Here’s the intro to the mostly negative review by Wolfie at I Slay the Dragon. Probably because they were never little boys, and they have no joy in their souls. If you’re one of those picky gamers who likes to read reviews and stuff. Giant Samurai Mechs in Space! That’s the sum total of what I extracted from an hour of research on this game.

As awesome as that sounds, there’s also a back story about a Lotus Galaxy, a dead Emperor, warring space clans, political intrigue, and…. This is not just a game about giant Samurai mechs having sword duels in deep space.

Come on - half of you would have paid five bucks just for half a dozen plastic Samurai mechs. (Japanese giant mechs in space, in case there was any possible confusion.)īut there were no other bidders, and I won the game for the minimum bid of $5. It’s a odd subgenre for a board game, I’ll grant you that. It was released by Plaid Hat Games in 2018 and, far as I can tell, was not a hit. Like many hundreds of games that flashed across the auction block, I’d never seen Starship Samurai before. And if you don’t understand what’s exciting about that, you’re at the wrong website, bud. Mostly because it has giant Samurai Mechs in it. So today we’re going to talk about Starship Samurai. I promised in my first write-up on the auction back in March that I’d say a few words about some of my more interesting finds, and I take these promises seriously. What was I looking for at the auction? Bargains! And cool discoveries, and I found plenty of both. Well, that’s what came out of my mouth when Alice found out, anyway. You can’t put a price on true readiness, I always say. I spent over a thousand bucks, but is the man without a full library of board games really ready for a global pandemic? I don’t think so. Of course, I brought a lot of games home. But although I didn’t know it then, it was the last time I’d be able to walk through the doors of a games store - or retail store of almost any kind. Looking back, it was probably a dumb thing to do.

On Saturday March 7th, as Illinois was just starting to wake up to the severity of what would soon be a full-blown coronavirus pandemic, I joined about 150 other local gamers in a tightly packed back room in Mount Prospect for the 2020 Spring Games Plus Auction.

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