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| 22 SEP 2010 at 4:15pm | |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor  Posts : 6694 Joined: 16 OCT 2004 Location: US, Texas Status : Offline | |
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| 22 SEP 2010 at 9:23pm | |
FnordSchattenjger  Posts : 2758 Joined: 15 SEP 2008 Location: SE, Stockholm Status : Offline | Allright....on a serious note. Most of the board games that I have played have been the garden variety games such as chess, checkers, stratego etc. Really would like to give such a genre a better try; however, to find someone willing at my age to play dungeon and dragons (which I have never played) its going to be a tad hard, and just as well make time for it. Most others play on the computer, and yet there is something magical about moving pieces on a board and having human interaction with another player. At the gaming convention that I attended during the weekend, the average age was probably around 30-35, but there were several people in the 60s who were there to play board games & pen and paper RPGs. There are several that you can play for free online: Diplomacy Carcassonne Blood bowl Rules can (legally) be found online. For blood bowl, you can find the rulebook here For carcassonne you can find them here And for diplomacy you can find them here (and probably on almost any diplomacy PBM server site). If anyone feels like they want to play a game of carcassonne, give me a shout.
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| 22 SEP 2010 at 11:16pm | |
CarolineJA+ Overseer  Posts : 16552 Joined: 28 JAN 2007 Location: AU Status : Offline | |
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| 22 SEP 2010 at 11:48pm | |
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| 23 SEP 2010 at 12:14am | |
Lady KestrelGuild Master  Posts : 4047 Joined: 27 SEP 2004 Location: US, NJ Status : Offline | |
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| 23 SEP 2010 at 9:09am | |
FnordSchattenjgerPosts : 2758 Joined: 15 SEP 2008 Location: SE, Stockholm Status : Offline | Like Caroline, I'm also surprised at how many of those games are new to me. I think a convention like that would be great fun to attend, just to see what's new. Board gamig is a bit of a niche hobby. You have the classic board games, like TP, monopoly, Risk & all these games aimed at a younger audience that you can find in toystores, and then you have the games aimed at people in the hobby that you either need to order online or visit a more specialized store in order to find (if you are lucky you might find Settlers in a toy store. It seem to be one of the few games outside the "core" games that have reached any kind of mainstream appeal (and I can see why, it is a great game)). Board games are often seen as either things you play with your kids, or things you play at the family reunion, but for many of us it is a lot more than that.
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| 23 SEP 2010 at 10:58am | |
CarolineJA+ OverseerPosts : 16552 Joined: 28 JAN 2007 Location: AU Status : Offline | |
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| 23 SEP 2010 at 5:21pm | |
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| 23 SEP 2010 at 10:42pm | |
CarolineJA+ OverseerPosts : 16552 Joined: 28 JAN 2007 Location: AU Status : Offline | |
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| 25 SEP 2010 at 3:51pm | |
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| 25 SEP 2010 at 8:10pm | |
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| 25 SEP 2010 at 8:26pm | |
Terry PenrodGrand InquisitorPosts : 6694 Joined: 16 OCT 2004 Location: US, Texas Status : Offline | |
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| 25 SEP 2010 at 8:43pm | |
IviniaGuild Master Posts : 4459 Joined: 7 JUN 2003 Location: US Status : Offline | Here's my plug for the 10 Days series. The image depicts 10 Days in Europe. - The game starts with the cards being mixed into a big pile spread across the table face down. - Each player has two wooden slats that are labeled Day 1 through to day 10. - You go around the table as each player grabs one random card and puts it in their slat - in order from Day 1 to day 10. You keep going around the table until all 10 days are filled. - Once this is done, the cards are then made into 4 piles, three of which are facing up. (If I recall, the face up piles are created by the players as they discard cards.) - Players take turns discarding a card from their slat (they can discard a card from any day) and picking up one from one of the three piles. Their discarded card goes on top of one of the piles. You MUST place a picked up card in the same exact day on your slat that the card you discarded was in. You can not move your cards around on the slat. The objective is to establish a continuous 10 day trip across Europe of connected destinations The image below shows a winning hand: - From Spain you can go to France which borders Spain. - From France you can get on a "Atlantic Ocean" ship and sail to Norway since both countries border the Atlantic. - As Norway is green, you can take a green airplane to another green country - in this case Albania. - From Albania you can go to Greece which borders Albania. - From Greece you can take a "Mediterranean Sea" ship to Turkey. (NOTE: you could have traveled straight to Turkey since it borders Greece, but then you would have only filled 9 days...) - From Turkey you can go to Ukraine since there is a ferry across the Black sea which connects them (Note the black lines in the Black Sea) With this, the player has successfully completed a 10 day trip across Europe. The board is only used as a visual. [img]http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/4663/10dayseurope.jpg[/img] Where this one gets tricky is when you are trying to move your cards around on your slats, so you might be forced to get rid of one you need placed on another day in the hopes that it will still be sitting on the top of the deck and no one else took it or covered it up when it is your turn again. This series as several versions: - 10 Days in Europe - 10 Days in Africa - 10 Days in the United States - 10 Days in Asia - 10 Days in the Americas We preferred Europe and the US best. Africa was pretty decent. Asia was probably the weakest one. It's a very simple as it takes less than 5 minutes to learn how to play, yet extremely fun game. It's great for any ages and is also educational since it teaches geography. Each game lasts around 10-15 minutes, so it plays fast. We've played for hours on end and even their kids got to join in. The games are nail-biters as people frequently need just one more card to make their 10 day connection, but someone yells "I've completed my 10 day trip!" Prices here are around $25 for each of the games. Components are of high quality and built to last.
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| 25 SEP 2010 at 9:09pm | |
IviniaGuild MasterPosts : 4459 Joined: 7 JUN 2003 Location: US Status : Offline | Here are some images of the other games in the series: [img]http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/9057/10daysasia.jpg[/img] [img]http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/1073/10daysafrica.jpg[/img] [img]http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/3396/10daysamericas.jpg[/img] [img]http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/762/10daysus.jpg[/img]
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| 26 SEP 2010 at 3:07am | |
CrisGerSchattenjgerPosts : 2548 Joined: 28 APR 2007 Location: US Status : Offline | |
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| 26 SEP 2010 at 7:41pm | |
Lady KestrelGuild MasterPosts : 4047 Joined: 27 SEP 2004 Location: US, NJ Status : Offline | |
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| 26 SEP 2010 at 7:52pm | |
Terry PenrodGrand InquisitorPosts : 6694 Joined: 16 OCT 2004 Location: US, Texas Status : Offline | |
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| 26 SEP 2010 at 10:17pm | |
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| 27 SEP 2010 at 11:44pm | |
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| 28 SEP 2010 at 2:04am | |
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| 28 SEP 2010 at 10:38am | |
FnordSchattenjgerPosts : 2758 Joined: 15 SEP 2008 Location: SE, Stockholm Status : Offline | I think I have that game as well, hidden in some dark closet. But mine had bears instead of children. It is nice to see that so many here enjoy board games. I did by the way find a settlers of catan online client: http://home.earthlink.net/~mgardner0/ It would be fun to see if we can get a game going with the people on this forum.
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| 11 APR 2011 at 5:14pm | |
FnordSchattenjgerPosts : 2758 Joined: 15 SEP 2008 Location: SE, Stockholm Status : Offline | I made this for another forum, but if anyone is interested in battletech, here is a quick unboxing of the 25th anniversary boxed set (which I put on pre-order some time ago, and which finally arrived today). As some of you might know, I recently jumped ship, and started playing battletech. Well, now they have come out with a new starter box, containing a grand total of 24 mechs, a small rulebook that has all the basic rules for mech, but no special equipment, no aircrafts, spaceships, boats/submarines or anything else that might make the game tricky. They do expect you to pay for the full rulebook, if you intend to use any of the more advanced rules. It should be noted that Catalyst game labs make money by selling rulebooks, and not models. Ironwind miniatures/Ral partha Europe make the models. The intro set cost me 35£, including postage from the UK. The box itself had a price tag of 29£, so it is quite a lot cheaper than AoBR. But lets get started, here is a size comparison between the box & AoBR [img]http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5817/16444244.jpg[/img] [img]http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/1005/66487954.jpg[/img] As you can see, the box is somewhat smaller than the AoBR one, though it is a little bit wider. There are no sprues taking up space though, everything in the box is useful. [img]http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/9731/25835512.jpg[/img] 22 of the models are in the plastic bag on the right, while two high quality models are in the small boxes. There are also 2D6 in a small bag (as if any wargammer needs more D6. I think I have about 150 of those ). Here is an image of the two doublesided maps that came in the box [img]http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/5195/99185697.jpg[/img] The quality of these maps feels comparable to what you would expect from fantasy flight games (which means that the quality is quite high. Unlike warhammer, you play this game on a hex grid, with terrain printed on it. There are optional rules for playing the game like warhammer, on a terrain filled table, on catalyst's webpage. [img]http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/6947/96886895.jpg[/img] You get quite a lot of things to read in this box. I did not include an image of the poster/map of the universe that came with the game, as I could not find any space for it The quick start rules (closest to the camera, to the left) are very simple rules, that is meant to teach you the basics of movement and shooting, and you can download those from catalyst's webpage. Next to the quick start rules are a painting & tactics guide. A nice thing to include, for those brand new to the game. In the middle row, you have an 80 page rulebook (A4), that gives you enough rules to use most of the included models (more on that later), a 56 page fluff book, introducing the universe, and next to it is a small pamphlet explaining what the different books for sale are (knowing what to buy can be rather confusing, there are no less than 4 "core" rulebooks (and a 5th on its way), record sheets, technical readouts, source books and so on, and without this thing, I guess it would be nigh impossible for a brand new person to figure out what everything is. At the back you have book of record sheets (these explain how each individual mech work, what weapons they have, where those weapons are, how much damage they can take, and so on. You also use those to show where your mech has taken damage, and how much), and a reference sheet. [img]http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/6841/14200456.jpg[/img] For the mechs themselves, well as you can see, there are plenty of them. One is oddly enough still on its sprue, while the other mechs were pre-built. It should be noted that apart from two of the mechs, these requires some major cleanup, with mold lines & flash all over the place. Some also had some bent arms. The two high quality models (the ones found in the boxes) are clean though, I can hardly find a single mold line on those, and they look really nice. And for a size comparison between warhammer models and these mechs [img]http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/3833/74423378.jpg[/img] From left to right A rogue trader ork, a 3rd edition ork, the smallest mech in the box, a medium sized mech, a metal mech that I bought earlier and finally the largest mech in the box. For its price, this box was really good. You have to remember though, that this is a box meant for absolute beginners, to hook people on the game. Apart from the two high quality mechs, don't expect anything close to GW quality from these models (if you want nice looking mechs, you have to buy them from Ironwind or Ral Partha). All the rulebooks were printed on high quality paper, better than the paper that GW prints their rulebooks on. I'm happy with this purchase, and I'll use it to introduce more people to the game. There is one odd thing with the box though. The rules for using the two high quality models are in fact not in there. You get two record sheets for each one of them, but you don't get the rules for their equipment.
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| 11 APR 2011 at 5:59pm | |
TravellerGuild Master Posts : 4040 Joined: 3 JUL 2010 Location: US Status : Offline | |
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| 11 APR 2011 at 6:16pm | |
FnordSchattenjgerPosts : 2758 Joined: 15 SEP 2008 Location: SE, Stockholm Status : Offline | This was originally posted on a warhammer forum, and I recently left warhammer for Battletech, so that was what I meant with "jumped ship". I had pre-ordered and payed for this box before my GPU broke down, so I would have gotten it either way. For a big box game, this thing was actually surprisingly cheap. 29£~33€ or 47USD, which is less than the price of a new PC game, and with the amount of things inside the box, it will probably offer you more hours of enjoyment than an average PC game. There are 24 mechs in the box, and each one is different in terms of speed, armour & weapons, and a regular game will have 4-10 mechs per side, so you can imagine the amount of possible combinations that you can get out of this. And then you can use all the mechs in the "full" game, and there are literally thousands of different mechs, vehicles, infantry types, spacecrafts, aircrafts, and other things to use. And I'm already hooked on board games If the choice is between playing computer games and board games, board games will almost always win.
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| 11 APR 2011 at 7:49pm | |
FnordSchattenjgerPosts : 2758 Joined: 15 SEP 2008 Location: SE, Stockholm Status : Offline | If anyone is interested in looking at the actual models, here are some pictures of those. [img]http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb325/AFnord/Bild5365.jpg?t=1302551088[/img] [img]http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb325/AFnord/Bild5366.jpg?t=1302551114[/img] [img]http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb325/AFnord/Bild5367.jpg?t=1302551117[/img] [img]http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb325/AFnord/Bild5368.jpg?t=1302551114[/img] The two high quality mechs are to the left (darker coloured plastic). (And those stains on my keyboard are tea & paint stains).
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