So my move into toys made it inevitable I was going to come across other stuff like this. It has happened. I am now hooked on board games.

 

There is a board game flipping, investing market - Much smaller and mostly about promos, etc.

 

But I was curious if anyone else has looked out there and found the insane amount of awesome board games coming out almost daily.

 

There are some really awesome simple ones I have and have played a lot:

 

Munchkin - card game. Close to 1 million expansions.

Ticket to Ride - great and simple family game thats not cheesy.

King of Tokyo - Giant monsters battling each other

Smash-up - Similar to that, but a card game

Dominion - Awesome card game. Anyone can play, but tons of strategy can be involved.

 

And the more complicated games

Small World - Kind of like Risk but more about spreading a race and then starting a new one

Betrayal at the House on the Hill - Literally different everytime you play

X-Wing Minatures - If you are a star wars fan, you have to have this game

Last Night on Earth - Humans vs Zombies game (Teams)

Pandemic - Fighting zombies and sickness (Cooperative)

Shadows over Camelot - Kind Arthur theme thats cooperative with secret traders

 

 

What else do people like?

 

Technic pieces! why havent I built a game yet!?

Technic pieces! why havent I built a game yet!?

I don't know, why haven't you?

technicalities... OH!

 

Finally picked up this little gem.  I've played it plenty of times before, but I've never owned it.  It's out of print, but it came down a lot in price since the 2nd edition came out.  Now I'll need to start tracking down expansions.

 

The game is simple enough that you can teach someone how to play in a few minutes, but you can make it more complex by adding things like the war counsel and magic later on.  The setting is neat, they're historic medieval battles but with fantasy stuff thrown in.  Plus I'm a sucker for high production value games, especially if they have hundreds of neat little miniatures.  Hoping to find some time to paint all 200+ of my new tiny plastic soldiers.