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I thought about making a board game thread to recommend other people good board games you played.
So I go first . My friends and me do a board game evening once in a while and have quite a big collection by now, besides the "normal" stuff like Monopoly. It is much easier when you have ~8 people always getting games together, much less expensive
The game most people love is Battlestar Galactica. It is basically a really nice version of the TV show. You play onboard the Galactica and Colonial One (and Pegasus in the expansion). In the beginning, you pick a character and get a "identiy car" (Cylon or Human). Midterm in the game you get another card, but once Cylon always Cylon. You can have to pass situations by reaching a number of cards of a certain type, where other types count negative, so you basically can sabotage but have to be sneaky to draw attention to other people. Basically, it is a game about deceiving and lying, which is probably why we like it so much, especially some girls are master deceivers . To be honest, the game gains A LOT with the Pegasus expansion (Pegasus Battlestar, new badass characters, cylon leaders, executions...), if you want to play it, get both . Works for up to 7 players with expansion, and the more players the better the game becomes!
and one image from a "humans you are fucked now" situation (base stars are 3d plastic in expansion)
https://pic.armedcats.net/d/d-/d-fence/2010/08/31/IMG_0066.JPG
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37111/battlestar-galactica
Another game we play sometimes is Talisman with the Reaper and Dungeon expansion. Not that much to say about it, you basically walk around, level up, beat the shit out of other players, avoid meeting death and try to get to crown first. Lots of dice luck involved thouh . However, depending on players, it can take a long time and produce some hilarious situation (when a monk beats the shit out of a troll f.e.). The more people you have, the slower it gets and that is quite a downside. Optimum playercount 4 imho. Oh, and you might want to have a quite big table for it
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/27627/talisman-fourth-edition
Another game in our collection is Starcraft (with Brood Wars expansion).
Well, it is a strategy game and really nicely made. You start with a race and planets and upgrade etc...basically like the PC game, however the fighting is a bit strange, if you have the right cards you can manage to get one Marine take down a carrier etc....material is nice and it takes looooooooooooong to finish. As well, a lot of space is needed. Example pic is from a 4 player round without expansion
https://pic.armedcats.net/d/d-/d-fence/2010/08/31/sc_001.jpg
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/22827/starcraft-the-board-game
For quick games without lots of material we have "Die Kutschfahrt zur Teufelsburg" (looks like it is available with English material under the same name). Two teams (who don't know their teammates) battle it out for items. One team has to get 3 keys, the other one 3 grails. You attack other people to try to find out their identity or steal items, you can swap items etc.. You need to be quite awake to remember everything in this game and make conclusions from how others play...quite a nice, cheap game and easily explained
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/25951/die-kutschfahrt-zur-teufelsburg
Quite sth else is Anti-Monopoly, basically Monopoly where you decide to play a monopolist (normal Monopoly rules for you) or an free enterprise...where you can build houses as soon as you have 1 street but earn less...quite funny
Other games for more players we frequently play are
Uno (which always ends in havoc and gets more fun the more drunk people are)
Cranium http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/891/cranium
Nobody is perfect http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/8829/nobody-is-perfect
Activity
Bang! (with some extensions) http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/30933/bang-the-bullet
So, what do you play
So I go first . My friends and me do a board game evening once in a while and have quite a big collection by now, besides the "normal" stuff like Monopoly. It is much easier when you have ~8 people always getting games together, much less expensive
The game most people love is Battlestar Galactica. It is basically a really nice version of the TV show. You play onboard the Galactica and Colonial One (and Pegasus in the expansion). In the beginning, you pick a character and get a "identiy car" (Cylon or Human). Midterm in the game you get another card, but once Cylon always Cylon. You can have to pass situations by reaching a number of cards of a certain type, where other types count negative, so you basically can sabotage but have to be sneaky to draw attention to other people. Basically, it is a game about deceiving and lying, which is probably why we like it so much, especially some girls are master deceivers . To be honest, the game gains A LOT with the Pegasus expansion (Pegasus Battlestar, new badass characters, cylon leaders, executions...), if you want to play it, get both . Works for up to 7 players with expansion, and the more players the better the game becomes!
and one image from a "humans you are fucked now" situation (base stars are 3d plastic in expansion)
https://pic.armedcats.net/d/d-/d-fence/2010/08/31/IMG_0066.JPG
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37111/battlestar-galactica
Another game we play sometimes is Talisman with the Reaper and Dungeon expansion. Not that much to say about it, you basically walk around, level up, beat the shit out of other players, avoid meeting death and try to get to crown first. Lots of dice luck involved thouh . However, depending on players, it can take a long time and produce some hilarious situation (when a monk beats the shit out of a troll f.e.). The more people you have, the slower it gets and that is quite a downside. Optimum playercount 4 imho. Oh, and you might want to have a quite big table for it
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/27627/talisman-fourth-edition
Another game in our collection is Starcraft (with Brood Wars expansion).
Well, it is a strategy game and really nicely made. You start with a race and planets and upgrade etc...basically like the PC game, however the fighting is a bit strange, if you have the right cards you can manage to get one Marine take down a carrier etc....material is nice and it takes looooooooooooong to finish. As well, a lot of space is needed. Example pic is from a 4 player round without expansion
https://pic.armedcats.net/d/d-/d-fence/2010/08/31/sc_001.jpg
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/22827/starcraft-the-board-game
For quick games without lots of material we have "Die Kutschfahrt zur Teufelsburg" (looks like it is available with English material under the same name). Two teams (who don't know their teammates) battle it out for items. One team has to get 3 keys, the other one 3 grails. You attack other people to try to find out their identity or steal items, you can swap items etc.. You need to be quite awake to remember everything in this game and make conclusions from how others play...quite a nice, cheap game and easily explained
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/25951/die-kutschfahrt-zur-teufelsburg
Quite sth else is Anti-Monopoly, basically Monopoly where you decide to play a monopolist (normal Monopoly rules for you) or an free enterprise...where you can build houses as soon as you have 1 street but earn less...quite funny
Other games for more players we frequently play are
Uno (which always ends in havoc and gets more fun the more drunk people are)
Cranium http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/891/cranium
Nobody is perfect http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/8829/nobody-is-perfect
Activity
Bang! (with some extensions) http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/30933/bang-the-bullet
So, what do you play
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