We used to have a sort of card game where are the cards were modular pieces of space ships and you had to make these big ships. I can't remember why or what the winning goal of the game was but man the ships looked awesome in that 1970s sci-fi novel cover illustration / battlestar galactica sort of way.
Um, what else did we have. A really old D&D precursor game where you had to adventure around a dungeon and there was a GIANT WORM monster card that looked like a black pudding and I think my dad always called it the black pudding so I figured that's what it was in the game. Oh fuck, it was Dungeon! which actually came out a year after D&D but was made by the same guys.
I wonder if they still have that...they have two huge cupboards in the living room basically stowed out with old board games that I bet nobody has even thought of looking in for years.
My sister gave us a new board game called Stonehenge which is actually a variety of different games all designed to be played on the same board. She got herself the Age of Empires board game and the intention was to start getting together for boardgame nights but it never happened and I haven't even opened Stonehenge yet.
You would run your dudes along this board:
and try to get the crystal. You could go through caves and over bridges. Then every once in a while you would get to roll a FRIGGIN FIREBALL down a path and cause death and destruction.
This is where the fireballs came from:
Greatest board game ever.
EDIT: DAMN. I AM SO SLOOW. I GOT BEATED.
Holy shit yes
I used to love this game so much it was almost unhealthy.
Which is half the fun of the game. Also the BSG boardgame is pretty great, played it a few times since christmas.
Once some friends of mine wanted to play a long term game of Diplomacy. We were supposed to spend the week working on deals with each other and then on Saturday everyone turns in their move.
and got a new version of classic risk for christmas
and i live with my wife and 2 stepdaughters
guess how many of them want to play risk, ever
Damn, finding people to play is always a chore.
There are some places around here, little comic shops and stuff, where people meet once a week to play board games. If you get desperate you could probably try one of those? I personally have never been...
This. But I miss my expansion pack with the random endings.
I loaned it to a good friend who was usually pretty good about those things, but it never came back and is now in the possession of an old school mate I haven't seen in 10+ years.
Oh well, I still have the City and Timescape expansions, I guess.
the simple-looking boardgame with the 2 hour moves
I saw that and wanted to play it, but didn't get a chance until a few years later when my brother and I found Samurai Swords at a Toys R' Us.
edit: Wait a moment, I was just looking at Wikipedia, is that the 1986 version or the new Shogun game from 2006?
i might have accidentally posted the new one
i meant the old one, which was also called samurai swords
Yes. 1986 version is awesome.
I used to play it with my regular opponent for Axis and Allies, as well. Sadly, he had some fairly useless house rules which made A&A less interesting (Infinite capacity transports), so we switched to this more or less exclusively after a while.
That's unbelievably cool. Your new name is cool guy. Let's have sex.
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edited January 2009
Is that based on the book in the George R.R. Martin's series?
Is there as much incest in the board game as the book?
Edit: also, I played A&A for a year or two with my buddies before we realized you weren't allowed to place your newly purchased reinforcements anywhere on the map.
Eddard Stark, Lord of Winterfell and the North, executes a man of the Night's Watch who has betrayed his vows and fled from the Wall. His sons Robb and Bran, his bastard son Jon Snow, and his ward Theon Greyjoy all attend. After the beheading, Robb finds a dead direwolf (the symbol of House Stark), killed by the antlers of a stag (the symbol of House Baratheon), which had given birth to five pups before it died.
Also, according to the page you linked, the board game is based off the book.
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MrMonroepassed outon the floor nowRegistered Userregular
edited January 2009
I just remember a scene where some kid climbs the outside of a large castle to see his mother fucking her brother and is so surprised that he falls to his death.
Is that based on the book in the George R.R. Martin's series?
Is there as much incest in the board game as the book?
Yes it is based on the books you take control of one of the houses and try to take over as much of the map as you can in 10 turns.
Each turn consists of turning over 3 cards that each cause different things to happen ranging from fighting for turn order to not being able to play certain orders for that turn. After that you place orders and then execute them and man it is just so much fun to fuck someones entire turn over with one raid order.
I just remember a scene where some kid climbs the outside of a large castle to see his mother fucking her brother and is so surprised that he falls to his death.
It's pretty silly.
That's, that's not right at all.
Anywho. I found an incredibly old Chinese Checkers set at a yard sale once. It had metal marbles.
I just remember a scene where some kid climbs the outside of a large castle to see his mother fucking her brother and is so surprised that he falls to his death.
It's pretty silly.
You didn't read it then, I am geussing someone told you about it. Someone who is shitty at comprehending written stories.
I just remember a scene where some kid climbs the outside of a large castle to see his mother fucking her brother and is so surprised that he falls to his death.
It's pretty silly.
You didn't read it then, I am geussing someone told you about it. Someone who is shitty at comprehending written stories.
I read it perhaps nine or ten years ago. Maybe I'm confusing it with something else.
MrMonroepassed outon the floor nowRegistered Userregular
edited January 2009
Wow, that looks awful.
I'm trying to find pictures of the Anti-Monopoly game we have up in NH, but all I can find is this totally gay hippie bullshit where some people play as free marketeers and the others as big, evil, corporate bastards. The one I remember has you playing as an anti-trust litigator and you had to rack up what was essentially political capital by busting the big firms.
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edited January 2009
Up at my grandparent's beach house they have some mad old board games from like the 1960's or some shit.
There's like the oldest copy of Monopoly, some dutch language rummicub-type thing I never learned the rules to as I don't speak dutch, and this neat old game called 'Top Cop' or something.
The idea was to go around the board collecting clues and matching them to crimes. When the clues in your collection matched an outstanding crime, you 'caught' that criminal, and another crime would be added to the stack. Eventually, you run out of crimes, and the person who caught the most criminals won.
It's pretty basic stuff, but it's kinda neat to play because it's all yellowed and dogearred with age, and is made from post-WWII materials.
We used to have a sort of card game where are the cards were modular pieces of space ships and you had to make these big ships. I can't remember why or what the winning goal of the game was but man the ships looked awesome in that 1970s sci-fi novel cover illustration / battlestar galactica sort of way.
Um, what else did we have. A really old D&D precursor game where you had to adventure around a dungeon and there was a GIANT WORM monster card that looked like a black pudding and I think my dad always called it the black pudding so I figured that's what it was in the game. Oh fuck, it was Dungeon! which actually came out a year after D&D but was made by the same guys.
I wonder if they still have that...they have two huge cupboards in the living room basically stowed out with old board games that I bet nobody has even thought of looking in for years.
holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit
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I have yet to be beaten, every kid at school used to challenge me when I'd bring it to play at the christmas concert
man, I love stratego
I've got this version, a totally swank Limited Library Edition version that is a fully wooden box, styled to look like a leather-bound library book, with gold leaf lettering on the spine and shit. So fucking sweet. Picked it up at Target, who had some exclusivity deal, for like $20. They had Scrabble, Monopoly, Risk and a couple other games that were styled the same. WIsh I would have got all of them, they would look so fucking ritzy, all lined up on a bookshelf.
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edited January 2009
oh woah, they still have them on amazon for twenty bucks a pop
We used to have a sort of card game where are the cards were modular pieces of space ships and you had to make these big ships. I can't remember why or what the winning goal of the game was but man the ships looked awesome in that 1970s sci-fi novel cover illustration / battlestar galactica sort of way.
Um, what else did we have. A really old D&D precursor game where you had to adventure around a dungeon and there was a GIANT WORM monster card that looked like a black pudding and I think my dad always called it the black pudding so I figured that's what it was in the game. Oh fuck, it was Dungeon! which actually came out a year after D&D but was made by the same guys.
I wonder if they still have that...they have two huge cupboards in the living room basically stowed out with old board games that I bet nobody has even thought of looking in for years.
holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit
Oh shit, I remember playing that a couple of times.
I have yet to be beaten, every kid at school used to challenge me when I'd bring it to play at the christmas concert
man, I love stratego
I've got this version, a totally swank Limited Library Edition version that is a fully wooden box, styled to look like a leather-bound library book, with gold leaf lettering on the spine and shit. So fucking sweet. Picked it up at Target, who had some exclusivity deal, for like $20. They had Scrabble, Monopoly, Risk and a couple other games that were styled the same. WIsh I would have got all of them, they would look so fucking ritzy, all lined up on a bookshelf.
Yesssss, Rachel and I got that for our wedding! It's fucking sweet.
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What was the game with cannons and catapults? I don't ever remember actually playing it, just setting shit up and shooting at them.
Also, drunk risk is the best board game ever.
I ctrl+f'd "omega" and got nothing. Also I have a picture which makes it okay.
Um, what else did we have. A really old D&D precursor game where you had to adventure around a dungeon and there was a GIANT WORM monster card that looked like a black pudding and I think my dad always called it the black pudding so I figured that's what it was in the game. Oh fuck, it was Dungeon! which actually came out a year after D&D but was made by the same guys.
I wonder if they still have that...they have two huge cupboards in the living room basically stowed out with old board games that I bet nobody has even thought of looking in for years.
Dominion.
It's this sort of economy/military game thing with cards
it's pretty rad
that was like Risk but 5 times more complicated
I saw that and wanted to play it, but didn't get a chance until a few years later when my brother and I found Samurai Swords at a Toys R' Us.
edit: Wait a moment, I was just looking at Wikipedia, is that the 1986 version or the new Shogun game from 2006?
and got a new version of classic risk for christmas
and i live with my wife and 2 stepdaughters
guess how many of them want to play risk, ever
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i might have accidentally posted the new one
i meant the old one, which was also called samurai swords
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I used to love this game so much it was almost unhealthy.
As silly as it seems...this really bothered me, haha. I was like...wait, so 3's are miners and...and what the hell?
Which is half the fun of the game. Also the BSG boardgame is pretty great, played it a few times since christmas.
Once some friends of mine wanted to play a long term game of Diplomacy. We were supposed to spend the week working on deals with each other and then on Saturday everyone turns in their move.
It died off after a few moves.
Damn, finding people to play is always a chore.
There are some places around here, little comic shops and stuff, where people meet once a week to play board games. If you get desperate you could probably try one of those? I personally have never been...
This is maybe the best team based board game I've ever played and everything about it is fantastic.
Also A Game of Thrones is really good if you like Risk.
This. But I miss my expansion pack with the random endings.
I loaned it to a good friend who was usually pretty good about those things, but it never came back and is now in the possession of an old school mate I haven't seen in 10+ years.
Oh well, I still have the City and Timescape expansions, I guess.
Yes. 1986 version is awesome.
I used to play it with my regular opponent for Axis and Allies, as well. Sadly, he had some fairly useless house rules which made A&A less interesting (Infinite capacity transports), so we switched to this more or less exclusively after a while.
Is there as much incest in the board game as the book?
Edit: also, I played A&A for a year or two with my buddies before we realized you weren't allowed to place your newly purchased reinforcements anywhere on the map.
Also, according to the page you linked, the board game is based off the book.
It's pretty silly.
Yes it is based on the books you take control of one of the houses and try to take over as much of the map as you can in 10 turns.
Each turn consists of turning over 3 cards that each cause different things to happen ranging from fighting for turn order to not being able to play certain orders for that turn. After that you place orders and then execute them and man it is just so much fun to fuck someones entire turn over with one raid order.
That's, that's not right at all.
Anywho. I found an incredibly old Chinese Checkers set at a yard sale once. It had metal marbles.
Steam - Talon Valdez :Blizz - Talonious#1860 : Xbox Live & LoL - Talonious Monk @TaloniousMonk Hail Satan
You didn't read it then, I am geussing someone told you about it. Someone who is shitty at comprehending written stories.
I read it perhaps nine or ten years ago. Maybe I'm confusing it with something else.
I'm trying to find pictures of the Anti-Monopoly game we have up in NH, but all I can find is this totally gay hippie bullshit where some people play as free marketeers and the others as big, evil, corporate bastards. The one I remember has you playing as an anti-trust litigator and you had to rack up what was essentially political capital by busting the big firms.
There's like the oldest copy of Monopoly, some dutch language rummicub-type thing I never learned the rules to as I don't speak dutch, and this neat old game called 'Top Cop' or something.
The idea was to go around the board collecting clues and matching them to crimes. When the clues in your collection matched an outstanding crime, you 'caught' that criminal, and another crime would be added to the stack. Eventually, you run out of crimes, and the person who caught the most criminals won.
It's pretty basic stuff, but it's kinda neat to play because it's all yellowed and dogearred with age, and is made from post-WWII materials.
I've got this version, a totally swank Limited Library Edition version that is a fully wooden box, styled to look like a leather-bound library book, with gold leaf lettering on the spine and shit. So fucking sweet. Picked it up at Target, who had some exclusivity deal, for like $20. They had Scrabble, Monopoly, Risk and a couple other games that were styled the same. WIsh I would have got all of them, they would look so fucking ritzy, all lined up on a bookshelf.
that's a rad fucking deal
Risk
Yahtze
Life
Scrabble
Jenga
Monopoly
no more Stratego, though, apparently
Lets do this shit bitches
Is there anyone in phoenix who would like to play these with me?
because I can get my friends to play risk and have lots of fun but thats it
Oh shit, I remember playing that a couple of times.
Steam - Talon Valdez :Blizz - Talonious#1860 : Xbox Live & LoL - Talonious Monk @TaloniousMonk Hail Satan
If I find out any of you dicks are bidding against me, I swear to god I will rape your families.
Yesssss, Rachel and I got that for our wedding! It's fucking sweet.