Board games

[golden_boy]

Do you play board games?

If so, which ones do you prefer - the modern ones like Monopoly or Settlers, or the classical ones like Chess and Backgammon?

Which one is your favourite and why?

Do you have any board game software installed on your computer?

How many different board games do you actually know the rules for?

Not interested? Hate board games? Tell us why

[Solecord]

I love board games. I have a group of friends who we try to get a gaming session in once a month, sometimes every other week. We play games such as:

• Battlestar Gallactica
• Risk Legacy
• Galaxy Trucker
• Heroscape
• Quarriors
• Smash Up
• Kings of Tokyo
• Last Night On Earth
• Robo Rally

Tons more too... lots of fun!

[golden_boy]

I'll have to youtube some of those, Solecord. Interesting stuff! I really like board games as well.

I have been into historical games like Chess and Hnefatafl for a while now. I find it interesting how the rules have sometimes survived in obscure sources and how games have been transferred from an older culture to a younger one. For example Hnefatafl (viking chess) is descended from the Roman ludus latrunculorum, which descends from Greek petteia, which descends from some Egyptian game. Crazy stuff!

Likewise, Backgammon descended from a whole number of Roman, Persian, Egyptian and Babylonian games. These games are truly a common heritage of mankind.

I also love e.g. Settlers of Catan. I have many awesome memories of playing that game with friends and family. Same for several obscure board games from the 80s and 90s.

Currently trying to get my dad into online chess. :-p

Edit: Oh yeah, I've been looking into Senet recently too. Fascinating game.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9XIMkapokc[/ame]

[PrimalLove]

Chess. No question the king of board games. If you must learn any other learn GO. That is all.

[golden_boy]

Go is a respectable game, but I can't muster enough interest to play it seriously. Chess has more different pieces and moves. It is also my impression that you can play chess more aggressively than Go (thus it seems to be more fun) and that Chess has more interesting combinations (sequences of moves), but I might be wrong.

Chess is a lot more about taking/exchanging pieces and gaining a material advantage, anyway.

But hey, I did watch a one-hour Go video today. Totally worth looking into.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9EIVo761H4]Let's Learn Go!! (Japanese Rule) - YouTube[/ame]

[Adam]

Shut Up & Sit Down Episode one.
Shut Up & Sit Down Episode two.
Shut Up & Sit Down Episode three.
The rest of the shows on Vimeo.
Official site (doesn't have the original seasons tho')

You can't tell I'm a fan, huh?

Love board & card games.

Mostly play:
Talisman
DungeonQuest
Space Hulk
Galaxy Trucker
Chainsaw warrior
Death Angel
Munchkin
Scrabble
Loads of the classics like Labyrinth, Quest, Cluedo etc

I would like to get hold of:
Descent.
Relic
Dreadfleet
Settlers of Catan
Carcassonne
Doom3,Warcraft & anything by Fantasy Flight Games.

If they have a digital version, I probably have it (not got Space Hulk Ascension yet...)

I get games from here.
I read reviews here.

Best regards,

Adam.

[Solecord]

I would like to get hold of:
Descent.
Relic
Dreadfleet
Settlers of Catan
Carcassonne
Doom3,Warcraft & anything by Fantasy Flight Games.

Descent is fun!

Also Carcassonne, but all of the various expansions can get confusing when you're playing with multiple expansions at once. Hard to keep track of all the various rules with each expansion. We usually play with multiple expansions, but only play the rules of a few of them - not all of 'em.

[Adam]

@Solecord
It's so well known, I feel bad for not owning Descent already!

I have played quite a bit of Carcassonne on xlive (I don't own the two expansions).


How could I forget this awesomeness :

On xlive too:

[golden_boy]

Carcassonne is pretty cool.

Pioneers is a nice software version of Settlers of Catan.

[talisa]

ooooh, settlers of catan is fun.... havent played it in years though
used to play it a lot during teenage years, one of my fave board-games ever <3

mebbe i should get a copy of it to play with family some time

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chess i also always loved, although i sadly dun have a chess-set.
been thinking about getting a set so i can perhaps teach my nephew to play when he's a bit older.

the kid seems to love board-games, his fave game being draughts which he loves to play with my sister

[ArrrCee]

My girlfriend and I play a lot of coop board games because otherwise, well, let's just say we have some blacklisted games.

We play games like Castle Panic, Pandemic, Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert. I'm sure there are more but I can't think of them at the moment.

We do play some competitive cards games, but they're just the entry level Gamewright simple ones that are quick in case we just want to play a few rounds of something. I don't think anyone here would be interested in Zues on the Loose.

[MasterSplinter]

I enjoy "Family" boardgames... one of my all time favorites is Stratego..





Bloo Rules.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

Monopoly rocks, but just takes forever.

[Legend]

I enjoy and own quite a few board/card games. Though most of the ones I own are solitaire/coop ones since most of my friends are not also into board games.

Even designed a few myself. Even one inspired by Quake.

I particularly like games by Victory Point Games. Lots of really good games from a small USA publisher for usually about half the cost of games from Fantasy Flight.

I also love more traditional games like Chess and am a rather avid fan of Poker.

Some of my favorites in general are:

Chainsaw warrior
Barbarian Prince
Darkest Night
(original) DungeonQuest
Gears of War the board game
Yggdrasil
Various games in the States of Siege series by Victory Point Games
Elder Sign
Space Hulk Death Angel
Ascension
Friday
Space Infantry
Field Commander Napoleon

To name a few

[Zop]

Now that I've played many contemporary board games, I think of Monopoly and Risk as ancient and Settlers as old. Settlers still makes a good "gateway" game, as does plain Carcassonne.

7 Wonders: I would recommend to anyone- even enthusiasts. It has a simple card-drafting design while giving many choices and strategies.

Pandemic: A cooperative board game where players try to eradicate four communicable diseases- but they just keep coming! It has a very easily adjusted difficulty, so it's playable with any group.

Battlestar Galactica: What I thought would be an awful money-grab turned out to be pretty good. This is another coop game, but it's not easy. Players have to come together to fend of disaster after disaster, losing fuel, food, people, and even morale, with the victory destination inching closer. To make matters worse, one or two players are actually traitorous alien spies, secretly working against the humans. (A simpler version of this game would be Shadows over Camelot.)

Agricola: Competitive medieval farming? This game is when you want to take it up a notch into the euro-type design of a game. The goal is to eke out every point from each of your moves, but such juicy moves will be highly contested and be made unavailable. That's right- if your neighbor has a child this round, you cannot procreate. Unfortunately, I do recommend gameplay videos, since it has a lot going on.