Other Board Games??

[Pancho]

Different.
If you like bashing monsters...

I love storylines. Random has by definition no good storyline.

I would say it is better than a badly written quest but a lot less good than a good written quest.

Thanks for the summary. Storylines are very important for me too.
I've never fully realised it before now, but the stories that Heroquest provide is probably the single most important factor in how I love the game so much.

[knightkrawler]

Different.
If you like bashing monsters...

I love storylines. Random has by definition no good storyline.

I would say it is better than a badly written quest but a lot less good than a good written quest.

Thanks for the summary. Storylines are very important for me too.
I've never fully realised it before now, but the stories that Heroquest provide is probably the single most important factor in how I love the game so much.

Everybody and all their nieces could write a dungeon game based on coincidence, methinks.
I've always embraced all the roles the EWP has to play.

[mitchiemasha]

Meanwhile house Stark become really strong in the north and it became obvious that he was going to win if not stopped. Instead of stopping Stark the other players became fixated on Kings Landing and me, meaning that I had to face Stark alone, with all the other Houses attacking me too and rolling over for the Stark player.

Your early aggression was not favoured by the world and you became the villain. The rest were happy to serve under their new king, the king of the north.

[Pancho]

Meanwhile house Stark become really strong in the north and it became obvious that he was going to win if not stopped. Instead of stopping Stark the other players became fixated on Kings Landing and me, meaning that I had to face Stark alone, with all the other Houses attacking me too and rolling over for the Stark player.

Your early aggression was not favoured by the world and you became the villain. The rest were happy to serve under their new king, the king of the north.

I should have played how Arryn actually goes about its business in the show; stay out of trouble, build up safe and secure in the Eyrie, then use the knights of the vale to crush enemies late on.
Alas, I am more Robb Stark than I am Littlefinger. Patience never has been my strong point.

[TMU]

Monopoly
Card games
Kimble
Games testing how well you know the other players, the one I am mostly referring to is called skeletons out of the closet, dunno if it is in any other language than Finnish

These are played most often by me.

[Daedalus]

Legend of Drizzt, Dead of Winter, and X-wing (previously) with friends.
Forbidden Island, A Touch of Evil, and Mice and Mystics with family.

[j_dean80]

Mitchie, we have similar tastes by the look of it. As well as Heroquest and Space Hulk, I regularly play Axis & Allies and Game of Thrones the boardgame (actually home-made variants of both of these).
We used to love Risk and that game is what started the move to more involved global conquest type games. Usually we build them ourselves to suit are particular nerd tastes.

I'm currently working on something slightly different; players take the role of a present day superpower and have to become the dominant force but at the same time not completely destroy the planet. I've had a lot of fun trying to model all the chaos of the modern world, complete with financial crashes, natural disasters, conflict zones, shock elections & referendums, terrorism & false flag operations, globalists trying to remove elected leaders and so on. About to embark on the play-testing phase soon.

I would thoroughly recommend Game of Thrones the boardgame, especially to people who like the cutthroat politics and general flavour of the TV series. Really requires 6 people though to make it truly epic.

I've always had a game idea in my head but never ran with it. It is based on trade routes and hazards (example - attacking pirates) in the Caribbean colonial times.

[Pancho]

Mitchie, we have similar tastes by the look of it. As well as Heroquest and Space Hulk, I regularly play Axis & Allies and Game of Thrones the boardgame (actually home-made variants of both of these).
We used to love Risk and that game is what started the move to more involved global conquest type games. Usually we build them ourselves to suit are particular nerd tastes.

I'm currently working on something slightly different; players take the role of a present day superpower and have to become the dominant force but at the same time not completely destroy the planet. I've had a lot of fun trying to model all the chaos of the modern world, complete with financial crashes, natural disasters, conflict zones, shock elections & referendums, terrorism & false flag operations, globalists trying to remove elected leaders and so on. About to embark on the play-testing phase soon.

I would thoroughly recommend Game of Thrones the boardgame, especially to people who like the cutthroat politics and general flavour of the TV series. Really requires 6 people though to make it truly epic.

I've always had a game idea in my head but never ran with it. It is based on trade routes and hazards (example - attacking pirates) in the Caribbean colonial times.

Sounds interesting, you should get the concept down on paper and see where it goes from there.
There is a game called 'Letters of Marque' which (I think) has players trying to avoid pirates along trade routes. I've never played it, I just saw a copy recently at a tabletop sell and almost bought it just for the the ship models inside, but there weren't enough for my plans. There seems to be a lot of US ebay sellers of it, if you fancy grabbing one.

[Sotiris]

1. Dominant Species
2. Catan
3. Ticket to Ride
4. 7 Wonders

[Anderas]

Woa catan!

Must have been ages since I played that one.