07-04-2004 03:33									#1
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I'm trying to decide what sort of board game I want to get. I've played Settlers of Catan, and enjoyed it, but I hear that there are a lot of other excellent games coming out of Germany these days. Anybody familiar with any of them? Are any of them better/worse than Settlers?

	07-04-2004 03:36									#2
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Sounds like you have your heart set on a civ/strategy type game. This isn't a game like that, but it's a good game all the same - Cranium.

	07-04-2004 03:58									#3
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I've got Cranium already and it's cool, but yeah, I'd rather something more civish. My roommate loves Risk, and I wanted to get something a little along those lines to add some variety.

	07-04-2004 04:18									#4
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Shogun is excellent, also available under the name Samurai

-Jam

	07-04-2004 04:22									#5
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Oh yeah, my brother used to play that. I think I might even have a copy at my parents house. It's something like Axis and Allies, right?

	07-04-2004 04:38									#6
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Its not really a war game, more a pure strategy game, that pretends to be a bit about warfare in feudal Japan.

-Jam

	07-04-2004 05:00									#7
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Ah cool. In any event I'll look and see if we still have it.

	07-04-2004 05:47									#8
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There's some old boardgame threads around here with a lot of suggestions in if you want to search. The Germans definitely seem to be producing the finest pure strategy games these days. Their home market for them is huge.

Euphrates & Tigris is probably my favourite one after Settlers. El Grande is another.

	07-04-2004 05:49									#9
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Yeah, I'm sure there are some old board game threads. But then if I looked in those, nobody would get the +1.

Consider this a public service. And I'll look into those that you mentioned.

	07-04-2004 12:03									#10
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There was an ok game called scotland yard that i used to have, you have to track one player through london, but you can't see all of his moves. Kind of hard to explain, but probably would be enjoyable to Mornington Crescent Players.

	07-04-2004 13:12									#11
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quote: The Germans definitely seem to be producing the finest pure strategy games these days. Their home market for them is huge.

So true. We meet twice a week to eat dinner (taking turns to cook) and play board games, and someone from the group (a nicely balanced 6 girls and 5 guys) seems to have a new game every week

Ah! The boardgames paradise! And you thought it was all bratwurst and lederhosen here

-Jam

	07-04-2004 16:19									#12
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My roomate's a gamer, so we get along great.

He likes Axis and Allies, to which we have yet to get in a game, since he is still trying to finish off an earlier one.

	07-04-2004 17:54									#13
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Ah, Axis and Allies, a classic.

	07-04-2004 18:38									#14
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The only thing I don't like about most board games is that they rely on chance too much. I prefer chess - now there's a real game of strategy.

	07-04-2004 18:50									#15
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Anybody played Carcassonne? That's a fun, German game

	08-04-2004 03:05									#16
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You can get many boardgames that have zero luck these days, but I prefer games that have a modest amount. It stops the math genius in our crowd winning everything with monotonous regularity

	08-04-2004 08:35									#17
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quote: The only thing I don't like about most board games is that they rely on chance too much. I prefer chess - now there's a real game of strategy.

Definintely

	08-04-2004 09:09									#18
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What aboot stratego, doesn't that involve heavy strategy?

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Sorry to threadjack, but I was in aniother thread, and a profound moment of euphoria hit me liek a slippery fish.
There is a parody game of life. "the real game of life" with much better, and realistic rules and such. If you screw up at the start, you are aborted, and have to wait your turn. very funny, and true. Hunt around for the sucker, its well worth the hunt, and b-sides htta, isn't that all just hlaf the fun?