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07-21-2007, 12:10 PM
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Re: Post your Favorite board game and why
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I didn't read the thread, but the answer is clearly "Apples to Apples"- it's fun with just about anyone, but with the right group of people is genius. [/ QUOTE ] It's been a long time since I played this, but iirc the scoring was very subjective and done by the players or something like that. I didn't enjoy that part. [/ QUOTE ] wtf, that's the best part about Apples to Apples. [/ QUOTE ] Agreed, AtA is good times, and this is one of the best parts. The strategy in AtA is knowing your friends and which type of answers they are likely to choose. 
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#92
07-21-2007, 12:12 PM
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Re: Post your Favorite board game and why
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The original game setup is flawed. Unless you are bidding IPCs to start additional build then allies will win 90+% of the time with the original game setup, if the player knows what he is doing. A fair IPC bid is to give the axis ~18-23 IPCs to start with. [/ QUOTE ] So true. I was addicted to this game (and Shogun) as a young teenager but it has serious flaws. I actually think Conquest of the Empire was the best of that trilogy, though it was by far the least popular (and the first one released, I believe).
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#94
07-21-2007, 12:32 PM
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And as a kid, I loved an old game called Careers. [/ QUOTE ] omg what a game that was. Set your desired target (60,000 total points divided any way you want between love, fame and money) and try to achieve it through a career path. Man, that game rocked, i only got to play it for 1 week/year when we visited a place with that game.
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#95
07-21-2007, 01:27 PM
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Re: Post your Favorite board game and why
Settlers is a great game, here is the link to the online version - http://ladder.jsettlers.com/index.html - someone had mentioned it earlier, but never posted it. You can go to host 1 or 2 to play against bots, just create a nickname and new game name.
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#96
07-21-2007, 01:36 PM
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Re: Post your Favorite board game and why
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I didn't read the thread, but the answer is clearly "Apples to Apples"- it's fun with just about anyone, but with the right group of people is genius. [/ QUOTE ] It's been a long time since I played this, but iirc the scoring was very subjective and done by the players or something like that. I didn't enjoy that part. [/ QUOTE ] wtf, that's the best part about Apples to Apples. [/ QUOTE ] Agreed, AtA is good times, and this is one of the best parts. The strategy in AtA is knowing your friends and which type of answers they are likely to choose. [/ QUOTE ] In our family the point of playing Apples to Apples (junior edition in our case) is not to win but to generate the maximum possible hilarity and absurdity. We also have a house rule that if anyone plays the "Barney" card as an answer to "Yucky" it's an automatic winner. We love the game.
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07-21-2007, 01:46 PM
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Re: Post your Favorite board game and why
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And as a kid, I loved an old game called Careers. [/ QUOTE ] I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]ed that game. My mom had a way-old version with a day-glo orange theme.
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#98
07-21-2007, 04:50 PM
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Re: Post your Favorite board game and why
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[ QUOTE ] The original game setup is flawed. Unless you are bidding IPCs to start additional build then allies will win 90+% of the time with the original game setup, if the player knows what he is doing. A fair IPC bid is to give the axis ~18-23 IPCs to start with. [/ QUOTE ] So true. I was addicted to this game (and Shogun) as a young teenager but it has serious flaws. I actually think Conquest of the Empire was the best of that trilogy, though it was by far the least popular (and the first one released, I believe). [/ QUOTE ] I don't know if I agree with this. Russia Restrict is usually enough to swing the game. All germany needs is semi decent rolls on it's first 2 turns and Kareila and Russia are gone.
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#99
07-21-2007, 11:28 PM
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Re: Post your Favorite board game and why
Speed Scrabble.
Take away board (I hope this means it still counts in this thread) Take out X and Q Put all tiles face down Each player draws 5 tiles and each player makes his/her OWN "board" First person to use all their face up tiles to make a mini board says "draw" Everyone must draw then... At any point you can break up your mini-board and start fresh - this often happens around 20 tiles or so in. Winner first one with complete mini board Deduct points from others who have left over, non-board tiles Perfect for 3 people; okay with 2 or 4. bonus - very portable game
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#100
07-22-2007, 12:51 AM
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Re: Post your Favorite board game and why
I liked Axis and Allies until about the 10th time I played it and realized the allies always won. Somebody mentioned Samurai Swords (AKA Shogun) which was a great alternative to RISK and Axis and Allies and always had a winner. Someone else mentioned Titan which was a great Avalon Hill game involving armies with increasingly more powerful fantasy cretures (giants, trolls, dragons, etc.). RISK is my all time favorite though and to paraphrase Hellmuth "If it wasn't for luck, I'd win every time." The greatest boardgame to become a computer game was Civilization which also started out as an Avalon Hill game once upon a time.
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