I'm part of a group of friends that likes to get together and play board games on the weekends. We primarily play Risk and Settlers of Catan, but we have also played Axis and Allies on occasion. The problem, we have played this same game roster for a long time now and we have wanted to introduce some new blood into our game list. I have wanted to take the opportunity to introduce a new game to our group and have looked at several different games. However I'm stuck between two games and I wanted the Escapist communities input. Here are the two games I am looking at
Diplomacy: This is a Risk-esque game which has the players vying for world domination. They have industrial centers with armies and navies like in Axis and Allies. The main feature of the game is the fact that players conduct all sorts of acts of diplomacy in the game, some open and some secret. This means that players can forge alliances or gang up on others. We tend to do this in our Risk games, but this game would make it a formal addition to the way we play our games.
Puerto Rico: A Catan-esque game where the players try to accumulate victory points by deciding which kinds of cash crops they plant on their plantations and building various building in the games city. The players can us various unique pieces to boost production or trade in cash crops for money to build other things for more victory points. My group is a very big fan of Catan as well, so they may really like this game.
I'm open to any suggestion to any other games that I may have not heard of, just bear in mind, my group doesn't play table top games (Like Dungeons and Dragons or Warhammer 40k), so while they may be cool games, it really won't mix well with our style of game play. We essentially take a strategy board game and will play it for several hours and see what Hilarity Ensues
Edit 1:I forgot to mention that my friends also have the Risk mythology version and the Risk 2100 version.
Edit 2: The primary Risk board my group plays is the Lord of the Rings edition.
Diplomacy: This is a Risk-esque game which has the players vying for world domination. They have industrial centers with armies and navies like in Axis and Allies. The main feature of the game is the fact that players conduct all sorts of acts of diplomacy in the game, some open and some secret. This means that players can forge alliances or gang up on others. We tend to do this in our Risk games, but this game would make it a formal addition to the way we play our games.
Puerto Rico: A Catan-esque game where the players try to accumulate victory points by deciding which kinds of cash crops they plant on their plantations and building various building in the games city. The players can us various unique pieces to boost production or trade in cash crops for money to build other things for more victory points. My group is a very big fan of Catan as well, so they may really like this game.
I'm open to any suggestion to any other games that I may have not heard of, just bear in mind, my group doesn't play table top games (Like Dungeons and Dragons or Warhammer 40k), so while they may be cool games, it really won't mix well with our style of game play. We essentially take a strategy board game and will play it for several hours and see what Hilarity Ensues
Edit 1:I forgot to mention that my friends also have the Risk mythology version and the Risk 2100 version.
Edit 2: The primary Risk board my group plays is the Lord of the Rings edition.
