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  • Anybody ever play Spec? It was given to me for my birthday about 15years ago but I lost the instruction and have never been able to play! Google didnt help and its stayed untouched since then.

    Its a property game, quite complex so not very intuitive.

  • Anybody ever play Spec? It was given to me for my birthday about 15years ago but I lost the instruction and have never been able to play! Google didnt help and its stayed untouched since then.

    Its a property game, quite complex so not very intuitive.

    No, I've never played it--looks interesting, though:

    http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/25082

    I suppose without instructions it'll be impossible to work it out--are boardgame instruction manuals ever on-line? I haven't looked. Might do later today, but by all means pre-empt me.

  • Mousetrap was good.

  • It's a perfect day for boardgaming. Anyone fancy meeting at the Pembury Tavern (very boardgame-friendly pub) for a game?

  • Stratego was ace

    I am currently obsessed with Super Scrabble, double the letters double the fun.

    There was a similar game around in the 70 s/ 80 s ? , called "Options"............

  • Anyone ever played Rapscallion? I'm not usually a fan of card games but this one is really good. Nothing like turning the tv/laptop off, making a big plate of toast and playing boardgames with family/friends.

  • Pictionary and Trivial Pursuit are the only ones I play, but still enjoy them immensely.

  • Anyone ever played Rapscallion? I'm not usually a fan of card games but this one is really good. Nothing like turning the tv/laptop off, making a big plate of toast and playing boardgames with family/friends.

    I haven't played this one, no. Do you count card games as boardgames? I know people do, but I usually don't. I must admit that like you I don't tend to look at them much (but always happy to find exceptionally good ones)--that's partly because in Germany there are so many of them. There seem to be three different category of game that have established themselves--the big family boardgames, small travel-sized games (often two-person games), and card games (often 'card versions' of big family-sized boardgames). I've played games of all three varieties and I've only really liked the first category.

  • Apparently, there's going to be a programme about boardgames on the BBC next week:

    Part 2 of Games Britannia ("Monopolies and Mergers") is scheduled for Monday 14th December (21:00 - 22:00, BBC 4), and covers boardgames over the last 200 years.

  • SPIN THE BOTTLE!! Now thats a game.

    C'mon Beth, its only a bit of fun........go on, you lost, so now you have to take your panties skimpies off.

    What did you say Oliver? Board Games? Oh............................sorry.

    Ducks, Runs, Hides. ;)

    EDIT: [This part posted after Oliver's reply below]
    For the record, there are people on here that I don't pay a blind bit of notice to, but there are also others that I do respect very highly - Oliver is one. maybe you're right Oliver, that I have embarrassed myself, but I'll let it stand. I understand my humour, even though it ghosts past many. As you were then. .........I'll behave nicely now.

  • Ashe, quite frankly, I find that post acutely embarrassing, but it's your choice.

  • Games Workshop used to be very good, a very long time ago, for games although always harboured a preference for Role Playing Games and fantasy based stuff. Unfortunately it changed it's business model in the '90s and focussed only on it's lucrative wargaming lines (It also abandoned the TSR distribution rights which was a bit of a nail in the coffin for D&D in this country until Waterstones realised that pasty dice rollers were also often fairly frequent page turners). It has made efforts to get away from the tabletop systems but unfortunately it's staff, many of whom are dedicated geeky tabletoppers, don't help much in this.

    If you want a really good shop then Playing Games on Museum Street is about as good as it gets.

    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.

  • 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.

  • 'Britannia' looks a lot as if 'Defender of the Crown', the computer game, was a partial rip-off.

  • 'Britannia' looks a lot as if 'Defender of the Crown', the computer game, was a partial rip-off.

    Well, kinda, but...

    Britannia begins with the Roman invasion and ends with William the Conqueror, if I remember correctly. The turns represent tens of years, meaning that you have, for example, Boudicca to use for only one turn. The games takes hours, mind. As a positive, even though you are tied to specific nations and you could well play the game many times with the same factions, every game manages to be different. And even with minute differences, the outcome can change a lot.

    Nowadays, after watching the sheep shaggers of Wales sit pretty and rule their lands for ages, we have started to put pressure on them from the get-go. Driven to the mountains, the Welsh are not able to produce their foul offspring which opens opportunities for the different groups from Ireland to populate their lands.

    I've learned more of the history of perfidious Albion playing that game than I ever did in school.

    And yes: Dominion rocks. Even my friends that hate board games have wanted to have another go. And I suggest you stay with the basic game. At least the first expansion was, sadly, pretty weak. I have the second one, too, but haven't tried it out yet.

  • Yes, the expansion mania produces strange things. Some of the Carcassonne expansions are very good, but there are two real duds in 'Princess and Dragon' (or whatever it must be called in English) and 'The Catapult'. Both of those include really bad rules and are worth buying only for the additional cards.

    With Britannia, I thought that the board design looked remarkably similar to DotC, which (I think) came out shortly afterwards, 1987 perhaps? It's obviously much simpler, though.

  • Yes, the expansion mania produces strange things. Some of the Carcassonne expansions are very good, but there are two real duds in 'Princess and Dragon' (or whatever it must be called in English) and 'The Catapult'. Both of those include really bad rules and are worth buying only for the additional cards.

    With Britannia, I thought that the board design looked remarkably similar to DotC, which (I think) came out shortly afterwards, 1987 perhaps? It's obviously much simpler, though.

    The thing is that I've never learned to like or love Carcassonne. It is damn popular here, too, but there's something about the game I just do not get. Could well be I've never learned how to count the points and in that sense am not able to read the game. So I usually turn down offers to play it. Not a problem, thankfully, as we've shitloads of other games to play.

    The only thing I do not like is the fact that it's been ages since we played pen-and-paper RPGs. Never have the time to finish the campaign (for Cthulhu by Gaslight) I've been planning for what seems like two aeons.

  • Are any of the new Trivial Pursuit games any good? I played one a few years ago and it was dumbed down to fuck. Has anyone played the new genus?

  • I must admit that I've never really liked TP. Interesting to hear that the latest at least seems to have been dumbed down. Can anyone else confirm that?

  • Balls! I fail again. I thought this was broadgames® littered with 'sexytime' games/tomfoolery with skanky hookers in cheap motels.

  • The thread for you is over here ------>

    http://www.londonfgss.com/thread28431.html

    :D

  • I deserved that. :(((

  • Does anyone here own Blood Bowl stuff they'd want to offload? I'm looking 2nd edition Goblins, Skaven and, well, almost everything by Jes Goodwin.

    I've even some money I would be willing to spend on those.

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