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If some of you play board game, tell me which games that you play. I need some new recommendations /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />Here are some games that I really like. You may enjoy them as well. I did not include the classics like Chess, Monopoly, checker etc.. You guys probably already know them. sizeo:6/sizeoSettler of Catansizec/sizecGame style: City building, strategy competitive gameSome says this is the Monopoly of our time. Settler of Catan is the most popular non-classic game. If you are a board game player, you should have played this game. Players build city, defend them, trade and steal resources with other players. The best builder who get 10 point first is the winner. Settler of Catan is easy to learn and easy to play. It has lot of strategy; yet, with the randomness of the dice, new comers can beat veterans with some luck. Very fun game, recommended with 3 player and above.sizeo:6/sizeoArkham Horrorsizec/sizecGame style: Co-operative game, Fantasy Horror Setting, 1 to 4 playersArkham Horror is a co-operative board game.The setting is based on HP Lovecraft's Cthulu Universe. However, you don't need to read the books to enjoy the game. You and other players each control an Investigator in the Town of Arkham. Gates to the other worlds are opened everywhere and you are trying to fight monster, seal the gate and bandish the super powerful "Ancient Ones". The game is hard and the setting make for very tense and exciting games. You can fight monster, require helps from town folks, become the police, collect items and spell, seal gates and fight the Ancient One. The re playability is amazing since the game come with over 700 components and lot and lot of cards. Just look at the picture! There are also several expansions for this game. It is alway better to have some one to play with. However, this one of the the few board games that you can play solo and still have a blast. Try to resist the urge to cheat when you play solo tho.sizeo:6/sizeoGhost Storiessizec/sizecGame style: Co-operative game, Fantasy Horror Setting, 1 to 4 playersAnother horror fantasy game? /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" /> You can tell I really love those. Ghost stories is like a toned down version of Arkham horror with Asian setting. Like Arkham horror, the game is extremely hard and intense. Players plays as Taolists and you need to defend the town from ghostly invasion. There are lot of strategy in this game even with the dice rolls. You will need perfect teamwork with other players in order to beat the ghosts. This game is most fun when played with 2 or 3 players. Again, there is an option for solo play; however, compared to Arkham horror's solo, it is less interesting because there is less cards and special abilities. This game take much less time to set up and play tho. You can problably finish a game in an hours (compared to 4-5 hours when play Arkham horror).Overall, really exciting game if you have another buddy to play w
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Well, while I definitely play video games more (edit: nearly always), not only do your board games sound interesting, but I have one (later, several) to share as well.sizeo:5/sizeoAxis And Allies (1940 Editions)sizec/sizecThis game, based on the epic battles of WWII, is quite simply, the longest board game I have ever played! It features up to 6 players (over the factions U.S./France (usually by the same player, since France dies off so early), the United Kingdom (includes Canada), the U.S.S.R., Italy, Germany, in the Europe 1940 side, and adding more U.S. and U.K. forces, along with Japan and ANZAC as a part of Pacific 1940. Both of these board games (which are stand-alone) can be merged to gain a board that is around 5.9 ft by 2.6 ft. It has rules for plenty of special situations (bombardment for amphibious landings, research and development, liberation, Pro-Axis/Pro-Allied neutral territories, etc.)If you intend to play this, however, make sure you have a good amount of time to play! My first game (with me as Axis and my enemy as the entire Allied Nations in Europe only, thankfully (not wanting to have even more fronts to protect!) took . It is pretty awesome, however, and one more thing: France is a pain when it takes twice as many units as it should, to the point where the U.S.S.R. was in the war before I finished off France.I just got Axis and Allies: 1918, so I'll write a review once I get a chance to play it, hopefully I won't get myself into a 3 1/2 year war of attrition...As a major update to this, I semi(?)recently got Tabletop Simulator (TTS) on Steam, which is a great way to actually find people who I can play it with! Some awesome things on it include:Twilight StruggleA game about the Cold War and the political war between the USA and USSR. I've only played two games of it so far (winning by USSR Automatic Victory the first time, and losing by the same the second time. CURSE YOU "WE WILL BURY YOU" EVENT!), but from what I've played, it captures the theme quite well. Both superpowers fight for influence in each region of the world through the Early War, Mid War, and Late War, by using their cards for their Events (Such as "Nixon Plays The China Card", "Quagmire", "East European Unrest", or the mentioned "'We Will Bury You'"), or using their Operations value to place influence, conduct coup attempts, or attempt to realign the nations of the world with slightly less direct means. It's a fascinating 2 player game and after the first play of it it's definitely one of my favourites on TTS. Going to keep adding to this as I actually get around to playing more of the ones I have subscribed to.New additions:Eldritch Horror!Pretty much what An said about Arkham, only in a global setting this time. Only played one game so far via Tabletop Simulator... the world really didn't stand a chance to Yog ><Really awesome to play, though I'd suggest getting at least 4 people for it, and don't expect to win....There's also an equal amount of replay value to the original at least, thanks to the number of Ancient Ones, Encounters, and other things added in the expansion, plus the variety of Investigators you can choose from. Going to write a thing on Android Netrunner later on once I get a few more matches in...Android Netrunner time!Android Netrunner is an asymmetrical card game where one player is the Corporation, attempting to advance their agendas, and the other is the Runner, who attempts to expose the Corporation's agendas. With two victory conditions on either side - either reaching the necessary 7* Agenda Points worth of scored/stolen agendas, or flatlining the runner (for Corp)/forcing the corp to draw when they have no deck left (Runner) - there is a lot of variety in deckbuilding, which is helped significantly by the even greater variety in card choices.The corporation spends the game creating, filling, and defending their Central (HQ, your hand; R&D, your draw pile; Archives, your discard) servers and Remotes (where you install Assets and Agendas) from the Runner, who can attack everything you have to attempt to trash cards or steal agendas.On the Corp side of things, your deck is filled with Agendas (with a minimum so that both sides can win), Assets (which provide continuing benefits depending on the Asset), Operations (one-shot events), Upgrades (which make servers stronger in various ways), and ICE (which protects servers); for Runner, you have Icebreakers (countermeasure to ICE), Events (equivalent to Operations), Resources (similar to Assets), and Hardware (which - usually passively - upgrades your capabilities). From these, you need to prepare to defend your servers so you can advance and score agendas as Corp, or break through and steal them as Runner - with the caution of being wary of traps that the Corp can prepare. The many expansions later add additional things to consider such as Currents (events/operations that remain in play for their effect until another one is played or the opposing side scores), additional minor Runner factions with their own style of winning, and many more options.Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game(Going to avoid spoilers as much as I possibly can while still describing the series.)An incredibly amazing board game based on the newer version of the TV series, BSGTBG is a hidden traitor game that has the humans attempt to keep the fleet intact and well supplied as it performs FTL jumps towards the destination of choice (Kobol, in the base game, though expansions each add another destination). Especially with the expansions, you have access to many of the iconic characters, such as Commander Adama, Apollo, Starbuck, Boomer, Helo, Chief, Roslin, Baltar, each with advantages and disadvantages based on their character from the series, alongside special Miracle abilities that can be (usually) used once per game. Of course, some of the players in the game are not who they appear to be, and are actually hidden Cylons attempting to sabotage the fleet from within. Even without dealing with them, every player must deal with a Crisis (which all players can play in to) representing moments from the series.Particularly after every player gets additional loyalty cards at the "Sleeper" phase (usually at the halfway mark to a destination), everyone may end up tangled in a web of deceit and constantly accuse each other of being the hidden Cylon(s), trying to identify the real ones before they manage to perform something drastic, such as taking the Presidency of the 12 Colonies or becoming the Admiral and gaining massive amounts of power to further their aims. Even if not, sabotaged skill checks, leading civilian ships into the paths of Raiders, or sending Viper MkIIs to their destruction (or simply to where they cannot protect civilians) can all hinder the fleet significantly. On the other hand, a Cylon who is outed still has options, as they can Reveal to get access to special Cylon locations and Supercrisis cards, representing incredibly dangerous threats to the fleet that can use up immense amounts of skill cards to pass. Although I haven't played it with more than 3 people total yet (the usually recommended figure is 5 or perhaps 6), it's easily one of the most interesting board games I've played, and I'd highly recommend it (and if you have Tabletop Simulator on Steam, join the group! I'd love to play this with more peop