Another attempt [again] to sway people to board games

[SteamWake]

Does DnD count

[AVGWarhawk]

We still play board games as a family. We have several different Monoply sets with different themes. The Game of Life. The Pirates game of Life. Sorry! The list goes on. Board games are still fun as heck at my ranch.

[Sailor Steve]

I never really got into board games as such, but tabletop miniatures have dominated my life for thirty years or more.

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Does DnD count

Of course not! That's just geeky.

[Castout]

Originally Posted by TarJak

Of course not! That's just geeky.

He meant Dinner and Dance ya know that stupid college thing.

But if not









Not my cup of tea at least not yet but perhaps it's to some other people though I do have War of the Ring(LotR themed) and have Arkham Horror on order. Both have excellent arts and theme imo though not D&D

Cautionary note: Do not lick your monitor if you happen to be using CRT type of monitor, wouldn't want to electrocute your tongue would you?!

[Sailor Steve]

Lol. I quit playing D&D about the time it became a board game. Or at least about the time Official Rules were first published.

[SteamWake]

I still play table top with a group with gasp two women

One of em is my wife

Current campaign has been going on for several years. The DM is actually quite talented and sometimes we bend the rules to keep things moving.

But they are good friends and we enjoy the company as much as anything else.

[Penguin]

What is the name of the game in post #2, pics 2 and 3? It looks like some kind of cold-war-risk, judging from the board.


Has anyone ever tried 'Junta'? http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/242/junta Besides it being a boardgame, I think it has a very big roleplay part in it. This is the type of game you want to play if you have too many friends and want to get rid of some... Definitely not a game for every week, as we sometimes still argue after years about betrayal and backstabbings - and if you play good you cannot avoid to play like this. The most important rule, even written in the manual: "Always remember: it's only a game!"

[Castout]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

I still play table top with a group with gasp two women

One of em is my wife

Current campaign has been going on for several years. The DM is actually quite talented and sometimes we bend the rules to keep things moving.

Current campaign has been going on for several years?! Talk about commitment. You're a very lucky guy to be able to play with your life long partner

Originally Posted by SteamWake

But they are good friends and we enjoy the company as much as anything else.

Yea that is what made board gaming so much fun in the first place as you get many moments to remember from each other sharing those laughter and those silly moments.

Originally Posted by Penguin

What is the name of the game in post #2, pics 2 and 3? It looks like some kind of cold-war-risk, judging from the board.

Twilight Struggle. It's a game of cold war. It's very popular too.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardga...light-struggle

"Now the trumpet summons us again, not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are – but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle..."
– John F. Kennedy
In 1945, unlikely allies toppled Hitler's war machine, while humanity's most devastating weapons forced the Japanese Empire to its knees in a storm of fire. Where once there stood many great powers, there then stood only two. The world had scant months to sigh its collective relief before a new conflict threatened. Unlike the titanic struggles of the preceding decades, this conflict would be waged not primarily by soldiers and tanks, but by spies and politicians, scientists and intellectuals, artists and traitors. Twilight Struggle is a two-player game simulating the forty-five year dance of intrigue, prestige, and occasional flares of warfare between the Soviet Union and the United States. The entire world is the stage on which these two titans fight to make the world safe for their own ideologies and ways of life. The game begins amidst the ruins of Europe as the two new "superpowers" scramble over the wreckage of the Second World War, and ends in 1989, when only the United States remained standing.
Twilight Struggle inherits its fundamental systems from the card-driven classics We the People and Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage. It is a quick-playing, low-complexity game in that tradition. The game map is a world map of the period, whereon players move units and exert influence in attempts to gain allies and control for their superpower. As with GMT's other card-driven games, decision-making is a challenge; how to best use one's cards and units given consistently limited resources?
Twilight Struggles' Event cards add detail and flavor to the game. They cover a vast array of historical happenings, from the Arab- Israeli conflicts of 1948 and 1967, to Vietnam and the U.S. peace movement, to the Cuban Missile Crisis and other such incidents that brought the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation. Subsystems capture the prestige-laden Space Race as well as nuclear tensions, with the possibility of game-ending nuclear war.
A deluxe edition, published in 2009 includes the following changes from the basic game:

• Mounted map with revised graphics
• Two double-thick counter sheets with 260 counters
• Deck of 110 event cards (increased from 104)
• Revised rules and player aid cards

Upgrade kit for the owners of the previous version includes the following:

• Mounted Map with revised graphics
• New card deck
• Updated Rules & Charts

There are also the deluxe mounted map and deluxe euro-style countersheet upgrades.

As for the game to lose some friends I'd suggest diplomacy. Just google it. It's JFK's favorite board game...and Henry Kissinger's too. It a !@#!@!%!@$!!@^* evil piece of $@!^%#^@#%$!@#

[raymond6751]

What was old is new again.

Some folks used to enjoy just imagination play, as in text-based adventures. Remember the bulletin board systems?

For those who can't sit for hours around a table game, I offer play by email. You can do email on your own schedule, and so can all the other players.

[Castout]

I don't mean to beat a dead horse but wondering did anybody go and buy a boardgame because of this thread?

We played several games of Arkham Horror during the Ramadan holiday one of which a back to back 6 hour session because the guys were prevented from leaving due to heavy down pour in the night. Though I must say the game is not as much fun as say Battle Star Galactica that encourages people to convince other players and creates all sort of funny moments, it worked well enough with my gaming group which prefers co-operative gaming than competitive. Arkham horror is almost like a D&D game just replaces all those monster with demons which already look more like monsters anyway.

Here's a picture of one of the session(I'm not in it as I was the one taking the picture)

Arkham Horror game session creeping into the night . . . .a 3 hour fight against a super bad demon that's about to wake up in the town of Arkham.


I really wish people willing to give board game a try especially to play with spouse or senior parents or family. Don't use time as an excuse. People can make time when they want it.

Here's a cheer to gaming that actually builds relationships
When the last time you shared a laugh with the ones you love?!

[Flaxpants]

Well this thread has inspired me to dig out some of my old board games again, most of them around 25 years old. I managed to find a couple of old Games Workshop games, Apocalypse and Warrior Knights. The latter is excellent, based on the old Kingmaker game. All I have to do now is find some players.....