Conquest of the Empire

Well, I'm listening to the Dice Tower #12 and it's pretty clear that I'm not going to have CONQUEST OF THE EMPIRE show up from Korea any time soon, drat!

(background: Joe and Tom were giving away Conquest on the Dice Tower show-- see the link to tune into their excellent podcast)



Actually, I intend to get this one soon. When the game came out in the first place back in the 80s, I was lusting after it, but it was in print for such a relatively short time that I missed my chance. That whole line of "plastic piece games" put out by Milton Bradley way back in the day (Shogun, Fortress America, Conquest and Broadsides and Boarding Parties) have been going for the cost of a major organ on Ebay for a long, long time. The good news is that Eagle Games (rapidly becoming one of my favorite publishers) is putting out CONQUEST OF THE EMPIRE again. And it's surprisingly affordable at sixty bucks.


Original Conquest from Milton-Bradley.. routinely going for about 80+ bucks on Ebay.



Ooooh... ahhh... check out those pieces!! They are head and shoulders above the old ones in the original game. We seem to be going through something of a plastic piece game rennaissance these days. Maybe I'll do a blog posting on all the plastic board/miniature fusion games I own one of these days. A considerable amount, actually!



So I'm not really whining, guys.. congrats to Wallace Freedle. I'm looking forward to getting this one through fair and honest means.