"I can't believe you're just giving him Australia. Australia is the key to the whole game!"
Posted on 02/06/2014 10:20:41 AM PST by olepap
My friends, I have been playing board games with my geeky friends for the past 2 years and it has opened up a whole new dimension in my life. These are real, physical games with real people.
Twilight Imperium is the best I have found so far, but other great games are Warparty and Avalon: The Resistance. Sometimes I leave a gaming session and my BRAIN is working overtime, planning strategies, reviewing critical moments of the game.
This is my top recommendation for you, my unknown friends: get into gaming. You can find gamers on meetup.com -Pap
Risk Rocks!
"I can't believe you're just giving him Australia. Australia is the key to the whole game!"
LOL!
Whenever I visit the family at Christmas we play “Last Night on Earth”.
IMO it’s the best Zombie game out there. It’s not particularly bloodthirsty, it’s tense and dramatic and it effortlessly engages people who don’t normally play boardgames.
Ditto that...playing Passout was the only time in my life that I drank 24 beers in one evening. 1981...I was paralyzed on my friends parents sofa, who weren’t home of course. All I remember was laying on the sofa not able to move watching some girls mother chase her daughter through the house...what a mess...good times...
I still have mine and play it now and again.
I play against demons on my Ouija board game.
In college in the 1970s I often played Risk with a few college friends. One player would win way more often than the rest of us, regardless of whether the Australia strategy was used.
Later on, the winning player went into naval officer training, rose through the ranks and was given his own ship to command.
I like to think I was part of his strategy honing skill set.
Richthofen’s War by Avalon Hill, 1972.
A Ticket to Ride
and
Carcassonne
are favorites at our house. Not hard to teach new players, and the gamss are done in an hour.
We also play Dungeons and Dragons sometimes, during school vacation periods.
we have a closet full of games and not enough time to play them.
Used to play also. My favorites were Terrible Swift Sword (Gettysburg)and Carrier War (WWII Pacific).
I have that one, plus 1776
bfl
Squad Leader....
It’s still published as Advanced Squad Leader.
PanzerBlitz/Leader. PanzerGruppe Guidarian. And don’t forget the 9 mapper War in Europe!
Best board GAME ever. Avalon Hill’s Battle of the Bulge 1965. Not good history, but, a blast to play.
There is still a large wargaming community out there!
I always liked being the Banker in Monopoly because it made it easier to embezzle.
We used to have 30-army battles over Siam. Damned right Australia was the key. Asia is tough to get and hold, but criminy! 7 armies!
I used to be a big fan of Avalon hills bookshelf games.
30 posts before Avalon Hill games mentioned?
If bro-in-law have only a few hours, AH’s Gettysburg is good fun, if we have more time the very detailed Devils Den or Bull Run might happen.
But the non-hex games they put out, specifically the game about Arnhem (Bridge too far) is my fav of all. 2 players can have opposing forces in the same zone simultaneously.
Yeah. Panzer Blitz back in the 70’s. Squad Leader. I recently played the first 3 Squad Leader scenarios with Rolf - The Guards Counterattack, The Tractor Works, and the Streets of Stalingrad. It was very intense. The poignant part? It was probably the last time I will ever play Squad Leader.
Guys, it is so great - I spend time with the boys, hootin and hollerin. My wife is thrilled with my new hobby that has nothing to do with guns, liquor, or bad women.
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