Saturday afternoon, Carrie drew my attention to a local Craig's List posting, advertising a copy of Axis & Allies for a mere $12. I contacted the seller and confirmed that it was a second edition set (1986 printing), so I hustled over and picked it up. The set is in good condition (missing a single Russian control token, and someone had carefully marked the board's territories with PBeM identifiers), so I'm pleased with the price. We'll have to break it in some time soon ...
On our way home, Carrie and I decided to have dinner in Chantilly, and swung past Game Parlor, where I was stunned to find both Dominion and Race for the Galaxy: The Gathering Storm, sitting on the shelves, waiting to be bought ... but not so stunned that I didn't immediately scoop them up.
Brian Carpenter brought Race for the Galaxy: The Gathering Storm by Ludus a couple of weeks ago (and left his Lockheed jacket), so I'm not going to talk about it, other than to mention that I read through the solitaire rules, and they look interesting.
Dominion is the hottest new game from Rio Grande, and currently ranked 30th 23rd at Board Game Geek. You can also play it on Brett Spiel Welt. You start with a deck of 10 cards (7 copper, and 3 VPs). Each turn you can play 1 (maybe more) actions from your hand, buy 1 (maybe more) cards from the supply, discard what's left of your hand, and then draw back up to 5 cards. Every time your deck runs out of cards, you reshuffle your discard pile and complete your draw. The goal is to purchase a balanced mix of money, action, and victory cards such that you have the most victory points at game end (either you run out of province cards in the supply, or you run out of 3 types of card in the supply).
What makes it interesting is that while you only play with 10 types of action cards in any given game, there are 25 types of action cards to choose from. What makes it hard is that you're not allowed to review the cards in your deck or discard pile.
I'm looking forward to playing this at Ludus...
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