Favorite board game?

Favorite board game? Jun 25, 2019 21:09:34 GMT

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Post by vegalyra on Jun 25, 2019 21:09:34 GMT

Jun 21, 2019 20:29:38 GMT Sulla said:

Jun 21, 2019 18:20:02 GMT lordquesterjones said:

And risk!

I started with Risk and over the years moved up the ladder with more complex games. At the height I had 72 of them. I sold them in 1999, but I kept my 10 favorites. They were originally made in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Some of them are so complex that they're more of an exercise for study rather than a game. Their popularity declined with the rise of internet games.

I stumbled on a few old Avalon Hill games cheap at a garage sale several years ago (D-Day, Panzer Blitz, Panzer Leader, and a few others). Most of them were from the 1960's and 1970's. I remember when I was a kid an older neighbor kid had several of these games that I guess he got from his Dad. We figured out some of the more simple ones, but I think one of them, 1914, was way over our heads...

About as complicated as I got with my friends in the '80s up to the early '00s was Axis and Allies. That's still one of my favorite games, especially with all 5 powers being played by individual players. Some others we enjoyed were Shogun and more Euro style games such as Mare Nostrum.

I had good intentions of trying to get some people together from my old gaming crowd and picked up some modern GMT brand games like Twilight Stuggle, Genesis, and the newer version of Axis and Allies that takes place during WW1, but no dice. They are sitting in my jacket closet gathering dust right now. About as complicated as I get now is Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders with my daughters. My wife will actually play a game of Stratego with me, I still have the old '80s version of the game with the old "general" looking at you on the box lid.