With the arrival of Twilight Imperium: Prophecy of Kings yesterday that is the last of the expansions and the focus of my purchases for 2020.

I have bought games published this year. Well one for sure. That was the new Marvel themed Love Letter.

And I have bought one or two other games such as Smash Up, the new edition of Love Letter, Dungeon Mayhem and Star Wars Outer Rim.

There have been no games released in 2020 that have grabbed me as must buys. It has been the expansions that have stolen that place.

Although there has been one recent game that has got my attention, and has been preordered. That’s Dune Imperium. It’s due out in December. I’ve seen late December. So it looks like it could be hit or miss whether it makes 2020.

But I have to admit I am happy with just the expansions for games I have. New content gives an excuse to get them back to the table (eventually).

Three of the expansions were pleasant surprises when they were announced or I found out they had come out. I wasn’t expecting expansions for TI4, Targi or Civilisation: A New Dawn. But I was going to make sure I got them. I really like those games and especially for TI4 and New Dawn must haves.

Not shown in the photo above because I have thrown the packaging away (it was very thin cardboard and not of any use) is the expansion for Civilisation: A New Dawn, Terra Incognita.

I have to admit when I talked about the expansions I was looking forward to in a post a while back now. I didn’t include the Wingspan expansion (as was pointed out to me by Jonathan in a comment on the post). I was sceptical that it would make 2020 with all that was going on. Or that is the excuse I used to justify that I had forgotten to include it.

There is one expansion I will get, but it can wait until next year. I’m not in a hurry. And that is the new expansion for 7 Wonders Duel, Agora. I need two copies of this any way. I buy myself a copy and also Nathan one. He loves the game too and has his own copy. which I also pimped out with the same promos etc.

Despite knowing I won’t be playing the games with the expansions until sometime next year (which I am very much looking forward to doing). The way the board game hobby is. If you don’t get the expansion/game when it comes out, the likely hood that it is between printings, out of print when you want to get it, is pretty high. And that route only leads to resentment and rants about paying stupid money for plastic and cardboard to a stranger on the internet.

What expansions did you buy this year? Is there a game I should have got excited about?