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Looking up information about Axis & Allies, I hit boardgamegeek.com under my own power for the first time, and have been browsing it. Interesting site; I like poking through the users' by-topic lists of games. There is a major trend in the comments of "I liked this a lot 20 years ago, but I can't play it any more now because of da wife & kid", to which I say thank the wife and kid because these games suck and you are insane. Cough.

That said, I now for the first time have a couple of old or foreign games I want to try because they look cool... Avalon Hill's old "Gunslinger", and some nutty German thing which the Americans call "The Lifeboat Game" (as per "The Bean Game"), which looks really mean & nasty & fun. Among its apparent game mechanics is voting to push other players overboard. So it's a board game version of "Werewolf"? I dunno.

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In related news, I spoke to my dad over the phone yesterday, and he dropped a hint at me that he'd like a new game to help him through his convalescence. Rather, that he'd like to play some new games with me this Xmas; he doesn't have any game partners normally, except Ricky for Cribbage (and only Cribbage). (I have tried to teach Ricky other games, but his burnt neural pathways make it slow going, and he gets frustrated and becomes random before we get far.) I note the distinction to acknowledge my temptation to get a new game or two "for dad" and just keep them myself, bringing them up when I visit. Heh heh. OK, OK... don't look at me that that...

Battle Cry (another new discovery through BGG) looks good, since he loves Civil War stuff, and reviews are positive (one person labeled it as "the eurogame that thinks it's a wargame" which actually sounds pretty promising).

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WTF. At the Diesel and sitting next to the central power outlet, and people keep sneaking up to grope my ankles by accident whilst plugging in their laptops n cellphones n gameboys n shit. Meanwhile there are two guys up front who I can't see, but I hear them laughing like diseased hyenas and shouting what sounds like "Hoverstrike!" I bet they love Axis & Allies. No, I actually, bet they find it too amateurish.

Comments

[hitslikeagirl.livejournal.com]

Diesel Represent! I got my cafe au lait there this morning....I'm pretty zingy right now.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

I have Battle Cry if you want to try it some time. In fact I don't think I've ever played my copy, after spending N hours applying all the flag decals and stuff.

Axis and Allies

[temvald.livejournal.com]

Before you totally dis Axis and Allies, I will say that the 'turn every 45 minutes' problem that you mentioned before pretty much goes away if you're playing two player instead of five player. But the lasts four hours if you really know the game, and six or more if you don't problem is still there.