What's on your table right now?

[Staggerwing]

I still have no frakking idea why I bought it. Demonic possession maybe?

[James Sterrett]

Would love the Designer Edition, but not for two hundred bucks!  :o

Would you love it for $400?

(You've established you are willing, we are simply ascertaining your price.   :D  )

Note that I, er, do not want to see photographs of the, er, event.

[BanzaiCat]

Have you played it yet, Stags, or is it still in the box?

[bob48]

..unassembled.....

[Staggerwing]

..unassembled.....

Quite so I'm afraid.

Have you played it yet, Stags, or is it still in the box?

SIB. One of these days though...

[BanzaiCat]

LOL ;D

I haven't looked at an unboxing of the DE version so all I know right now is the DE has tons more counters than the 'normal' version. After having seen a lot of vids on the basic version, in person I'm surprised that the board seems a lot smaller than it was in the videos. Though the counter mix and detail is just perfect for me, I think. I might get the Reinforcements pack though I'll wait and see. Not sure I want a battle with six Ogres or not.

A friend of mine that does game nights has the DE, so I've seen the box in person but not what's inside of it.

Thing is, back in the day I had zero interest in OGRE. I mean, at the time I'd think, "how can that be fun? One leviathan tank getting tink-tink-tinked by lots of little guys, whittling it down slowly, hopefully enough to stop it?" Now I think it's quite cool.  8)

[Cyrano]

It is written in Grogheads lore that I bought the DE from Amazon in a fir of rage of the floor of Origins because of the absurd price SJG was charging for its "last few boxes".

I am of two minds.

On one hand, it is a glorious orgy of cardboard.  Really nothing like it.  For my 50th birthday, Panzerde et al. came over and we ran Exercise K.  The result was most memorable:

http://kriegsspieler.blogspot.com/2016/10/ogre-desgners-edition-exercise-k.html?spref=fb

One must also mention the free app that makes running the game even easier, although it takes away the joy of dice rolling.

On the other, it is still "just" OGRE/GEV which are indeed fairly simple games -- just in a really, really big package.  There's also a weird disconnect between the glorious 3D ogres and the fact that every other unit is a counter.

Bottom line, I like it and wouldn't sell it, but the prices for which it's beginning to go are silly.

[BanzaiCat]

but the prices for which it's beginning to go are silly.

Depends on your definition of "silly," I suppose. $224 is not silly, it's way out of reach for me. But for the content, I get how it's a decent price. Unless you're talking even sillier prices than that...

[mirth]

True Grognards do not talk of price.

[BanzaiCat]

True Grognards that have their own defined budgets and ability do not. Mine are based on the whims of surveys and other random events.

[mirth]

I find your lack of fervor disturbing.

[BanzaiCat]

You haven't seen my office/game room, then.

[mirth]

Shall we compare game piles?

[BanzaiCat]

Considering you have an entire house to plug up with games, I'm guessing your mess is larger than mine.

[mirth]

I really do need to organize the game collection.