What are your favorite classic board games?

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by notyoueither
Or AH's Third Reich? ASL?

Finally something to agree on.

Third Reich is a great game. ASL was fantastic, but almost damn hard to find people who knew how to play it.

[notyoueither]

Aha! Yes, ASL is God's gift to the grognards. I could go on and on and on... but I won't.

Jon Miller plays by some automated system that makes PBEM or some such possible. I've never had a chance to look it up.

[Nubclear]

For us uninformed peoples what is diplomacy? trouble? and (dare i ask) axis and allies?

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Tingkai


Finally something to agree on.

Third Reich is a great game. ASL was fantastic, but almost damn hard to find people who knew how to play it.

You should have joined the U.S. Army and attended DLI in Monterey. When I was there we played Third Reich at least a dozen times, with 4+ players. A great game, and a lot of fun playing with a full table of intelligent and crafty foes. I liked to play Britain or Italy best, because those were the two countries that started the game early and were the most balanced Land / Sea / Air powers.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Tassadar5000
For us uninformed peoples what is diplomacy? trouble? and (dare i ask) axis and allies?

Diplomacy is a game played on a map of Europe and the Med circa 1900, which is broken down into regions for the purposes of movement and combat. It's rules are fairly simple, but like most good games the situations in the game end up being complex. It is grand strategic in scale, with each player playing one of 7 great powers. There are only 2 unit types, armies and fleets. These move simultaneously directed by written orders of the players. It's a good game, and has had a fanatical following for about 40 years, including a fairly large number of people who played it via snail mail.

Axis and Allies is a slightly more complex game of WWII. Like WWII it is very difficult for the Axis to win. Players can play Germano-Italy, Japan, Britain, Soviet Union, and United States. Like Diplomacy, it uses a map divided into regions, but in this case it is a map of the world. There are a number of different unit types, and these are produced at factories with money that one makes from holding territory. It's not a bad game, but it isn't well balanced enough to offer much in the way of competitive play.

[Lars-E]

Chess, Junta, Civilization.

[David Floyd]

I say we get ourselves a little Axis & Allies tournament going on here....if you don't have the computer version you can download Dogs of War, which is the exact same thing for free.

[rah]

Originally posted by Lars-E
Chess, Junta, Civilization.

JUNTA, I can't believe anybody else has ever heard of that game, let alone played it.

We spent a lot of time executing presidents.

[Al'Kimiya]

Advanced Civilization (I want gold! Does anyone have gold? Salt for gold, gold damnit!)

[muxec]

I love bananas but not bananas in meaning of abstain, but fruit bananas even in games.

[-Jrabbit]

Originally posted by rah
JUNTA, I can't believe anybody else has ever heard of that game, let alone played it.

We spent a lot of time executing presidents.

Funny how RL conflicts would surface in a good Junta jame, right Rich?

Missing from list -- Nuclear War (a true guilty pleasure) and Clue.

[rah]

And don't forget Navel Wars.

[Ming]

-Jrabbit... I'm surprised you didn't mention Rail Baron since that is the game we get drunk playing most Fridays *by the way, see you tonight so we can do it again*

And rah... all I can say is...

JUNTA... JUNTA... JUNTA!

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Tingkai
Let me guess, the last time you played Risk was eight years ago.

Ha!

No, but I don't play nearly as much now as I did in college.

They key for me is to never play the same people twice, because once I wipe the board with them the first time, I know they'll just gang up on me the next game.

[Boris Godunov]

Hey!

You forgot Hungry, Hungry Hippos!!!