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Need boardgame recommendation

CPA

CPA

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Got up a game of Axis and Allies with my 14 and 10 year old boys over the weekend. First time they've ever played it and they loved it. Didn't finish it so we kept it as is and last night the stupid cat laid on the board and scrambled pieces all over the place. We had taken a couple of pictures but they weren't clear enough to reset.

So, the boys want to play again this weekend, but I'm wondering what other games in the same vain they may enjoy. Want to get Ticket to Ride, but it's damn expensive. Any suggestions?

Also, what's the best place to get them at?
 
Ticket to Ride is kind of expensive but it is a damn good family board game.

I could suggest a bunch but I think you are looking for more family type games. Otherwise, I'd say Carcasonne and some others.
 
bl4ckfl4g said:
Ticket to Ride is kind of expensive but it is a damn good family board game.

I could suggest a bunch but I think you are looking for more family type games. Otherwise, I'd say Carcasonne and some others.
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Not necessarily, we have a lot of family games. This is more for my two boys who like strategy and war. This wouldn't be a game for the daughter and wife, who don't care too much for those traits.
 
CPA said:
Not necessarily, we have a lot of family games. This is more for my two boys who like strategy and war. This wouldn't be a game for the daughter and wife, who don't care too much for those traits.
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Ticket to ride isn't really a war / strategy game that much.

I didn't care for it as it's mostly a "build the longest train while not being able to mess with other people a lot" game and that's what I like. 😉

If you get settlers of catan make sure to get the knights and cities expansion for it as that one has been the best I have seen so far for it.
 
CPA said:
Got up a game of Axis and Allies with my 14 and 10 year old boys over the weekend. First time they've ever played it and they loved it. Didn't finish it so we kept it as is and last night the stupid cat laid on the board and scrambled pieces all over the place. We had taken a couple of pictures but they weren't clear enough to reset.

So, the boys want to play again this weekend, but I'm wondering what other games in the same vain they may enjoy. Want to get Ticket to Ride, but it's damn expensive. Any suggestions?

Also, what's the best place to get them at?
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Not offering a suggestion here, but one issue I've had with A&A is it's not terribly amenable to three players. You can put two on the allies and one doing axis, but that might just further the the (alleged) allied advantage. Pretty stressful on the axis player anyway.

If you reverse it to one on the allies and two axis, then one guy has to do three sides per turn and the other two just do one side per turn.
 
CPA said:
Got up a game of Axis and Allies with my 14 and 10 year old boys over the weekend. First time they've ever played it and they loved it. Didn't finish it so we kept it as is and last night the stupid cat laid on the board and scrambled pieces all over the place.
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LOL that was no accident. Kitteh wants attention and observed what you were paying attention to for hours.
 
Not a board game, but I played Dominion with my family last summer. It was a lot of fun.

We also played Ticket to Ride, which was a blast. Totally worth the money.
 
herm0016 said:
The Settlers of Catan is random.
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FTFY

Axis and Allies 1941 (50th anniversary collectors edition) is probably the best incarnation of the game. But man is it expensive now. The Europe/Pacific 1939 boards combine into a big board with unified rules. However that version seems to have some major balance issues, as evidenced by multiple fixes by the developers being posted for download.

Ticket to ride and other Euro games are more about balancing resources than warfare/moving pieces. They are completely unrelated. Also most Euro games have a sweet spot of 4 players. While most games manipulate the rules to try to balance it for less/more players, the end result is never the same.

There is always the friend-maker... Diplomacy. I highly recommend playing this game at least once just to find out who people really are. Of course you should have a house rule where whatever happens in Diplomacy stays in Diplomacy (there will be multiple people stabbing each other in the back). But that game is really good with 7 players, decent with 6, and fails miserably with 5 or less.
 
I love (BGG), however given that you like A & A, many of the games found on the geek are going to be much more abstract euro's than American Dice Rollers... (my favorites being - Agricola, At the gates of Loyang, Dominion...which are all great titles)

...but there may be some games/types of games which might appeal to your group.

Merchants and Marauders (best pirate game)
Memoir 44 (command and colors variant)
Twilight imperium
Through the Ages (a civ variant)
Small World (risk in a fantasy environment)
Settlers of Catan (No one can catan as catanilly as catan can catan)
Federation Commander (hex based combat)
 
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CPA said:
Maybe I will try Civilization. They both love Civ IV.
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I have played two incarnations of that board game. There was a much larger board that came out a few years ago. That game seemed more epic and better. The more recent release was... not-fun for me. The two times we played the newer version, it became a pick on the weaker nation game. One of the flaws is that whoever takes a capital of any opponent wins. So if you can recognize who is the weakest opponent, you (and the other players) just rush over there and rape them. Add in the fact that for every skirmish that the opponent loses they lose defenders for there main force as well, then it is like an avalanche of pain for that guy.
 
herm0016 said:
The Settlers of Catan is great.
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This. IMO it's the best balance between board game strategy and time. Depending on the people involved a game should be done in one sitting (couple hours at most). Sometimes you might even have time for multiple games.
 
Trouble with Ticket to Ride is that you can be screwed according to what cards you pull. We tried it and after people figured they couldn't win, they would just screw others.

Try Memoir '44 . It's a war game but the fire fights are resolved much quicker than some of the other tabletop war games. It's a good pace for 1-1.5 hr game. Playing with 3 people might be awkward though.
 
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