-5 players. Last night we played Age of Empires III. I liked this one a ton, I'll be looking to add this to my collection in the future, but not right away since a guy in our group owns it.
I've said this before... But I really wish that somebody with all this shit lived near me...
Allow me to secretly engage in pure geekdom...
I think I am just going to have to have like 3 kids all within 4 years of eachother, wait 14 years and hope they turn out to be geeks.
I'm currently bidding on my "grail" game. It's not something exceedingly rare, or expensive. It's just something I never bothered to pick up as it has been OOP for some time:
The Legend of Robin Hood.
It's an old school Avalon Hill game. One player is Robin and his Merry Men and the other plays as the Sheriff of Nottingham and all the other traditional goons.
The board looks like a wargame map on a really small, abstract scale. Movement is done via areas with a number off oddly shaped areas representing farmlands, a few towns, and Sherwood Forest, etc.
I forget exactly what Robin is trying to do, but I know he can rob rich wanderers in the woods, and marry Maid Marian [though i'm pretty sure he doesn't need to in order to win.]
Being an old school AH title all the playing pieces are of course Cardboard counters. Definitely a cool title, and something that I wish a company like FFG would pick up a retweak. It just screams perfect family title.
Unfortunately HASBRO essentially owns all of Avalon Hill's IPs, so it's kind of hard to get access to their stuff with respect to small companies wanting to redo old AH games.
One side note, don't confuse this game with a more recent game [though still older] called Legends of Robin Hood. That one is a card game.
Lets hope I win this auction. If not, i'll just keep an eye out as it comes up fairly regularly. I've just finally made the decision to get it.
You guys need to play more direct conflict games, or wargames!
Here is a pretty solid review/overview:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/419928
And lets get another topic going:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42964
Railways of England and Wales.
An expansion map for Railroad Tycoon/Rails of the World.
This is news to me, and sounds awesome. Railroad Tycoon is my favorite boardgame, hands down.
So far there has only been one official expansion called "Rails of Europe." It is an official expansion, but they had to drop the name of "Railroad Tycoon" as the developers no longer retained the license to that name, and frankly the game had nothing to do with the PC Railroad Tycoon titles other than the fact that both games [PC and board] were about trains.
Anyway, it looks like the new base game for the "Rails of" series is coming out this year [FINALLY.] It will be called "Rails of the World" and feature two maps, a map intended for introductory play featuring Mexico and a map of the Eastern USA. I'm not sure how the Eastern USA map will be tweaked from the original RRT map, but there are some places that could use improvement.
RRT is pretty low in complexity so you won't be needing a calculator to figure out the financials, but it's a pretty damned fun game. It's basically a resource gathering/economic engine building game.
There are some random bonuses [via card] that can sway the game in base RRT, but Rails of Europe eliminated this by making the bonuses fixed and allowing every player to compete for them right at the begining. In base RRT they would just "pop up."
This is a Martin Wallace title, btw.
I'd also like to get his Age of Steam derivative known as Steam, for some more middling complexity train action.
I'd love to play an 18XX title, but I've sort of just given up on getting one unless I can get my hands on 1830.
As it stand if it's a EURO it really has to have a theme or some mechanics that i'll enjoy.
Just ordered a new game you'd probably hate duf. Automobile by Martin Wallace.
It's a supply and demand type game based on the 1896-1930 US car industry.
Uhm, I just stated above my favorite board game was a Martin Wallace design :eye::eye:Quote:
Originally Posted by cannonball
Economics, as they are represented in board games, can often lead to quite conflict driven games. Especially when you are fighting over resources.
Generally though I like some sort of building associated with my economic games.
As for the theme of the game, I think it actually sounds quite cool. Unusual, and a particularly cool era to boot.
I'm checking out the rules now, and i'll then post what I think based on reading those.
Is this a full release or one of those limited releases from his Treefrog line?
I'll always play any game once, except 1960: The Making of the President, which I refuse to play to because playing as Nixon would be unbearable, and losing to him even worse.
Have you played Tinners' Trail?
ya I just wanted to give you a hard time :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lagduf
This is one of his 1500 copy Treefrog releases. But, as with Tinner's Trail, it will probably be licensed out for a 2nd edition once the initial stock is gone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lagduf
I haven't played Tinner's Trail but I've read the rule book and it looks really fun. I like some randomness in a game to some degree and it seems to pull it off without making the whole thing be about luck. It's getting a reprint by JKLM. New artwork which I'm not really sure I like more or less. But an original is big bucks right now so this will probably do when the time comes.
Nice to see a 2nd printing of many of these Treefrog games are coming out.Quote:
Originally Posted by cannonball
Tinners' Trail sounds cool. I wonder if there will be any upgrade to the components as well (not that I really care.)
Do you play any Train games? I wanted to also try Wabash Cannonball/Chicago Express.
Same game, different names from different publishers.
Canonball needs a game with more killing.
Seriously though, that will be the next board game I purchase. I'll be putting in a pre-order soon I imagine.
Conflict of Heroes is a great tactical WW2 series. It's not very complex, but it has an elegant ruleset that I really like. It allows for both players to be engaged during a game turn. This is accomplished through its sort of action-reaction system where you can essentially respond to any action your opponent takes by taking an action of your own (to which the opponent can then respond.)
Also has a little bit of resource management via "CAPS" which are command action points. You can spend these to basically let your units do more/extra stuff in their turn. You have a limited amount each turn, so use them wisely.
Plus it's uh, WW2, which clearly by default means it's pure awesome.
This is the second game in the series, it's stand-alone (meaning you don't need the first game.)
Some expansions are already in the works (that will require this game and/or the first game) which i'm excited about. Particularly the Polish expansion. Polish campaign is awesome, because the Polish are awesome.
Enough rambling, just thought i'd show you want my latest acquisition will be.
I really like hex tile based games like this, although I've only played similar things in video game form. I will keep my eye on this. Do you know if there is anywhere to read the rule book yet? I saw you can email the designer for the current draft of the rules but would prefer to just download a pdf or something somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lagduf
Yes, you can read the rules for the first game in the series, which has the rules available.Quote:
Originally Posted by cannonball
http://www.academy-games.com/index.p...tes/rule-books
Pick whichever language you prefer.
In terms of components, Conflict of Heroes is lavishly produced. It's like the luxury car in terms of quality components. It just blows every other modern wargame out of the water.
But, of course, there is a price to be had for these components. You get less stuff than other wargames, but for what is included it's still an all around great package.
I basically like to play board Wargames that aren't so complex that they'd be easier on a computer or console.
PS: Canonnball where do you buy your games at?
I purchased a couple from CoolStuffInc a while back (Power Grid, Puerto Rico).Quote:
Originally Posted by Lagduf
Most recently I got Brass from TopShelfGames and it just got here today and I have to say they blew me away with the packaging. It's 10x better than most PCBs I've bought. I highly recommend them.
Automobile I bought directly from Martin Wallace's site.
Just kind of all over the place. Whoever has the best prices.
Where do you usually buy from?
Mostly get my stuff from: http://www.thoughthammer.com
I do wargames orders from http://wargamedepot.com/catalog/ as ThoughtHammer doesn't stock some a lot of the games from smaller wargame outfits.
I make liberal use of http://www.boardgameprices.com though when i'm looking for a deal.
I've used ebay on a few occasions [for OOP stuff] and very rarely I have bought a game locally from my FLGS.
I've been buying my stuff from www.gateplay.com
They're one of the ones advertised at the top of the BGG home page. I chose them because they are quite competitive in price, and had the lowest 'free shipping' requirement at $100. The only thing is that the selection is smaller than most, so in a couple months I'll be out of stuff to buy from them.
I just got a Martin Wallace game, Toledo. Themed in 16th century Toledo, Spain, players build the best swords to present to the King (Emporer?) of Spain.
This is quite a fast paced game. The game board is basically a track similar to Caylus, a winding road. Players can lay down businesses on this road as an action, and then either land their pieces on those businesses, or use other players businesses at the cost of movement cards. Movement cards double as money in this game. So what you do is land on a business that gives you steel, or a gem, and you build up your supply of these goods then eventually you can have a sword crafted for you by landing on the Swordmaker business tiles.
There is a little bit of player interaction thrown in. If you want to use a business that is occupied by an opponent, you can challenge them to a duel which is solved by flipping over cards in the movement card deck. The cards all have a picture of two guys fencing, with either the attacker or defender highlighted, which tells you who wins that round. Best 2 of 3 wins the duel, the loser gets sent back to the Cathedral (Start).
It's a quick playing, easy game to learn. Nice artwork on the board. This one at most places is $40 online. You can get a lot more bang for your buck than this game, but I do think it is fun. Probably would be a decent gateway game to non-gamers.
This week I bought some Fantasy Flight Games stuff:
Talisman Revised 4th Edition
Talisman The Reaper Expansion
Talisman The Dungeon
Had the chance to play Talisman a couple of weeks ago and couldn't get it out of my head, I just though it was so fun. So I went to the FLGS and bought all these items. First purchase at the FLGS in months because I was sick of overpaying. However, this revised 4th edition from FFG is out of print so I had not much choice. The base game is about impossible to get new online right now. I'm happy I bought it though and am planning a game session this weekend. I'm in the process of hand painting the minis that came with this set. These are really nice articulated minis, I'm impressed. I've liked everything from FFG so far, DOOM, Arkham Horror and now their version of Talisman.
The deal between Fantasy Flight Games and Gamesworkshop has produced some really cool stuff. Particularly the reprints of older GW titles.
But now I'm glad to see FFG is developing some new games based off of GW's IPs.
So far they've got two games set in the Warhammer Fantasy Battle world coming out. I'm pretty intrigued by one of them, the Warhammer: Invasion LCG. I love card games and the LCG format is great.
I'd love to see FFG do some kind of Warhammer 40K game, but so far all they're doing is the new Rogue Trader RPG (as well as continuing to to do the older 40k Dark Heresy RPG.)
Oh well. I hope GW release SPACE HULK later this year.
I won this on ebay.
It should arrive in the next few days.
Had a good gaming session last night. Played two games of Agricola (1 family rule set to help my friend learn the rules and 1 normal game with the deck of cards). I love this game more and more every time I play. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who has friends that are afraid to get into the heavier games. It's *very* easy to jump into even for people that have never played anything more complicated than Monopoly.
I think i'm going to have to re-buy Agricola at some point.
New Games:
Legend of Robin Hood - from 1979, mine is the Avalon Hill edition from 1982. This is a really cool two player. It's basically Robin vs The Sheriff of Nottingham and his lackeys.
Robin wins by completing 3 out of 4 objectives which include stuff like him successfully meeting up with King Richard (this happens endgame), obtaining a specific amount of gold, lowering the king's treasury, and marrying Maid Marion.
Pretty cool game.
Empire Builder
Apparently I have the older edition. This is a crayon rails game, which means you draw your train tracks on the board with crayons.
Awesome.
It's an economics game based around delivering goods. What goods you need to deliver are based on "demand cards" you have in your hand. So it's sort of a random element in terms of what you personally can deliver. This "hand" of cards is visible to all other players though so you can see what they are up to.
Only certain cities have certain goods, and the number of each type of good is limited by the game. Each player is also only dealing with a single train in this game and the train is actually represented by a physical piece.
This is different from Railroad Tycoon and a few other train games where your fleets of trains are represented more abstractly.
Seems like a fun game and i'll probably be playing it soon.
Tom Vasel has some good reviews up on BGG.
GenCon Indy is in 2 weeks.
I'll be there all 4 days.
I'm so jealous.
Gencon Indy starts today!Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoSneth
I hope you are there, and I hope you can drop on by this little thread and give us a report.
I hope you checkout the Fantasy Flight Games booth!
I got a couple war games lined up for late this year. Both Twilight Struggle and Paths of Glory are getting deluxe edition reprints from GMT games, so I think I'll take the plunge and grab 1 of each.
Paths of Glory is supposedly super duper hard, but I'm infatuated with The Great War, so I might as well get the best game made for that event.
Oh yeah, I've began to record our bi-weekly gaming sessions. Here's a link to the most recent one: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/45283
GenCon is exhausting.
had a total group of 6 go, so it was a full house.
we spent a good deal of late hours at the library just checking out games and trying them.
I finally got around to Arkham Asylum.....
4 hours later we finished it with 5 players.
30 min later , my gf purchased the game.
Tons of pics, which will have to wait till tomorrow.
exhibitors were a lil skimpy on the swag this year, but it was busier than previous years. Sunday is usually dead and there was a line to get passes.
Twilight Struggle is excellent.
I hear Paths of Glory is great as well, though it's definitely a longer game. I understand the rules are pretty straightforward, things just get complicated when you add in all the exceptions.
I'd definitely play Twilight Struggle first, then move on to PoG. And when you do play PoG make sure you have someone just as dedicated as you are to learning playing it. I know the rulebook is available on GMT's website. Might want to have whoever is playing it with you also download the rulebook and read over it, so you wont have to be teaching the game while also learning how to play it.
I've yet to pick up a WW1 game, despite my interest in the era - but then again, I'm missing wargames from plenty of eras.
I'm currently awaiting the release of Conflict of Heroes: Storms of Steel - Kursk 1943. Should be out shortly.
Couple pics here. the Dungeon is 3d Descent with tiles made custom for the game. It's really affordable too if people are interested. A guy makes them 3rd party.
Descent Campaign expansion was also there. you can see some of the new characters, the new overworld map, and the ship deck layout.
They also had the mechwarrior pods out. Great fun, but a little short. they were open 24 hrs, and they let ya go wild at night.
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Do you know what those tiles are made out of?
They look like they're just the dungeon floor tiles made from molds by Hirst Arts (something that is relatively popular.)
That'd be awesome if they were plastic.
At this point though, I've too many descent tiles to invest in a 3D setup and I'm not interested in painting any of the miniatures.
they are officially licensed by Hirst and he arranges them into descent tiles. They are all hand painted as well. They had some decent weight to them in fit in a really small box. It was nice having a board not shift around. for an entire descent set it was less than $150. he also sells descent mini sets around $1-3 per mini.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lagduf
edit: looks like $150 was the gencon price. $200 at his website. Check out the Doors, they were really nice. http://www.highergroundgames.com/cat...products_id=96
We talked about how cheap his pricing was. He knew that no one would buy 100 painted mini's unless he made them dirt cheap. Same with the tiles, no one would buy the tiles unless they were cheap. Most sets of this quality are 2-3x the price.
Cool, and thanks for the pics!
The hirst art molds are made to be used with plaster so I imagine he is using something like that (or similar) - I hear dental plaster is a popular casting choice for simple molds.
Can't wait for that Descent stuff, though I'm intrigued by FFG's announcement that they're coming out with two Epic (coffin) sized games this year, both unannounced as of yet!
EDIT: Ah, I see he explains what they are made out of. Never heard of the material, but i'll look in to it.
Thats a good price for those interested. Now he just needs to do the RtL pieces :D
Just got back from Gen Con yesterday myself. I'd been in Indy since last Tuesday so I was all settled in and ready to go.
I played in a ton of Zombies!!!!, Humans!!!!, Martians!!!! and a couple of variations and combinations of the above.
I also played in Catalyst Games' Battletech Canon 3 event all Saturday long with a bunch of my high school pals. Had a fucking blast.
The best new game I tried was The Red Dragon Inn and The Red Dragon Inn 2 from Slugfest Games:
http://www.slugfestgames.com/games_rdi.php
http://www.slugfestgames.com/games_rdi2.php
I also picked up these:
http://www.twilightcreationsinc.com/midevil/deluxe.php
http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ed...0Fantasy%20RPG
http://www.classicbattletech.com/ind...de=full&id=220
Got a bunch of classic older games from the auction hall and bought various anime DVDs that I'd been wanting forever. Also bought some Captain America, Batman and Street Fighter T-shirts.
Great fuckin' convention this year. Had a blast. Anybody that is a tabletop gamer who even marginally cares about the hobby NEEDS to go to this.
I also tried the Dante's Inferno demo. It kinda sucked, IMO. Looked great, but the gameplay wasn't enough to get me really geeked about it.
I should have had someone pick me up the Rogue Trader RPG rulebook from FFG!
There was quite a bit of controversy about that. At least, I saw quite a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lagduf
The book sold out on either Thursday or early Friday, I can't recall which. But it was the first or second day of the con. Four of my friends who were also up there got frozen out and all con long I kept coming across people who were pissed off about FFG not bringing enough copies to satisfy demand. But I believe it'll be available on bookshelves starting today so everyone gets their copy now:)
I wish Games Workshop would come back to Gen Con. They had some truly epic booths and exhibits back in the day.
I just picked up Buck Rogers: Battle for the 25th Century for $15.00 (new). Anyone remember this board game?