Boardgames

[Cyberus]

Ah, I'm a big boardgame fan, I have an old group of friends that always play these games when we get together:

Die Siedler
   We have the German version with all the 6 player expansions etc as the Brit one didn't come out till a little later, I have the Dutch version, and bought the 'Alexander/Cheops' expansion in Berlin last September...great stuff. Even played at a tournament of this in London

Dungeon Quest
   A vintage Games Workshop game from early 80s based on an old Swedish game called Drakborg (or whatever the Swedish for 'Dragon's castle' is)

Axis and Allies
   One of my personal favourites - very involved, takes a long time

Shogun
   Classic strategy game set in Japan. How could anyone play that heap of bleep, Risk, is beyond me.

Scrabble
   I love it, but none of my friends do. So I play it about once a year :-(

Blood Bowl
   Another classic played with old schoolfriends when we get together. A great game, but you don't really have time to play tournaments of this when you get to adult life. There's an excellent Java version of it called fumbbl or something - haven't played it in about a year

Escape from Colditz
   Another classic, but a lot of my friends don't like it. Played rarely

Space Hulk
    A GW classic, play it once a year or so.

Chess
    No introduction needed


I'm sure there are plenty of others I've forgotten


edit:
Yep, I forgot...
Starfarers (by Klaus Teuber of Die Siedler fame)
Brittania
Blood Royale
El Grande

[Cyberus]

Honestly guys, I don't wish to seem arrogant, but Risk is a pile of bleep (all IMHO of course) once you've played other strategy games.

For example, in Shogun you have to build up a large force slowly, but in Risk, you can magically put a huge army on one country in one turn and sweep across the board. If you don't succeed in taking over the whole world, one of your opponents puts a massive army on one country and sweeps back across the world.

In most other strategy games its more...err, tactical than that. You have to use forward thinking. If you want to build up numerical superiority, you have to plan it carefully in advance. You can only capture neighbouring territories in one turn, so its impossible to sweep across the whole board with a few good dice rolls.

[Cyberus]

Wain wrote:
Apples to Apples is a wonderful card game...Munchkin is a brilliantly vicious card game.

Otherwise...Go, Pente, Chess, Scrabble, Scattergories, Pictionary, Balderdash, and Cranium are my favorites involving boards.

Hehe, Munchkin is cool.
And all the silly expansions as well...

Now, GO, that's an AMAZING game. Possibly the best board game ever...