The NEW New Boardgames Thread

[Habbaku]

Whereas I am utterly pessimistic.  No way can it be any good, since it is WWI.

Let me know how it goes. 

[Delirium]

2016 was almost entirely Napoleonics, 2017 is moving on to ACW. Me and my most regular opponent each bought a GCACW game (partly because of your devilish manipulation), for the past week I have studied Stonewall's Sword that I did not have time for last year (Revolution Games) and also ordered Thunder in the Ozarks, and finally I found an old copy of War for the Union that I will sink my teeth into at some point.

Fix bayonets!!!!

[celedhring]

The Arkham Horror card game and its expansion seems to be sold out everywhere in Barcelona. I had to order it from a Madrid store.  Looks like it's a smash. I happen to like it quite a bit.

[Ed Anger]

Good news! New version of Imperium Romanum is in the works!

Bad news: Decision is doing it.

Speaking of Decision games, if you add Highway to the Reich to the shopping cart on their site, it is discounted to 99 bucks.

[CountDeMoney]

Ugh, I just can't deal with Decision Games anymore. 

[Ed Anger]

I'll just stick with the occasional magazine wargame with them now.

[CountDeMoney]

Yeah, but it needs to be S&T, and sparingly at that;  World at War doesn't have many winners, and Modern War has many more misses than hits.

[Delirium]

I'd strongly recommend the GCACW series if you haven't tried it already.  There's enough game in one box (Battle Above the Clouds or Stonewall Jackson's Way II) to last for a year.

And right you were. I am completely hooked so far, on my third scenario, albeit only basic rules. Enjoyable and simple mechanics, graphics excellent (although counters are a little too much), plenty of variation in scenarios, good play aids (and those extra roster sheets per scenario are excellent). Will in all probabibility get SJWII as well. One of those cases where you wonder why you did not get to it sooner and wasted your time with other games...

[Habbaku]

The scenarios are really fun and all, but wait until you play a campaign.

Actually, wait until you play the same campaign for, oh, the third time.  The first couple of times, you are going to make a big error in the second week or so and not realize it until week three.   

[Delirium]

Me and my regular opponent are both delving deeply into the system: our plan is to play a bigger scenario in BAC next with two other gullible flexible fellows and then hit a campaign, either BAC or SJWII (he has that on its way).

If I could make s ginle wish for improvement in coming games it would be more manpower counters, so far there always seems to be a little too few to easily make change. We are talking valuable seconds wasted here, dammit!

[Ed Anger]

Speaking of civil war games, I'm sorta intrigued by Worthington's civil war block games. But they would end up like my last purchases, tossed aside in the shrink wrap. 

[CountDeMoney]

BUT SEE THATS OK

[Ed Anger]

I am beloved.

[CountDeMoney]

Handicapped hang tag doesn't mean beloved, it just means preferential parking.   

[Ed Anger]