Another sweet deal!
For the Combat Commander fans who didn't p500 this beauty, and now are in love with the game (ie hypocrites)
Boulder's sweet deal.
Check out the Saturday night special....feel tempted to get fowl play or alhambra dice game, now that we have the dice game fever (Yspahan, To court the King, etc)....although reviews of the latter have been lackluster.
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posted by Rob @ 7:14 PM
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Wow, this is a sweet deal! I hope they keep having these Saturday specials. Long live Boulder Games!
Wow. Anyone at all tempted by Fowl Play (I'm not) should jump. $30 off! (Still over $50). Sadly, CC is the only interesting game there.
$41.80 is a good price for Combat Commander? Really?
Combat Commander is $79 retail, which is totally ridiculous in my opinion for what you get in the box. Game mechanics aside, look at what comes in an $80 FFG game like TI:3, Descent, or WoW. I guess GMT figures (correctly) that this will be a popular game, so its a good time to cash in.
Just reviewing GMT's website reassures me there are dimensions of gaming hardcore far beyond any obsession I've yet experienced. Their new game on the P500 list, 1914: Twilight in the East, retails at $107, has over 2,000 counters, a 6' x 6' map, and already over 500 orders! Now where did I misplace my suction-grip counter picker-upper....?
Actually, I think the real cost (for GMT) were the cards. A 55-60 (specialty) deck costs $10 retail (I've heard) for any small publisher. CC:E has roughly four decks worth. FFG does that cheaper, too.
And for monsters, let's not forget the remade (Advanced) Third Reich -- A World at War, which argued that A3R wasn't complex and detailed enough.
2800 counters.
Almost 20 Square Feet of Maps.
One Hundred and Ninety Six pages of rules! [Not counting 120 pages of scenarios, status, research, etc rules].
All for the low-low price of $175. (I almost bought a copy on sale, just so that I'd never run out of games to read).
And 8 dice, too!
Simon, I paid >$55 (was it $60?) at p500 price with shipping. Lock and Load had a similar price tag with less and crappy cards (following Brian's point about the card costs), and I also gladly paid for it. I think the money is also in the replayability.
No, I didn't get Fowl play or any of the others. I was just shocked with the $30 off price tag. If FP were around $40 or less, I would consider it. Seems like an interesting multiplayer abstract (similar to Samurai in that sense, with weird scoring and all).
wow.... those monster wargames. i'd never get them. My limit is games like Barbarossa to berlin and For the people (7-8hrs of gameplay) or Europe Engulfed (~10). Still I kinda feel some buyer's remorse...will I ever play them? Hope so before I move in June.
I'm definitively not including the full Eurofront campaign that takes over 20hrs. Don't think I'll ever play that.
I couldn't figure out what Richard Breese was smoking when he priced out Fowl Play. Probably the same stuff as when he was designing Reef(er) Encounter.
*rim shot*
lol
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