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michael

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OK - here we go. Any idea how to rotate images?

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A few favourites - Battlestar's in there, Memoir '44, and Dixit of course! El Grande too, which doesn't get played near often enough.

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Arkham! Mission: Red Planet! Homesteaders! And yes, a boxed Simon.

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A crate of little ones. Some weird stuff too - Sailor Moon CCG anyone? I love the Penny Arcade VS decks. There's a bunch of single colour MtG decks as well.

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Little pile of stuff. 1960 has a dent - came like that. HeroScape is amazing - you need to play it.

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Another stack! A second Labyrinth (to go with the Disney one I also have), the brilliant Power Grid, an unpunched copy of Britannia... I've not decanted the Doomgate Legion cards into the Wrath of the Elements box yet.

Now, that's not them all. There's probably another 30 games upstairs in my office, but I'll take photos of them some other time. A lot are big box games - a few old versions of Risk, TSR's ridiculous Dragonlance (the original big box - Horus Heresy has nothing on this), that kind of thing. I give a lot of my games away as well, especially if I find them cheap in charity shops - anything to spread the gaming love!

edit!

Crap. I forgot the shelf of books. There's about 20 different RPG manuals of various kinds, plus various essay collections on gaming, that kind of thing.

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Wiper

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I've rotated your three photographs and stuck them up on Picasa - here, here and here. I think you should be able to download the full-sized versions from there, then reupload them :)

Also - 13 Dead End Drive! That, along with Stratego (and Hero Quest...) is the game I most want to get from the old house. Loved it as a kid!

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SimonC

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Is that 3rd edition Blood Bowl that Wiper and RFT have? I have 2nd and 1st (if i remember right) was a little red box with cardboard characters. I only ask as both your copies look a bit worse for wear so I cant believe they are more recent than my 2nd edition!

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RFT

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Yeah, mine's 3rd edition (released 1994, I think. mine was printed in 1998, but bought second-hand, though unused, by me in 2006).

I've never actually played a game with the set, I bought it as I thought I should own a copy as I was playing a fair bit on FUMBBL at the time.

I would quite luike to get my hands on a 2nd edition set at some point as that's what I used to play with my brother. I've got a 1st edition Space Hulk (the unboxed German reprinting) in a carton in a drawer somewhere as well.

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Wiper

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You can blame michael* for the condition of mine - it was his until last year when we traded games. No, I don't know how many 1s he rolled before giving it that beating ;)

(of course, my Settlers of Catan is in similar condition, and is far younger. However, I know what happened to that - it was sat on by a friend :( )

*I think. I may be wildly misremembering, of course!

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RFT

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Space Hulk :wub:

And you can't leave things like that - show us the rest of yer Eldar, you know you want to! :D

There you go:

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2 guardian squads, 1 Squad Dire Avengers, 1 Squad Pathfinders, 1 Squad Banshees, 1 Squad hawks, Jetbikes, Vyper, 2 Wave Serpents, 2 War Walkers, and a Falcon. Oh, and the farseer. I inherited about half of it (Guardians, Falcon, Hawks, Jetbikes and Vyper) from a f-of-f who was giving up on the hobby. I really would quite like to add a Fire Prism at some point.

I've also got a space wolves army (that I;ve shown off in the GW thread some time ago) and some orks (the contents of the Black reach box + Battlewagon, none of it painted).

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Wiper

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Ooh, very cool! Ta for uploading the picture - I always love seeing fully-painted armies, but particularly Eldar - I love the high contrast schemes they have, and the general designs. And, I never get to see them because nobody in the local store/nobody I know collects them :(

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RFT

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The cure for that is to get some of your own, of course :-)

They were originally only supposed to be a secondary army, but I've used them much more than my Wolves because I'm nearly always playing against marines.

The main issue I have is that the wide variety of troop types, which is of course part of the appeal, means a lot of metal models, and some of them are really fragile, like the banshee weapons…

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Wiper

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I was planning to, but then the new Dark Eldar came out and I couldn't resist their sculpts. And then there's my Gondorian army. And my Grey Knights (though they may stay just the single unit of Jes's terminators, depending how the new sculpts look). And my orcs and goblins. And I'd also quite like a Bret army. And an Angmar army. Even though both are regarded as nigh-unplayable in their systems. Oh, and I'd like some Easterlings. And some of the LOTR elves. And maybe a Tau force.

And, outside of GW, I'm ever on the lookout for a good source of ancient Greek forces (decent hoplites found so far: none. I just have to hope that one day the Perry brothers get interested in ancient warfare, I guess...). And wouldn't mind collecting a medieval or Napoleonic force either.

SO MANY PRETTY ARMIES TO COLLECT :omg:

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wev

wev

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Not sure if this is the right place to post, but I'm looking at buying my first board game next week (i.e. not your traditional Monopoly etc).

I've been leaning towards Carcassone for a fair while, I love playing it on XBox 360 (even against the CPU), but there's only really 2 of us that will play (as I think this sort of game would be too complicated for our daughter who's 7, although she's been collecting those Moshi Mash-up cards and I think she's learnt the game for that...), I'd also considered Zombies as it looks a little more involved than Carcassone is...

Anyway, yeah, thoughts, opinions etc are welcome. I don't want to go buy something and have it just sit on a shelf not being played, ever.

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Not sure if this is the right place to post, but I'm looking at buying my first board game next week (i.e. not your traditional Monopoly etc).

I've been leaning towards Carcassone for a fair while, I love playing it on XBox 360 (even against the CPU), but there's only really 2 of us that will play (as I think this sort of game would be too complicated for our daughter who's 7, although she's been collecting those Moshi Mash-up cards and I think she's learnt the game for that...), I'd also considered Zombies as it looks a little more involved than Carcassone is...

Anyway, yeah, thoughts, opinions etc are welcome. I don't want to go buy something and have it just sit on a shelf not being played, ever.

You may well be underestimating your daughter. My daughter was playing quite complicated games at the age of 7 and when you see how well kids soak up all the rules for Pokemon etc then you can see they are quite capable of processing a lot. I think the important thing is that the game has to interest them and as long as you manage to engage them then they will surprise you with what they can manage. I would imagine Carcassonne would work well as watching the map build up on the table is always pretty cool.

I will suggest one other game as well A La Carte which is always hilarious and I reckon you'd all have a complete blast playing this. The game is wonderfully tactile with all the pieces, stoves and pans for each player. The funny events you can play on each other and the silly recipes make everybody smile and I'm sure your daughter would love it. It's great to all sit round a table just being silly and enjoying the laughter.:)

You can get this game from Boardgameguru. It's a german game and hasn't had an english release but they'll supply it with english rules and the pieces are language independent. I love it.

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I'm likely to only get new stuff on Birthdays or at Christmas, same with graphic novels and boxsets, gives my fiance more choice to be able to surprise me too.

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