Favorite Board Game

[Grumbold]

Mousetrap! I remember getting that from Santa for christmas when I was 7 or 8. My parents were not amused when My sister, cousin and I assembled it and started playing at 6:30am

I think my absolute favourite boardgame has to be Civilisation (not the Meier one), although I have very fond memories of Beastlord! Just don't have the time or floorspace to lay it all out and do the hidden movement and tactical battles these days.

[lord of the mark]

I recall the TV show from the '60s. IIRC, they had a giant version of the game on the set, and kids moved around it in the role of the mouse. At the time I thought this was very cool, as I thought the game itself was.

Im pleased to note that one of Princess of the Mark's little friends has Mousetrap, and so PoM has had a chance to experience the wonder.

[Jamski]

geeslaka

I remember Talisman. What a great board game. I had the dungeon, and the city and the vortex add-ons, so it required an enourmous amout of space. With 6 or 7 players it could last a whole weekend.

Noone to play with now though Is there a PC version?

-Jam

[geeslaka]

Not that I know of.
My brother has the city, dungeon, and timescape, plus a board he made. The board he made is the same physical size as the main board but has significantly more spaces. He also made a good number of characters and cards.

[Jamski]

Move to Germany and I'll give you a game, eh? It was a masterpiece of roleplaying board games, nothing has ever got close to it in comparison.

-Jam

[centrifuge]

Originally posted by ADG
Never tried A&A (Sounds boring), and probably never will...

... can't find any Risk players, last time I played this as board game was 10 years ago... (Still have it on computer though )

You're killing me, A&A was/is awesome!!! If you like Risk, my observation is that you'll love A&A. Unless you're like my wife and don't want to spend the time to learn the rules.

[Jamski]

I did some Googleing and here's the good news

Talisman for PC - whoop!

-Jam

[Space05us]

Axis & Allies, but its literally impossible to find anyone to play with. Everyone would rather play stupidpeoplewithnopatience games.
Cranium would be my second favorite game.

[Elok]

I don't have the concentration necessary to be good at it, but I like to watch a good game of chess.

[lord of the mark]

here are some board games i recall playing (leaving aside AH/SPI wargames)

Candy land
Chutes and Ladders
Mousetrap
Monopoly
Risk
Stratego
Dogfight(?) an unrealistic WW1 air combat game with really cool little plastic planes
Clue
Scrabble

[Main_Brain]

Twilight Imperium

Pro:
-New Map every Game
-Senate


Con:
-Action Cards can really screw u;
-Teams should be set before Game


in A&A the First Turns are so.. fixed
Besides that EndBattle's take quite a while.

[geeslaka]

Originally posted by Jamski
I did some Googleing and here's the good news

Talisman for PC - whoop!

-Jam

The bad news is that their actual site is down. Oh well, it's almost definitely windows only.

I do have good news for myself though, the room I'm in is big enough to play it. I'm going to ask my brother if he wants to play when he gets home.

[Standup]

Never seem to have time but in the past enjoyed (mainly wargames rather than board if thats a difference ?) ...

Empires of the Middle Ages. Cons - don't know anyone with a copy anymore.

Atlantic Wall - tried this as a four player game once, worked pretty well but its a big map and a long game.

1829 - Northern version but only becuase that was the one i played first.

Vietnam. Started a game sometime in the early 90s and get together to play a few turns each summer. Not very productive though as spend most of the time we set aside is for setting up again and trying to remember just what is going on.

About the only game i play now is Warrior Knights which can be finished in a weekend.

[Jon Miller]

depends

multiplayer - Advanced Civilization
Twoplayer - ASL

Jon Miller

[Dis]

I also liked Car Wars, but that wasn't exactly a board game. That's closer to a rpg than a board game.

Stratego was decent. Monopoly was also great. Clue was pretty cool as well.

I think Dungeons and Dragons had a board game too . Fairly simplistic compared to the rpg.