• Posts: 592
  • Tag points: 8

Topic: top 5 favourite board games!

I'm building a boardgame library, and wanted some thoughts about boardgames

current favourites:
1. Power Grid
2. Catan
3. Pandemic
4. Bang
5. Mage Knight


how about you

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness

                          -2 Corinthians 12:9

0 Dislike 0 Post Points

  • Posts: 2,791
  • Tag points: 185

Re: top 5 favourite board games!

guess i haven't played many, all I can think of is Risk

Battleshots (a drinking game) if you wanna count that

Got a few bucks?  The Imperial Tip Jar is accepting contributions!

0 Dislike 0 Post Points

  • Posts: 592
  • Tag points: 8

Re: top 5 favourite board games!

You should play more, I think you would enjoy it!

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness

                          -2 Corinthians 12:9

0 Dislike 0 Post Points

  • Posts: 14,366
  • Tag points: 68

Re: top 5 favourite board games!

Avalon Hill "Panzer Leader"
Risk
Clue
Diplomacy (if you can get enough people)
Chess?

and about 30 years ago I had a weird game with DC superheros and villains, and the game map was the roof of a skyscraper, and the whole point was to get the other team in between you and the edge, and then shove them off the roof to their deaths.

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

0 Dislike 0 Post Points

  • Posts: 592
  • Tag points: 8

Re: top 5 favourite board games!

Thanks yell, I remember that game too!

have you played any of the new gen games?

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness

                          -2 Corinthians 12:9

0 Dislike 0 Post Points

  • Posts: 7,941
  • Tag points: 14

Re: top 5 favourite board games!

Risk
Battletech (old school)
Monopoly
Dungeons and Dragons (2nd Edition)
Clue

Everything bad in the economy is now Obama's fault. Every job lost, all the debt, all the lost retirement funds. All Obama. Are you happy now? We all get to blame Obama!
Kemp currently not being responded to until he makes CONCISE posts.
Avogardo and Noir ignored by me for life so people know why I do not respond to them. (Informational)

0 Dislike 0 Post Points

  • Posts: 592
  • Tag points: 8

Re: top 5 favourite board games!

Einstein 3.5 > 2nd ed wink

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness

                          -2 Corinthians 12:9

0 Dislike 0 Post Points

  • Posts: 6,734
  • Tag points: 34

Re: top 5 favourite board games!

Stratego!

Modestus Experitus

Arby: A very strict mod, reminds me of a fat redneck who drives a truck around all day with a beer in one hand. I hated this guy at the start, however, I played a round in PW with him where he went as an anonymous player. Our fam got smashed up and everyone pretty much left. Arby stayed around and helped out the remaining family. At the end of the round he revealed himself.... My views on him have changed since. Your a good guy.....

0 Dislike 0 Post Points

  • Posts: 14,366
  • Tag points: 68

Re: top 5 favourite board games!

Exalted > D&D

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

0 Dislike 0 Post Points

  • Posts: 592
  • Tag points: 8

Re: top 5 favourite board games!

what's Exalted?

@Arby i'm really bad at that game..I'm too easy to read I think

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness

                          -2 Corinthians 12:9

0 Dislike 0 Post Points

  • Posts: 14,366
  • Tag points: 68

Re: top 5 favourite board games!

hmm I actually put you on to a good one, but you need to find a group to play it

RP game, uses White Wolf system, you take on a character from a ring of reincarnating superhuman mortals in an alternate earth recovering from a series of magical and demonic catastrophes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exalted

I liked stratego but once you break any part of those plastic pieces its over

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

0 Dislike 0 Post Points

  • Posts: 14,366
  • Tag points: 68

Re: top 5 favourite board games!

I heard good things about Catan but never played it

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

0 Dislike 0 Post Points

  • Posts: 592
  • Tag points: 8

Re: top 5 favourite board games!

Never heard of it, but i'd much prefer my D&D 3.5 over exalted sorry tongue

@The Yell, you should play Catan, it's the game I've played the longest but always fun!

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness

                          -2 Corinthians 12:9

0 Dislike 0 Post Points

  • Posts: 14,366
  • Tag points: 68

Re: top 5 favourite board games!

well apparently Exalted 3rd edition will have deathknights summoning succubi as an attack, so, there goes that game

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

0 Dislike 0 Post Points

  • Posts: 592
  • Tag points: 8

Re: top 5 favourite board games!

you can already do that in 3.5 big_smile

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness

                          -2 Corinthians 12:9

0 Dislike 0 Post Points

  • Posts: 14,366
  • Tag points: 68

Re: top 5 favourite board games!

Really? Because some posers were ranting about "ghost rape!"

It looks like 3rd will suck.  It removed the "social combat" system.  It denies you the ability to recover Willpower quickly, which will make mental attacks SICK. 
But also, you know Exalted didn't use the old Evil Neutral Good / Lawful Neutral Chaotic grid, but it might as well have.
Solar Exalted want to restore the Golden Age (LG). 
Terrestrial Exalted serve the brutal Empress (LE). 
Celestial Exalted kept the balance (LN)
Lunar Exalted bring reform by avoiding all the old mistakes (CG). 
Abyssals seek revenge and power by making the Underworld triumphant (NE).
Fairie Rakasha want to remake reality more fun (CN).

Now they're introducing the Infernal Exalted, champions of the Demonic Powers.  You can see what's left.

But then again if you can bitch about how the new version is a waste of time, you've legitimated the whole game system as a top tier RPG tongue

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

0 Dislike 0 Post Points

  • Posts: 2,987
  • Tag points: 90

Re: top 5 favourite board games!

Pathfinder >3.5 >2.0

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but i am Jesus"
"Nothing is worse than a fully prepared fool"

0 Dislike 0 Post Points

18 Reply by The Great Eye (edited by The Great Eye 22-Sep-2014 03:49:04)

  • Posts: 5,595
  • Tag points: 241

Re: top 5 favourite board games!

... seriously, someone needs to get AA back and set up those games on IRC again.  tongue


But anyway, another fun one that hasn't been mentioned: Axis and Allies.  Consider it like Risk, only if Risk was more complicated and historically accurate to a particular timeframe (in this case, WW2).

Make Eyes Great Again!

The Great Eye is watching you... when there's nothing good on TV...

0 Dislike 0 Post Points

  • Posts: 6,555
  • Tag points: 90

Re: top 5 favourite board games!

Yes!!! smile

~*✠ ]PW[ Forever ✠*~

0 Dislike 0 Post Points

  • Posts: 6,555
  • Tag points: 90

Re: top 5 favourite board games!

to both! I swear I clocked up hundreds of ours playing Axis & Allies, games could last days smile.

~*✠ ]PW[ Forever ✠*~

0 Dislike 0 Post Points

  • Posts: 14,366
  • Tag points: 68

Re: top 5 favourite board games!

The Great Eye wrote:

... seriously, someone needs to get AA back and set up those games on IRC again.  tongue


It is the Unwritten Law of the Universe that nobody over 25 shall ever participate in regular gaming sessions again

Until maybe 2040 when people start gaming at nursing homes

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

0 Dislike 0 Post Points

  • Posts: 82
  • Tag points: 1

Re: top 5 favourite board games!

1. catan
2. heroquest - RPG
3. king of tokyo - doesn't take to long, easy to play, but lots of fun
4. Puerto Rico
5. Megblast - basicly it's a card game but hey, it's fun and has IC context = p

“Careful with that ego, you could knock somebody over."

0 Dislike 0 Post Points

  • Posts: 14,366
  • Tag points: 68

Re: top 5 favourite board games!

Actually 2040 may be a cool era, college kids going to nursing homes to roleplay

FOGEY: You can't carry that.
PUNK1:  It's in the new edition.
PUNK2:  Yeah last year. It's now an option.
FOGEY: Humph. OK then.  Roll Perception.
PUNK1: Oh right, it's your level 24 Rogue/Bard/Cleric from the Clinton Administration, come to steal my gear?
FOGEY: No.
PUNK1:  No?
FOGEY: No. You had to roll better than that, to know what just knocked you unconscious.

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

0 Dislike 0 Post Points