Stormonu
Legend
Some ones I've played of late:
POWER GRID: I played a 2-player game of this, and got the impression that with more players, it would be a lot better and far more cut-throat. In the game you are essentially attempting to build enough power stations to light up a certain number of cities. The first few turns and the game seems like it's going to be incredibly easy - until you notice the resources aren't replenishing as fast as your using them. By about the 4th turn (fewer turns if you had more players), you're deeply involved in how you can screw the other player out of the resources you need to power your own plants.
KILL DOCTOR LUCKY - The clue prequel, you're trying to get insanely wealthy and addled Dr. Lucky alone in a room to kill him. Meanwhile, the other players are trying their best to make sure the old man stays alive long enough so they can kill him instead. For such a simple game on the surface it has a lot of strategy going on it and it plays quite whimsically.
FORMULA D - A very well-done racing game that captures the thrill of racing fairly well. Setting your car's "gear" determines what polyhedral die you roll for movement; however, even the different-shaped die don't necessarily have from 1-to-number-of-sides; most have several numbers repeated giving you a somewhat smaller variation in movement. Also, watch out for corners; in the game we played one "S" corner wiped everybody out except the slowest racer - who only made the corner by learning from the other's mistakes. The game plays exceptionally fast - I think we finished the race in about 30 minutes.
CARCASSONE - A tile-laying game that even my 9-year old loves to play. Put down tiles depicting castle-like walled cities and lay claim to cities, the roads or the open fields between them. You can play a single game incredibly quickly and it will leave you hungering to try once more as soon as you finish. Loved it so much, I bought it for my iPad to play solo when no one is around (and improve my strategy as well
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AXIS & ALLIES: This is an old, old game of WWII from the 80's. I was just able to play the expanded version last night and wow, what a difference. It was good back then, it's even better now. You take on the role of one of five world powers in WWII - Russia, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan and USA (if you have fewer than 5 players, one or more players takes on extra countries). You build units (infantry, artillery,tanks,fighter planes, bombers, submarines, cruisers, destroyers, battleships, aircraft carriers and transport ships) and then send them to war. The objective? Knock out the enemy's capital and/or capture enough cities to end the war. It's a fun, fun game that's spawned several supplemental versions, expansions and knock-offs. The only downside is set-up time and the first couple of games will take 3-5 hours to finish. The good news: there's an on-line version of the game, and if you don't mind wanting to try your luck against the computer it's free!
POWER GRID: I played a 2-player game of this, and got the impression that with more players, it would be a lot better and far more cut-throat. In the game you are essentially attempting to build enough power stations to light up a certain number of cities. The first few turns and the game seems like it's going to be incredibly easy - until you notice the resources aren't replenishing as fast as your using them. By about the 4th turn (fewer turns if you had more players), you're deeply involved in how you can screw the other player out of the resources you need to power your own plants.
KILL DOCTOR LUCKY - The clue prequel, you're trying to get insanely wealthy and addled Dr. Lucky alone in a room to kill him. Meanwhile, the other players are trying their best to make sure the old man stays alive long enough so they can kill him instead. For such a simple game on the surface it has a lot of strategy going on it and it plays quite whimsically.
FORMULA D - A very well-done racing game that captures the thrill of racing fairly well. Setting your car's "gear" determines what polyhedral die you roll for movement; however, even the different-shaped die don't necessarily have from 1-to-number-of-sides; most have several numbers repeated giving you a somewhat smaller variation in movement. Also, watch out for corners; in the game we played one "S" corner wiped everybody out except the slowest racer - who only made the corner by learning from the other's mistakes. The game plays exceptionally fast - I think we finished the race in about 30 minutes.
CARCASSONE - A tile-laying game that even my 9-year old loves to play. Put down tiles depicting castle-like walled cities and lay claim to cities, the roads or the open fields between them. You can play a single game incredibly quickly and it will leave you hungering to try once more as soon as you finish. Loved it so much, I bought it for my iPad to play solo when no one is around (and improve my strategy as well
)AXIS & ALLIES: This is an old, old game of WWII from the 80's. I was just able to play the expanded version last night and wow, what a difference. It was good back then, it's even better now. You take on the role of one of five world powers in WWII - Russia, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan and USA (if you have fewer than 5 players, one or more players takes on extra countries). You build units (infantry, artillery,tanks,fighter planes, bombers, submarines, cruisers, destroyers, battleships, aircraft carriers and transport ships) and then send them to war. The objective? Knock out the enemy's capital and/or capture enough cities to end the war. It's a fun, fun game that's spawned several supplemental versions, expansions and knock-offs. The only downside is set-up time and the first couple of games will take 3-5 hours to finish. The good news: there's an on-line version of the game, and if you don't mind wanting to try your luck against the computer it's free!
