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Killer Bunnies, Battlestar Gallactica, Acquire, Werewolves of Miller's Hollow

Bobby G — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:53:55 GMT

I'm thinking about a once a month playdate...My building has a poker room that would be fantastic, that we could use for free. (There's also a heated pool for after). We could alternate with West Bay and East Bay locations, or whatever the group feels.

Anyone interested?

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Favorite games?

Phil — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:48:43 GMT

Let's kick things off with the obvious: what are some of your favorite games?

Settlers of Catan - Do I even need to elaborate?

Puerto Rico - The best damn game to be released since Catan, and possibly the best in a decade. No luck, no downtime, and no single or best way to win means gaming heaven for 3-5 players. I'll elaborate in a seperate post/love fest.

Illuminati - Surreal humor, gleefully attacking your fellow players, and being a backstabbing sonuvabitch are the highlights here. The non-sequiter game of global conquest ("The Post Office and the Cycle Gangs attempt to control the Flat Earthers") may take a while (roughly three hours), but is a consistent local favorite.

TransAmerica - A light, fluffy little train game about laying down rails and singing songs about each city you connect to. The later is a house rule, but you'll find it happens in your games, too. The only game I play with a mandatory bitching phase.

Next?

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Locities Online Game for free.

chaosbreaker — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:46:32 GMT

A favorite of many girlfriends, significant others, wives, and girls in general, is online!

www.yourturnmyturn.com/java/lostcities

You can play against the AI or play-by-web

for details check out my geeklist:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/8323/page/3

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Anybody here?

paolo66 — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:37:04 GMT

and specifically, anyone in the SB/Ventura area?

I'll repost my ad here just to fill the space :)

Great party game inspired by "Army of Darkness":
www.twilightcreationsinc.com/midevil/
opened and played once

Also, "Survival of the Witless", the GREATEST game for grad students, frustrated PhDs. Link:
www.boardgamegeek.com/game/35...+Witless

Sell for $15/ea. or trade for other games (if you have anything in this list:

www.boardgamegeek.com/index.htm

or message me if you have other interesting boardgames)

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Biggest Settlers Game You Have Ever Played?

alicat — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 05:32:38 GMT

What's the Biggest Settlers Version you have played?

I merged several versions together to come up with one giant mondo Settlers with Islands and oceans and all sorts of things... We've been known to play to 30 before.

Anyone else?

Ali

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Anyone in New Jersey close to NYC ?

Lupa — Mon, 16 May 2005 04:19:10 GMT

Anyone in New Jersey close to NYC to play games ?

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History of the Roman Empire game

Broglia — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:55:17 GMT

Dear Boardgames Tribe,
I send you the rewiew of my game "History of the Roman Empire" the game will be published only if reach the 500 preorder within the end of the year.

The History of the Roman Empire game cover the entire rise and fall of the Roman Empire in seven turns of play, starting with the first triunvirate 60 a.C. composed by Caesar, Crassus and Pompeus, until the last emperor Romulus Augustus 476 d.C. The map represents the entire mediterranean area and part of the Asia Minor area. The players take the role of one among the four Roman factions, bring the command of the relate legions, and at the same time, take the control of the barbarians peoples and of the existing kingdoms. The History of the Roman Empire game works at the best with four player, but is possible play it with three or two players, and no player will be eliminate during the entire game. The History of Roman Empire game is not strictly “historical” but offers a great lot of flavour about this, with its 42 roman emperors or pretenders and 34 peoples and kingdoms, recreating the struggle between legions, like civil war, and against the barbarians. The History of the Roman Empire game especially works for fun, the rules are quite simple but, every turn the players must take decisions about which emperor wish became, which barbarian people controls, and where found new cities. Moreover the players try to preserve, as long possible, their legions and consequently the “Empire”, because the Roman factions are one of the major sources of victory points. But many other decisions must be taken by the players during a session of the History of the Roman Empire game... Every turns the players will decide if spend romans victory points for recruitment or forts construction, but only at the end of the game will know if this points are well spended. Every game offers different situations depending on players choices and strategy. The 45 event cards add a little bit of unpredictable opportunyties to the game. Each player, turn by turn, tries to take and hold the richests lands, keeps them under the control of his faction or peoples. However, in the last turns, are the barbarians peoples that will make the difference, Goths, Vandals, Franks, Alans and last but not last Huns spread on the entire map, are strong enough to take what they want where they want, above all, if used in conjunction of a combat event card. Beware it, saving your legions if possible ! At the end of the seventh turn, the players total their victory points and determine the winner. How the History of the Roman empire game will ended ? Do a restored “Roman Empire” rise, or do it fall to the achievement of the barbarians strong ? Only you may decide it !

For every information and eventually preorder :

http://www.ugg.de/bg/AW/HOTRE.shtml

Best Regards
Broglia Marco

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Puerto Rico rule question - Mayor Phase

bengarvey — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:25:53 GMT

When the Mayor restocks the colonist ship, do you replace the ship with a number of colonists equal to the empty building spaces in addition to the number of players in the game? Or do you fill up the ship with the greater of those two numbers? For example.

5 player game, 4 empty spaces.

Do you fill up the ship with 9 or 5 at the end of the Mayor phase?

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Beer & Pretzels

ashton — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 00:20:09 GMT

Good Beer and Pretzels games? We've got a few people playing in a dark bar and CrimeLords becomes a math puzzle by the end ...

Off of the top of my head, I came up with

Cosmic Encounters
WizWar
Robo Rally (sill a math puzzle, but, a fun math puzzle!)

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Gaming Zines

too_many_milk — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:35:01 GMT

Does anyone have any recommendations as to gaming magazines? I used to read 'Arcane', which was a great way to read up on what was coming out, but alas it's gone along time, and there's no easy-to-get-to "proper" games shop here :(

Are there any good regular magazines that people would suggest? Ideally I'm looking for something that covers reviews as well as maybe more fun stuff (Arcane used to just give out RPG systems, for example), with a wide variety of game types and systems.

Ta.

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