I consider myself to have become "something of a serious board game collector" thanks to the intense availability of interesting, engaging and fun games on the market right now that support cooperative play, but there are many areas of the hobby I have yet to really crest in any meaningful way.
Wargaming has always been interesting to me, but was in the past visually unattractive. I never liked the cardboard chits with clipart insignias, but now that I'm wiser and care less and less about miniatures and more about engaging mechanics and the puzzling part of gaming, I now know that if I gave a good one a worthwhile shot, I would probably enjoy it immensely.
Possible adds: For war games, I have my eye on adding Comancheria and Advanced Squad
Leader to my collection.
I have a very similar relationship with Eurogames, to the surprise of some. For the longest time, a box cover with a German farmer looking longingly past a field of grain or the image of a 14th century lord would have me clicking away faster than you could say point salad. If I wasn't going to escape into a masculine power fantasy with upgradable weapons and dramatic, final turn dice rolls that determine the win or the lose, then I simply was not interested. That's changed in recent years. I really enjoyed the heck out of Pandemic most recently, but prior to that I played a bit of Primordial Soup, but simply couldn't get into Agricola. The gist is, I know the interest is there and I'm ready to explore this massive archive.
Possible adds: Alhambra, Carcossone
Finally, lets quickly hit on my bread and butter genres: accessible light games and thematic, combat fueled games with miniatures. I've already picked up Sushi Go this year, as well as The Undercity respectivley.
Possible adds: I've got my eye on Dream Home and Dungeon Alliance, which I did not back
but was just funded on KS. Also Wrathborne Champions looks stellar. I'm
going to keep my eye out for these titles, but sideline them in the interest of
increasing exposure to the other two categories in this post. I also really want to
grab Legends of Andor (which exists in a cross section of these categories I
believe.)
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