Board Game Suggestions

[jphreud]

Hey all. My INTJ guy and I have recently discovered a mutual love of complex board games. In the last few weeks we have played Carcassonne, Pandemic, Dead of Winter, LOTR Risk, and Twilight Imperium. So much fun!

I wanted to get some suggestions on other good strategy board games.

 

[TAC]

I've always loved settlers of catan, and stratego. The ultimate strategy game is Tobruk: It is tank/infantry warfare game with the highest level of detail. It takes a lot of time to learn how to play the game correctly and just a long amount of time to play in general (You better enjoy bookkeeping). But if you want a challenging strategy game that is the ultimate. Consult ebay as the game has been out of print for like 25 years. I am also a big fan of Arkham Horror. A Hybrid table top rpg/board game (C'thullu lore).

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

If you're competitive you'll probably enjoy Twilight Struggle or Eclipse. TS is the best strategy battle-of-minds duel board game I know of.

Eclipse is a great 4x strategy with decent complexity / alternative paths to victory. There was a 'recent' 2015 expansion which adds lots of fun concepts, on top of/parallel to that you can create your own mechanics to enrich the vanilla/RotA experience, it's practically got limitless replayability.

 

[jphreud]

Thanks for the suggestions. We like both cooperative games like Pandemic and competitive ones like Risk and Twilight Imperium. I JUST today found a copy of Fury of Dracula! Super excited since it is now out of print and becoming hard to find.

 

[jphreud]

One important aspect for us though is replayability. We like games that are different or have an element of RNG that makes each game unique and challenging.