The Board Game Thread
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Eldritch Horror; more for the people I play with than the game itself.
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@ThatGuyThere When I was in high school I was part of a little group that played Axis and Allies at least once a week. We always played the same countries, and when we were playing, we would sort of...roleplay the countries, with accents and affectations like we were in some kind of weird Hetalia LARP.
I was always Holy Mother Russia.
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My bestie in Jr. High and High School had all the expansions for Talisman, so we'd play that a LOT.
These days I'm loving Battlestar Galactica/Shadows of Camelot depending if I'm in the mood for sci-fi or fantasy.
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@SG I always had to be the...Sorceress? Enchantress? I forget, whenever I played Talisman in my younger days.
When Battlestar Orion had their big meetup a couple of years ago, we modified the Werewolves and Villagers game into Cylons and Colonials.
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
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@Cupcake Do you mean the Prophetess? We usually had to discard that character because she would always win, getting 2 adventure cards and picking one was way OP.
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Only one? I have ones that would be my favorites IF I could find more people willing to slog through the older games. I love Swords and Sorcery by SPI designed by Greg Costikyan.
The seven player Dark Lord scenario is the bomb but I've actually played that one with seven players once. The scenario I've played the most is the three player send up of the Russian Civil War with the Orcish Revolutionary Coalition (the O.R.C.) and the Revolutionary Provisional Government of the Orcs (RPGO) fighting the established Orish Monarch over New Orc City. A favorite puns and all but I don't get to play it ENOUGH to qualify as my absolute favorite.
Probably of larger games that I get to play regularly it would be Shadows Over Camelot excepting the game is a bit formulaic after awhile. Ticket to Ride for 'true' family night when my brother and sister visit because it's quick, holds attention, and has a lot more strategy than might initially appear at first glance.
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Qwirkle?
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@bored said in The Board Game Thread:
I really love pretty much all of the Mafia/Werewolf inheritors, and SoC and Resistance are great ways of boiling down the concept into something a little faster and more gamified. If you haven't seen it, you might also look at Salem (the kickstartered card game, not the computerized Werewolf/Mafia Town of Salem, although it obviously applies too). It takes the traitor concept but also creates a card game out of accusations etc.
Have you ever tried Dark Moon? That's probably the most fun I've had with a similar concept. Add dice rolls, tasks, a timer, and horrible attempts at Russian accents.
(That's also probably my pick for favorite, BTW.)
I also really enjoy Spyfall , because it is suuuuuper simple and hilarious.
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Thank you for this thread. I just bought two of these:
so I have been on the lookout to expand my game library. This has given me some really great recommendations!
I love Betrayal at the house on the hill. I own that, and it's expansion.
I've also dived head first into Imperial Assault, and am looking to get into X-wing and Star Wars: Legion. Picked up the new Conan board game as well recently.
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@SG Yep! I am not going to deny I was being a brat at the time.
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I've played Talisman more recently and liked it better, but I played it once as a teenager and it frustrated me so much I refused to touch it for many, many years.
But it was in that category of 'played it with people who knew it way better and they only vaguely explained it and massively abused my being new to the game.'
It's no fun losing a game badly and having people take advantage of the fact while laughing at you. I still hate Starcraft for that reason.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@Auspice Geezis, Talisman can be bad for that reason. The experienced players can easily make it 2 hours (3-4 with expasions!) of complete misery for a newcomer. The game endorses being cut throat but I've been in games where people that know the tricks and whatnot seem to take almost sadistic pleasure on getting one over on someone.
Going back to the SPI/Avalon Hill games, I will totally reset counters back if someone makes a horrible move, realizes it after my turn demonstrates it or didn't know such and such would be an outcome because they're new to the rules. The games take forever, the learning curve can be harsh when getting this zone of control thing down, so why make the game a misery because they're learning? And it leads to exactly that. You refused to play it again forever and they lost a player.
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I think after the third time I'd lost a life and still had no idea what was going on and they were still just going 'Well, just figure it out!', I refused to play anymore.
I've played the online one now a few times (via Steam) and I 'sort of' get it now. I even have a few copies I could give away to people, I think. But yeah, I'm still not really a big fan overall. I can definitely point to that game as to why I don't like playing a game without reading through the book, even if I'm with people who will explain it.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@Cobaltasaurus said in The Board Game Thread:
Qwirkle?
The absolute best abstract game ever.
No, that doesn’t go to Go or Chess.
Tsuro is almost as good as Quirkle; it is shorter but more cutthroat.
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I would like to correct my Favorite 6+ Player Game to Small World.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
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I rarely play board games but this is from reddit today...
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@Auspice Ugh, there's so many tricks and optimization in Talisman. Stuff I picked up from other players and being on the receiving end as I didn't figure it out on my own. I like the game but I also find that I don't really mourn my copy that was loaned out and never returned. Fair trade I guess as I borrowed DungeonQuest and have played that game a lot more.
I will confess I had one of my favorite game moments with Small World, gypsies, my refusal to put them into decline, and treating it as a war game with another player. We had fun, lost, wrecked each other but did not wreck the other player's fun. Good times.
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@Cupcake
<grins> I thought I was the only one who semi-RPed while playing board games. I tended to play Britain and I would drive the Russian player crazy since I would never move the fighter from UK to help defend Russia, because my logic was Churchill would never have done that. -
I don't just roleplay in strategy games; I roleplay in all board games.
I played Above and Below a few months back, and I made it my mission to enslave and use up all fish person labor. Forget winning. The fish people must be enslaved. I'd pay the highest cost to buy them even if they were inferior laborers.
Winning isn't as important as playing to a theme.
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It's hard to pick an all time favorite, but our current favorite is 'Puerto Rico'.
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If you have a good 6 hours, Talisman (if you have a couple expansions, main game prolly take less).
If you have less, Frag.
Avalon is good if you like card games. If the personality is right, Cards Against Humanity can be fun too.
