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Any Freepers Play Strategy Board Games?
10/18/2020 | Rfreedom4u

Posted on 10/18/2020 12:31:05 PM PDT by rfreedom4u

Do any of our fellow Freepers play strategy board games? My brother taught me to play Alexander when I was 12 and I've been playing games ever since.

I mostly like Avalon Hill Games but also have some by GMT and SPI.

It's also possible to play these via email and online through various platforms.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Hobbies; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: boardgames; games; strategy
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My all-time favorite is Advanced Third Reich by Avalon Hill. It can be combined with Empire of the Rising Sun for a Global War!
1 posted on 10/18/2020 12:31:05 PM PDT by rfreedom4u
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To: rfreedom4u

Loved that game.


2 posted on 10/18/2020 12:32:45 PM PDT by ealgeone
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But do you still play?


3 posted on 10/18/2020 12:33:31 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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I played Diplomacy, Risk, Dungeons and Dragons, and our own made-up war game with hex paper on a 6x4 foot piece of cardboard. All in high school 48 years ago.


4 posted on 10/18/2020 12:33:55 PM PDT by Forgiven_Sinner (Seek you first the kingdom of God, and all things will be given to you.)
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To: rfreedom4u

Acquire and Rail Baron are absorbing. And they only take 90 minutes to 2 hours.


5 posted on 10/18/2020 12:34:23 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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My all-time favorite is Advanced Third Reich by Avalon Hill.

Wasn't "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" advanced enough? 90 pages of 8 1/2" x 11" instructions in 6 point type.
6 posted on 10/18/2020 12:35:12 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: rfreedom4u

Been a while. Marriage, kids, work.....


7 posted on 10/18/2020 12:35:44 PM PDT by ealgeone
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I play the baby games like Risk and Monopoly.


8 posted on 10/18/2020 12:35:49 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: rfreedom4u

Chess. But 2D only.


9 posted on 10/18/2020 12:36:18 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: Forgiven_Sinner

Diplomacy is the ultimate game if one is into back stabbing treachery. :)


10 posted on 10/18/2020 12:36:27 PM PDT by xp38
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To: rfreedom4u

tripleA can be played online and via email.


11 posted on 10/18/2020 12:36:46 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: rfreedom4u

We play Scrabble.


12 posted on 10/18/2020 12:36:50 PM PDT by DFG
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To: ealgeone

Gotta come down eventually :) I’ve been saving mine.


13 posted on 10/18/2020 12:37:24 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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To: rfreedom4u

We are a board game family. We are playing lots of Pandemic and Agricola lately.


14 posted on 10/18/2020 12:37:26 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (COMDEMS would rather rule over a pile of ashes, than lose to Trump and REAL Americans)
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To: rfreedom4u

Chess, Risk, used to be a DM back in the day.

Still play chess. Taught my kids how to play.


15 posted on 10/18/2020 12:37:54 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....)
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To: ealgeone

Pandemic is our favorite game, even though it is a real life issue right now...One of the few table games in which players play as a team against the game....we like the Spain/Portugal version.


16 posted on 10/18/2020 12:38:12 PM PDT by princess leah (Princess Leah)
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To: rfreedom4u

I played Avalon Hill and SPI games as a boy, but very seldom in later years.


17 posted on 10/18/2020 12:38:56 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: rfreedom4u

Go, mostly online, as there few player near me.


18 posted on 10/18/2020 12:39:00 PM PDT by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: VeniVidiVici

True....I still have the games.


19 posted on 10/18/2020 12:39:07 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: rfreedom4u

Panzer Blitz
Haven’t played since college, 38 years ago.


20 posted on 10/18/2020 12:39:10 PM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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