Board Games

Not exactly related to video games, but for those who are interested in table top fun, here's a section for fun board games. /v/ and /tg/ are bros, you know it's true.

The List

Boxart	Title	Description	# of players
	Arkham Horror	Co-op adventures where you try to protect the city of Arkham from monsters and other events that can happen while trying to prevent the elder god from awakening, such as Cthulhu.  Great fun with a group of people. Has several board expansions as well as card expansions.	1-8
	Axis & Allies	The roast beef of WW2 wargames, and doesn't descend into hexmap cardboard-counter neckbeardery. Good for drinking beer all afternoon without insulting your intelligence. Popular enough that it produced spinoffs. (Most of the time, the allies win.)	2-5
	Bang!	This is Mafia/Werewolf with a western feel. Everyone has a mission: the sheriff must kill the outlaws, the deputy must keep the sheriff alive, the outlaws want the sheriff and deputy dead, the renegade wants to be last man standing. However, nobody knows for sure who the other players really are, so there's plenty of bluffing, like shooting your allies on purpose.	4-7
	Battlestar Galactica	Try to make it to the promised land before you run out of resources. Sounds easy, but every turn there's a crisis that everyone must cooperate to overcome... and some of you might be killer android traitors pretending to be human. You might not even know if you're a traitor until halfway through the game!	3-6
	Carcasonne	Carcassonne is a clever tile-laying game. The players develop the land of cities, roads and farms, and deploy their followers to reap benefits when territory is completed. The skill of the players to develop the area will determine who is victorious. Has many tile expansions to enhance gameplay.	2-5
	Descent: Journeys in the Dark	Sort of like Dungeons and Dragons-lite, this is the pseudo-sequel to the Doom board game. One player acts as Overlord, setting up the dungeon with traps, monsters, and the like, while the other player splay heroes to traverse it. Unlike DnD, there's no flavortext or roleplaying, it's dependant entirely on the gameplay. The characters are also premade, though they include a template for making your own. If you're into tabletop roleplaying, inserting some into this probably wouldn't be too difficult. Has several expansions.	2-5
	Diplomacy	Great griefing game. The combat mechanics are dead simple but biased towards stalemates, so in order to get anywhere you have to form alliances... but only one person can win, so alliances must be broken. This game has a reputation for causing ragequits and tableflips.	2-7
	Doom: The Boardgame	Looked like it was going to be shit, but cribbed notes from one the tragically out-of-print game HeroQuest, and ended up being awesome. One player controls the demons, up to three other players are the squad assigned to secure the area. Scenarios, traps, that survival-horror feel of needing to conserve ammo. If you can't find this game, or if nostalgia isn't enough for you, look for Descent: Journeys in the Dark as it is an upgrade/rip-off of this gem.	2-4
	Game of Thrones: The Board Game	In a way it's like Risk, you conquer lands, strategize and places armies and units... but it has 100% more backstabbing, political intrigue, flavortext, and friendship rining. One of those that might require more than one session, but everyone will have fun (provided you don't strangle each other).	3-5
	Heroscape	Miniatures game where you build your own map. Has a Marvel expansion, but the units in it are fairly unbalanced.	2+
	Memoir '44	Memoir '44 is a unique historical game from Days of Wonder where players command a horde of little plastic Army men facing-off in dozens of WWII battles on an oversize hex game board. Each battle scenario mimics the historical terrain and troop placements	2, 2 teams of 3, 2 teams of 4 with 2 copies
	Risk: 2210 A.D.	Everyone knows Risk, and everyone knows it's crap, but there's a good game somewhere in there... 2210AD is it. Special leader units, more territories, more continents, no getting bottled up in Australia, cards that do more than just get you reinforcements, and a strict turn-limit so nobody is bored getting kicked out and waiting for everyone else to finish. Also, you can conquer the MOON.	2-5
	Scrabble	If you don't already know this game: Every player picks an amount of letter tiles and has to lay words on the gameboard. If you can't lay a word you pick a new tile. You win when you're out of letters. Only words that appear in a dictionary can be formed.	2-4
	Settlers of Catan	Civilization without the war aspect. This is the gateway game that will get a lot of non-gamers interested in the good stuff. Compete for the sweet locations to colonize the island. Many expansions available. Put off buying the "Cities & Knights" expansion for a while, as it drastically changes the game.	2-4 (2-6 with expansion)
	Starcraft: The Board Game	Like Axis & Allies, but with Starcraft races. Among the few board games based on a video game that does not suck. (Stay away from the Warcraft boardgames, oh my god.) Uses a card based system rather than dice rolls.	2-6