What are your favorite classic board games?

[Adagio]

I love board games, the problem is: I'm the only one I know, who loves to play board games...So I haven't played the greatest board games for...about....ehmmm...many years, so I have forgotten the rules of them all...mostly! But the board games I love the most is:

(in no particular order)

Stratego

Cluedo (I think that's the name...the game were you have to find the killer, or something)

Titanic (Don't know/think this exists other places than here... it's a quick version of cluedo)

Risk

The worst board game ever:

Chess

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by rah
And don't forget Navel Wars.

Yea...

man-against-man, bellybutton-against-bellybutton...

[Haon]

What the heck in Junta?

[Adalbertus]

Haon,
Junta is a game which you should play only with very good friends or people you already hate
I hope I get the description right: It plays in some not further specified "Republica de las Bananas", and the seven (should be seven) players form the government. A prime minister, a minister of interior/police, three generals, an admiral, and the chief of airforce. The prime minister gets development aid (=money) from an unnamed superpower. He uses it to develop his country, in form of himself and the other six, who get some of the money (they never see what the PM really receives). Next stage is to (secretly) define where you actually are (at home, in the bank, your HQ). Next part of a round is that you might be able to assassinate someone. For this, you have to say who you want to assassinate and to correctly guess where he is. After that, it is possible, if you were in the bank, to put your money to your private account in Switzerland (the only country called by its name). After that, the players can agree to a revolution. You can declare with whom you fight, the PM or the leader of revolution. The goal of the following fights is to occupy as many buildings in the capital as possible. When the battle is fought, it's time to really declare on which side you stand. The PM is the only one who can't change sides. Yes, the leader of the revolution can. The party who then occupies most buildings has won. The leader of the losers gets executed (looses all his money and other boni, except his bank account in Switzerland), and is replaced by someone of his clan (= player continues).
The money in Switzerland can be used to buy equipment for Alaska to grow Ananas, and which is the measure of your success in the game - although the Ananas might be special to the German edition. We had a politician Franz-Josef Strauß who was candidate for Bundeskanzler in the elections 1980. At some point he said "If I wil lose this election, I'll go to Alaska and grow Ananas". He lost and stayed in Germany.

Anyway, you see the game is designed to be utterly mean. My brother loved to play this with his friends - they said anyway: "with those friends, you don't need enemies." Btw, they are still friends.

[Juggler]

my favourite are risk, monopoly, chess, scrabble

Cluedo (I think that's the name...the game were you have to find the killer, or something)

yes i played it once but didn't like it
i mean the butler is always guilty anyway

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
I have never played with Advanced Civilization, but the games I have played the players are rather cooperative during trading. If you don't, everybody gets screwed, simple as that.

I don't understand your comment

Jon Miller

[Space05us]

Axis & Allies: Takes too damn long to set up in the board game form. Prefer the computer version immensely.

BOO! HISS!

the computer version doesnt even compare to the board game!

can you tell what my favorite is?

[CapitanGarlic]

It's clue, with no 'do' on the end...If we're thinking of the same game;

colonel mustard in the drawing room with the candlestick...

[blackice]

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.

All three of us


I have a lot of AH those were some of my favorites. I have all the Milton Bradley game master series also.
A.A. Shogun, Fortress, plus pirates.

In total I have 140 different war based board games.
Anyone play Spaceship troopers?

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Jon Miller


I don't understand your comment

Jon Miller

If no one trades in civ because they want to be greedy bastards, then no one gets any monopolies and no one can get advances. Everyone's screwed.

[Jon Miller]

but if (some) people jsut don't trade grain

than very quickly you realise if youa re oging for grain you will be screwed and no longer go for grain

or at elast that is what I have learned (and at times some epople are wiling to trade, and others are much harder to convince)

Jon Miller

[Jon Miller]

for ASL fans

check out VASL

(I think the site is www.vasl.org)

Jon Miller

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
I can't beleive that I am the only vote for diplomacy so far...

Jon Miller

I chose not to myself. The game gets people angry at each other. I thought it often wasn't worth the strife.

Plus in a face to face game the board locks up really easy, often with only two players out. Especially if I am in the game as I know the stalemate lines. In face to face players are less likely to stab each other in the back. Play by mail games are usually more fluid from what I saw. I never played by mail but my brother did.

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by Al'Kimiya
Advanced Civilization (I want gold! Does anyone have gold? Salt for gold, gold damnit!)

I will give gold for bronze. Anytime. At least in the original board game bronze seemed to me to be the ideal commodity. I could get them all at least every other turn.

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by Lorizael


If no one trades in civ because they want to be greedy bastards, then no one gets any monopolies and no one can get advances. Everyone's screwed.

If you get blocked on advancing more than once winning is nearly impossible in any of the games I have played. There is always a block at the beginning because if get past the first block as early as possible you did it by sacrificing your ability to get past the second on the first try. So every gets blocked once. If you don't get blocked again you usually win and there is almost always someone that can get through with only the one block.

Since no one player can conquer another the only way to slow down the leader is for EVERYONE to attack him and even then if the players don't trade with the leader they will get blocked and fall further behind. The key to not getting blocked is to avoid the really bad calamities by managing the number of cities you have.