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Old game, big money
Topic Started: Nov 27 2016, 09:17 PM (515 Views)
lgm
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Demogorgon
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Does anyone have old board games that are worth a mint now?

I just happened to look up a possible new HeroQuest board game for the kids. I was sad to find out nothing like it is around but saw that what I do have is worth upwards of $400. I was a bit shocked. Elmira was looking for clarification on LotR Risk rules last night and discovered it's going for $140 now.

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If my Dark Tower games still had all the pieces they would sell for about $500 each. Alas, my kids made sure that wouldn't happen. My Fortress America sets are selling for about $300 each.
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With Fantasy Flight selling a new Fortress America, it's depressing the price some. That whole 3 game series was awesome. My bro has Fortress and I have the original Axis & Allies and Shogun. Shogun is still available too but under a different name. Shogun plays like a modified Risk/Axis&Allies plus assassins and hired Ronin.
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Supremacy was stupidly expensive for a long time. No idea what it's like now, but the advent of Civ-based computer games has rendered the board game obsolete.

Though, only Civ 2 had the trading/diplomacy flexibility to really mimic Supremacy.
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Ha! Wow, it turns out the rights to Supremacy were acquired in 2013 and it's being reproduced. Woo!

Though, again, a proper Supremacy game required one referee, and three players per team, making a full game 19 people large. Most of our games took months to complete, so you also needed a dedicated space to play where the pieces could ideally be left in place.

It was a brilliant game, but it makes D&D campaigns seem like casual commitments.
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Wow. I only played Supremacy with one player per "nation" and no referee (i.e. standard rules), like any ol' board game, and thought the intrigues that developed were cool... but I can certainly see it being played as you described, with much more intricate planning and negotiation. That would certainly be hella cool, I'd love to try sometime.
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There was a Kickstarter for a Supremecy 2020. But if you have a ref and that many players, you're taking a 6 player game to some serious places. I don't know if youre all insane or genius.
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Heh, I forgot about my Axis & Allies game. When Gamekeeper was closing I'd set a returned box to the side to buy but the ex G.I. saw it and sold it. Or bought it himself, always had a suspicion.
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The "three per team plus ref" were actually the rules from the Mega Supremacy expansion. You had one person who relayed what your team was doing and moved stuff around the map and rolled the dice, one person handling diplomacy, and one person handling the budgets.

The ref was basically a combination card dealer & rules adjudicator for anything odd that came up. He tracked where the nuclear subs were each turn, spies and assassins and generals, etc. And made the rolls for 'spotting' himself, in secret, so the u-boats were genuinely hidden.

But mind you, it's basically just Civ 5 but with waaay more book keeping required. You could play a Civ 5 game starting in the modern era on marathon speed, agreeing not to build wonders and eliminating goodie huts and you'd have a pretty close approximation of the game.
Edited by Benevolance, Nov 29 2016, 12:53 AM.
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That sounds almost exactly like old school wargaming with the addition of economics. Pretty cool.
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I remembered that I bought the Pirates of the Caribbean version of Liar's Dice for my brother many years ago. It's a simple game but I had tons of fun playing it. I didn't want to buy the goofy looking version because I think the barnacle covered dice cups and skull dice were awesome. I thought about getting the same version for us. It's going for $71+ on Amazon...

I looked up the Q&A where someone asked why the price is outrageous. Apparently the aesthetic has made it immensely popular. I may have to settle or just steal from my brother.
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