Board Games

[BabySasuke]

Recently started a topic on Ticket to Ride:

curious what some of your other board games you enjoy are, outside of risk of course lol

ive recently started playing quacks of quindleberg - this won game of the year in 2018, its a super fun potion mixing - bag building game
i like this as its great for 1v1 but works just aswell for 4 player games

monday i have the game speicherstadt showing up which is by far one of the most interesting and unique games ive played - its economic based sort of, but almost a hybrid between eco, and ticket to ride

ticket to ride i think has overtaken risk as my favorite game, the mechanics are just amazing and simple, plus so many maps with always a quirk on that map which makes each board unique

were trying to learn dune, but we are struggling with 2 people, it is possible, but trying to learn it and having no additional players makes it tough

any recommendations for 1v1 games?

[jusplay4fun]

I like Chess, checkers, and Reversi, all good 1v1 board games.

I am not a big fan of backgammon (or Chinese Checkers).

[Dukasaur]

I used to play chess, a lot. Played at a steadily increasing rate from the time I was about 12 to the time I was about 30. I was briefly the Brock University champion. My sparring partner was the Ontario Junior champion. In the last two years of my chess-playing, I probably played over a thousand games. And then something snapped. I must have overdosed on it, because suddenly I just lost all interest in chess.

Played Stratego a lot as a kid.

Backgammon is kind of tedious, but I had a girlfriend once who loved it, so for about six months I played a lot of it.

Just before the Internet came around and ruined board games forever, I was playing a lot of the old-school Avalon Hill war games, stuff like Stalingrad and Ypres.

[2dimes]

I was taken out of class in grade two and three for add. Instead of putting us on drugs back then they would teach us phonics and other spelling technique that as you can see don't work.

One of the things we did was play backgammon. I loved it but did not have the little box and disks so could not play with anyone else. Then I forgot how to play.

Later I re-learned to play via pogo. Then a few years ago on game boy. I like it in moderation.

[HitRed]

Axis and Allies

The game board was huge and fun to set up. The pieces (tanks, bombers, battleships) were in the colors of each nation. German gray. American green, British khaki, Japanese yellow and Russian earth red. Each player got cash called IPCs as money for holding territories. Each player started with lots territories, lots of IPCs and lots of troops. The Axis countries also got Special Weapons.

The fun was setting it up, planning the strategy., making purchases and launching attacks. From there it was all down hill. If you like math it is one of the best games to study how board games die. Infantry were so cheep and effective you would never buy a tank or fighter plane. Navy Transports which could not attack were more prized and more effective than battleships! It was a math mess. They tried to straighten out infantry in later versions but went the wrong way by reducing capabilities instead of changing costs.

If you ever play
Infantry 4
Tanks 5
Fighters 10
Bombers 12

[KoolBak]

My youngest son likes those big complex games...we play Terraforming Mars and Planet (Blue Orange Games Planet Board Game)...they both kick my ass

Still LOVE Statego. When I was a kid, my dad always whalloped me. He was always red and I, blue. So one day, I put pieces of tape on the back of all his pieces and wrote the name of the piece. When we played, one never saw the back of their own piece...

I kicked his ass for a couple years then he stopped playing with me thirty years later I finally told him....shook his head and had another opportunity to say "I should have had more daughters"

[Jdsizzleslice]

If you like Card Games as well as Board Games, Sequence is a good mix of both.

[BabySasuke]

i used to be really into chess, and backgammon, i admit id need to have a refresher for backgammon, but i remeber i had one of the multi board things as a kid and those are awesome games, dominos too was fun in it

i just watched a video on a game called everdell, and that sounded cool, city building, 1-4 players, with alot of aspects to it

axis and alleys always seemed like it would fit up my alley but never got around to it, might have to add it to our collection!

terraforming mars and planet? that sounds wild lol, i gotta look that up

[KoolBak]

Those two hurt my head

[Bentelbow]

I was a big fan of Axis and Allies back in the day.. seemed like against an opponent who was familiar with the game mechanics, it was nearly impossible for the Axis to win.. unless you got insane dice luck out of the gate.. I was also under the impression that any player could pony up 6 IPCs for a chance to get a special weapon.. Heavy bombers were great.

[HitRed]

I was a big fan of Axis and Allies back in the day.. seemed like against an opponent who was familiar with the game mechanics, it was nearly impossible for the Axis to win.. unless you got insane dice luck out of the gate.. I was also under the impression that any player could pony up 6 IPCs for a chance to get a special weapon.. Heavy bombers were great.

Agreed, the Axis had it hard. That’s why we always started Germant with jet power and Japan with super subs. Heavy bombers, though rare, were too powerful. Each bomber got 3 attack dice instead of the normal one. we had a game where Japan took over all China, India, and all of Russia except Moscowand the axis still lost.

[Dukasaur]

I was a big fan of Axis and Allies back in the day.. seemed like against an opponent who was familiar with the game mechanics, it was nearly impossible for the Axis to win.. unless you got insane dice luck out of the gate.. I was also under the impression that any player could pony up 6 IPCs for a chance to get a special weapon.. Heavy bombers were great.

Agreed, the Axis had it hard. That’s why we always started Germant with jet power and Japan with super subs. Heavy bombers, though rare, were too powerful. Each bomber got 3 attack dice instead of the normal one. we had a game where Japan took over all China, India, and all of Russia except Moscowand the axis still lost.

I found the only good Axis and Allies games were the 3-player games, where the Russians weren't controlled by the same player as the Western Allies.

[HitRed]

I was a big fan of Axis and Allies back in the day.. seemed like against an opponent who was familiar with the game mechanics, it was nearly impossible for the Axis to win.. unless you got insane dice luck out of the gate.. I was also under the impression that any player could pony up 6 IPCs for a chance to get a special weapon.. Heavy bombers were great.

Agreed, the Axis had it hard. That’s why we always started Germant with jet power and Japan with super subs. Heavy bombers, though rare, were too powerful. Each bomber got 3 attack dice instead of the normal one. we had a game where Japan took over all China, India, and all of Russia except Moscowand the axis still lost.

I found the only good Axis and Allies games were the 3-player games, where the Russians weren't controlled by the same player as the Western Allies.

We put our weakest player in Russia as it was mostly defense. America dropping a Industrial Complex in China was a great move. England should drop an IC either Egypt or India. Japan in Burma was always smart.

We experimented with stacking restrictions to avoid one epic battle that decided the game in each theater. In the Pacific America’s Navy would win. In front of Moscow it was 50/50.

If I could start one additional piece it would giving Germany one Battleship in the Baltic. Along with the sub and transport already there it would give street cred to Operation Sealion. Britain would have to sink it by aircraft and navy and not be able to shift to North Africa reinforcements without pause. I think the Bismark there anyway.

[rdsrds2120]

My favorite 1v1 abstract strategy games are probably well classified as easy to learn, hard to master. Classics in this realm of course are, checkers, backgammon, and chess.

If you're looking for more games like those, I have a few suggestions that I've really come to like that aren't as traditional if you're looking to branch out:
Hive https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2655/hive
Onitama https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/160477/onitama
Tsuro https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/16992/tsuro
Passtally https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/16992/tsuro

I can make suggestions for most kinds of board games if you throw me different kinds of things you like.

[BabySasuke]

i have vastly increased my collection since last time i posted here...really gotten into the hobby now

everdell is quickly becoming one of my favorite games, the expansions add alot of fun to it also

great western trail has been a great addition also

[2dimes]

We tried PanAm it was pretty complex but we were all quite tired so I don't know if it is fun or not. I might report back in the future.

Has cool plastic vintage airplanes so there's that.

[jonesthecurl]

When the curlson was here for a couple of weeks we played a lot of 'Santorini'. Great fun and pretty too. I didn't think the 'God' cards added any value to the game.

[Dukasaur]

Going to play Hilarium this week for the first time in about 10 years. I don't even remember how it's played, but as I recall it's a hoot. Or maybe that's the Martinis.

[Yordy]

Jaipur, Kahuna, Hanamikoji, Santorini, Spirit of the wild, Duelosaur Island, Lost Cities are few two player only games me and my wife like

Azul, Kingdomino, Castles of Burgundy, Century New World, Five Tribes, Time Stories, Quadropolis, Harbor, Paladins of West Kingdom, Grand Austria Hotel, Rajas of Ganges, Seasons, Underwater Cities are few multiplayer games that plays best at 2 IMHO.

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[Serbia]

Growing up I loved Stratego. I’d play my step brother, who was frankly dumb and bad at the game. I took to playing as stupidly as possible just to see what I could get away with and still win lol.

Now, I’m really into Ticket To Ride. We have USA and Europe. Played Germany in the UK with family when we went back for the holidays, and I just bought Rails and Sails; looking forward to playing that one tonight. I’m excited for the Great Lakes map on that one, since I live in Michigan and will enjoy the regional gameplay.