(yes) Board Games

[Addled Platypus]

anyone bother anymore?



I just picked up Ad Astra's Advanced Vector:Tactical

a different take on space combat

[Harovan]

I'm still playing chess on occasions.

[Dis]

there are games on boards?

[Nugog]

Yes

[Nugog]

I still like Risk.


And I am trying to ignore my son's pathetic attempts at cheating on Snakes and Ladders.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Addled Platypus
Board Games

anyone bother anymore?

I don't know anybody else plays board games
Well... my brother plays monopoly from time to time, but he cheats all the time

[Dis]

if I had kids and stuff it would be different, but even then it would probably be hard to get them away from computers/consoles etc.

Back in my day , computers were pretty much crap. And a game of monopoly would be very fun. More complicated games generally had to be played with younger people who weren't stupid like old people . Like Axis and Allies and Risk.

Those are the 3 I have fondest memories of.

Anyone remember a D&D type board game? I think it was called dungeons or dungeon.

[DrSpike]

Snakes and ladders, once in a while.

[Kassiopeia]

There's a board game club in the student village I live in and I have a bunch of friends back home who've taken up board gaming as a hobby, so I've been doing a lot of this lately. The club meets once a week and we just arranged for a large group order from Germany, where the games are cheap and the delivery costs low when you order big. And the rules and bits in German, but that's where Boardgamegeek comes to the rescue.

I personally only own Imperial at the moment, but I've got Thurn und Taxis, Euphrat & Tigris, Friedrich and Shogun on the way from Germany. Lately I've played a lot of Die Macher, Goa and I've even been taught Mahjong. (It's not the Mahjong you had on Windows 3.1.)

I also have a friend who likes Ameritrash so we'll be playing a lot of Twilight Imperium 3rd Ed, Starcraft and Descent. I'm more of a Euro person but TI is fantastic - and sure, it's got variable roles and phases and little bits and counters, the whole distinction is somewhat dubious sometimes.

I haven't played a lot of wargames yet, but I've gotten into Twilight Struggle lately and I'm looking into learning and playing at least some others games using that system (Paths of Glory, Hannibal, 1960: Making of the President which I plan to own too).

So if anyone wants a game of Twilight Struggle over wargameroom.com, shoot me a PM.

[Lorizael]

My group has been playing a lot of Puerto Rico of late. I also recently started not to suck at El Grande.

I love Games Workshop's Blood Bowl, even though it's a highly random and totally unbalanced game. But I probably only like it so much because I (almost) never lose.

Whenever we're not lazy we even have our own boardgame that we're designing - a sort of tactical, land-grabbing, card-based combat, resource management game that takes place on a giant space station orbiting the Earth.

[UnOrthOdOx]

Only with my kids.

Fortunately, they've taken a liking to Risk.

No one likes to play Chess with me, however. :/

[lord of the mark]

We got Risk for POTM lately. POTM plays "classic" and "casual" board games" with her friends from time to time, I play them with her, and we even managed to get QOTM to join us in Monopoly one night.

I've suggested to POTM Id like to get her Settlers of Cataan, or something like that, and Ive told her (I think its true) that theres not much war in it, but somehow it doesnt appeal to her. Also between studies and activities, and its not like shes got loads of time.

As we generally dont invite adult friends over for game nights (and if we did, Monopoly would probably do better than a game like Settlers of C) and POTM isnt interested, and Im not about to go hang out at some board games club, buying S of C or a similar game would mean getting it to play solitaire. And Im not about to spend $40 for a game to play solitaire that doesnt even have an AI, when there are lots of good PC games on my list.

Plus the ease of saving a PC game, versus the need to take up valuable table or floor space for a board game, the need to play in short chunks of time (board games take time to set up and put away, etc) really tends to militate against the more serious board games.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by UnOrthOdOx
Only with my kids.

Fortunately, they've taken a liking to Risk.

No one likes to play Chess with me, however. :/

We used to have chess games in this forum, why dont you start one up?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Snakes and ladders, once in a while.

thats what we call "chutes and ladders" right?

Wait, you have a little one, Doc?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Dis
if I had kids and stuff it would be different, but even then it would probably be hard to get them away from computers/consoles etc.

Not as hard as you think. I wont even focus on POTM who was raised in our quasi-luddite household, with no consoles, and sharing a PC with the grown ups till recently.

She has a friend who grew up in a household that always has the trendiest console ( I think currently they have a 360 AND a Wii) and multiple PCs, and at her home it IS hard to pull her away from the electronics.

At our house, she turns out to be a most intense Monopoly player. You set the game up, and put the kids in a room, and have them buying properties and moving their pieces around the board, and they manage to forget theres a PC in the next room.