Post your Favorite board game and why
 

My fav board game is Hasbro's Axis and Allies

The Setup:

Germany and Japan vs U.S, U.K, and Russia

Each country starts of making a certain amount of money based on Economic Production during the war.

Russia 24
U.K 30
U.S 36

Germany 32
Japan 25

Your money can be used to buy any number of Units based on their price and placed on countries with Industrial Complexs

Infantry 3
Tanks 5
Fighters 12
Bombers 15
Subs 8
Transports 8
Battleships 24
AA guns 8
Aircraft Carriers 18.

The game is very complex and starts of with the Axis having the advantage of more weapons on the board at the beginning of the game and can go on the offensive.

The allies have fewer units and weaker positions and are subject to attack right off the bat.

The U.S. is a economic powerhouse but is so far away from the action it takes a few turns to get into the game.

Gameplay is based on dice certain units attack at certain die rolls.

Exa Infantry attack at a 1 and defend at a 2
Tanks attack at a 3 and defend at a 2
Bombers attack at a 4 and defend at a 1
ETC ETC

All in all it's a very complex board game that takes a long time to set up and an even longer amount of time to play unless you have the software for the computer.

It can be played with up to 5 players and due to the board setup it can be played a different way each and every time.

Do you build navies or Land armies do you attack or defend.

It's very complex overall.

The rules can be changed to help the axis because over the course of learning the game and playing it seems the Allies have a long term advantage in the game.

The best hope for the Axis is to take over russia as soon as possible to have any chance of winning the game.

I like board games that make you think and are fun at the same time.

If I had a second choice it would be monopoly but overall this is my fav board game.

Who else has one ?

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board game: candy land


why: because I wish there really was one.

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I love Trivial Pursuit because I love trivia. I love Balderdash because to be good at it, one must be able to bullsht well, and sell others that bullsht. Finally, Pictionary. It's all about being in the mind of the other person and figuring out what exactly they're trying to draw.

Those are definitely my favorites, can't rank them really, because they're all great in their own way, my ranking would be heavily dependent on who I happen to be playing with.

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My favourites involve Trivial Pursuit, Monopoly, and Settlers of Catan. Don't know if many people know about SoC, but it's a pretty neat little game.

I absolutely hate Risk, though.

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Risk, because it's the game of world domination.

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Trivial Pursuit
Pictionary
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Risk is pretty good too. We actually started an office game here that should take about a month to finish. Should be fun.

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Chess. Endlessly fascinating.

Settlers of Catan is interesting too.

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From my experience, Risk is like a really sucktastic version of Axis & Allies, but whatever I don't play either of them anymore.

Growing up I was a huge fan of games made by Games Workshop out of England. Their more famous titles were the Warhammer series and Judge Dredd, but I preferred their offbeat titles, the best known of which were Talisman and Blood Bowl. But they also had a bunch of obscure titles that were as fun as anything I'd ever played, and would still play today without hesitation if they weren't buried in storage somewhere.

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My favorite board game is now checkers because it was just announced that the game is officially dead.

A computer program has been confirmed to have mapped out the 500 billion billion possible moves in a game and the machine cannot be beaten. An opponent playing the same 'perfect' game as the machine would result in a tie.

R.I.P. Checkers
We will miss you.

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