What are your favorite classic board games?

[Dis]

yeah its called cheating

[loinburger]

I've played most of those games, but Monopoly, Chess, and Scrabble are the only ones I play very often. I used to play for the chess team in junior high and high school, but eventually got sick of it--all the haters on the team started reading 2,000 page books on the game and memorizing these complex openings, and I was all like "What the ****, this isn't fun."

[Pekka]

I bet I've played many of those games, but I don't know what they are by their murrican name, so I have to just keep with monopoly and trivial pursuit, which are awesome.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Tuberski


I never heard about that one.

"Conquest of the Empire" I think

Roman Empire split among various generals, have to fight for the Imperial title. It was actually the first one after A&A, I believe.

[monkspider]

I did pretty good with Japan if I built factories in a lot of the east asian provinces and cranked out a bunch of tanks to steam roll Russia with. But the Allies do tend to almost always have an advantage, but realistically so, IMO.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by David Floyd
In A&A an Axis victory is virtually impossible if the Allies make no mistakes, even if they make none either. There's only one real strategy the Axis can employ to change the dynamic of the game, and I'm not telling

The problem is getting Allied players who don't make mistakes

Germany can take out the USSR - easily - and still lose the game, if the UK and USA players know what they're doing. I've never seen the USSR make it to the end of the game, no matter which side eventually won. Of course, I always tend to play Germany, and always go for the throat of Russia right away...

[Dis]

yes but even I make mistakes as Allies and I still win. The Allies can afford to make a few mistakes. The Axis can't afford any mistakes.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Dissident
yes but even I make mistakes as Allies and I still win. The Allies can afford to make a few mistakes. The Axis can't afford any mistakes.

Well, chalk one up to historical accuracy.

[notyoueither]

Where's the SPI War In Europe option?

Or AH's Third Reich? ASL?

and Chess, a long, long time ago.

[Jon Miller]

or the original board game civ

I am afraid that many of my favorites are not on there (Shogun is much better than Axis and Allies anyways)

Jon Miller

[Jon Miller]

I can't beleive that I am the only vote for diplomacy so far...

Jon Miller

[devilmunchkin]

monopoly is my all time favorite..but when i was little, i loved playing Trouble

[Adalbertus]

Well, I fear it's not really classical but by far my favourite board game is 1835 (the German version of 1829 (British) or 1830 (American)), a railway-company management game.

[Sikander]

I like Risk (one of the best game designs ever IMO), Monopoly, Scrabble, Backgammon and Diplomacy. My favorite 7 letter play in scrabble was "Arquebus" (which is 8 letter, but one of those was already on the board). Amusingly it got my opponent to challenge, which gave me another turn to exploit the open S.

I am pretty damn good at both Risk and Monopoly as well. Too bad I don't find many people interested in playing these games these days.

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Risk - Haven't lost a game in 8 years now

Let me guess, the last time you played Risk was eight years ago.