Tabletop/Board Games!

[Mikeydev]

If you are looking for a brilliant Zombie board game that has been done correctly you should check out Last Night On Earth (LNOE) by Flying frog productions. It has that classic zombie movie feel and plays out in about an hour. Zombies!! began to get very repetitive after a while but LNOE has been a breath of fresh air. The have also produced a board game based on story's like the headless horseman called A Touch Of Evil.

Dominion is an excellent deck building card game that my whole family enjoy playing. It's quick & easy to learn and games last about 30 min's. This is not a collectible card game and you only need the main box to play.

Small world is a Risk like game that is based in a fantasy world. Very easy to learn and again lasts about an hour. The artwork is brilliant and suits the game perfectly. My fiancee loved this game so much she wants to get the expansions that are available for it.

Ticket to ride is a fun train game that can get very competitive (more fun) when players start to take tracks that others want.

If you like Roleplaying I would also try Descent: Journeys in the Dark. This is almost D&D 4th Edition in a box. If you add the expansion Road to Legend it adds a campaign element to the game that can last 80 hours but comes with everything you need to store the game during sessions.

 

[Claptrap]

I play arkom horror, The rules and pretty hard to get but after the first time you play games will last about 1-2 hours.

 

[atalanta]

My favourite boardgame is Robo Rally. Each player is a supercomputer controlling the actions of itty bitty worker robots in a race across a factory floor. You program your robot with five actions over the course of one round, and they have to try to make it to checkpoints without being zapped to death by lasers, crushed in widget-making devices, or pushed into bottomless pits.

The other thing that's nice about it is that it takes skill and planning, but since you plan out five actions at the start of a round and then movement, damage, and board elements happen no matter what, you don't get sucked into that black hole of hour-long turns while you roll dice to hash out exactly what happens to who.

 

[Marter]

I'll occasionally play Warhammer fantasy, but mostly just to paint the figures. Actually playing costs far too much money for me.