Okay I admit now I'm hooked to BOARDGAMING. Lol

[Castout]

I've even cut back my PC gaming time and instead been playing board game. Yes board game. It's so fun and addictive!

My first boardgame is Shogun a re-implement of an older game called Wallenstein. And it is a terrific game! I would recommend Shogun(from Queen games) to anyone especially those who like a thinking game and those who like medieval japan setting :). The game takes about 3 hours to finish. And when we first played it, it took 4.5 hours excluding the time needed to explain the rules.

I can't wait for Saturday to come so that me and some friends could play Shogun again!

Right now I'm interested in getting Arkham Horror :hmmm:.
Board gaming rocks provided you have the right board game!
I thought I would share my new enthusiasm with you people here :yep:. Please try a board game. Pick one that you think you're going to love! Do some research or even play test some of them before buying and when you do find your board game it will be terrific!

[Castout]

If you think that the era of personal computer and internet would kill boardgaming you're wrong. I'm well aware that every boardgame could be well implemented as a PC game. And the abstractions in this day of 3D gaming would gain a huge boost if they were implemented as PC game but they are just not the same.

There's something in boardgaming that tend to captivate you. Perhaps it ws the atmosphere or the social interaction, the laughs, the jokes, or having to see your opponent facial expression all throughout the game. In all it's more fun to play a good board game than to play a PC game be it singly or in multiplayer.

The only thing that put obstacles to boardgaming is the level of detail abstraction. It's impossible to make a 'true' simulation boardgaming. Boardgaming has a limited level of abstraction set by the size of the board and the number of objects to be used and the number of rules to be followed.

My 2 cents anyway ;)

[porphy]

Boardgaming is a blast! And a very nice way to meet with friends a few hours.

Right now I'm interested in getting Arkham Horror

You really should, especially if you even remotely like the Cthulhu mythos and Lovecraft. Also, I like cooperative games, and the odds are really stacked against your group in this one! If you like it you have have 3 big expansions and thre small ones to cut into. By then the game will be huge. :yep:

I recently got Twilight Struggle, but havn't tried it yet, although it ranks high on boradgamegeek.com.

cheers porphy

[Castout]

Well I'm a total newb in boardgaming

Arkham Horror is on the next to get list after Shogun which I just bought a week earlier.

I like the idea that the odds are stacked against me and that it's a cooperative gaming and who doesn't want to save the world from monsters anyway:DL.

[Melonfish]

these are actual boardgames rather then roleplay is that right?
how does that work? i've done all sorts of tabletop gaming before now and me and the guys did stacks of Call of Cthulhu gaming (in the woods around a camp fire to boot!)
pete

[Raptor1]

It's a shame I can hardly find anybody to play ridiculously complicated wargames with anymore...

[Castout]

Hmm I can only comment on Shogun for now. Yes Shogun is a boardgame in which each player for a maximum number of 5 takes the role of a medieval japanese warlord which was called Daimyo. The emphasis is partly on building and partly on combat. But it is most definitely a strategic game not a tactical one so combat is done strategically not on tactical level. I would recommend it to just about anyone who likes medieval japan theme. :yeah:. It's ranked in the lower 20s out of hundreds of other boardgames in boardgeek forum. The definitive baodr game centre on the internet.

as for Arkham Horror I've seen positive reviews of it. It's a popular game too. The art is quite astonishing so I read. It's ranked in the mid 50s in the boardgeek forum.

And women love boardgames! So if you're a family guy boardgaming is a great and less expensive way to spend your golden family time together.

[Castout]

It's a shame I can hardly find anybody to play ridiculously complicated wargames with anymore...

Really? I've found 7 people to play Shogun on weekly basis. Once they played once they are all hooked! They all like it. They too never played a complicated boardgame as Shogun before and it's actually not complicated once you understand the mechanics. But I think there are probably many war games which are a lot more complicated than Shogun.

[Task Force]

It's a shame I can hardly find anybody to play ridiculously complicated wargames with anymore...

same here... people around here are more than happy to just glue themselfs to a Xbox... which... I find boreing...

[Sailor Steve]

I've been playing tabletop miniatures games for more than 30 years now. My boardgaming is limited, but I once participated in a game of World In Flames. WW2, with eight players, and everything from army-level combat to political decisions, including the Axis trying to keep America out of the war for as long as possible.

Now THAT was a boardgame!:rock:

[Raptor1]

Really? I've found 7 people to play Shogun on weekly basis. Once they played once they are all hooked! They all like it. They too never played a complicated boardgame as Shogun before and it's actually not complicated once you understand the mechanics. But I think there are probably many war games which are a lot more complicated than Shogun.

Unfortunately I can't find 7 people who even know the meaning of 'counter-battery fire', let alone willing to play a game that includes something that goes by that name.

I think the last good boardgame I played (Besides the usual Chess and such) was right here on these forums.

[Arclight]

Try getting a party together for a game of D&D nowadays. :shifty:

Not exactly boardgame, but still tabletop. :)

[porphy]

Try getting a party together for a game of D&D nowadays. :shifty:

You have to lure them to the game with beer and crisps :DL

[Raptor1]

You have to lure them to the game with beer and crisps :DL

Which is why every D&D game has to begin in the tavern...

[Oberon]

I'd love to get a boardgame wargame going but well, I face the same problem as TF and Stal-erm-Raptor.

[goldorak]

I used to play boardgames, mostly those of Avalon Hill Games some years ago (likely 20 years ago :haha:).
I had Central America the United States' backyar war, Sixth Fleet, and one about WWII dogfighting and one about Nato/Warsaw conflict.
My favourite was Central America, I have never seen since then a war game as complex tactically and strategically as that one.
This is one board game I would love to have a computer version of. :D

[Arclight]

You have to lure them to the game with beer and crisps :DLWhich is why every D&D game has to begin in the tavern...A dime bag used to do the trick, but then I couldn't get them out of the pub anymore. :D

Usually they didn't get further than the market to shop for better gear. :nope: :rotfl:

[Raptor1]

Stal-erm-Raptor.

That's Marshal Raptov to you, fascist!

[Castout]

I see most people are having trouble finding the people to play with . . . why don't start with your girlfriend and relatives and wife and kids(12 and up)? Or even with your parents! Start with those people you're closest with then start with your closest people's best friends then go to closest people's best friend's friend. And on and on and on!:D

Seriously board gaming could be a lot more fun than PC gaming!

Of course you need to find the time to play together for about 3-4 hours! or 1-2 depending on the board game.
Play with the ambient light say if you're playing a horror board game such as Arkham Horror. Play some easy music to go with the game. As for me no food in game. I want to preserve my gaming bits and cards lol. But we do have breaks with snacks.

[eddie]

I started out with the Avalon Hill series also, at least those games could still fit on a table! I then got interested in the "Europa" series for WWII,lol I want to say TSR made it, but frankly, I don't remember now. You would buy the original game, then add on the newer modules. Poland was first, then onto the invasion of the Low Country's and France. But the next beast with that series, was "Fire in the East", Germany's invasion of Russia. Talk about a "Monster" game in scope, and size. By the time you had the whole Europa series, the map was 9 feet by 5 feet. Over 9,000 counters, and all the extra counters you needed so you could tell who was in or out of supply, etc. Plus several notebooks to keep records of who moved and when. Glad there is a pc version of that now days,lol

But, one board game that I miss playing against friends was Risk. Had plenty of good times with it, sure miss those days!

[Castout]

Unfortunately I can't find 7 people who even know the meaning of 'counter-battery fire', let alone willing to play a game that includes something that goes by that name.

I think the last good boardgame I played (Besides the usual Chess and such) was right here on these forums.

Of course you need to pick a board theme which is generally acceptable among the people you're planning to play with.

First try to involve them in your buying decision such as your wife and kids and or parents:03:. Get them to give you a general consensus in which games to buy that you ALL are interested in playing.

Second find a theme that's generally acceptable to all in your list. History and horror are two themes that's generally acceptable to all people. Wargaming however tend to contain a lot of remote jargon to those unfamiliar with the territory so unless you could explain these jargon in lay man terms and unless the people agree to invest some time in learning these you might want to avoid getting a war game which contains a lot of alien jargon :DL.

[porphy]

Diplomacy (diceless strategy and rhetoric in the WWI) and Junta (like evil monopoly in a fictitious central American location, no hands barred) are great boardgames as well. But be warned, you might need to apply some "diplomacy" among the playing group after a session, especially if the backstabbing has been really bad... :D If you can get a full house with players these games are fantastic.

I remeber once when I was president in Junta. There was a revolution against my fine administration, which I was able to put down with some help of another player. The rules says the president has the right to shoot anyone, and confiscate all their money after surviving a coup. I of course shot the player who helped me out, as he had the most money to grab. The look on his face was priceless! "you can't do that", "yes, I can". "Nooo... but" I don't think he ever recovered from that lesson in machiavellianism :)


cheers porphy

[Castout]

Size yea that one is a problem too

The breakfast table was occupied and dinner table is always full of work file clutter, the living room table is not big enough neither is the family room table.
So I thought of this. It would have to do. Or we would have to host the game at someone else place next time.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/roh_kudus/BedTable.jpg

At the start of our 2nd meet. I'm not in the picture as it was me who was taking the picture.

And Arkham Horror is not smaller either probably it's going to take even more space. We could play on the floor but that's not going to be comfortable for a 4 hour game.