New acquisitions and stuff

[dagibbs]

With the Montreal math trade, 4 games went out of my collection (2 that I traded were duplicates). I traded away Caesar and Cleopatra (2 player game I didn't really like), StarForce 'Alpha Centauri': Interstellar Conflict in the 25th Century (70s wargame I don't play), Taluva (which I didn't much like), and 1960: The Making of the President (to which I much prefer Twilight Struggle).

In trade I received:

Clans, Metro, Das Kollier, Golfmania, and Relationship Tightrope (all together)
Die Macher
Shark (on eviljohn's recommendation)
Ca$h 'n' Gun$
Canal Grande
GIPF

Someone also offered a stack of 12 games he hadn't traded for $100, and I picked it up:

El Grande Decennial edition -- this contains several expansions. Makes mine trade fodder.
San Juan (duplicate of what I have)
Portobello Market
Gloria Mundi
Razzia
Nottingham
Unanimo
GiftTrap
Un Mouton A la Mer (Turn the Tide)
Les Pieds dans le Plat!
Kakerlaken Poker
NeXt

Many of those will go into the "future trades" bin.

This brings my total up to about 176 games owned. I say about, because it is a bit... unclear. Can I claim that I "own" a copy of bridge, for example? What about the several different games that can be played with Icehouse pieces?

And, shelving all of them may be a problem.

[edit] Shelving achieved. I may need more shelving soon, though. Or I may need to move some games (that don't get played) elsewhere. [/edit]

Comments

[jackspryte.livejournal.com]

If you ever need someone to take a copy of San Juan off your hands I can make an offer.

[eviljohn.livejournal.com]

El Grande expansions: actually I didn't like them and ended up trading mine away. IMO El Grande is *such* a good game on it's own, and the expansions just complicate the game, which makes it less good.

Shelving: yeah. I've got three bookshelves that need to come upstairs, my one game shelf is majorly overflowing.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

On the El Grande expansions: I may find that I feel the same way myself. In fact I half expect to. The balance is so nicely done in the core game, that it would be very tricky to try and expand it without disrupting it.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

I'm happy to entertain offers.

[i-and-t.livejournal.com]

You see what I meant about Taluva?

:-)

T.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Yup. And it has now traded onwards...