Originally Posted by John_Wayne (Post 4786014)

Axis & Allies

Originally Posted by listopencil (Post 7734492)

We had a guy on my ship that we called "Adolph". The guy would win every game he played. It didn't matter where he started from, and we would all try to keep our eye on him, but it never worked. At one point we all sat down and just decided to knock him out. It wasn't planned. All of us just threw everything we had at him, even leaving our common borders low on troops to concentrate forces against him. We did take him out but he was so pissed off that he never played with us again.

Originally Posted by patteeu (Post 7733139)

Obviously, I don't agree.

Edit: After cursory googling, I find that there are several variations of Axis and Allies (Original, Revised, and 1942 at a minimum). It could be that you and I are talking about different versions. As far as I'm concerned, the Original version is unbalanced toward the Allies. I don't know about the other two versions.

Originally Posted by frazod (Post 7734491)

No love for Stratego? That was one of my favorites as a kid.

Originally Posted by Hydrae (Post 7734555)

Loved Stratego! I so much prefer games where luck is minimized as much as possible and this is one of the best that way. We did have a rule that you could not surround your flag with mines. Otherwise, miners became the most important pieces in many ways and that is not right for a 8.

Settlers of Catan and Smallworld are two that I have recently been introduced to. Both were quite fun. Got together with friends to play A&A 1942 a few weeks ago. It was alright but the dependence on die rolls takes away from it for me and can straight up ruin a decent strategy.

Nothing will ever beat chess though, IMO. Was the best in the high school back in the day but am nowhere near that good now, hardly ever have a chance to play and my end game sucks now.

Originally Posted by Huffmeister (Post 7735073)

I love board games, but unfortunately most of my friends don't. I have family members that like to play, but are mostly busy with family (stupid priorities! :cuss:). I wish there was a gaming store/group/club near me.

Some of my favorites are Settlers of Catan (the Cities and Knights expansion is a blast, too), Carcassone, Descent, and Trans America. I also have others that I've bought but haven't had a chance to play like Agricola and Puerto Rico.

Originally Posted by frazod (Post 7735086)

I used to play the Magic card game and really enjoyed it - then some ****ing punk broke into the storage area in the basement of my apartment building (have I ever mentioned that I hate Chicago?) and stole all my cards. I had a shoebox full of them, worth at least a couple of hundred bucks. Too much money to replace and rather pointless since I'd quit playing, so that pretty much ended my Magic experience.

I hope the one who sucks the penis that stole them is getting assraped in prison right now.

Originally Posted by NewChief (Post 7735114)

I liked it the first few years. Then they got out of hand with the expansion decks and themes and shit, and I gave it up.

One of my family friends (He's actually Peyton Hillis's cousin) was one of the inventors of M:tG and founders of Wizards of the Coast. He sold his share quite a while ago, though. I think he works in game development doing other stuff now.

Originally Posted by Backwards Masking (Post 7735223)

Yep. They made it so you spend hundreds on evey new set to get all the rares you needed to stay competitive in the standard format. That's why I alway stuck to Vintage (Type I) but they just refused to have tournatments for it (for profit reasons obviously).

Can't believe how much the old Vintage cards go for nowdays. I used to have all that stuff, sold it awhile ago. I lost thousands cause I didn't wait...

Originally Posted by 4th and Long (Post 7734719)

Blitzkrieg.

Blitzkrieg is one of Avalon Hill's earliest releases. The game is a fictional representation of the breakout of World War II. Five minor countries become engulfed in a tremendous conflict for territory waged by Great Blue and Big Red, the major countries.

Originally Posted by NewChief (Post 7735107)

I'd like to play Descent. It's, evidently, pretty involved.

Originally Posted by Huffmeister (Post 7735464)

It's pretty fun. Kind of a simplified D&D that focuses on combat, not role playing. I totally geeked out and made plaster castings for the game tiles, doors, rubble, etc that I painted and glued together. Much better than playing with the cardboard pieces.

Originally Posted by patteeu (Post 7734076)

This is kind of weird. Before today, I'd never heard of Settlers of Catan or Dominion. Both sounded interesting enough that I googled them and read about them which is something I haven't done for any other game mentioned in this thread (besides Axis and Allies which I googled to check on balance issues).

Later this afternoon, I was watching a youtube video made by a professional Starcraft player (Sean Plott from Leawood, Kansas) and he was talking about how he got into that game. During his talk, he made an offhand reference to a couple of games he used to play with his "game playing" family. Settlers of Catan and Dominion were the two he mentioned.

Originally Posted by AndChiefs (Post 7734198)

Probably the inferior opponents. I always play against the same people. We randomly assign what country we're in charge of.

Originally Posted by frazod (Post 7734491)

No love for Stratego? That was one of my favorites as a kid.

Originally Posted by ziggysocki (Post 7734910)

I like Carcassone and its various expansions... fast playing, fast played, exciting, and still very strategic. drawing tiles adds a luck element, but it doesnt determine the outcome of the game, in most cases. Great for the extremely ADD, AD/HD person like myself....

Originally Posted by Hydrae (Post 7734555)

Loved Stratego! I so much prefer games where luck is minimized as much as possible and this is one of the best that way. We did have a rule that you could not surround your flag with mines. Otherwise, miners became the most important pieces in many ways and that is not right for a 8.

Originally Posted by Huffmeister (Post 7735464)

It's pretty fun. Kind of a simplified D&D that focuses on combat, not role playing. I totally geeked out and made plaster castings for the game tiles, doors, rubble, etc that I painted and glued together. Much better than playing with the cardboard pieces.

Originally Posted by warispeace (Post 7735083)

We should start a local CP boardgame club. I would totally be down for that.

Originally Posted by Amnorix (Post 7735489)

Some games can be played online.

There is a great engine --Vassal -- that allows some games to be played online, including Age of Legends (IIRC) which is avery good game. Diplomacy and A&A can also be played online with very good, free, programs available.

Originally Posted by warispeace (Post 7735501)

Yeah, that's fun and all, but half the enjoyment from these beer & pretzel games comes from the social aspect of it. I think other games are better suited to online multiplayer.

Originally Posted by warispeace (Post 7735488)

Where do you get your molds? Literally this week I ordered some from Hirst arts and started building.

Originally Posted by Amnorix (Post 7735837)

No need to tell me -- gaming is how I socialize with guys -- instead of watching the game or playing poker or whatever, I do board games.

And I agree, it's better to board game in person, but board gaming by computer is better than not gaming at all. It can also be a venue for playing with more players than you can ever realistically get together around a table. I have no idea what age you are, but when I was in college, we could easily get 7 players for all day/night Advanced Civ (before the computer game even came out, heh). Now, it's completely impossible.

You can also play games that take far longer than people have (at my age, anyway).

Originally Posted by Huffmeister (Post 7736056)

I got my mine from Hirst. Here's a link to the project page that he put together for making the Descent board. He gives you ton of info like how many of each mold you need to cast, how to layer the paints, and even the color formula for the paint that you can take to WalMart. I'm not an artistic guy at all, but using his instructions I was able to make some pretty cool looking pieces.

http://www.hirstarts.com/cavern/descent.html

Originally Posted by Simply Red (Post 7736147)