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Friday Fun Thread for August 23, 2024

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I finally broke in my new gaming table proper, and had my two oldest friends over for a proper game night. Drank beer all day (without spilling any on the upholstery), ate pretzels, and played Azul, Terraforming Mars, Pandemic: Fall of Rome and capped the night off with Chaos in the Old World.

I had been so long since I played Terraforming Mars, and there are so many expansions in the big box I got, I forgot which components I even needed to just play the base game again. So that took some sorting out, but once we got through that the game flowed as easy as it ever did.

Azul was some light fun, and Pandemic: Fall of Rome we lost in rather short order.

After dinner we delved into Chaos in the Old World. The guy who loves Khorne lucked out and pulled him. I ended up with Slaanesh, a god I haven't played very often, and the last player had Nurgle. Khorne came out hot, and got into an early lead, as he's wont to do. However, on the second turn an old world card put heroes all over the map which robbed him of board position for the entire rest of the game. He hung in there, but it was rough. At some point I squeaked out a turn with two dial ticks as Slaanesh, forgetting that he has the shortest victory dial. The same turn Nurgle crossed 50 VPs to win, I also turned my dial to it's victory position. Since the dial victory takes precedence over score, the victory was mine.

Chaos is one of our absolute favorite games that will never leave my collection. My buddy said he'd been looking for copies, but they all go for $200+ these days. And that's without the expansion. It's out of print, and the rights to the IP and the rights to the game design shall never be reunited again. I've seen Eric Lang say in interviews he doesn't regret Chaos being out of print, because he believes he's made much better games. But that's a bold faced lie, and IMHO Chaos in the Old World remains his greatest work to date.

Only released in 2009, what's with GW-related boardgames going out of print so fast? Even the stuff they must have spent a fortune on moulds for.

Well, this is a case of Fantasy Flight Games owning the design, but losing the license to the IP. It happens. It was in print for at least 5 years, which isnt terrible. Plenty of games, even best of all time games, end up out of print before that long.

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