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HeroQuest was SO GOOD!! I really loved playing that. Sadly I never owned it myself 
Settlers of Catan and it's expansions were fun for a couple of years but have been gathering dust for some years now. Haven't played it in ages.
Puerto Rico is always a fun game to play and doesn't last to long so it can be played fairly easy in between.
Munchkin is just really funny. Have a few beers with it and it becomes even more fun 
Diplomacy I just can't understand how some people say they finished a game in 4 hours. Some of our games lasted a whole weekend and almost all at least a whole saturday.
Twilight Imperium always looked very interesting to me but sadly I have never had the pleasure to actually play it sofar.
A game of Thrones is for me the ultimate game. I enjoy it every time I play and there are so many different possibilities it never bores me. I have the original, both official expansions (Clash of kings, Storm of swords) and the fan made 9 player expansion Feast of crows that can be downloaded here
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Lately I haven't played that much unfortunately but with summer rolling in perhaps it's time to put some serious effort into playing more and hopefully come up with a new great D&D quest to revive our group.
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On June 29 2011 12:18 Empyrean wrote:
Does anyone else like that one train game Ticket to Ride?
Holy shit I could play that for hours.
EDIT: Apparently imbc is the only other person in this thread who has had the great fortune to play that game. There's a reason why it won Germany's Game of the Year award. And Germans love their boardgames!
Ticket to Ride is indeed a very fun game. Not to serious or difficult. Great to play as a casual game with friends or family. It's also very easy to explain and serves a great purpose in luring new people into the world of tabletop gaming 
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I like Settlers of Catan a lot, been playing with many of my friends in the last 2 years (since i discovered it). It's really fun and i like it because it's duration is decent (should finish in 1h max 1.5h). Beside i really think of it as being competitive (and we even keep score), none of the other games i played (not many) gave me the feeling.
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On June 29 2011 12:18 Empyrean wrote:
Does anyone else like that one train game Ticket to Ride?
Holy shit I could play that for hours.
EDIT: Apparently imbc is the only other person in this thread who has had the great fortune to play that game. There's a reason why it won Germany's Game of the Year award. And Germans love their boardgames!
I've played quite a lot of Ticket to Ride. We have an edition that takes place in Germany (also includes passangers, which is a additional way to get points). I like the game but I think the more you are playing (5 people is max) the more fun it gets. 2-3 is not enough, 4 is borderline and 5 is great!
Sadly, in the edition we're playing the long north/south missions are worth so many points that it's almost never a good idea to go for many short missions. Also, having a railway north/south in the Germany-version, you are very well set to make a few last round mission picks that will be already done due to your extensive spread. Since we're almost always the same group playing, everybody knows this tactics wins 9/10 times and everybody is fighting over those critical lines that you need to complete north/south. I think we've broken the game for ourselves but i still enjoy the hell out of it.
Other games I enjoy alot:
Settlers of Catan
Bonanza
Spank the Monkey+Cash is Kong (though we rarely finish since it takes forever with 4+ players).
Munchkin & Munckin the Boardgame
Factory Fun - Awesome game and my favorite atm.
Citadels
Oh, there are a few more but I forget...right now it's mostly Munchkin the Boardgame and Factory Fun.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Crusade
German version was named "Star Quest", probably to relate it to Hero's Quest (which we played too as kids)
- Apart from the gamemaster there can be 3 players
- Squads of Commander + 4 Marines (Red, Yellow or Blue).
- Each marine can be equiped with a different weapon: Plasma (railgun like), Assault (rifle) or Missile Launcher (Main target dmg + less damage on all adjacent)
- Commander has his own set of weapons to choose: Axe+Pistol (balanced), Power Sword+Power Glove (Yes, it's called power glove, full out melee carnage) or Bolter gun (ranged)
- Each Unit can "Move" once and "Fire" once per turn
- Equipment Cards: 4 general ones each color can choose and 3 unique ones for each Squad, range from permanent buffs (e.g.: heavy weapons don't restraining your movement, +melee power for the commander) or usable things (grenades, medikit, bio scanner, ...)
- Order Cards: 6 overall, each squad can only choose from 4 of those. Things like 2x "Move", 2x "Fire", etc.
- Enemies range form yout general Grunts with a weapon up to Dreadnoughts which are mechs using a 2x2 field to stand, equipped with 2-3(4?) weapons at the same time.
Love it :o
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I'm a mac user and I googled "dominion official mac version" just to find that one of the search results on the first page linked to a weaki about Starcraft 2 lol. I've played a game of player vs player online already after seeing this thread. Any idea where I can get a version for mac to please me until the game arrives?
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Man, there needs to be more classic board games online to play with friends. I'd love to try Twilight Imperium but no one in my regular gaming group would go for that kind of game.
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i host a boardgame gathering in hk and play every week. I have been doing a lot of heavy games like agricola, le havre, brass and tichu. I have been quite active on BSW since 2000 too. but it is a little bit disappointing that it seems that there is not much fun games this year. for instance, arc 2 of race for the galaxy doesnt look good.
perhaps we should have a BSW player list for TLers so that we can play against each other ?
and day9 is a boardgame fan, i guess. i would love to play him one day
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I love playing boardgames. You can find me at www.brettspielwelt.de (BSW) as blubshizzle
I really like to play Imperial and Puerto rico.
Since imperial has not been mentioned i'll post some pics.
"Old" Imperial
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Imperial 2030
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There is an old Imperial(europe) and Imperial 2030(world). Both are very well playable but hard to figure out at first. The game is more of an investor game then a war game but you need a little bit of both to win. For 2-6 players but i think 3/4 is the best.
IMO this might be one of the best investor/war combo game out there atm.
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On June 29 2011 04:53 semioldguy wrote: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) A portion of my collection: + Show Spoiler +I'll post a list of my collection later today if anyone wants any opinions on any games or is enticed to come visit me any play them!
I would like your opinion on Dominion and the expansion that you have if you won't mind. Nice collection
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Do not play Apples to Apples unless you wish to see how bad the common sense of your friends may be when it comes to deciding categories.
Bang! is a great game, so is bananagrams. Catan is obviously good and so is Acension:godspell something like that...
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One of the first board games I ever played and one of the best. The Civ board game was also pretty fun.
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Omega Virus
Dune
Two of the best boardgames you will ever play
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Dominion is addictiiiiiive.
We have all the expansions between us, and I generally force myself not to play because my housemates and I have lost many an evening to it. There'sa couple of degenerative cards but the fact that the deck changes each game is brilliant.
Agricola is pretty good too.
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I've had this since christmas (so it's not super new  ) and it really isn't 4-6 hours once you get the hang of it. Our first play through took like 8 hours but now when people know what to do, what does what we can easily do it in 2-3h It does have a very clear time limit in the tech victory you simply can't hop around forever or someone will get that one, aswell as the tech scales so ridiculously that once you reach tier 3/4 defending a capital becomes really really hard.
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Oh M fucking G where is Risk? EVeryone knows the most intense game with 8 people playing, lasts 4-5 hours and is exciting till the last move is Risk (only sucks if you have below 5 players)
RISK FTW
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I've always wanted to play that game.
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On June 29 2011 12:18 Empyrean wrote:
Does anyone else like that one train game Ticket to Ride?
Holy shit I could play that for hours.
EDIT: Apparently imbc is the only other person in this thread who has had the great fortune to play that game. There's a reason why it won Germany's Game of the Year award. And Germans love their boardgames!
family got it like last christmas..
I played a bunch of games and developed some strategies where I just crushed them like 6 games in a row then I quit when everyone started adopting the same strategies.
All in all it depends a lot on the starting cards you pick up which kinda sucks and its pretty hard to screw people once you know what all of the destination cards are without max people anyway
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