Expansionitis

[MerricB]

I've just received a bunch of new wargames in the post. Woohoo! It takes my number of games on BGG one past how many Randy has. That's 203, btw.

The thing is, I don't have the same number of games as Randy. Because I own lots of expansions. Give me a game I like a little, and I want to own all the expansions for it, regardless of how often I actually play it!

ASL has lots of expansions, but so do games like Carcassonne, Settlers, Power Grid...

How often do I play Carcassonne? These days, it'd be once a year, possibly. I own eight (8!!) expansions for it. Great game, just don't play it much. The most recent expansion, Abbey and Mayor? I've played it once. (Good expansion, though).

So, adding the eight new games to the BGG database, I realised I hadn't bought eight new games. I'd bought 4 new games and 4 expansions. Yeah, that's so me.

The games...

• Great Battles of Alexander, Deluxe Edition
• For the People
• Barbarossa to Berlin
• The Drive on Metz, 1944 (that came in the C3i magazine)

The expansions

• Tyrant, for GBoAlexander.
• Barbarian, for SPQR
• Gung Ho, for ASL
• Croix de Guerre, for ASL

Also expanding my collections were the following scenarios in the C3i magazine (it's GMT Games' house magazine):

• Scenario 104 "Go for Broke" for Combat Commander: Europe
• Scenario 105 "La Fiere Counterattack" for Combat Commander: Europe
• Agrigentum - 262 BC for Command & Colours: Ancients
• Cissa - 218 BC for Command & Colours: Ancients
• Iliturgi - 215 BC for Command & Colours: Ancients
• Castrum Album - 214 BC for Command & Colours: Ancients
• Syphax I - The Battle of Tispasa, 213 BC - for SPQR Deluxe
• Syphax II - The Battle of Siga, 212 BC - for SPQR Deluxe
• Syphax III - The Battle of Tingis, 212 BC - for SPQR Deluxe
• The First Batttle of Herdonia, 212 BC - for SPQR Deluxe
• The Second Batttle of Herdonia, 210 BC - for SPQR Deluxe

Hmm... it's not like I've played all of the scenarios I have already for those games!

[blargney the second]

As a general rule I'm a big fan of expansions. You don't always have to play with them, and they frequently repair minor bugs in the core games. Opening up the possibility of new winning strategies is a big feature as far as I'm concerned.

[Cadfan]

I am a sucker for expansions. This is why I tend to avoid games that I expect will suck me in and get me to buy more product. For example, I own Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers (one expansion, about $5), instead of Carcassonne (eighty kabillion expansions).

[Dannyalcatraz]

I'm an expansion junkie, myself.

Before I kicked my addiction, I had all of the M:tG expansions. I'm doing much the same for DDM and the various HeroClix games, although only for the minis.

I did the same for CarWars and Star Fleet Battles.

I have all of the ones for Nuclear War. I have all...actually, multiples of all of the RoboRally expansions.

I'm slowly collecting the Munchkin ones, and I'm probably going to get all of the ones for Arkham Horror.

Generally, expansions add to the game, keeping it fresh, plugging up holes...sometimes creating new ones.

And thats a good thing.

[scitadel]

Sadly, I have the opposite problem. I end up having more board games than less, and will continue acquiring more board games for my personal collection because I actually have to play them to understand the games. It does mean that I rarely play a game more than a few times, and expansions are a miss unless they are a game I know I will want to play outside of 'work related' play.

Like Descent. And Kingsburg once the expansion comes out. And Settler's 'cause I'm a fan.