Another effort to entice subsimmer forummers to board gaming

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I'm now more interested in board games than in traditional PC games. I've found most PC games now to be a bit boring and most fail to entice tension anymore(with restart, poor AI, poor realism, lack of tactical depth, etc) thus ripping out the enjoyment. The poor AI is what really ruin most PC games among other things for single player experience while minimum player to player interaction is what brings down the multiplayer aspect of PC games.

In board gaming you'll have neither of these. The opponents are as good as you can find them. There's no restart(what's that anyway?!) so every decision matters. And no you can't cheat either or set the difficulty level to easy. There's only one difficulty in these, the person neuron pathways sitting next or across you. And you can chat, you WILL laugh and you will feel the tension growing before you snatch that victory and claim the victor. And it feels good when you actually win(Come on do you feel good when defeating the AI for the 1000th time because it's at disadvantage compared to your zillions neurons?)

The drawback is finding the time as most the game I recommend would easily take 3-4 hours and it's quite difficult to gather 4-5 people in person that long periodically. But many great board games only need two.

Some of board game titles that I recommend

Battlestar Galactica(roleplaying, cooperative, 2 team one team is hidden-cylon). Solo-6 players(Solo-2 with updated official rules)
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37111

Twilight struggle deluxe edition(Cold war has never been hotter because there's only FUN and no casualties in this one!). 2 players
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12333

Shogun(Neuron charging if played against good players, NO DICE for any purpose whatsoever). 3-5 players
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/20551

War of the Ring(The definitive Lord of the ring on the table). 2 players
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/9609

A most dangerous time. Japan in chaos 1570-1584(For feudal Japan historian buffs or enthusiasts). 2 players
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/27969

And if that is not enough you could play online with these board games
http://www.vassalengine.org/communit...yAll&Itemid=30

Just download the Vassal software and download the module of your favorite games.

These are not ladders and chutes or monopoly or even risk or even chess(How I hate chess that abstract game which is just that PURE GAME) kind of game. and Poker...what's that let's play Shogun with bets lol

And while no one gets smarter playing console and PC games, they do playing boardgames at least the right ones(though most are mainly for fun and would not be so engaging for the neurons). So charge those neurons and make pathways to a more efficient tactical and strategic thinking and have FUN .

Who says weekends are expensive?
Who says you can't have fun if you stay at home?
These are perfect to be played with family members! Your son, daughter, wife and husband. Get Dad and Mom too, uncle and auntie, niece, and nephew. Or get your best friends.




PS: I'm looking for online player for Twilight struggle and A most dangerous time though currently not familiar with either rules(though both rule pdfs are already downloaded just not read through). If you like either and willing to teach me feel free to PM me so we can set our game and time.