Friday Night Roundup! So as much as the Auction Weekend is upon us – we still are getting new items in.
Don’t Forget – Saturday (10/5) is the Board Game Auction Doors Open at 9am, Auction Starts at 10am
Sunday is the Miniatures Auction Doors Open at 8:30, Historical Items start at 9:30am, Everything remaining starts around 11:30 am Repos – The Lord of the Rings Duel 2 players, ages 10 and up. Play as Sauron or the Fellowship and determine the Fate of Middle Earth. There are three immediate ways to win, so pay attention to your foe and lead your side to victory.
Reaper USA Legends – ReaperCon 2024 Mouslings (2) – Skeleton Guardians II (4) and ReaperCon 2024 Sophie
Monolith – Tower Up! 2-4 players, ages 8 and up. Plays in 30 to 45 minutes. Players compete in urban construction and planning.
Happy Blue – Pentris play tiles, fill rows and score. Gain the best score in three rounds to win. 2-4 players, age and up. Plays in half and hour or so.
Fantasy Flight Games Living Card Game – Return of the King Saga Pack Includes new player packs, recreate the novel and conclude the classic trilogy.
Sorry We are French – In the Footsteps of Marie Curie 2-4 players, ages 10 and up. Plays in around half an hour, forty five minutes. Play as young scientists assisting Madame Curie’s research. Discover radium, conduct experiments and try to win the Nobel Prize.
Alderac Entertainment – Under Grove 1 to 4 players try to create Symbiotic connections with the forest around them. Place seedlings, trade mushrooms and create a shared, diverse forest.
Mayfair Games – Celtae 1 to 4 players lead Celtic Tribes in an attempt to repel Roman invaders. Build Citadels, set traps and create Druids to help your people. Ages 14 and up.
Pinfinity – Dungeons & Dragons AR-Enhanced Pins Color enameled pins with an Augmented Reality compatible app. Each based on a different classic D&D character.
So, most importantly For those coming to the auction parking might be… tight. But you have some options :
In case you did not know, the parking lot directly behind the store is open for anyone to park after 6pm Monday to Friday and all day on Saturday and Sunday.
If you still have no luck finding somewhere to place your automobile, there is the WEST COMMUTER PARKING LOT on the other side (the north side for you compass direction folks) of the railroad tracks from Games Plus. Just keep in mind the West Lot has a Farmer’s Market going on Sunday morning and early afternoon.
Then, on to the Auction itself : Friday Night (10/4) – Role Playing Games Its all RPG related items. Rules, modules, magazines, accessories, sourcebooks and more. Doors open at 5:30pm to preview the items, the auction begins at 6:30pm and goes till, well, everything goes.
Saturday (10/5) – Boardgames The doors open at 9:00am to preview the vast horde of games and accessories – the auctioning begins at 10:00am. What’s going? Boardgames, expansions, supplements, accessories and magazines for everything Euro, Family or other table top boardgaming. Catan, Pandemic, Tsuro, Carcassonne, Scythe, Wingspan… If it’s a boardgame that isn’t specifically about military actions – it goes up today.
Sunday (10/6) – Miniatures Auction The final day of the auction week is devoted to miniatures, miniatures games, expansions, magazines, supplements, paints, tools, terrain and all those things you need to be part of the Miniature Gaming Hobby. This one works a little different than the rest. The doors open for previews at the crack of dawn (well, 8:30am, but it feels like it) and auction action begins at 9:30am.Historical items are the focus for the first two hours (until about 11:30) then we switch to a mix of all the different miniature gaming genre. Warhammer, Warmachine, Flames of War, Team Yankee, Reaper, GHQ, CinC, Ral Partha, Grenadier – all those and many more.
There you go! A quick recap of the rest of the Auction Weekend. See you there. -Rich
Hey there friends, fans and followers. It’s an early Auction, Mid-Week Round up.
The Historical / Conflict Games Auction is in full swing. The Role Playing Games Auction begins tomorrow at 6:30.
Otherwise, manufactures have released a number of new items that we have gotten in so far this week.
Atomic Mass Games – New Marvel Crisis Protocol Minis Apocalypse , Rejuvenation Chamber, Dark Future Scatter Terrain and Shrine to En Sabah Nur
Exalted Funeral Outcast Silver Raiders an occult medieval RPG with an old school feel and mechanics. Includes 64 page Players Guide, 144 page Referee Manual, 320 page setting book and 12 x 18 double sided hex map. Everything you need to start a new style of game.
Multiman Publishing : Thunder of the Mississippi : Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign April-July 1863. A new Great Campaigns of the American Civil War series game.
Road to Rangoon – ASL Action Pack 19
ASL Arnhem 2024 – 4 ASL Tourney scenarios
Battle Systems UK : Maladum – fantasy board/miniature game of dungeon delving and quests. Designed for 1-4 players it comes with high quality plastic miniatures, rules, mat and 3d card terrain, dice, bards, cards and more. Lead your band of adventurers in a dark dungeon, defeating enemies and getting back to safety after completing your objectives.
There are expansions with new missions, new terrain, more foes and lots more action.
25th Century Games – Hamster Roll a dexterity and a balance game for 2-4 players.
Monte Cook – Adventures in the Cypher System 6 different adventures set in different time periods for the base system, The Strange and Numenera. 125+ pages.
Monte Cook – Cypher System Starter Set Introductory Base set with 10 pregenerated characters, 2 adventures, full Cypher system rules, cards & props to help and character generation rules if you want to do your own.
Catalyst Game Labs – Battletech Universe 250+ pages giving you a ‘readers digest’ version of the history of Battletech. From the Inner Sphere to the Periphery and the Clans – it’s all here. From cloak & dagger actions to battlefield clashes – the lore is all here.
Legion Wargames – A Glorious Chance Naval Struggle for Lake Ontario in the War of 1812. A solitaire wargame places you in the role of a Naval Commander, either for the US or Great Britain trying to control Lake Ontario for your country. For ages 14 and up.
Indie RPGs – We have a whole bunch. Border Riding, Dungeon Malarky, Knives Out, Forsaken and more.
Roguse Khan – 30 Days of Mork Borg 5 different adventure chapbooks, each a setting and information to entertain.
Osprey Games – Flip 7 3 or more players (ages 8 and up) compete in this press your luck card game. Plays in around 20 minutes. flip cards and try not to duplicate numbers. Use special cards to gain reprives and stop others from playing further.
25th Century Dracula vs Van Helsing 2 players (one as Dracula, one as Van Helsing) take to the streets of Whitby England. One tries to save the population, the other tries to create vampire to do his bidding,
25th Century – Tasso Banana 2-6 players take turns stacking their bananas trying not to stack on leaves but yet being the fist to lose all their bananas. Ages 8 and up. Plays in around 15 minutes.
Crosscut Games – Transmissions 1 to 4 players – ages 10 and up. Players share robot workers collecting engrams and electricity. Collect items, build pipes, gather birds and butterflies to create a better world. Plays in about an hour.
Warlord Games – Bolt Action 3rd edition rulebook is in. Bolt Action Battle of the Bulge starter (2 armies and a rulebook) and the US and German winter Infantry boxes are in too.
Reaper Miniatures – new Pokey Tools are here! Cat Dragon pewter topped pokey tool, ReaperCon 23 curled dragon pewter top pokey tool, Halloween (Ghoulish pumpkin) resin top pokey tool, mini Owlbear pewter top pokey tool as well as the Skull & Crossbones pokey tool are here.
New Dungeon Dweller miniature – 7137 Baldon, Dwarf Hero
The Game Room will be CLOSED until next week, probably Tuesday.
There is NO gaming until late Monday at the earliest – as the room will be hosting the Auction. It’s being set up now, will be hosting the Auction through the rest of the week and then Monday we will be trying to get all the returns sorted and accounted for… So it’s gonna be in a state of flux till then.
That said the Auction dates & times : Tradable/Collectible Items Auction Wednesday Night (doors open at 6pm, Auction at 7pm) Magic the Gathering, Pokemin, Legend of the Five Rings, Lord of the Rings, Pirates Constructable Card Game and many others along with Accessories
Historical & Conflict Game Auction Thursday Night (doors open at 6pm, Auction starts at 7pm) Historical Games from Avalon Hill, SPI, GMT, Compass and many other manufacturers, Conflict based games from varying manufacturers, magazines, expansion modues and more.
Role Playing Game Night Friday Night (doors open at 5:30, Auction starts at 6:30pm) All sorts of Role playing Games, modules, sourcebooks and accessories from a myriad of manufacturers
Boardgame Auction Day Saturday doors open at 9am – Auction starts at 10am Euro and Family style boardgames from a wide variety of manufacturers, expansions, accessories and more.
Miniatures Day Action Sunday doors open at 8:30am Historical Miniatures items begin at 9:30am Variety of items (including any remaining historicals) begins at 11am
It’s Saturday night and here is by request here are -ONLY SOME- of the Family/Euro board games that will be available next week for the Saturday Boardgame Auction (10/5)
To repeat : This is -not- all of the 1500+ items we will have for auction. We have more boxes, more games in storage and, well, more games that will be there.
It’s a double header tonight! Rich here with a new stuff round up AND Some of the RPG items you’ll see in the auction.
Here is a big note for everyone THIS IS NOT the total number of RPG items. We still have a few days of intake and the stacks are deep. That said – we also have new stuff that has come in as well… Atomic Mass Games – Marvel Crisis Protocol Angel & Archangel : two miniatures, bases, game cards
Pandasaurus – Infiltrators 2-5 players work together to complete missions while trying to umask the traitors before time runs out. Ages 8 and up. Plays in around half an hour or so.
Skybound – Creepshow : Suspense Building Storytelling Game 2-5 players, ages 14 and up. Plates in around 45 minutes. Play story cards, bet on the suspense to gain points, play an ending to create a gruesome end and score big.
Wizards of the Coast – The Book of Concealment a 4 panel screen (trade paperback sized panels) with a pad of square grid paper for notes, maps and more.
Weird City Games – Leaf 1-4 players act as the spirit of the wind, guiding leaves across the forest in preparation for winter. Play tiles, gain actions and contribute to the forest’s health to win. Ages 10 and up. Plays in around 30 an hour to an hour depending on players.
Pandasaurus – Umbrella The cast of the new musical ‘Slidin’ in the Rain’ are trying to make the next big movie. Can you maneuver the umbrellas around the streets into the desired patterns to score the big number? 1-4 players, ages 8 and up. Plays in around half an hour. Looney Labs – Hundred Acre Woods Fluxx The Fluxx game you can play with your Plushies! In Fluxx you play cards to change the rules, get items and personalities to the tabletop and ultimately complete the Goal to win. Can you manage to put together the right sequence of events to make it happen? 1 to 6 players, ages 8 and up. Plays in 10-30 minutes – or so – depending on players.
Looney Labs – Monty Python’s Patsy Pack 8 new cards for Monty Python Fluxx
Reversal Games – Tome : The Light Edition The Classic Trick Taking action game with a Magical Twist. Harness the power of the elements, play your most powerful spells and try to have the most powerful spell standing when the dust settles. 2-4 players, ages 14+. Plays in around half an hour.
Osprey Publishing – new books Campaign 404 – Romania 1944 : Turning Arms against Nazi Germany
New Vanguard 332 – Beutepanzers of World War II Captured vehicles in German Service
Air Campaign 48 – Yugoslavia and Greece 1940-41 : Axis aerial assault in the Balkans
Through the Hedgerows – RPG of Rustic Fantasy As Knights of Briar Company you protect the lands from agents of the Dark. From the Dark Ages through World War 2, you can play as one of the Fay, sorcerous bird, animated scarecrow, intelligent spiders or other beings. Or you can be a Human marked for great things, plucked into the world through the hedgerow. Find magical treasures, safeguard powerful locations, outwit and outfight the servants of the Dark and adventure.
Mongoose Publishing – Traveller : Wrath of the Ancients Having defeated an Ancient the Travellers are lead to a crashed shuttle on a desolate moon where they must face a terrible plan which may affect all of Charted Space.
Renegade Games – My LIttle Pony : Knights of Canterlot tell an adventure in the magical world of Ogres and Oubliettes. Play as an epic fantasy pony, new spells, perks, threats and much, much more. Includes the Mares of Malevolence in a fantasy adventure for MLP.
Chaosium – Call of Cthulhu : The Order of the Stone Can the investigators stop the liberation of the Ruler of Chaos? This three part 1920s adventure includes pregenerated characters, downloadable resources and hand outs and hours of action.
Arc Dream Publishing – God’s Eye – a Delta Green Scenario a mathematician vanishes from a secretive company in Reno. More people vanish and now the Agents must connect the dots and figure out what needs to be done to stop those in charge?
Fan Roll Dice – Dungeons & Dragons Retro Holmes Replica Dice 5 large, mono colored sharp edge dice. Like the Holmes set of dice… but not quite them.
So here is a quick look at some of the Historical/Conflict style games we’ve gotten in for the Thursday Night (10/3) Auction.
Do I hear outrage at the Aliens game being there? Not so fast… it is most certainly a Conflict game. Marines, bugs, guns and guts… all in map and counter mode. A classic wargame!
…and there are soooooooo many Euro/Family style boardgames we want to get the conflict based ones to the crowd who is looking for them.
Looking for a ‘Uge Ogre Army that is ready to hit the tabletop? With a starting bid at less than the cost of the unbuilt kits? Here you are – there is one in the Miniatures Auction coming up on the 6th.
So, as much as I’d like to wax poetic about all the new items that have made it in the last week – we are busy as busy can be prepping for the auction. So a few quick explanations, some pictures and a little patience might be in order.
Mothership RPG – Core set, Deluxe core set and modules are back in stock!
Lone Colossus Games Injuries and Vile Deeds 5e sourcebook is back. Cinematic and tactical combat options, spells, magic items, classes and monsters are presented.
Renegade Games – Werewolf the Apocalypse : Scent of Decay – a story supplement for WtA
Random House – How not to get Eaten by Owlbears A survival guide for the Forgotten Realms. Lots of color pictures and quips.
Cubicle Seven – The Broken Weave a 5e setting of Post Apocalyptic Fantasy in a tragic fantasy world. Everything you need in this full color, hardbound, 295+ page book to create characters, learn about the setting and play.
Catalyst Game Labs – Battletech Force Manual : Davion details on the armed forces of the Federated Suns, unique characters, history, tactics and more.
Chaosium – Call of Cthulhu Keepers Deck Set Curious Characters, Phobias, Weapons & Artifacts and Unfortunate events. 4 different decks, each 48 card deck is illustrated and adds useful information at your fingertips.
The Dungeon’s Key – K-2 Dwellers of the Bog adding 5 new classes and 11 dungeons in a Mork Borg compatible system to your game experience. Can be added to K-1 Kavlov’s Sanctuary for a fuller experience. 90+ pages of source material, adventure and danger.
Gelatinouscubism – Advanced Dungeon Goons Adventure Set rules lite fantasy tabletop game for 2 or more players
Fanroll – Dungeons & Dragons Modern Holmes Inspired dice set. Sharp edged dice. 6 sety jammed full of metallic flake. So -inspired- by the Holmes set… not a remake.
Ravensburger – Lorcana Gateway set 2 starter decks, game board, guidebook, counters, Reward packs and more.
Dice Sports – SAS Rogue Regiment a WW2 stealth action boardgame putting you in the shoes of SAS soldiers in the weeks following D-Day. Ambush convoys, assassinate high ranging officers,destroy ammo dumps and much more. Includes solo or cooperative play, For 1-4 players, ages 14 and up. Includes 9 missions and guidelines to create your own.
Adams Media – Oh Captain, My Captain. A quick play fantasy rpg. Based on ‘For the Queen!’ worldbuilding and roleplaying come together in this quick play game.
Rio Grande Games new releases Prairie Railroads – Run and invest in the rails going through the Great Plains & Midwest 3-5 players, printed under license from Winsome Games
Southern Pacific – 3 to 5 players are Robber Barons in the Southwest after the Civil War. Build rails, exploit the market and make money to become the wealthiest, printed under license from Winsome Games.
SNCF : France & Germany This easy family rail game puts players as pioneers in France or Germany (two different game maps) creating the early railroads and attempting to have the most lucrative lines. 3 to 6 players.printed under license from Winsome Games.
West Riding Revisiting Investors, managers and railway presidents all compete to consolidate and reaper the benefits. 3-6 players try to be the wealthiest around.
Dominion : Rising Sun 300 cards with Shadow cards to leap out of your decks, Prophecies, Debts and Events that put your game into the game into the East.
Osprey Games – Undaunted 2200 : Callisto The Undaunted card system adapts the popular WW2 system to the stars. 2, 4 and solo player scenarios put you on the lunar landscape of Callisto fighting for resources and control. Ages 14 and up. Plays in about an hour.
Rookery Publications – Dark Deeds 2 to 5 player game of dark humor, skull duggery, suspicion and Malicious Minions. PLays in about an hour.
Alderac Entertainment – Cascadia Rolling Hills Alderac Entertainment – Cascadia Rolling Rivers Two new roll & write games for 1-4 players. Ages 10 and up.
Next Move Games – Tree Society 2-4 players, ages 8 and up. Players work to create a new society as they buy, sell & trade fruit.
Doctor Finns Games – Feds 2-4 players observe criminals, seek out the FBI and work to send the bad guys to jail. Ages 14 and up. Plays in 30 to 45 minutes. Space Cowboys – Unlock! Supernatural 3 new ‘escape room’ style games Try to fight crime in Nova City, Recover the families missing talisman on Dia de Los Muertos or venture into new lands for glory and honor as a proud Vikin g Warrior.
Maestro Media – Steamer Standoff 2-5 players (ages 14 and up) are influencers working to become the first to get 20 million subscribers in this card game. 30 minutes or so to play.
Rose Gauntlet – Wild Garden Forage for Food. Find Friends. Designed for 1-4 players, ages 14 and up. Plays in 90 to 120 minutes. And we’ve got a bunch of expansions too!
Czech Games Edition – Little Alchemists 4 players (ages 7 and up) are challenged to deduce alchemical secrets. Like running a lemonade stand… but with magic! Plays in about 30 minutes.
Matagot Games – Galactic Renaissance 2-4 players attempt to send emissaries to different planets to discover technologies, cement alliances or stop others from doing the same. Ages 14 and up. PLays in about 90 minutes.
So intake for Saturday’s Auction (the non-conflict board game auction is full. Packed to the gills. Bursting at the seams. 10 pounds of boardgames in a 5 pound sack, Over 1500 pieces already, we are at our limit for what we can do in a day..
Are we still taking items in for the other days? Heck Yes!
Heck yes, indeed.
Historical Board Games (i.e. Avalon Hill, GMT, Victory games, SPI, Compass, DVG and the like) are certainly in demand. Role Playing Games, supplements, modules and other supporting items are wanted too. And what about Miniatures? Oh, heck Yes. We love miniatures and have plenty of room for them. CCGs, TCGs, TMGs and the like? Yup. Magic the Gathering, Legend of the 5 Rings, Pokemon, Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings and all those others – we are waiting for you to drop off your items to help make this a well rounded event!
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