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July 11th, 2008, 02:17 PM
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OT: Board Games
Just curious, any Dom 3 players into board games and what do you recommend? I used to play Talsiman quite a bit back in the day, then pretty much stopped board gaming for many years, then got sucked in a few years ago with Settlers of Catan. Since then, I have had a lot of fun with some games like Puerto Rico, Battlelore, and most recently Race for the Galaxy and Space Trucker. I have always kept an eye out for fantasy war games (Battlelore for example), it being a particularly appealing genre, but haven't found much to be interesting. One game Conan Boardgame on the horizon looks good.
Happy Friday (on the US West coast anyway)!
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July 11th, 2008, 02:23 PM
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Re: OT: Board Games
hmmm if pplz could answer a related question while posting here:
what board games are nice for 2 persons (I personally think most games are only fun in multiplayer or are not for 2 pplz (catan, puerto rico, runebound etc etc etc)
plz give your 2 player answer too
Don:
I like runebound (and puerto rico and catan etc etc), though I usually can only play with 2 players.. with more players it might be more fun even though it's a bit simple and quite dependent on luck (usually that makes me discard games)
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July 11th, 2008, 02:29 PM
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Re: OT: Board Games
Quick and easy 2 player games:
a) Lost Cities (very female friendly)
b) Jambo
c) Lord of the Rings/Confrontation
D) stratego!
Brilliant 2 player strategy games:
a)Victory Games Civil War
B) many other war games, particularly double blind games like Tobruk or Market Garden.
c) squad leader
Multiplayer Board games for non-hardcore gamers:
RA: Perfect for 3 players, again very female friendly
Ticket to Ride
Citadels: Combo Card/strategy game
War of the Rings: Heard mixed things but some folks like it.
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July 11th, 2008, 02:33 PM
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Re: OT: Board Games
hoo:
Stratego is more like chess + memory I like it, but cannot get anyone to play it as I win all the time [I don't think I've lost even once in last few years].
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July 11th, 2008, 02:59 PM
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Re: OT: Board Games
Quote:
hoo said:
Quick and easy 2 player games:
a) Lost Cities (very female friendly)
b) Jambo
c) Lord of the Rings/Confrontation
D) stratego!
Brilliant 2 player strategy games:
a)Victory Games Civil War
B) many other war games, particularly double blind games like Tobruk or Market Garden.
c) squad leader
Multiplayer Board games for non-hardcore gamers:
RA: Perfect for 3 players, again very female friendly
Ticket to Ride
Citadels: Combo Card/strategy game
War of the Rings: Heard mixed things but some folks like it.
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Nice list. The wife and I play Lost Cities every night. Counting at turn end is very good for the brain too.
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July 11th, 2008, 03:11 PM
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Re: OT: Board Games
hoo: what qualifies a board game as female friendly? are some board games female antagonistic? a misogynistic board game? i don't get it.
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July 11th, 2008, 03:17 PM
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Re: OT: Board Games
i interpret hoo's comment as game's you can get your wife / gf to play with you. unless you are "lucky", it has been my experience and that of my buddies that our wives / gfs won't be too psyched to sit down for a game of Battlelore.
funny how similar people's experiences are in this as the only game i have had any traction in getting my wife to play is also Lost Cities.
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July 11th, 2008, 03:21 PM
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Re: OT: Board Games
Ive played many but my all time favorite is still
Magic Realm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Realm
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/viewitem.php3?gameid=22
Its so unfortunate that it feel just prior to the birth of computer games so that its wonderful efforts at creating a random game-board, and random placements of treasure and opponents went unnoticed. Also its a shame that its never been computerized (altho there are open source efforts along that line)
Also I loved Car Wars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Wars
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/2795
which did eventually get computerized for the Commodore. Id love to see a remake.
By the way; in the discussions of board games, links to Board Game Geek can be helpful.
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July 11th, 2008, 04:03 PM
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Re: OT: Board Games
Quote:
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hoo: what qualifies a board game as female friendly? are some board games female antagonistic? a misogynistic board game? i don't get it.
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Yeah, I've never been successful at getting women to play "Pimp Dat Ho" with me. >.>
But anyway. Is there a requirement that it be a physical board game? Because my favorite "short head to head strategy" game of all time absolutely has to be MULE, or E-hORsE or however they do it. I haven't tried that version yet (shortage of opponents to justify the cost), but if it's faithful to the original, it has everything you could want from a board game. Except no dice rolling, and no sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their heads.
Also, 3M used to make a bunch of very interesting 1v1 games that I had a blast with. For 1v1 strategy, Feudal was particularly engaging.
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