Adult Toys
Warhammer : Chaos in the Old World is one of the best 4 player games released in 2009. Having had a chance to play it numerous times, the replay value for this game has held up very well due to the numerous strategies available for each Chaos God and the changing Old World Cards. This is a must have game for any Ameritrash player. Appearance: This is a Fantasy Flight Games production, so obviously the game is pretty. Lots of little figures for your various acolytes and soldiers, while the board itself has been quite well designed and really pretty.
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Warhammer : Chaos in the Old World Review
Having recently come back from Conquest BC held at the Compass Inn in Surrey, I thought I’d write a quick con report. Conquest BC was tiny. There were 80 people at most through the entire weekend with the majority on Saturday and much fewer on Sunday. Of course, the World Cup might have had something to do with that… Half the attendees were there for the Warhammer tournament, the other half split evenly between board gamers and RPGers. There was a lot of D&D 4th Ed being played that weekend, with scattered board games for the rest. I saw games of Battlestar Galactica , Munchkin , Alhambra , Agricola , Stone Age , Galaxy Trucker , God Dice and HeroQuest played that weekend, so not a bad assortment overall. Half of the named games were run by Alison and myself while we sat around bored. On a vendor’s viewpoint, we obviously didn’t make any money from the Con with so few people there. Co-ordination and support from the organisers could have certainly been improved. We weren’t told where we were or when we were meant to set-up even after numerous attempts at getting this information. In addition, the cost of the Con table itself was extremely high.
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Conquest BC – Con Report
New Board Games Small World Tales & Legends The Napoleonic Wars Vasco da Gama Restocked Board Games Axis & Allies: Pacific 1940 Bang! Dodge City Expansion Battleground Fantasy Warfare : Lizardmen Starter Battleground Fantasy Warfare : Mens of Hawksfold Starter Battleground Fantasy Warfare : Orc Army Starter Battleground Fantasy Warfare : Elves of Ravenwood Starter Battleground Fantasy Warfare : Monsters & Mercenaries Reinforcements Camelot Legends Card Game Castle Panic Chaos Isle: Fresh Meat (Exp 1) Chaos Isle: Reinforcements (Expansion 2) Chaos Isle: The Lunatics (Expansion 3) Chaos Isle: Zombi Deck Claustrophobia Descent Road to Legend Expansion Descent: Well of Darkness Dvonn EuroRails 4th Edition Finca A Game of Thrones Boardgame Gipf kit #2 Gipf kit #3 A Game of Thrones : Ancient Enemies Chapter Pack A Game of Thrones : LCG Core Set A Game of Thrones : Lords of Winter Expansion A Game of Thrones : Princes of Sun Expansion HALO WARS RISK Jambo Expansion Jambo Expansion 2 Kingsburg Last Night on Earth: Growing Hunger Expansion Pandemic : on the Brink Small World Cursed! Small World : Grand Dames Steam: Rails to Riches The Village Word on the Street Junior Yinsh Zertz Share This
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New & Restocked Board Games : July 15, 2010
Eagle eyed customers might have noticed that certain provinces have seen a huge jump in the amount of taxes they have had to pay. This isn’t a mistake – it’s due to the introduction of HST in British Columbia. Unfortunately, that means we now have to charge the full HST in all provinces that use that system. It’s meant an increase of between 8 – 10% in the tax rate for many customers. Of course, those of you in PST provinces are still only paying GST.
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HST Tax Rates
I’ve been thinking about location once again, specifically I’ve been thinking about our current location and our need for a larger space. Right now, we are crammed and I’ve had to use a few innovative tricks to keep stock in the storage location. Whatever the case, coome Christmas, we’ll need to expand since we increase stock significantly to handle the increase in sales. Luckily, our current location has a few office places open that we could rent but which are all bigger than our current location. It gives us flexibility but at an added cost. Interestingly enough, once we increase to the new size, we’ll be at a point where our rental cost is significant enough that actually renting a small warehouse makes sense.
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Location, location, location
New Board Games A Game Of Thrones LCG : Return of the Others Chapters Pack Armorica BattleLore! Horrific Horde Goblin Expansion Egizia Igor the Life of the Party Game Queen’s Ransom Tien Zi Que Restocked Board Games – this is an incomplete list highlighting the most popular restocks Adventurers: Temple of Chac BattleLore! Creatures Expansion BattleLore! Dragons Expansion BattleLore! Heroes Expansion Descent Design Series : Quest Compendium Descent Journey in the Dark Descent Sea of Blood Expansion A Game Of Thrones LCG Core Set Mini Pitchcar ThunderStone Ticket to Ride Ubongo Warhammer: Invasion LCG Core Set : Invasion LCG Assault on Ulthuan Share This
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New & Restocked Board Games : July 9, 2010
July Newsletter Review Contest Winner – Our Review Contest Winner! On-going Contest – The On-Going Review Contest Site Updates – A Convention, After Holiday Works & Site Change Upcoming Games – Some of the most anticipated games that are to be released Contest Winner Announcement This month’s winner is Hogan with his review of the Settlers of Catan . I love his comment on the game – “The Ultimate Board game hater conversion tool”.
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July 2010 Newsletter
Needless to say, Cervical cancer is about cancel of the cervix. I hope you guys know where the cervix is! The cervix (or neck of the uterus) is the lower, narrow portion of the uterus where it joins with the top end of the vagina. Most importantly, one should know the signs and symptoms of cervical cancer, which is what I wish to educate people here about.
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Since I’m about to head off to Asia, my mind started wandering about businesses and I seriously started thinking about the Board Games Cafe in Asia. I’m probably slow, but I just realised why the format is so popular in Asia and potentially not as successful in North America / Europe. It’s a matter of capital cost and the Foreign Exchange Rates. With a game such as Settlers of Catan easily costing the equivalent of $160 – 180 in local dollars, it’s hard to justify more than one or two game purchases. Evan ‘cheap’ board games like Citadels are between $100 – 110. Enter the Cafes where players can pay to play at a fraction the cost of the game. No more risky purchases, and suddenly board gaming becomes affordable for a much larger target audience. I’d bet the vast majority of their profit comes not from the game rental but from food & drink purchases too. The game rental really is to defray capital expenses of the new game.
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A Musing on Board Game Cafes in Asia
Hello everyone! Welcome back to my Bargain Toys Cheap Toys blog! For today’s post, I would be writing about the upcoming movie Toy Story 3! Yes that is right, after a successful Toy Story and Toy Story 2, here comes Toys Story 3 and best of all there is the 3D Toy Story 3 version! Say hello to Woody, Buzz and your favourite gang of toy characters! To give you some idea of the plot without revealing too much, we all know that the owner of the Toy Story toys, Andy, would grow up someday.
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I want to watch Toy Story 3!
New Board Games A Game of Thrones : Lords of Winter Expansion Asteroyds Birds on a Wire Call of Cthulhu LCG Whispers in the Dark Chaos Isle: Zombi Deck Chaos Isle: Fresh Meat (Expansion 1) Chaos Isle: Reinforcements (Expansion 2) Chaos Isle: The Lunatics (Expansion 3) Cornucopia Frontline D-Day High Society Looting London Masters Gallery Nefertiti Expansion Okko Expansion 2 “Era of Karasu” Okko Expansion 3 Reiner Knizia’s Money Restocked Board Games Agricola Agricola: Farmers of the Moor Arkham Horror: Curse of the Dark Pharoah Battlefields of Olympus BattleLore For Troll and Country Expansion BattleLore! Dragons Expansion Battlestations Revised Call of Cthulhu LCG Sleep of the Dead Asylum Pack Call of Cthulhu LCG Journey to the Unknown Kadath Carcassonne Carcassonne Big Box 2 Claustrophobia Command & Colors Ancients (3rd Printing_ Dice Tower, Stone Finish El Presidente – Cuba Expansion En Garde FITS Heroscape Dungeons & Dragons : Forgotten Realms Warriors of the Ghostlight Fen Heroscape Dungeons & Dragons : Forgotten Realms Fury of the Primordials Heroscape Dungeons & Dragons : Forgotten Realms Glaun Bog Raiders Heroscape Dungeons & Dragons : Forgotten Realms Heroes of Faerûn Neuroshima Hex Scotland Yard Shadow Hunters Talisman: The Reaper Expansion Tannhauser Boardgame Tannhauser Expansion : Sergio Ramirez Tikal Share This
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New & Restocked Board Games : June 10, 2010
I was watching So You Think You Can Dance recently and it sparked off a series of thoughts. In the Auditions, you see so many people go in and dance, and often you can spot those who have it ; and those that don’t. Yet, they all try out. Now, don’t get me wrong, any one of those dancers could out-dance me any day of the century. Yet, I couldn’t help wondering why they did it – when you just don’t have that spark, that flare, why go through with it? There’s almost no logical reason for doing this – yet people do. It’s a passion driven business, one filled with self-delusion and luck. Very,very few will ever make it big, even fewer will make any (serious) money at it.
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Passion driven business
May’s bestselling board games are up on the main site, but for comparison’s sake here’s Starlit Citadel’s bestsellers from the month of April 2010 . 1. Settlers of Catan 4th Edition 2.
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Board Game Bestsellers : April 2010
New Board Games Formula De Dice Blister Magic Labyrinth Restocked Board Games 10 Days in Europe Acquire All Things Zombie Bang! 4th Edition Bang! The Bullet Blue Moon Buka Invasion Expansion Pack Blue Moon: The Flit Expansion Pack Blue Moon: The Khind Expansion Pack Blue Moon: The Terrah Expansion Pack Cash ‘n Guns Command & Colors Ancients (3rd Printing_ Empire Builder (New Edition) Escalation EuroRails 4th Edition
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New & Restocked Board Games : June 3, 2010
Review Contest Winner – Our Review Contest Winner! On-going Contest – Review Contest Site Updates – New Categories, New Imported Games & a Holiday Upcoming Games – Some of the most anticipated games that are to be released Contest Winner Announcement This month’s winner is Brian with his review of the Killer Bunnies Steel Booster . An expansion on one of our most popular card games, the “Super bunnies are a welcome addition, though they are highly powered” . Ongoing Contests The monthly review contest is continuing this month and the winner of each monthly review contest will receive a $20 gift certificate
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June 2010 Newsletter : Holidays & Imports
New Board Games Call of Cthulhu LCG Secrets of Arkham Cyrano Forbidden Island Leaping Lemmings Martinique Memoir ’44 Breakthrough Expansion Mad Scientist University Exp: Spring Break Munchkin : Waiting for Santa Wealth of Nations : Super Industry Tiles Wealth of Nations War Clouds Restocked Board Games Attack! BattleLore! Creatures Expansion BattleLore! Dragons Expansion BattleLore! Heroes Expansion Caylus Dominion Ergo EuroRails 4th Edition Hive Hive Mosquito Exp Killer Bunnies Blue Starter Medievalia Medievalia Action Exp Neuroshima Hex Neuroshima Hex: Duel Pirates Cove Power Grid Power Grid – China/Korea Primordial Soup-Freshly Spiced Ra the Dice Game Summonaria Thurn & Taxis UNO MOD Card Game Share This
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New & Restocked Board Games – May 28, 2010
One of my tasks on a regular basis is to check our Spam Folders for potentially mis-categorised customer e-mails. It’s an annoying task, but a necessary one since occasionally, a customer e-mail (or other important business e-mail) is flagged as Spam. Most spam e-mails are easy enough to notice by their header, however we’ve noted an interesting and annoying new trend.
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Fraud Online and its effects on Customer Service
New Board Games Beer & Pretzels Carcassonne: Bridges, Castles & Bazaars Card Tower, Unfinished Conquest of Pangea A Game of Thrones : A King in the North Chapter Pack Race for the Galaxy: the Brink of War Summonaria Talisman: The Highland Expansion Viva Topo Zoowaboo Restocked Board Games Archaeology: The Card Game Ark Barbarossa Banttleground Fantasy Warfare : Monsters & Mercenaries Reinforcements Deck Bohnanza Fan Edition Chrononauts Cyclades Descent: Road to Legend Expansion Dominion: Alchemy Dungeon Twister Force of Darkness Dungeon Twister 2: Prison Dungeon Twister Mercenaries Dungeon Twister: Fire & Water Hannibal : Rome vs Carthage Board Game Igor the Monster Making Game Le Havre : Le Grand Hameau Expansion Medievalia StarCraft Celebration Kit Pillars of the Earth Pillars of the Earth Expansion Railways of the World R-ECO Say Anything Scrappers Sherlock Card Game Traders of Carthage Warhammer: Invasion LCG Deathmaster’s Dance Battle Pack Warhammer Invasion LCG : Warpstone Chronicles New Imported Board Games &cetera Aapep Greed Incorporated Hansa Teutonica Indonesia 2nd Edition Mamma Mia Plus Tinners’ Trail Valdora Extra The World Cup Card Game VeloCity Share This
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New & Restocked Board Games – May 21, 2010
Recently, FFG has been re-releasing a lot of 2nd tier games that they either picked up from others or are attempting to revise and regenerate interest. There’s Battlelore of course with its various new expansions that are coming out. It was a hugely popular game when it was first launched, but due to lack of support from DOW, it died a slow death. These days, it’s in a strange limbo, with expansions coming out but the base game out of stock for months
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Second Chances – the board game dump pile
As a mental reminder for myself (in no particular order) I put together my task list for non-day-to-day projects for the next few months Finish change-over of Bookkeeper Provide accounts once done to Accountant for taxes File Annual Reports and other corporate papers Apply for and review terms of a consolidated loan Complete Policies & Procedures Manual Complete new e-mail set-up and template customer e-mails Hire & train an employee for vacation Locate a supplier for storage boxes & zip-lock bags Locate new supplier for shipping boxes Chase up with all conventions about vendor locations and confirmation of space / timing Switch hosting and upgrade site and test, test, test!!! Set-up video on site and test to see effectiveness That’s on top of all the daily work load of course.
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My Task List
Looking at a number of different factors recently, including our previous calculation on Industry Size, I’ve begun to wonder about the long-term future of Starlit Citadel. There’s no doubt that we can grow the business to support a single individual (we’re there already if at a minimum wage amount). Probably even one or two employees. However, the difference between us and our major competitors down in the US is vast – many of them seem to have 8 to 10 employees and a lot more stock.
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Industry Size : So what?
With Alison stepping down from the company on an active basis completely, a number of documents needed to be updated and amended, including a lot of credit card and banking information. In point of face, we actually had to reapply for most of our documents, a rather frustrating experience. Theory ran into reality whilst dealing doing our applications and I found out one of the many reasons why Canada (and Canadian businesses) are just not as competitive as the US. The business environment stinks
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The Business Environment in Canada
New Board Games Archaeology: The Card Game Arkham Horror Dice Set (5) Cthulhu Dice Dice Tower, Knockdown Dominion: Alchemy Munchkin Fairy Dust Display Neuroshima Hex: Duel Restocked Board Games Arkham Horror Citadels Card Game Call of Cthulhu LCG : Horror Beneath the Surface Combat Commander: Normandy Battle Pack Command & Colors Ancients #2: Rome vs Barbarians Dice Tower, Birch, Unfinished Dominion Dust En Garde Ergo FITS A Game of Thrones: Storm of Swords A Game of Thrones: Clash of Kings Ingenious Le Havre : Le Grand Hameau Expansion Lord of the Rings: Confrontation Deluxe Ed. No Thanks! Pandemic Prophecy: Dragon Realm Expansion Roma II : Arena Ticket to Ride Card Game Tulipmania 1637 Share This
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New & Restocked Board Games : May 6, 2010
May Newsletter Review Contest Winner – Our Review Contest Winner! On-going Contest – Win $20 in Our Review Contest & 50 points per review Site Updates – The Site Switch & Our Customer Rewards Program Upcoming Games – Some of the most anticipated games that are to be released soon Contest Winner Announcement This month’s winner is Jeanette with her review of Kahuna . An older 2 player game, it’s great to see this fun design get it’s share of reviews. Congratulations Jeanette! Ongoing Contests The monthly review contest is continuing this month and the winner of each monthly review contest will receive a $20 gift certificate.
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May 2010 Newsletter
I thought it’d be worth posting a list of upcoming events that we’ve either sponsored or will be at as a vendor: Sponsors (Charity Events) Board Gaming for Diabetes : May 1 – 2, 2010 Our 2nd Year Sponsoring this local charity event run by a fellow BGGeeker Can’t Stop the Serenity : June 26, 2010 In Support of Equality Now; Joss Whedon’s favourite charity and the BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre. Vendor (Conventions) Conquest BC : July 9 – 11, 2010 First year Gaming Convention in BC. The hotel it’s in is okay, very close to the Skytrain. Gaming of all forms supported here.
Chrononauts is the board game of time travel, where players take on the role of a time traveler attempting to either correct the timeline to his future or to collect sufficient number of cards / artifacts for his benefactor. To do so, he jumps through time and adjusts the timeline; attempting to finish before his competitors. A fun time-traveling game, Chrononauts is great to carry around in your bag as it’ll play from 1 to 8 players.
New Board Games A Game of Thrones Limited Card Game Core Set Battlestations Revised Bamboleo Chaos Fresko Horus Heresy Metro Nelly Samarkand Silverton StarCraft Celebration Kit Times Up Deluxe Warhammer : Invasion LCG Warpstone Chronicles Restocked Board Games 3-D Labyrinth Age of Empires III Agricola: Farmers of the Moor Alhambra – Big Box Bang! The Bullet Battleground Fantasy Warfare Battleground Scenario Book Battleground Fantasy Warfare Dwarves of Runegard Reinforcements Battleground Fantasy Warfare Dwarves of Runegard Starter Battleground Fantasy Warfare: Elves of Ravenwood Reinforcement Deck Battleground Fantasy Warfare: Elves of Ravenwood Starter Battleground Fantasy Warfare Kingdoms Battleground Fantasy Warfare Lizadermen Starter Battleground Fantasy Warfare Lizardmen Reinforcements Battleground Fantasy Warfare: Men of Hawkshold Reinforcements Battleground Fantasy Warfare: Men of Hawkshold Starter Battleground Fantasy Warfare: Monsters & Mercenaries Starter Battleground Fantasy Warfare Monsters & Mercenaries Reinforcements Battleground Fantasy Warfare: Orc Army Reinforcements Battleground Fantasy Warfare: Orc Army Starter Battleground Fantasy Warfare Terrain Pack Battleground Fantasy Warfare Umenzi Tribesmen Starter Battleground Fantasy Warfare Umenzi Tribesmen Reinforcements Battleground Fantasy Warfare: Undead Army Reinforcements Battleground Fantasy Warfare: Undead Army Starter Blokus Duo Cave Troll Chez Geek 2: Slack Attack Colossal Arena Cosmic Encounter Cosmic Incursion Duel in the Dark God Dice Hannibal : Rome vs Carthage Board Game Imperial 2030 Jamaica Kill Doctor Lucky Killer Bunnies Quest Red Booster Killer Bunnies Quest White Booster Labyrinth Card Game Manhattan Memoir ’44 Air Pack Expansion Memoir ’44 Battlemap : Tigers in the Snow Uno Card Game Mr. Jack Pocket Rockets Prophecy: Dragon Realm Expansion Space Station Assault Thebes The Battle For Hill 218 Twilight Struggle (’09) Warhammer : Invasion LCG Assault on Ulthuan Warhammer : Invasion LCG Skavenblight Share This
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New & Restocked Board Games – April 21, 2010
We recently received a huge e-mail listing all the Ultra Pro accessories available at our distributor. Currently, we’ve limited the number of accessories available to mostly Mayday and FFG sleeves with a few, basic, deck sleeves from Ultra Pro and a ton of dice from Chessex. We are wondering if there’s anything in particular that we should stock. Among the potential additions: More Dice Sets (d6, bags of dice, different colours, etc.) More sleeves from KMC (kmcsleeves.com) or Ultra Pro Deck Vaults 4 and9 pocket portfolios Player Mats Different types of game counters Storage boxes / bags Dice Towers I’m sure there’s more that haven’t come to mind. So the open question is, is there anything else that we should add or that as customers, you’d like to see?
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Accessories – Any Requests?