Do you like hard, strategic board games?

[Hotteok]

Let me go first. 
No, I don’t like it.

But more precisely, I don’t know if I Iike it or not, because most people around me prefer video games and only occasionally play light board games. 
 

I have an intention to like hard board games at least.

[Hotteok]

That’s why I’ve recently bought several digital board games so I can play against AI.

 

Twilight struggle and through the ages among them.

[Michał]

You mean like Catan?

 I like it very much , even my 6 year old daughter likes it.

[Hotteok]

17 minutes ago, Michał said:

You mean like Catan?

 I like it very much , even my 6 year old daughter likes it.

 

I should say Catan is medium-weight.

[computerwiz]

I used to play many strategy video games back in the day.  I probably would still enjoy them if I could find any like they were back then.  Seems most are too baby-fied where you're just pushing buttons & following directions instead of genuinely coming up with your own strategies and management techniques.  And then again, the few I found that aren't baby-fied are way too complicated and time consuming for the little time I have these days.  And certainly none of my friends would be playing them, so I'd have to be satisfied with computer opponents.  But those are too easy to figure out & then it gets boring.  Or worldly opponents that don't have a life & would know all the secrets...

 

Catan is somewhat fun, but also too simple & left up to chance & having others gang up on me (cuz there's a pervasive believe that I "always" win with games).  I'd like more complex games, but again...who's gonna learn them & play with me?  It's even worse with board games because I can't play against a computer!  

[Hotteok]

6 minutes ago, computerwiz said:

I used to play many strategy video games back in the day.  I probably would still enjoy them if I could find any like they were back then.  Seems most are too baby-fied where you're just pushing buttons & following directions instead of genuinely coming up with your own strategies and management techniques.  And then again, the few I found that aren't baby-fied are way too complicated and time consuming for the little time I have these days.  And certainly none of my friends would be playing them, so I'd have to be satisfied with computer opponents.  But those are too easy to figure out & then it gets boring.  Or worldly opponents that don't have a life & would know all the secrets...

 

Catan is somewhat fun, but also too simple & left up to chance & having others gang up on me (cuz there's a pervasive believe that I "always" win with games).  I'd like more complex games, but again...who's gonna learn them & play with me?  It's even worse with board games because I can't play against a computer!  

 

Twilight struggle sounds like one you could play against AI and some online foes.. it’s a deep game, so I heard

[New World Explorer]

I do like board games, and have many of them (more then 20) 

From time to time I organize boardgame night, and depending on "crowd" we play the level required.  

Medium hard boardgames are quite popular. (Billabong, Through the Desert, Basari) 

Light ones are often played as a prelude to the evening, Bohnanza card game for example (Fun) 

With more heavy ones like  Puerto Rico is harder to find players but we manage! 

I am thinking of buying couple of bit heavy boardgames like Wingspan, and Terraforming Mars or even Ark Nova (checking reviews right now, have not made my decision yet) 

My local boardgame shop has them in stock. 

 

During lighter boardgmes nights Dixit proved to be very popular. 

 

Boardgames are FUN! 

 

Edit: Wingspan is classified in my local shop as Medium-hard. 

Edited July 6, 2023 by New World Explorer

[Qapla]

"Do you like hard, strategic board games?"

 

I have played chess on inlaid wooden chess boards and have even used such boards to play checkers. However, most of the board games I have ever played have come in long rectangular boxes with a gameboard made of cardboard that is folded to fit in the box. So, I guess that most of the board games I have played have been "soft" ... not hard.

 

As to strategic, even games like Life, Clue and Monopoly are strategic.

 

I'm not sure why it would make a difference if the playboard is hard or soft, the game would still be the same - wouldn't it?

 

 

[Hotteok]

1 hour ago, Qapla said:

"Do you like hard, strategic board games?"

 

I have played chess on inlaid wooden chess boards and have even used such boards to play checkers. However, most of the board games I have ever played have come in long rectangular boxes with a gameboard made of cardboard that is folded to fit in the box. So, I guess that most of the board games I have played have been "soft" ... not hard.

 

As to strategic, even games like Life, Clue and Monopoly are strategic.

 

I'm not sure why it would make a difference if the playboard is hard or soft, the game would still be the same - wouldn't it?

 

 

 

Oh I meant the difficulty haha

2 hours ago, New World Explorer said:

I do like board games, and have many of them (more then 20) 

From time to time I organize boardgame night, and depending on "crowd" we play the level required.  

Medium hard boardgames are quite popular. (Billabong, Through the Desert, Basari) 

Light ones are often played as a prelude to the evening, Bohnanza card game for example (Fun) 

With more heavy ones like  Puerto Rico is harder to find players but we manage! 

I am thinking of buying couple of bit heavy boardgames like Wingspan, and Terraforming Mars or even Ark Nova (checking reviews right now, have not made my decision yet) 

My local boardgame shop has them in stock. 

 

During lighter boardgmes nights Dixit proved to be very popular. 

 

Boardgames are FUN! 

 

Edit: Wingspan is classified in my local shop as Medium-hard. 

Oh that’s nice.

Dixit is an easy party game everyone seems to like.

I bought a digital wingspan but even the tutorial is killing my brain. 

[New World Explorer]

4 hours ago, Hotteok said:

I bought a digital wingspan but even the tutorial is killing my brain. 

I do not buy them digitally, I prefer laughter and physical presence when playing with friends. 

I often comment to friends that in our era, it is less and less popular to do things with others.

Digital world offers isolation. (even playing online with others cannot replace physical interaction) 

 

In a digital world you will not get funny expressions like that:

Person 1. Stop sipping the tea so loud, it hurts my brain when I think about my next move... LOL 🤣

Person 2. That's my strategy though... don't we play strategy game...? Sips tea even lauder ...then whole table gets to sip so laud. 🤣

Real friends..real life, is the best! 

[Hotteok]

27 minutes ago, New World Explorer said:

I do not buy them digitally, I prefer laughter and physical presence when playing with friends. 

I often comment to friends that in our era, it is less and less popular to do things with others.

Digital world offers isolation. (even playing online with others cannot replace physical interaction) 

 

In a digital world you will not get funny expressions like that:

Person 1. Stop sipping the tea so loud, it hurts my brain when I think about my next move... LOL 🤣

Person 2. That's my strategy though... don't we play strategy game...? Sips tea even lauder ...then whole table gets to sip so laud. 🤣

Real friends..real life, is the best! 

 

People in my cong gather for video games but not board games! Maybe I should change their digital mindset.

[Pabo]

I don't mind board games myself, but depending on the game and where you are playing it, it will be a factor, let alone the people who are also participating.

 

In a larger group setting, the simpler board games where mutliple people can play are best. When it is a smaller group of 4-6 people, then perhaps a more harder or complex game can be played, depending on those who are in that group. And if you are say playing chess or other more thought provoking/planning game, then it is really a game between two (unless you play a 4 player version).

 

My wife is not a thinking player, so games like snake and ladders, ludo is her preferred game, but she can play some card games such as euchre (as her mother used to play it all the time). Whereas I can play the more complex games where strategy may be involved. But we rarely play games at all, mainly because we are always doing other things. I have the gameplay mindset, whereas my wife in more of the what-may-come-may-go mindset.

 

Some of the board games I really liked playing was Scotland Yard (or Mister X in it's later interations) when I was young, or the more popular games such as Monopoly, chinese checkers, chess, draughts and such. But I also like playing tile games such as Mahjong, Dominoes, Rummikub etc. And for cards games - 500, Euchre, Uno, Skip-Bo.

 

But I had a few mates that will not play 4 player chess with me, as the complexity for them was too broad, and having to think outside of their normal thought patterns was just beyond them, but I excelled, even if they had ganged up on me and colluded with each other, and somehow I always lasted longer than they would think. I was banned from playing Rummikub by a few in our congregation, as I assisted one sister who couldn't make headway with what she had drawn and I was able to go out and actually win the game completely in two rounds. 

 

There were a family and a group of us brothers who used to play 500 all the time and it got so monotonous, that we eventually had to call what we were playing for without looking at what we had been dealt with, and that is even playing with 6 players and cut throat as well. We were still calling 9 and 10 tricks and getting them regularly.

 

But I really like playing Dominoes in its various forms of gameplay, whether it is Block, Draw and 5's.

 

If you want a different take on playing Monopoly, I played it once with 2 boards (UK and Australian version and it will used for the below examples) where the currency amounts of the 2 boards were similar, the two boards we used, the value of the train stations were 200 dollars or pounds but we treated them as a single currency. The boards where the GO corners overlayed each other, thus making a figure 8 board, and you can go into either country from the GO square in the clockwise direction. The rules still applied the same, but with some additions.

 

Chance/Community Cards

 

You can only pull the Chance/Community Card from the pile relating to the country that you are in, and placing it back into that pile when finished. (Both of the boards we had used, the cards were of a different colour/style, so we knew which card was from where).

 

Going to Jail.

 

1/ If you had to "Go to Goal/Jail", you go to the goal/jail in that the country where you were in at the time of the time you were required to "Go to Goal/Jail". So if you were in the UK and you picked up Chance/Community Chest card on the UK board that told you to go directly to goal, then you went into the UK goal. But if you had come from the UK board and then went onto the Australian board by going past the GO square and pick up that said dreaded card "Go directly to Jail", then you would go the the Australian Jail, as the pile that you pulled that card from was based on the Australian board.

 

2/ If you roll the 3rd double and you had to "Go to Jail", the Jail that you go to is the starting position you had started from on that 3rd roll. But if you rolled that 3 double in a row from the GO square, then you have to decide which Goal/Jail that you go to. However, you may also take in consideration of the 3 rule below to your advantage.

 

3/ But if you can only use the "Get Out of Goal/Jail Free" card based on with country you had received that card from. You cannot use a UK "Get Out of Goal/Jail" free card for an Australian Jail or vice versa.

 

Collecting rent and building of houses/hotels.

 

1/ If you own all the same colour property on the on board, you received the typical double rent or the house/hotel prices as stipluted on the property card. But if you owned all the same colour property in both countries, then the undeveloped rent would be quadrupled on the property you land on or if the property has house(s)/hotel on it, it would double irregardless if the opposite country has been developed or not.

 

2/ You still have to build the houses and hotels evenly on the same board when you owned all the same colour properties on the one board as usual. So if you owned all the same colour property on the one board, you can still build houses/hotel in that single board, irregardless whether you own none, one or all the properties on the other board. Building houses/hotels evenly in based on the one board, not what you own on both boards.

 

3/ If you pick up that dreaded card about paying property taxes based on the number of houses/hotels that you owned, you only apply that tax on the number of houses/hotels to the country that you pick up that card from (thus some relieve of not paying property taxes in both boards, unless you happen to pick up that dreaded card in the other board as well).

 

Edited July 7, 2023 by Pabo

[New World Explorer]

50 minutes ago, Pabo said:

Some of the board games I really liked playing was Scotland Yard

I still have it... good memories! 

I was bad at it ...🤣 Couldn't escape long enough.

[New World Explorer]

This is fun game, highly recommended. 

I play it often with various people. 

 

[Pabo]

6 hours ago, New World Explorer said:

I still have it... good memories! 

I was bad at it ...🤣 Couldn't escape long enough.

 

A friend who owned a copy of the game loved playing as Mr X and I would use the all the other 6 pieces to capture him. I would have captured him about 80% of the time. So I would use only 4 pieces and would capture him about a 3rd of the time, as using 4 pieces would gave more holes available for him to sneak through and made it harder for me using the same amount of ticket passes. 

 

But if I played as Mr X, he would rarely capture me with him using 6 pieces.

 

His version was the very first edition by Milton Bradley.

 

[Friends just call me Ross]

My fave is MASTERMIND 

 

https://www.geekyhobbies.com/mastermind-board-game-rules-and-instructions-for-how-to-play/#:~:text=Mastermind Round Example&text=One of the four pegs,is in the wrong space.

 

 

LOVE playing this game!!! 

[1MKnight]

Yes. Couple of my favorite games are Scythe and Dune. Dune is a particularly “heavy” game. But it’s super fun with the right people. 
 

Don’t get me wrong I love party games as well. We have a thriving board game scene among the congregations in my area.