Board Games

[Machete234]

Risk is maybe the only cool board game.

[Pxtl]

Risk is maybe the only cool board game.

Seriously? It's just clattering dice and using the cards to dump in ever moar units. It takes like 5 hours and by the end of it everybody hates each other, especially the dude who lost in the first hour and has spent the last 4 watching late night TV. There are many better wargames than stock "Risk" - some of them are even Risk variants.

[Raghna]

Risk is maybe the only cool board game.

FFFUUUUUUUUUUUU

[PicassoCT]

Verywell, i bought one of the games, cosmic encounter, i tried to build that papercraft AI they work on in /po/ but it wont work for me, no matter how mutch i bumptydumpty that thread.

So i decided to join the local Lobby for board games, but after i spend three hours in the #main of a street, and then two in a lobby of a hotel, i found out my socialskills are version 0.000666 and dont work, no matter how long i lurk. Specially bad was, that people bought my version of the game, to get rid of my presence, so i had to reorder it.

Is there a tutorial on how to upgrade, so i can play it like Spring? Or is there some sort of BattleNet i do not know? Please not, that i have house ban in my local dungeons and dragons store, for reasons beyond my grasp.

[Caydr]

If this interests anyone, I've confirmed with three independent sources (one big seller on ebay, two big online board game stores) that Agricola is being re-released in English this May/June. They say that comes straight from the publisher.

If anyone here's a regular at Board Game Geek, they might like to know about this, as I scoured that forum for about an hour and couldn't find anything about a re-release that wasn't over a year old or else speculation.

From what I've read, all versions except English have had the cardboard figures and tokens phased out in favor of wooden ones. There are also a number of known translation errors and one card that says the wrong thing altogether, so presumably these are the shortcomings that will be addressed.

I guess I'll buy Puerto Rico and Catan in the meantime.

[Pxtl]

iirc, Bayshore Hobbies in Hamilton has a big discount every May to celebrate their anniversary - dunno if they still do that. Alternately, every January those mall calendar stores that pop up for the new year and stock nothing but calendars and boardgames have to unload their stock - you can often get 25-50% off, and they usually carry the big names of the BGG world (Catan, Puerto Rico, Risk 2210, Apples to Apples, etc).

[KaiserJ]

this be a fun one, says i.

dont lose any of the little models or you're shit out of luck tho

[knorke]

Malefiz, Scrabble, Chess. ggnore.

[PicassoCT]

Take it easy.

[KDR_11k]

From what I've read, all versions except English have had the cardboard figures and tokens phased out in favor of wooden ones.

I don't know about "phased out", the Agricola we got (soon after it appeared on the BGG charts) already had wooden tokens (except for food points, those were cardboard), did the German version ever come with cardboard stuff? I know plenty of people build their own figures out of clay...

[Panda]

Hero Quest, Chinese Checkers, and Majong are awesome.

[Caydr]

I concur.

[Panda]

Not the same games, but lol. Zoombie's lesbian moonbabes seem like they would be neat to put in a game too! :)

[PicassoCT]

That certainly has a future

[Caydr]

iirc, Bayshore Hobbies in Hamilton has a big discount every May to celebrate their anniversary - dunno if they still do that. Alternately, every January those mall calendar stores that pop up for the new year and stock nothing but calendars and boardgames have to unload their stock - you can often get 25-50% off, and they usually carry the big names of the BGG world (Catan, Puerto Rico, Risk 2210, Apples to Apples, etc).

Do these guys sell chess sets? I've been thinking for a while about buying a really high end chess set but the only people I can find that sell such a thing are in the 'States. I mean like $500, all hardwood, real ebony for the black pieces, full-size board, etc.

Of course, right now I guess that really means a discount. Hmm... Still, it would be nice to see and touch what I'm buying before I pay for it.

[Gota]

iirc, Bayshore Hobbies in Hamilton has a big discount every May to celebrate their anniversary - dunno if they still do that. Alternately, every January those mall calendar stores that pop up for the new year and stock nothing but calendars and boardgames have to unload their stock - you can often get 25-50% off, and they usually carry the big names of the BGG world (Catan, Puerto Rico, Risk 2210, Apples to Apples, etc).

Do these guys sell chess sets? I've been thinking for a while about buying a really high end chess set but the only people I can find that sell such a thing are in the 'States. I mean like $500, all hardwood, real ebony for the black pieces, full-size board, etc.

Of course, right now I guess that really means a discount. Hmm... Still, it would be nice to see and touch what I'm buying before I pay for it.

Do good chess players actually buy such sets?I always thought they are more of a decorative thing..
Are you a good chess player?
Also,I suppose Ivory is needed for the white chess pieces for the full feel....

[Erom]

I've always liked the looks of the frosted glass v clear glass sets, but all the transparency and reflection makes them difficult to play with.

One of my friends has an old set in his family that was brass v nickel steel, it looked pretty awesome.

[Panda]

That certainly has a future

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Yep, especially if they have awesome clothes!

[Caydr]

Yeah I found those glass sets hard to play with as well. Very easy to miss or mistake things. You need strong contrast between the light squares, light pieces, dark squares, and dark pieces, with less gloss being preferable and all the pieces being impossible to mistake for one another, with special emphasis on pawn vs bishop of course. I think the glass sets break every rule...

Non-antique ivory's illegal in Canada AFAIK and probably similarly restricted in America. We use mostly premium boxwood or maple for the high-end sets, from what I've seen.

I'm OK at chess if I've played a few warm-up games, otherwise I'm usually too out of practice since I don't know a lot of chess players.

This is the set I'm looking at most seriously right now: http://www.thechessstore.com/product/FK ... -King.html

This one's also nice but has the common problem of inadequate contrast and high gloss: http://www.thechessstore.com/product/FK ... -King.html

[Gota]

If I'd get any decorative chess set I'd get one with a set that displayes actuall human characters.