On June 29 2011 00:52 ManicMarine wrote: Yeah my problem is that my friends just aren't interested in sitting down to play a board game for 5 hours. I would love to get a game of Risk going: I own a board but have never actually played a proper game because no-one wants to play with me
Feels bad man.
A decent amount of the listed games (and similar ones) take no longer than an hour or 90 minutes of playtime.
On June 29 2011 01:03 chomsky wrote: Some (most) of those games look incredibly complicated. Don't you get bored of playing a game that requires so much setup? I'm a Scrabble guy myself
There are plenty of these kinds of games that don't take a tremendous amount of setup time. Carcassone from the OP would be a good example of a game that takes almost no setup time.
I mean for most video games there is loading time and also the time it takes to find an opponent or even just start up your system and get the game running.
I think often board game setup time is exaggerated, when it's usually less of a hassle than most make it out to be.
I've played most of the games mentioned in the thread here. I hold a weekly, or sometimes twice a week, board game night at my place where we play a lot of these games (anyone in the San Diego area is always welcome to join us)
the games i really enjoy (although usually only once per year since GothCon only happens on easter...) are plenty! Most of them have been mentioned in the thread but i'll list some of my favourites.
Settlers
Nobrainer. It's just the best boardgame out there. Play it with a couple of friends and trade dem resources brah!
Twilight Imperium
For the more advanced board-gamer, a session can take up to 20~ hours. You can win either through sheer warpower, politics or clever use of tech. I recommend it to everyone with some passion!
Svea Rike
For the Swedes. Most of you probably played the computergame back in the 90's, if you liked it, play the boardgame. It's hilarious and the warfare is pretty damn hard. Lots of history in there too so you'll probably learn something aswell!
Ricochet Robot
Requires you to think alot but it's very fun and hectic! You count the minimum steps to bounce your robot across the board to certain symbols. You'll set your brain on fire.
I got into so many games because of weekly DnD meetings at one of the local stores, they had an other building in the same strip mall dedicated to gaming rooms,some for table top games like warhammer etc and they would hold tourneys and different stuff all throughout the week.
This is where I first got into Magic the gathering in the alpha stage.The guy who ran the gamin part turned our dnd group on to it when it first came out so much fun there.
I wonder if a board game/lan cafe would be a viable business model here in Tucson. On that note anyone have such a store in there area?
Would be cool to set up some table top stuff during/after a Arizona lan or something.(any lan actually ^_^)
Edit: Am I invited over next time im in your area semioldguy? Lets get some after event table top gaming going .....so much better than poker imo.
On June 29 2011 00:50 RoosterSamurai wrote: Also, I love Axis & Allies. But good luck getting anyone to play that game... x.x
Wrong side of the pacific We own (and play): Axis & Allies, Axis & Allies Europe, Axis & Allies Pacific, Axis & Allies 50th Anniversary and Axis & Allies Europe 1940, Axis & Allies Pacific 1940 to be combined to ONE BIG: Axis & Allies World (we call it that way^^, with Italy, France, China and ANZAC as playable factions (some though not for 1player)):
Overall - way too many (me and my 4-5 boardgame friends own): Stuff mentioned in this thread: Zombies Munchkin Settlers Risk Carcassone Bang! Citadels (dont play it really, one guy hates it, since everyone bands against him) Dominion Descent (+ shitton of expansions) Memoir '44 A Game of Thrones Hero's Quest (+ 2? expansions - at least the ogre one!) Battlestar Galactica (+Pegasus Talisman (old version & new version) Runebound Chaos in the old world Last Night on Earth Arkham Horror (+ King in Yellow & Dunwich) Twilight Imperium (+ Shattered Empire - THERE'S A NEW ADDON SINCE MAY??? :D) Starcraft: The Boardgame (+ BW)
Others:
World of Warcraft: The Boardgame (+ BC) Doom (basically Descent in the Doom universe - more deadly for the players!) Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring Space Hulk Limited 3rd Edition (fuck yeah!) Android Space Quest (the original/old one) Tide of Iron Mystery of the Abbey Blue Moon City Fury of Dracula Order of the Stick (didnt play that one yet ) Shadows over Camelot (basically the predecessor of BSG) Junta (old & new version) Pandemic Cash & Guns (with the Yakuza expansion)
shitton of other & older stuff I (and probably no one else) dont remember (Elfenroads, Shogun, Fief, Incognito,Civilization ...)
Oh and yeah - we do play Warhammer Fantasy Battles (though everyone owns a 40k army we havent played that in ~5-6 years), and normal P&P RPGs (Warhammer FRPG, Midgard (a German RPG where I know the developers))
Has someone played Horus Heresy or Dungeons & Dragons: Conquest of Nerath? I found pictures (while searching for English names^^) and those look kind of interesting.
On June 29 2011 00:52 ManicMarine wrote: Yeah my problem is that my friends just aren't interested in sitting down to play a board game for 5 hours. I would love to get a game of Risk going: I own a board but have never actually played a proper game because no-one wants to play with me
Feels bad man.
A decent amount of the listed games (and similar ones) take no longer than an hour or 90 minutes of playtime.
On June 29 2011 01:03 chomsky wrote: Some (most) of those games look incredibly complicated. Don't you get bored of playing a game that requires so much setup? I'm a Scrabble guy myself
There are plenty of these kinds of games that don't take a tremendous amount of setup time. Carcassone from the OP would be a good example of a game that takes almost no setup time.
I mean for most video games there is loading time and also the time it takes to find an opponent or even just start up your system and get the game running.
I think often board game setup time is exaggerated, when it's usually less of a hassle than most make it out to be.
I just now 'got' your icon. I have no idea how I never realized this before.
Pandemic Co-Op game where you save the world from the spread of a deadly virus. Multiple difficulty levels, and ample room for house-rules/modification for more or less challenge. Expansion includes pitting one player as the bio-terrorist against the others.
Small World A point-based map-conquest game where no player is eliminated, but simply chooses a new army when his old one is broken, also has several expansions with more races and special abilities. (Small World Underground is an entirely new similar game coming out soon)
Munchkin Create your character and fight monsters while stabbing your friends in the back in a race to level 10. There are several versions of this game including Kuthulu, Vampires, etc, each with pretty funny text.
This thread just reminded me of the boardgame i used to love as a kid but i cant remember the name of it for the life of me, you had hexagon island pieces set up in the middle and every turn a piece of the island would sink and you remove a hexagon piece, the objective was to get your guys off the island onto a boat to safety and you had sea monsters you could control each turn to try and kill/sink the ships of your opponents. Anyone know the name of it? would love to get this again.
On June 29 2011 06:55 hicser wrote: This thread just reminded me of the boardgame i used to love as a kid but i cant remember the name of it for the life of me, you had hexagon island pieces set up in the middle and every turn a piece of the island would sink and you remove a hexagon piece, the objective was to get your guys off the island onto a boat to safety and you had sea monsters you could control each turn to try and kill/sink the ships of your opponents. Anyone know the name of it? would love to get this again.
it's kinda like Risk, but without dice.the map is Europe at 1900, the players represent the "global players" of that time and try to gain control of 50+% of europe. before each turn, there is an extensive phase of players talking with each other, planning attacks, forging alliances, preparing backstabs, etc. during this phase each player notes down orders for each unit, and after that phase all moves are evaluated and executed simultaneously.
it takes quite a long time to finish one game, but it's a lot of fun
Pandemic was just mentioned by "plays" a few posts above, and I would also vouch for this one. Average game length is reasonable at 1 hour or less, and it's a cooperative game. I think it's quite fun.
Twilight Imperium is a ridiculous game. I only had the opportunity to play it once, and it's pretty awesome, but god damn it takes forever.
Your #1 goal in any game of monopoly should be to buy either all 4 railroads or the 3 orange properties, with 3 houses on each.
Reason being, you are more likely to land on an orange property than any other property in the game, between jail, chance, railroads etc. And houses are absurdly cheap on orange, with 3 houses being the sweet spot for the quickest return on your investment (this is true on almost every color group except blue iirc).
Railroads are ALWAYS a safe option and have the fastest return value of any property. If you buy all 4 it only takes someone land on one 4 times until your making big money.
Ignore brown, blue and green properties. For brown, it has one of the lowest exposures on the board and the houses are expensive for their return. For blue and green the houses are way too expensive, and blue is the biggest moneysink in the game.
If you cant get orange, red, maroon and light blue are also good options. I think the order would be Red>Lightbloo>maroon Though if you cant get orange its better to leave it contested than give it to any one person for almost any trade except railroads.
If you get orange and railroads you basically cant lose unless your obscenely unlucky.
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