AoS Board Games

Board games have been a staple of mine for as long as I can remember. I started with family board games like Snakes and Ladders, and moved on to more advanced games such as Monopoly, and various other games.

Once I entered my double digit years, I got into more complex games which I’d call a story based board game, these are Hero Quest and Space Crusade. These were games where once you have completed the adventure, aspects of the play could carry over to the next adventure. This was awesome, for a 10 yr old, a game didn’t have to end just because you finished the board.

Once I started working I bought complete sets Battle Feet Gothic with my first paycheck, then didn’t really have anyone to play with, so they are in my paint pile. I also have Call to Arms Babylon 5 miniatures also waiting in line, having had some star wars one skip the queue.

Having moved on from some of the simpler games, I moved on to Descent: Journey in the Dark, which is an advanced version of Hero Quest, and has links to the Runebound board game.

The Wizards of the Coast Star Wars Miniature Games (tactics and space) were fun, but the random element of collecting figures wore off very quickly. (but not quickly enough).

I also collected lots of different board games, Talisman, Star Craft, Marvel Heroes, Kingdom Builder, many versions of Risk and Monopoly among others.

Xbox 360 picked up a few board game titles, Catan and Carcasonne. Both of these I had not picked up myself having a few friends in my group who have those games, and not needing to buy everything, I was glad to pick them up and play them online. Most of my gameplay was solo vs the AI, as it meant I didn’t feel too bad about screwing with the opponents, I still got a lot of satisfaction playing the game. it helped that I won a lot.

Then they advertised Talisaman coming to xbox 360, I checked that store almost weekly, just to see when it was going to show up as a pre-order. I had the details stuck up in my study for a while. Then once the time had passed and I managed to google details on it, I discovered that it had been cancelled…. this was bad news for the electronic gaming market….

Then steam started getting some of the games as well, so now I have Talisman (It made it to PC instead of xbox), Ticket to Ride and Small World 2. These games take a long time to play in real life, and set up takes 10-20 minutes depending on how well you know the rules, and about as much to pack up.