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A full fleet scenario for Star Fleet Battles would make this game look like tic-tac-toe.

I’m with you on Monopoly. I will not play it. Both because it sucks as a game (by design!—it was intended to suck!) and because it’s a rip-off of the landlord game which was designed to suck to show how bad capitalism is.

I enjoyed playing Catan a couple of times until I saw one pattern: in any game there’s seemingly always one poor schmuck who gets shafted within the first two turns and can’t quit the game, but has no hope of doing anything except forlornly asking if anybody wants to trade wheat or some other low-grade trade item that nobody else is really trading for any longer. It’s just a badly designed game.

I’m kind of partial to these:

I loved Settlers of Catan obsessively when it first came out. My gaming groups would play it at least once every gaming night (leaving me playing it three or four times a week).

But as the very bad flaws of the game became more obvious I’ve actually grown to really dislike the game and would only play it to be polite these days. (And I’m not polite very often…)

This would be the most recent board game I purchased. The most recent I discovered might be Splendor/Splendor Duel.

Technically speaking you’d have to say they did war crimes by modern standards.

A lot of what you describe wasn’t actually criminal at the time, see. It was called “war”.

Doesn’t make it any less horrific, mind.

I do think games can help you learn to think strategically, but without a lot of real-life training on top of that (and I mean a lot) your days playing chess aren’t going to help in a shooting war, or the like.

Wait, there’s people who think games should be used to train our brains/hone skills/do whatever else late stage capitalism demands of us?!

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