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Decrepit Dakkanaut






New Orleans, LA

My favorite board game right now is Arkham Horror.

It's a cooperative board game. All of the players try to stop the Old One from awakening. If you don't work together, you're fethed.

Great game! The expansions add a lot to it, but also make it harder and harder.

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Made in gb
Highlord with a Blackstone Fortress






Adrift within the vortex of my imagination.

Sticking only to those I still own and have available. Or the list would be way way too long. I have very few of my childhood games left, though I tried to keep them. Most were thrown away in house moves as irrelevant by other family members or stolen from long term storage. I am also not including the boardgame series I bought for bitz, even though I currently have a near intact copy (Darkworld).


Tri-Tactics

Its important to get a version with the older unit card artwork. A firm childhood favourite. My copy is of the edition above but was bought on eBay as a replacement.

Alley Cats

Still in reasonable condition. This 1976 edition, its one of very very few games that survived the house moves and purges.

Monopoly

Deluxe edition, London street names, no frills early artwork copy but an 80's manufacture. Still in excellent condition.

Squad Leader

Much loved much used, somewhat worn but in good condition. Arguably the best of the Avalon Hill games. I didnt bother with any expansions, and would only haver done so if the British were included prior to adding in additonal levels of complexity. The game got messy after Cross of Iron, less complicated than it looked, but I got put off with turret counters and six or seven different stats per counter. So much better with three.

Conquistador

In perfect condition, mostly because it was collected but never used.

Guns of August

Occasionally used, still in excellent condition.

Freedom in the Galaxy

Thinly disguised Star Wars game. Avalon Hil version with heavy card map.

Third Reich

Very complex ruleset, but with genius in its design.

Circus Maximus

A fun simulation by Avalon Hill. Quite rare and very popular.

4th Reich

Pisstake on the 70's WW2 hex & counter games culture.

Warrior Knights
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The GW copy. I am supposed to have Chainsaw Warrior and Dungeonquest somewhere also, but this is the only confirmed GW game to have survived. Except for:

Battle For Armageddon

Not a bad rehash of Operation Barbarossa, and a decent tactical boardgame, with some fun twists. And my newer addition:

Space Hulk

Still in shrink, this was the last copy available in Games Workshop UK. I convinced the store manager to let me put a deposit down on it. It will remain in its wrapper unitl I kniow exactly what I will do with it. I wnt to keep it but will only do so if I promise to paint it up properly. Otherwise its a fund of ready cash should I need that. Don't ask, I wont sell unless on my own timing.

War of the Ring

Very good game, handled the ring quest and military elements with skill. I wish I had the SPI game of the same name, I see it on eBay every now and then.

Divine Right

New and unused. I am looking to buy the original.

Descent: Journeys In The Dark plus expansions

A flawed gem. I eagerly await the second edition. I have most current expansions excepting only Tomb of Ice and the second campaing boxset after Road To legend.

Shogun

Now sold under a different name. Very very good boardgame.

Kingmaker

Excellent game, a firm favourite. Get the Ariel or Gibson version not the Avalon Hill.

Marine 2002

Very good game from Yaquinto. It was left at my parental home years ago, the pieces were placed in ziplock bags and the box was thrown away to make space in storage.

Picketts Charge

Sadly suffered the same fate. Both are still playable though.

Junta

Excellent and well packaged game, great fun. Deboxed and bagged up.

Web and Starship

One of the best intentionally three player boardgames. Deboxed and bagged up.

Tet Offensive

Good size boardgame, large counters simple rules. More colour and less hex and counter. Good balanced game nonetheless. The img above may be small but the game itself is huge. Yes, its intact.

Civilization

A very good game so long as you mod the rules. A poor setup at start can cripple game balance.

Civilization

The other game of the same name. Predates Sid Meiers computer game. The only game on this list I don't have access to at the moment but has been seen in a box in the attic.

National Geographic On Assignment

With my other copy of Civlization. Very nicely packaged game.

Risk Godstorm

My prefered copy of Risk and the only one I own. Interesting background good balanced map and good alternative full rules. Normally we use this set to play Risk.

Succession Wars

The only Battletech boardgame I am counting here as a boardgame. I never use hexmaps to play Battletech and always considered it a miniatures ruleset. Another game that needed house rules to be playable.

Silent Death

Conversely this miniatures game we always played as a boardgame. I own Overkill and Black Guard expansion books also.

Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective

Not quite a boardgame, though it has a board map.

Taxi

Third edition copy. Fun game and a rare childhood survivor.

Much lamented losses include:
Magic Realm, Cry Havoc and Siege!, Campaign, Fast Attack Boats (Yaquinto), The Fall of Rome (Yaquinto), Eastern Front Tank Leader, Western Front Tank Leader, Dragon Pass, Leviathan, Interceptor, Centurion and Prefect, especially Prefect. Numerous childrens boardgames lost to time. Darkworld's sequel Village of Fear I dont want, but would want to loot another copy for bitz.

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Hurr! Ogryn Bone 'Ead!





Australia (insert either funny or interesting fact here)

Munchkin. It's a card game but still great fun.
I think it's meant to be a parody of DnD.
You can learn the rules in 3 minutes tops.

1750 points of Imperial Guard
500 points of Biel Tan Mech-dar

250 points of Dark Angels
I cast Magic Missile.

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Posts with Authority






I also support Last Night on Earth - I dig it much more than Zombies!!! - far more thematic to me.
   
Made in au
Hoary Long Fang with Lascannon



Marrickville (sydney) NSW, Australia

+1 to last night on earth. Killed many an hour (and zombie) with that game. Would also suggest the D&D board game.

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Decrepit Dakkanaut






Leerstetten, Germany

+1 for Settlers

There was a railroad board game that we played in college and had games that would last almost 18 hours. I have no idea what the name was, but it was a blast.

Axis & Allies
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut






I would suggest:

Risk
Stratego
Scrabble
Blokus
Carcassonne
Settlers of Catan (get the 5-6 player expansion)
Ticket to Ride
Flux
Miles Bourne
Apples to Apples (party game)
Taboo (party game)
Guesstures (party game)
   
Made in nz
Armored Iron Breaker





Karak-Carterton

Settlers of Catan is just a badass/must have game

Lots
Dwarfs: Lots

"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."

Check out my blog at: averydwarfishblog.blogspot.com 
   
Made in gb
Ichor-Dripping Talos Monstrosity






We've now pretty much settled on:
*=Have
'#' =Players
01'2' Battleship
02'2' Checkers
03'2' Chess
04'2' Connect Four
05'2-6' Cluedo
06'1+' Deck of Cards
07'2+' Dominoes
08'2-4' Frustration
09'2-4'* Go For Broke
10'2' Guess Who?
11'2' Guess That Pokeman Game
12'2-5' Hero Quest
13'2-6' Humans!!!
+ Humans!!! 2: Sea Food
14'2-8' Jenga
15'2-4' KerPlunk
16'1-4' Labyrinth
17'2-8' Monopoly
18'2-4' Mousetrap
19'3-6' Munchkin
20'1-6' Operation
21'3-16' Pictionary
22'2-4' Plants vs. Zombies: The Board Game
23'2-6' Risk
+ '2-5' Risk 2210 A.D.
24'2-4' Scrabble
25'2-6' Snakes and Ladders
26'4-10' Taboo
27'2-6' The Game of Life
28'2-10' Uno
29'2-10' Yahtzee
30'2-6' Zombies!!! (Second Edition)
+ Zombies!!! 2: Zombie Corps(e)
+ Zombies!!! 3.5: Not Dead Yet
+ Zombies!!! 5: School's Out Forever
+ Zombies!!! 6.66: Fill in the _______!!!
+ Zombies!!! 7: Send in the Clowns
+ Zombies!!! 8: Jailbreak
+ Zombies!!! 9: Ashes to Ashes
+ Zombies!!! X: Feeding the Addiction
1/30

At least for now.
While there's several more I'd like, or she'd like we decided that there's little point in getting ones we'd never use.

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Stubborn Hammerer





d-usa wrote:
There was a railroad board game that we played in college and had games that would last almost 18 hours. I have no idea what the name was, but it was a blast.
Ticket to ride?
   
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[MOD]
Anti-piracy Officer






Somewhere in south-central England.

Ticket to Ride lasts about 45 minutes usually.

I'm writing a load of fiction. My latest story starts here... This is the index of all the stories...

We're not very big on official rules. Rules lead to people looking for loopholes. What's here is about it. 
   
 
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