Rahdo's Game Collection 2016 Update

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A video series showing all the titles in my boardgame collection, updated as of early 2016. Full playlist: • Playlist
New games added during 2015 (and described in this video):
…and then we held hands
Adventureland
Antarctica
Apocalypse Chaos
Argonauts
Ars Universalis
Automania
Aya
Basion
Between Two Cities
Bottlecap Vikings
Bretagne
Castellion
Catacombs
Celesita
Character Quest Heroes
City of Spies
Codenames
Council of Four
Cthulhu Realms
CVLizations
Daxu
Deploy
Die Staufer
Dungeons Deep
Elysium
Eminent Domain Microcosm
Epic Resort
Expo 1906
Favor of the Pharaoh
Fish Cook
Forge War
Fuse
Gold West
Grand Austria Hotel
Haithabu
Hangtown
Harbour
Haspelknecht
Healthy Heart Hospital
Helionox
Heroes
Inhabit the Earth
Innovation
Isle of Skye
Isle of Trains
Java
Kraftwagen
Lignum
Mangrovia
Matcha
Microfilms
Octodice
One Zero One
Pandemic Legacy
Peloponnes the Card Game
Piratoons
Planes
Port Royal
Porta Nigra
Portal of Morth
Poseidon's Kingdom
Quadropolis
Queen's Architect
Race to the North Pole
Rattle Battle Grab the Loot
Royal Goods
Samara
Shakespeare
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
Siberia
Signorie
Simurgh
Small City
Snow Tales
Space Cadets Away Missions
Spirits of the Rice Paddy
Star Wars Carcassonne
Super Motherload
Sylvion
The Big Book of Madness
The Gallerist
The Institute of Magical Arts
The Prodigals Club
The Voyages of Marco Polo
Thrash n Roll
Tides of Time
TIME Stories
Tiny Epic Galaxies
Trambahn
Trickerion
Valley of the Kings
Watson & Holmes
Games culled during 2015 (reasons described at gone.rahdo.com)
African Park
Arena: Roma II
Bremerhaven
Cafe Melange
Castelli
Castle: Infighting & Intrigue at the King's Court
Dahschur
Drachen Schatten
Drako
Gauntlet of Fools
Goblins Drool, Fairies Rule!
Kairo
Key Market
Le Havre
Le Havre: inland port
Linwood
Middle-Earth Quest
Pandemic
Rattus
Robin des Bois
Sneaks & Snitches
Spellbound
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars: The Queen's Gambit
Stronghold
Taschkent
The City
The Doge Ship
The Manhattan Project
The Road to Canterbury
Thunderstone
Tinners' Trail
Viticulture
Archaeology: The Card Game
Athlas: Duel for Divinity
Belle of the Ball
Dig Mars
Dragonscroll
Fantasy Frontier
Gold Ahoy!
Hobbit Tales from the Green Dragon Inn
Keltis the Dice Game
Lagoon: Land of Druids
Let Them Eat Shrimp!
Machi Koro
Patchwork
Renaissance Man
Rum & Pirates
The Golden Ages
The Witcher Adventure Game
Tragedy Looper
Uruk II: Die Entwicklung Geht Weiter
Wildcatters
XCOM: The Board Game

[@masterbridgemaster1]

LOL @ 5:54 when talking about Fuse... "Jen and I have had a *blast*..." :-)

[@luisuribe104]

Howdy Rahdo. Just wanted to thank you for your reviews. I've been watching for the last year; since I got back into board gaming after a long hiatus. We've taken you up on a number of your selections to include Splendor, Battle Line, Biblios, Elysium and held off on Five Tribes (the slavery issue). Keep them coming.

[@Zuggy]

From what I've heard Star Wars Carcassonne is actually really good and has an interesting attacking mechanic for taking over various planets.

[@EmpressG]

I LOVE the shelf runthroughs...although I did get a bit dizzy with all those games :) Estoril 1942 looks like something I'd be interested in...although I have to balance that with Klenko's Covert!

[@Dalmatinac3]

Got rid of Le Havre? Really? Come on Rahdo!!!!! Its one of a kind. :) I think that Maltese heat is affecting your judgment!

[@glenjust630]

Rahdo, I enjoyed seeing all the games on your shelf besides just those that you've kept this year... and remembered all the run-through videos I've watched over the years of those games (and subsiquently bought!). Keep up the good work! BTW, how do you typically sell off the games that you get rid of?

[@rahdo]

+Glen Just usually at essen or other conventions when i go to them :)

[@bartattack]

Using the Pandemic Legacy box to store the non-legacy game and its expansions is a great idea!

[@rahdo]

+bartattack there's not quite enough room for a non-legacy copy of pandemic along with everything else, but that's okay because pandemic legacy replaces regular legacy anyway :)

[@AdamPurcell]

Did I spot the Gallerist there? Wasn't that from the past year? That's certainly one of many of my shelf that's still waiting for its first play - it's so much quicker and easier to buy games than to schedule gaming nights!

[@rahdo]

+Adam Purcell d'oh!total oversight! note added :)

[@AdamPurcell]

Understandable, you must be aware of some of these games long before they are released (even doing run throughs and/or con previews before release), so it must be difficult not to think they've been around for years. I really have no idea how you keep track of it all!

[@samiamagainagain]

+rahdo I believe My Happy Farm is also new. ;)

[@rahdo]

+Matthew White i've had that one for several years actually

[@samiamagainagain]

+rahdo Oh, I don't remember it from the older videos. Must not have left me with much of an impression :)

[@jwspiker]

maybe a certain funding level on your KS could let you upgrade to a bigger place = more shelves/game table?

[@goodaccount2488]

I'm surprised to still see Sobek. We ultimately felt that the game played us instead of us having fun

[@kennyb3325]

So, you think Poseidon's Kingdom is... swell? I am pleasantly surprised that you enjoyed Bottlecap Vikings! My girlfriend and I gave it a go once, before switching to Patchwork, and we thought it felt a bit too obvious what the best choice was. Maybe it was just the particular roundel set up we had, but we were constantly taking the same spot and apologizing for crashing our ships together. I'll have to give this one another go, it is certainly fast enough to try again.

[@kennyb3325]

I really wish BoardGameGeek would come back up, so I can go see why you ditched your copy of Patchwork! (And others, but other than Viticulture I think I can guess why you have gotten rid of a lot of the games I would consider, or hope, to be "good".)

[@rahdo]

+Kenny Barrese it's back now :)

[@bitrubbish]

I've played and love the base game of Trickerion and I'm so excited to play the full game. Is it really heavier than the What's Your Game games on the same shelf, specifically Madeira and Vinhos? Oh.. just hit resume and I think I got my answer. Ha!

[@docbun]

I'm going to guess the games which are not on gone.rahdo.com got to go before getting a chance to play, except for these 3 for which i'd be curious to hear why they went: - Star Wars: Attack of the Clones - Star Wars: The Queen's Gambit - Thunderstone I'm guessing the first 2 had to go because of monetary constraints - but what about Thunderstone? Which was the game that took its/their place? The other ones are: - African Park - Bremerhaven - Castelli - Castle: Infighting & Intrigue at the King's Court - Dahschur - Drachen Schatten - Dragonscroll - Gold Ahoy! - Linwood - Renaissance Man - Rum & Pirates - Taschkent - Tinners' Trail Last but not least, I believe Mottainai, Puerto Diablo and the neat Escape Zombie City expansion also are new, but are not on the list of new games(though I don't know if you expect to list expansions). Since I'm watching all collection videos back-to-back, I have an additional question. Epic Resort in 2014) and Super Motherload (in 2015) were already there, but are listed as additions. What's up with them? Are these new editions?

[@docbun]

Also add Fairy Land to the duplicates. ;)

[@rahdo]

the 2 starwars games were again ones that i let go without every playing. i had wanted to try attack of the clones, but i'd had it for 3+ years and hadn't gotten it to the table (because of the daunting german-only version) and so i said goodbye because i figured i'd never get around to it. queens gambit, it was just crazy to hold on to considering how much it went for on the aftermarket. thunderstone i still have. i like it a lot, but am considering selling it because of limited shelf space. but i still have it for now. - African Park - Castelli - Drachen Schatten - Dragonscroll - Gold Ahoy! - Linwood - Renaissance Man - Tinners' Trail all of these i got rid of without playing them first... too many games! - Bremerhaven - Dahschur - Taschkent these i still have here, like thunderstone. on the for 4sale pile - Castle: Infighting & Intrigue at the King's Court this i got rid of because at the time, i knew of a reprint that was coming, but that reprint has since been cancelled :( so it's an odd case. i would have kept the game if not for that confusion. - Rum & Pirates this can be found on the [gone] list under its german name: Um Ru(h)m und Ehre -Fairyland I'm not sure what you mean that it's a duplicate?

[@docbun]

For Fairyland, I mean it's marked as "added to the collection" on both the 2015 and 2016 collection updates. Or maybe 1 year before, I can't remember now. :-\

[@rahdo]

what do you mean you don't remember!?! I'm counting on you for this!!! :) (just kidding)

[@mrpobear]

OMG, you got rid of Queen's Gambit? That game is such a keeper, even though they remade it.

[@adastra0]

Great video! Shakespeare is not Victorian though, he lived during the English Renaissance, which was about 200-300 years earlier ;)

[@rahdo]

+adastra0 d'oh!

[@jing713]

Rahdo, could you please do a run through / thoughts video on Bottlecap Vikings please?

[@rahdo]

it needs more thumbs on the request geeklist: boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/item/4603085#item4603085

[@JonaBullets]

please please please do a run through of Samara!! I can't find one in English and I too backed it.. but having some issues trying to play it, let alone teach it!

[@rahdo]

+JonaBullets it needs a lot more thumbs at requests.rahdo.com :)

[@IainMabbott]

I'm totally sad for you that you had to let Keymarket go :(

[@rahdo]

+Iain Mabbott well i didn't have to... but i couldn't say not to how much $ I could get for it...

[@IainMabbott]

+rahdo Oh yeah, totally understand, it's going for such big bucks. Hence the reason I don't own it! Add it on the next Kickstarter as a stretch goal to re-aquire it :)

[@TheGrooves]

+Iain Mabbott I'm sad about Middle-Earth Quest, but I get Rahdo's complaint about it being a very long ( although exciting ) game

[@goyasolidar]

Great collection. FYI, you don't pronounce the 'G' in words like Signorie and Bretagne.

[@rainerahlfors]

+Goya Solidar Well, sort of ... It makes a definitive pronunciation difference. But, it's not pronounced "g-n" ... it's more of a "n-y". Sin-YO-reh ... Breh-TUN-y(e)h ... upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Fr-Bretagne.ogg

[@goyasolidar]

+Rainer Ahlfors Yep. That's why in my country we use ñ and there's no ambiguity.

[@lordsplodge]

Le Havre gone? Wow...

[@georgelin6472]

Would you be able to demo Too many bones or Masmorra: Dungeons of Arcadia that's on KS, hopefully before they end? Those are both dice mechnism with rpg elements, it's also solo/coop and 5/solo/coop games respectively

[@rahdo]

+George Lin nope, 'fraid not. i never heard from them about doing a runthrough. TMB does seem very interesting

[@isaacthimbleby8926]

Would you consider Roll Player a Dice worker game?

[@MarcyKennedy]

Did I miss them or are the reasons for why Dragonscroll, Kairo, and Bremerhaven left not on the gone list?

[@rahdo]

+Marcy Kennedy those are sort of "in limbo"... i haven't played any of them, so i can't really comment on them. i've just had them for so long that I'm thinking they're likely never going to get played... they're in a closet right now. maybe someday i can find the time to get them to the table...

[@MarcyKennedy]

+rahdo With all the great games you have to play, I'd recommend leaving Dragonscroll in the closet until it finds a new owner. We couldn't make it through a full game because it was so luck dependent that we ended up too annoyed to continue.

[@AlexWerz]

Do you have to read all the rules again if you want to play a game a second time. Or is there a system I do not know yet. I try to write down summaries of the rules but it is really time consuming.

[@rahdo]

+Alexander Werz whenever i replay a game, i generally have to re-skim the rules... i often watch a few minutes of my runthroughs as well (at 2x speed) to jog my memory :)

[@princeneumator]

How do you organize your games? It's clearly not Alphabetically...so... By designer? By Publisher? Whatever fits wherever? All of the above?

[@rahdo]

+princeneumator a bit by publishe, where similar sizes appear, and all the felds are next to each other, but that's the extend of the org :)

[@vire4752]

I generally play with my girlfriend and thus use you as a good source of what plays well two players with a significant other. I recently fell in love with Manhattan Project and played an amazing 2 player game of it. Any reason why you culled this or why I do not want to add it to my longevity collection for my 1vs1 couples game?

[@rahdo]

+David Parrish reasons for all the culls can be found at gone.rahdo.com :)

[@christianamey3547]

+rahdo I have to ask, is that yet another cheese-grating injury on your right hand... again?

[@rahdo]

+Christian Amey yup, it's a deadly apparatus, that cheese grater!

[@errolwilde1656]

is that the new print of shadowrift?! I didn't know it was out yet!

[@rahdo]

+Errol Wilde nope, you must be thinking of something else...

[@xneogen]

Is your box of Gallerist smaller than the usual one? I got the Kickstarter one.

[@rahdo]

+Torsten Stelling afaik it's the same size

[@xneogen]

+rahdo Ok, then it looks in the video a little smaller :) Thanks for the reply.

[@dddmmm21]

Quick question, how do you get all these games to Malta? I suppose shipping is quite expensive and long... not to mention customs fees. Cheers

[@rahdo]

once or twice a year i try to organize huge game orders with others on the islands from philibertnet.com which has the cheapest shipping, and gives discounts for bigger $ orders. but most of the games i get i pick up in person at essen spiel and carry back :) customs fees aren't an issue if things are sent here from within the EU, but when sent from the US or elsewhere, yeah, that's a huge problem...

[@docbun]

I'd like to see the face of the person at the airline desk when you come to register 55 kg of luggage. :-) Ah,nah -I guess you just ship them from the fare, so it's not even funny. ;)

[@EclecticCamel]

I am very surprised you liked Catacombs and Apocolypse Chaos. Also surprised Le Havre and Viticulture are out.

[@rahdo]

+TheGreatHamEl you can always check gone.rahdo.com for reasons :)

[@EclecticCamel]

Read through a good chunk of that, most aren't really shockers given your predilections (you really should play Elder Sign with the expansions though), but I am not really sure what you mean about the loan systems breaking Le Havre. I admit I have only played maybe 4-5 times, but I always treated loans as things to avoid unless the bank was available. (Or whatever the building is that knocks out 2 loans)

[@rahdo]

+TheGreatHamEl the fact that you can take an unlimited amount of loans and your 'interesting' never increases beyond 1 frank makes them really wonky in my eyes and upsets the balance considerably.

[@EclecticCamel]

+rahdo I had to re-read the rules as we play differently (not my game), and we were apparently using an official variant that increases the loan amounts but it's on a per player basis. I don't know if it would help as much in two player. Inland Port wasn't any good either? That's too bad. Haven't tried it yet, but my gf is getting more and more into two player games. Was considering adding that to the list but might wait.

[@rahdo]

+TheGreatHamEl inland port is very cool. i held on to it for over a year i think hoping there would be news of an expansion to fix my only issue with it (non-variable setup) but it never came

[@Inner2000]

Where is the list of the games that are gone?

[@rahdo]

+Inner2000 in the show notes :)

[@avnj34]

Hi Rahdo, do you think you'll get/review Raptor?

[@rahdo]

+avnj34 nope, unlikely

[@Trae_Lenox]

+rahdo how come? It's a highly praised 2 player game

[@rahdo]

+Trae Lenox jen and i don't like tactical skirmish games. it's got very clever game mechanisms, but it drives a game we wouldn't enjoy

[@Trae_Lenox]

You got rid of Viticulture?

[@rahdo]

+Trae Lenox yup, you can see why at gone.rahdo.com :)

[@goldblau47]

Rahdo, do you and Jen actually have children? And if yes, is there a chance that they are part of any future videos? I like your channel and taste in board games a lot! Keep them coming (:

[@kur1su74]

+Riftwolf They don't.

[@Tokikosworld]

+Riftwolf Why do you think he has that many games :D!?

[@BruceMurphy]

I can't find your comment for passing on Linwood.

[@rahdo]

+Bruce Murphy tbh i've never given it a try... i've still got it, and really should give it a go, but i'm just so limited on shelf space. i got it for free in a math trade a long time ago..

[@BruceMurphy]

+rahdo oh, I saw it in your culled list on this video.

[@rahdo]

+Bruce Murphy yup many of the games on that list are ones i plan to get rid of but haven't yet. and in the case of linwood, i don't have any reason to get rid of it other than shelf space, which hardly seems like a reason to list it on gone.rahdo.com

[@marknic]

There's a HUGE blank space on that wall in the hall... about the size of a large Ikea bookshelf. Just sayin'...

[@rahdo]

if only there was an ikea in malta...

[@SendohSasuke]

Viticulture gone? I thought you really liked that game?

[@rahdo]

+SendohSasuke check gone.rahdo.com :)

[@csukisz9523]

I think you got Java in Zommerspel 2015 Math Trade ^^, from me

[@rahdo]

+csukisz9523 YES! that's right :)

[@whataboutki]

How do you play Codenames with 2?

[@rahdo]

+Ki Mansell just like it says in the rulebook. you can watch my runthrough to see, but it's pretty straightforward :)

[@whataboutki]

+rahdo I'll check out your run through thanks.

[@solamnique]

You remove Pandemic ????

[@rahdo]

+solamnique i talked about it in the video :)

[@xibalba1875]

RE: TIME Stories - i'm really tired of hearing you complain about the lack of two player support. Not all games are made for all player counts and if the designers don't want to make two player rules than so be it and as you stated in the video there are plenty of home brew rules for 2 players so use those instead of giving grief to the designers because they don't want to cater to your player count.

[@NoPunIncluded]

+xibalba1875 feedback does not equal grief. If Richard manages to produce positive change towards a game using his clout it's a win/win for everyone.

[@rahdo]

+No Pun Included well said sir!

[@DeathTheTeen]

+xibalba1875 For a game like Time Stories where you have to play in multiple sessions to win, the 3-4 player requirement to play the game as it was intended is the hardest challenge in the game to overcome. I can't even get one friend to commit so I can't even play the bad version of the game. When you start talking about a game that takes longer than Risk to complete, the excuses of your friends can get pretty creative. Hence solo and 2-player variants are appreciated.

[@EmpressG]

+xibalba1875 You said - "Not all games are made for all player counts and if the designers don't want to make two player rules than so be it" As far as I can see the box says 2-4 players. If a designer does not want to invest time in the 2 player level then just put 3-X on the box and have done with it

[@stevet2123]

Not Viticulture! My world has turned upside down!

[@rainerahlfors]

Hah! Fuse is a ... blast! ;)

[@Stormbreaker69]

gone.rahdo.com doesn't seem to work?

[@Stormbreaker69]

+Stormbreaker69 BGG seems to be down!

[@rahdo]

+Stormbreaker69 BGG is back up now :)

[@Straddllw]

*Gasp* top shelf game Le Havre got removed!!

[@EclecticCamel]

+Straddllw Yeah, that's the one that made me double take.

[@gooberweevil]

Broccoli says hi to Dob! instagram.com/p/2MweGXvRsr/?tagged=broccolithebagle

[@rahdo]

+gooberweevil sorry dob's asleep now or i'm sure she'd return the salutation :)

[@bludlar]

'Tiny Epic Resort'? Lol

[@lathos7931]

got rid of pandemic ?

[@rahdo]

nope. still have it it, still love it

[@lathos7931]

rahdo it is in you "rid of" list of the description

[@rahdo]

ah. basically, my original first edition printing of pandemic has been replaced with my copy of pandemic legacy, and we just play on that board now with all the expansions (which all now nicely fit in the P:L box) :)

[@arrow00665]

Hey could you help me I'm really into co-op games the group I have ranges in between 3-5 sometimes more, can you list any other co-op games that we could play together, any 1v alls also. List is (Munchkin panic, Dead winter, red November, eldritch horror, Arkham horror, shadows over Camelot, time looper, betrayal on house, lvl 7 escape, gears of war, and death angel) if you could please help it would be soooooooo awesome thank you!

[@arrow00665]

Oh and pandemic