Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Not a Mail Call: New Board Games

Not really a "Mail Call" but it feels like one. I was down visiting my brothers and sisters this past weekend and look what my brother had for me!

Trireme and Imperium

YES! I have finally got my hands on a copy of Imperium! But the box is full of surprises.

Imperium Box

Imperium Box

Imperium Box

Imperium Box

Imperium Box

Imperium Box

Imperium Box

Imperium Box

Imperium Box

Imperium Box

Imperium Box

Imperium Box

Imperium Box

Imperium Box

Imperium Box

In addition to the Imperium game there is a complete mini-game, Sticks and Stones, the Monster that ate Sheboygan, tourney rules for Imperium, and either another game or pieces of two other games. And a little zine "The Halfling Magazine."

I am going to need to go through it all and see what I really have but it looks like it was all bought at Origins in 1980.

In addition, there is a game I am completely unfamiliar with.  The naval battle game Trireme.

Trireme

Trireme

Trireme

Trireme

Trireme

Not only does it look intact, it looks like it has been completely unplayed!

These will provide me a lot of fun over Christmas break to be sure.

4 comments:

Dick McGee said...

Wow, nostalgic gold mine. I had all of those games. Trireme's not half bad, and you obviously already know how good Imperium and Creature are. Sticks & Stones is surprisingly deep - it's got a point-buy system for some of the scenarios that really adds replayability. Had some support articles (including an expanded hunting scenario IIRC) in Interplay Magazine, the short-lived Metagaming house organ.

grodog said...

The Halfling Magazine looks like a small zine from Excalibre Games, but I don't recall seeing it before, offhand: http://tomeoftreasures.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=401 doesn't list it nor does it appear in the larger list of zines in general (or at the Acaeum).

Allan.

Alec Semicognito said...

I am so envious of the Metagaming-heavy bonus material and the zine.

Blue Tyson said...

I plated Sticks and Stones a long, long time ago. Had forgotten that one.