The Boardgames Thread / Board games

Regarding the current state of GW:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/28/games-workshop-decla.html

http://www.notsounwashed.com/2009/11/very-dangerous-remove-immediately/

Other than that, if you are into "board" games, I highly recommend Dominion. One game takes only about half an hour or less and it's time well spent. A really, really good game, that.

We like to play the monsters boxes of Fantasy Flight: Arkham Horror (I'm a big fan of Lovecraft's) and Galactica. The problem with those is that the set-up alone takes 30 minutes -- if you've the bits and pieces in nice packages. So not that suitable for pubs.

The golden oldie, Britannia, is a favorite of ours, too. And if we feel like getting our asses kicked by a box of cardboard, The Republic of Rome is the right choice. I don't think we've ever managed to deal with the Punic wars.

We've managed to play some Blood Bowl, too. Haven't tried the console or pc versions, but those should be decent as well.

So Dominion won 'Game of the Year' in Germany this year. I see. That's the highest accolade in the games world--worldwide, I think. That solves one of the questions I had around presents for my family at Christmas, he, he.

The other games sound really good, too. I haven't played any of them. Nice one.