Strategy Board Games?

[Wechtlein Uns]

Do you like to play Strategy Board Games? Or are you like all those other video-game hicks? Chess? Checkers? Go? Stratego? Othello? Parcheesi?

Talk about your favorite strategy board game here. If you don't play em, nows the chance to try something new!

[Sophus]

I'm a chess-addict.

[McQ]

Always loved Parchesi, Risk, and Pente.

[Tom62]

I love to play Chess, Monopoly, Stratego and Risk.

[Kyuuketsuki]

I very much used to like playing Risk ... I was so into it that I built my own world map board (huge).

Nowadays, although I don't play Risk any more (I would but no one else seems to want to) I play a play-by-e-mail game called VGA Planets which involves strategy, elements of role-play (optional) and can last over a year ... it has been compared to an 11 player game of chess.

Kyu

[karadan]

Risk is fantastic. Unfortunately i can no longer play it with my family or friends as it always ends in tears...

[curiosityandthecat]

I always wanted to play one of those life-sized chess games. You know, where real people fight to the death on a huge chess board.

Is that unethical?  

[Tom62]

I always wanted to play one of those life-sized chess games. You know, where real people fight to the death on a huge chess board.

Is that unethical?  

[Wechtlein Uns]

ooh! ooh! Risk is great fun. My best strategy is to take south america first and build up forces in brazil while everyone else is fighting over asia. One time I had 68 legions in brazil, and the other two guys had almost torn each other to shreds. heheheh...  :brick:

[Mister Joy]

I play chess and checkers a lot. I actually have a drinking chess set 32 shot glasses with the sillhoettes of the pieces stencilled onto them, and you drink your opponent's as you take them. The more inefficient your game, the worse you feel the next morning.

I've never heard of Go, Stratego, Othello or Parcheesi, though.

[Saeriva]

I play Go, though I'm absolutely abysmal at it since I just picked it up, but I enjoy it a lot. Dominion is another favorite of mine, especially when we're playing half-tanked, which is usually how games tend to go.

[fester30]

Twister and Monopoly.  Before you say Twister is not a strategy game, there is much strategy involved in selecting which yellow circle in which to place your left foot, taking into consideration your location and position on the board as well as the look on your opponent's face.  Both of these games are much more fun with alcohol and without clothing.

[Tom62]

I play a lot of chess (ELO rating approx. 1850). I also love Risk and Stratego.

[history_geek]

What about monopoly? I never figured out how to get a winning strategy in monopoly. It has frustrated me to no end.  :crazy: or :pop: or

Other then that, I love risk, but there simply isn't anyone to play with. My brothers are not intrested in it, and currently I'm not even sure if the damn game has all the neccessary pieces anymore, since my youngest brother has...played...with them (his in second grade, so no swallowing accidents, but he just has a bad habbit of leaving stuff around after his done... -_-' ). And I was pretty unbeatlable in checkers back in the day  

[xSilverPhinx]

How about virtual board games? I like Age of empires very much and Stronghold (for those who are unfamiliar, Stronghold is very much like age of empires, just not with the campaigns but otherwise more complete in castle building and maintaining).

But nothing beats real life strategic problems.