The Game In Your Collection That You Value The Most
Jesse Dean
United States
Orlando
Florida
Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious predator on Earth!
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It could be a sentimental game from your youth, a more recent game that has become a favorite, a hot Essen Game that has not hit wide distribution yet, or the game that cost you the most money. Whatever it is, there is a game in your collection that you value more than all others. What is it?
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Peaceful Gamin'
Canada
Vancouver
BC
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My pottered stratego board (with 3 sets of players - I still have to make a board for three...)
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kevan sumner
Canada
Brandon
Manitoba
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This would have to be my most valued game. Or technically my three most valued, as I now have my original copy, a second copy that I bought when I decided to come back to the gaming hobby after a decade and couldn't find my original, and a third copy bought new in box at Gen Con last year, just so I could have a mint version of the game (the first two were bought second hand, with resultant wear and tear).
As for why it's so valued, first of all it's one of the games I most enjoy playing. It's been OOP for 28 years, and the Dawn Patrol community (chiefly the Fight in the Skies Society, named after the original version of the game) is incredibly tight, featuring a newsletter and annual convention.
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David Albin
United States
Pennsylvania
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Well-loved, but complete and fully operational. Willed to me by a member of my first-ever RPG group. I'd have this buried with me, but it wouldn't fit in the cremation urn... and if the funeral director burns the game, I'll haunt him forever.
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Ebon Hawk
United States
Janesville
Wisconsin
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I purchased this one a while ago and almost sold it off since it hadn't been played at all. I am glad I did not since this game has been played a ton over the last few months and other people in my group are buying copies (something unheard of when one of us, mostly me, owns a game already). I am also making custom armies and created some tuckboxes for the factions. I love this game.
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Kevin Tierney
United States
Portland
Oregon
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Whenever my wife's parents come to visit, we spend one night playing this. It always takes 3+ hours, but the time flies. We have tried lots of six player games but nothing beats Starfarers. Regular Catan doesn't hold a candle to it in terms of theme or excitement. I don't think it is the best game in our collection, but it is the one I'll never trade. The memories this game generates for our family are priceless, and I hope to play it with my grandkids one day.
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Doug Mann
United States
Corpus Christi
Texas
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Unpunched and signed by S. Craig Taylor. Of course I also value my original punched copy from 1978 -- umpired games have yielded my best memories of wargaming. If I could only take one game to a desert island . . .
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Henry Ho
United States
Frederick
Maryland
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Great game! Axis & Allies done right, and not like the new Pacific 1940 version!
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Sven Dye
United States
Abingdon
Virginia
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I would have to say this gem is my favorite as it was one of my 1st as it my wife and I had a great time painting the mini's and enjoyed Richard Borg's system for card driven war game.
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United States
Manhattan
New York
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When I first split the shrink on this game and started reading the rules, I thought the game looked brilliant but that no one would ever want to play it with me due to its daunting complexity. Since then I have introduced the game to about a half-dozen different people who all seem to really like it -- and they catch on with surprising speed!
The game features a great, evocative theme, impressive depth to go with it, nearly limitless replayability (thanks in part to a modular map -- always a plus!), and top notch components, which is somewhat surprising considering that this was a first effort by an independent start-up company.
Otherwise, it is probably my most prized game (at least for now) because it was such a nice surprise. I don't buy many games anymore because the games that I like well enough to own tend to be rather demanding in various ways, and I'm always disappointed when I get really excited about something that never seems to catch on with my group.
It's too bad more people don't know about this little gem, but as long as I keep finding enthusiastic opponents it doesn't really matter much to me. There is so much game play packed into this one small box, it's not like I'm hoping for a boatload of expansions or anything.
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Tomas Lundin
Sweden
Åtvidaberg
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I'm really glad I've kept the original Scotland Yard. In great condition still and a game that stands the test of time! 
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Zsolt Kohári
Hungary
Budapest
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The first boardgame I bought in a foreign country. I was on a holiday in Dublin, Ireland the day it was released, and I just had to buy it I almost had to leave some clothes in Ireland to fit the box in my bag...
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Jeff Schulte
United States
Washington
New Jersey
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It may actually be a shelf queen, but this game is such a great study of the 1914 Marne Campaign. It's been set up a bunch of times, but only played once. Sigh..........
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Board Game: Trade
[Average Rating:6.77 Overall Rank:4881]
Keith Laidlaw
Scotland
Edinburgh
A wheen o seagulls scrannin fur scraps skite ower the surface an a corbie stauns scraichin, wings drookit, hingin like a broken brolly. Mallards coorie doon, dunkin nebs ablow the slime, bums up, huntin fur wurms.
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If only because it was the last of my grail games (twenty years to find it)
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Jaroslaw Kuczynski
Poland
Warsaw
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It seems that the game in which I invested most of my time and effort is the GMT's solitaire madness to the left.
What I did:
1.Sleeved all the cards
1a.designed tuckboxes for them.
2. Laminated all the tables and
2a. designed a set of tables to be used with an old Polish army map holder (as one of the laminated sheets got lost).
3. Clipped all the corners on all the counters and
3a. put them in four counter trays.
4.Added a bunch of 5mm dice to use as different markers.
5. Printed re-write of rules (two different versions I think) and put them in a ring-binder.
And I've found myself pondering whether to translate the rules (ok, one of the rewrites) into Polish
The game is well worth the effort
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Luke Moscrop
New Zealand
Christchurch
Canterbury
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I have a copy of 'Elfenroads' which is probably more valuable, but PotR is a very rare game that is unlikely to be reprinted that I simply adore.
I would probably cry more if I lost this game than any other I have in my collection at the moment.
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Board Game: Ogre
[Average Rating:6.88 Overall Rank:601]
Marlin Back
United States
COLUMBUS
Indiana
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I Love this game. I own the "deluxe" board with the stand up pieces. It has both nostalgic and "gamer" value to me. Cool board, cool theme, cool mechanics. Lot's of replay value for me. My brother and I spent many late nights playing game after game of this. It deserves a re-issue and it might still happen. This is simply a cool game for me and I will hold it's memory long after other games have faded.
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Blake Morris
United States
Henrico
Virginia
This size viola da gamba is like a cello with frets. I started playing at age 48.
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I'm proud enough that I helped rewrite and clarify the English rules for this game (see Files section). But fellow Richmonder g3lutz has tormented me with so many 18xx games that I feel compelled to share the wealth with newbies, and this is my weapon of choice. The beauty of the board and pieces draws them in, and the fact that I seldom win keeps them hooked.
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Allen Stucker
United States
Robinson
Illinois
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My brother and I played this over and over. It wasn't balanced or fair but we loved it.
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Everett Warren
United States
Mount Joy
Pennsylvania
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It's difficult to narrow it down to just one game.
I mean, there's Vineta, which was my gateway to getting an account on this site ~ all because I decided I must be a board game geek if I'd track down a German language edition and buy it through a German language site when I don't read German... when there is a cheaper version readily available here (but without that board!)
Then there's Cartagena, which was the first game I played after hearing the term Eurogame, so it was, in a way, another gateway.
Of course, I owned and played GIPF well before that, despite deciding I liked abstracts so much I spent most of my life in a perpetual search for Interesting Chess Sets to make Chess interesting, because how good can a game that boring looking be? Clearly, I got over antiabstractitis with Project GIPF, which still didn't stop me from enjoying chess variant Navia Dratp, with its collectible pieces satisfying the goal a half-dozen years or more after I decided I didn't need to pursue it.
In the same year Navia Dratp came out, another collectible miniatures chess variant was released, and I managed to snag Pantin Nocturne and both the Justice Cell and FIB Cell (to the best of my knowledge, the first and only two sets of playing pieces for the game that were released). The jury's still out as to whether or not it's a playable game, but it certainly is interesting and has a lot of value to me.
There are a few other OOP games I managed to snag ~ from The Mississippi Queen to Ta Yü to the ever-popular-or-not Space Hulk (third edition) and there's another nearly unplayable (although beautiful) game: Palenque...
Then, there's Tannhäuser, which has really sparked the creative juices. I'm rolling in all kinds of things in to it to expand it, drawing AT-43, Star Wars Miniatures, and HeroClix (so far, with plans for lots of others...) into the Great War...
Instead of any of those more obvious choices, I'm going to go with a sort of double header.
Years ago, I picked up a bag for my KUBB game and, for the heck of it, a game of Nine Men's Morris/The King and The Knights from one of the original owners of Old Time Games. I had ordered it off their website, and he noticed where I lived, and gave me his home address so I could pick it up on the way home from work and save on shipping.
The pieces of the game were handmade by one or both of the owners.
They retired and sold the company ~ which is still focusing primarily on KUBB, but is also offering a different Nine Men's Morris product... but The King and The Knights, which uses a Nine Men's Morris board, three of the pieces, and a unique king...
Well, beyond the instructions they provided with the game, I can find nothing out about it.
And that, combined with the quality of the game components, and the discussion I had with the co-owner and manufacturer, makes it pretty valuable to me.
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Helge Ostertag
Germany
Hofheim
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One of the first games I bought for myself in the game shop SPIELE AM RATHAUS in Freiburg, Germany. Every winter they used a closed icecream shop as a game shop: a gamers paradise,
So Full Metal Planete reminds me of the excitement I felt in my youth, when I went into that game shop and discovered all the new games.
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Insane Kobold of Doom
United States
Kentucky
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It's a toss up between this, my favorite edition of Warhammer (the other ones don't approach it in terms of utter comprehensiveness; it's practically an encyclopedia of rules and fluff )and...
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Insane Kobold of Doom
United States
Kentucky
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...this, the first TCG I ever played(I was like 7 or 8). I still remember getting a rare Flareon in my first booster on the way back from Gatlinburg.
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Paul Denhup
United States
Stratford
Connecticut
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So much fun still to be had. Have DosBox for the computer version too.
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Steven Dueck
Canada
Abbotsford
British Columbia
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Picked this up unpunched a few months ago. It has purges, health rolls, and you can let someone do all the work and claim "their" politician right before he waves to the crowd. I love this game and I haven't even tried the advance rules yet. I really gotta get on that!
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Right now? I would have a 4-way tie between:
Louis XIV, Saint Petersburg, Hansa Teutonica, and Acquire!!
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Portland
Oregon
Thanks Tiffany!!!!!
Fall River
Massachusetts
We were saving it for you.
Bountiful
Utah
Northridge
California
Best, Dr. Jay
Gamer for over 25 years