board games

[Jeff]

:in a deep duke nukem voice: "howdy"

do you play board games, personally i think they're far better than video games. imo my favourites at the moment are memoir '44 and arkham horror, also i have decided to fork over the ca$h mon£y for space hulk 3rd edition because it looks pretty friggin emotionally charged. just look at all that excitement BAM you could cut it with a lukewarm butter knife!



:duke continues: "chess and monopoly playears need not apply"

[Taco-Hero]

I can't think of anything other than the game "Trouble," where you had to get your pegs back into some row. That was fun.

[Cimmerian Nights]

Axis & Allies from back in the day.



I see it's since spawned a RTS PC version (how?) and some theater specific spinoffs, but I don't know anybody who's played them.

The PC version of the board game is pretty cool too, no setup or cleanup.

[SenisterDenister]

What edition is that? Second? I love Axis and Allies, I played it every week with some friends of mine in highschool and I brought my game with me up to college. We've actually met back up and we've played a few games so far this summer. Good game. We always play by picking armies from a hat, so we're always doing different stuff. A&A's one of those games where whenever you see people playing Risk you just think to yourself "Children, all of them."

I love traditional games though, I've never played any kind of RPG like Dungeons and Dragons but I've always kind of wanted to.

[Retlaw83]

Axis and Allies spawned one of the funniest quotes from my college days, uttered by a 6'6" massively muscled black guy:

"Gimme my $27 and I'm taking Norway!"

[SenisterDenister]

A rather infamous one from my group's is "I can afford it" even when he can't. Smart guy, just can't manage money for shit.

[Yonmanc]

I like Monopoly a lot actually and feel discriminated againt by th "need not apply" section.

[Retlaw83]

Monopoly is a game of loose and easily abused rules that allow anyone to cheat.

[SenisterDenister]

I think I can say that I've never actually completed a single game of monopoly in my life.

[Yonmanc]

Monopoly is a game of loose and easily abused rules that allow anyone to cheat.

Look, just because I loan money with interest and the game usually ends with people giving me land to pay off debts, doesn't mean it's cheating. The rulebook is for sissies.

Another fun tactic is to let a friend loan another player money, than buy the debt from them and raise the interest rates.

[Retlaw83]

Another fun tactic is to let a friend loan another player money, than buy the debt from them and raise the interest rates.

Legitimate business tactics. However, I once made the mistake of playing it with a couple, who managed to make an alliance of sorts by agreeing to sexual favors with one another every time one of them landed on the other's property.

The conniving emotional buttfuckery makes it a game for women that real men should steer clear of.

[SenisterDenister]

Monopoly is one of the few games I play and act like a completely ruthless, unforgiving, and complaining asshole. Might be why I've never finished a game.

[Retlaw83]

That behavior is best suited for the game of life.

[Dogmeatlives]

more like 'bored' games. I like Jenga

[Stainless]

Risk was probably the only boardgame that I played

[St. Toxic]

Risk was probably the only boardgame that I played

Ditto. I enjoy it to this very day.

[cazsim83]

RIsk and A&A are the only two games i still play (except for drunk Scrabble) - have a lot of fun memories of my dad playing Risk with me as a kid

I really enjoyed a few nerdy fantasy games when i was a kid - D&D stuff but far less complicated - and one that I think was called Omega Alert or something where you were an astronaut trying to escape a space station where a maniacal CPU took over

[Yonmanc]

Another fun tactic is to let a friend loan another player money, than buy the debt from them and raise the interest rates.

Legitimate business tactics. However, I once made the mistake of playing it with a couple, who managed to make an alliance of sorts by agreeing to sexual favors with one another every time one of them landed on the other's property.

The conniving emotional buttfuckery makes it a game for women that real men should steer clear of.

That sounds like a fun set-up!

[Cimmerian Nights]

What edition is that? Second?

It couldn't be, I've never seen some of those units (looks like mechanized INF, AT guns, mines, cruisers, ARTY) and nation specific fighters - at least there's a P-38 Lightning.

Honestly, I have 2nd Ed., it must be over 20 years old at this point, it's fucking worn. I notice that they've kind of relaunched the series with theater specific spin offs (D-Day, Midway etc.) but I'm couldn't be bothered at this point.

MB had some other cool games in a series at that time when A&A came out:
Fortress America was a WWIII Red Dawn type scenario where America gets triple teamed by the gookers on the west, the spics from the south and the dreaded socialists on the east coast. America get smacked around earlier on obv., but the longer they hold out the more partisan redneck yahoos they amass to their cause.

Then there was a Edo-era Japanese one called Shogun IIRC.
And a Rome themed one which I can't remember.

[King of Creation]

I picked up Scrabble the other week. That's a great replayable game.