What boardgames have you played recently?

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Playing PBEM now: For the People, Europa Universalis, Pax Romana.
FtF: Ticket to ride, Caylus.
 

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I have my second game of 'Battles of Westeros' set up for tonight. We really enjoyed the last one. We hope to get the rules right tonight! Looking forward to it.
 

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Lock 'n' load;

Band of Heroes, Day of heroes

'Downtown' GMT
Elusive Victory' GMT
 

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And Go puzzles are waaaaaay more fun than Chess puzzles.
Best foreign language TV that I couldn't understand a word of was a Sunday morning (afternoon?) televised Go event in Japan with commentary....a Japanese man, woman and a western man doing the commentary and discussing strategy/future moves as each move was made.

Never have I wanted to understand Japanese more.
 
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Federation Commander. It's Star Fleet Battles done right with all the drudgery and excess complexity removed. It retains the flavor of SFB, but allows for a cruiser vs cruiser battle to finish in an hour or even a full fleet vs fleet battle in a day. The only problem is that I feel the plasma races have been gimped.
 

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Federation Commander. It's Star Fleet Battles done right with all the drudgery and excess complexity removed. It retains the flavor of SFB, but allows for a cruiser vs cruiser battle to finish in an hour or even a full fleet vs fleet battle in a day. The only problem is that I feel the plasma races have been gimped.
I always felt that FC was just one more way for Cole eek out more cash from his Paramount license. I've been a SFB player since I was 12, but the whole production shift really irked me. You really like it more?
 

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I have never played GO
It's rules are simple but the strategy is complex. Here's two places you can play for free online: itsyourturn.com and dragongoserver.net. Dragon is unlimited play, itsyourturn nonmember are limited to 15 moves a day. Even the GROFAZ, Bendis plays GO.
 

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I always felt that FC was just one more way for Cole eek out more cash from his Paramount license. I've been a SFB player since I was 12, but the whole production shift really irked me. You really like it more?
Yes, it's streamlined and far more playable. Also, the laminated cards are gorgeous.
 

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Dune ( AH 1979), we play on wednesday evening and it's a great fun.

We are also arranging a ETO (TSR 1990) full campaign game. Will start next month.
 

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Liberty Roads from Hexasim in France is going on the table right now....
 

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Liberty Roads from Hexasim in France is going on the table right now....
Cool. I have been playing this recently at our local wargaming get-together. It is a fun and clever game. But you might want the more experienced player to take the Wallies...

Jeff
 

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Cool. I have been playing this recently at our local wargaming get-together. It is a fun and clever game. But you might want the more experienced player to take the Wallies...

Jeff

I have been thinking of picking this one up since reading the article in Battles Magazine

Peace

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Dune ( AH 1979), we play on wednesday evening and it's a great fun.

We are also arranging a ETO (TSR 1990) full campaign game. Will start next month.
Do you have the expansions
The Spice one really adds to the game while the Duel one does not.

I do like how more than 25 years later Game of Thrones adapted the character combat influencing mechanics of Dune and combined them with elements of Britannia and Kingmaker in a fairly seamless manner. When one sees the heritage of a game one can truly appreciate the subtleties of game design
 

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Empires in Arms
Axis and Allies Europe/Pacific
Fire in the Sky
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Poker
 
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