I've heard great things about it, but it's hard finding enough people willing to try something new.

Love the game.

Best played with nerds, beer, and a an off day dedicated to play.

There are multiple variations on the original concept. Super Hero, nuclear war, etc...

Risk, monopoly, pictionary, and of course, the best board game of all? Craps

For the geeks among us, this looks like it could be good:

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6...lon-board-game

I've played Castle Ravenloft a few times, and it's pretty fun. Settlers of Catan is, of course, a classic.

Also, Wizards has out a risk-style game now called Conquest of Nerath:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/9...ath-board-game

LMAO Love you guys.

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We play Castle Ravenloft (amongst others) whenever we can't put together enough people for a real session of D&D.

Geek is the new chic. :p

I'm with it. Over the years I've been on this board I've gone from thinking the whole geek thing was an exaggerated myth to witnessing first hand that it is the real deal.
Some of you use your powers for good, some for evil.

Sorry!

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.

I've always played the original. Out of about 30 games (both Axis and Allies) I've lost once. Definitely my highest winning percentage out of any board game.

I've never really noticed many balance issues but you can certainly be screwed by bad luck.

And some work both sides of the coin.

If you've only lost once, the most likely reason is that you've played against inferior opponents (or else you've always played Allies).

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.

I always loved The Game of Life. My next favorite is Clue Great Museum Heist