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Warmongers wanted

Submitted by murph on 10 December 2006 - 9:58am.

I've decided that I need new friends. My old friends are all too busy being grad students at the end of their semesters, or being in Atlanta on work, or don't like to play several-hour-long wargames. Cara will happily play Ticket to Ride, and two players is a number well on its way to to critical mass for that game, but Axis & Allies? Civilization? Diplomacy? Titan? PanzerBlitz? Any other Avalon Hill bookcase game? Or anything at all with more than four pages of rules? No such luck. Even the ones that are perfectly playable with two players I have difficulty rustling people up for.

What this means is that I'm in the market for board game geeks. Or people interested in learning. True, maybe Titan doesn't have the framerates or face melting of WoW, but it does offer the tactile pleasure of rolling 20 dice at once, and Diplomacy offers the most brutal PvP ever created. And you'll look a lot less silly playing these games than swinging your Wii around.

Direct resumes and cover letters to comments. Or apply in person at my kitchen table.

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I'll apply

Submitted by John.Umbaugh on 10 December 2006 - 4:37pm.

I've played Civilization, but I'm more of an Illuminati geek. I've also been itching to break out my new game Puerto Rico - Rated #1 on boardgamegeek.com!

Seriously, let me know if you're interested.

-J

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Sweeeet

Submitted by murph on 10 December 2006 - 7:30pm.

I've got a taker whom I've never even met! And for Puerto Rico, no less. (You won't be disappointed in that purchase...)

Your gmail address is the best to reach you at?

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Fellow gamer

Submitted by John.Umbaugh on 10 December 2006 - 8:49pm.

Yeah, gmail is the way to go. Yeah, I haven't yet had a good chance to play Puerto Rico, but I'm pretty excited to give it a shot. Are you an Illuminati fan?

I haven't been able to find many table-top gamers in the area, so I'm pretty excited. Let's set something up!

-J

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gmail?

Submitted by YUA on 17 December 2006 - 2:41pm.

Murph, what *is* your gmail address?

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gmail - nope.

Submitted by murph on 17 December 2006 - 3:26pm.

Oh, I get it - I was referring to John's gmail that he'd listed in his account.

To reach *me*, the e-mail address is murph at c.m.f. dot net, which is, in fact, what you e-mailed me at.

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I think even after a short

Submitted by mgins on 17 March 2008 - 9:56am.

I think even after a short break from WoW going back is as fun as the first time playing. Spending hour after hour playing each night you can get tired of it if you don't use any strategy guide. My game of choice for a break from WoW was backgammon, nothing complicated or crazy but simple enough and being greek I love the game so i'd play that for a few days here and there then go back to WoW.

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I'd join you but...

Submitted by BVos on 11 December 2006 - 2:08pm.

Hey Murph,

I'd love to join you, but it appears that I'm like your other friends: trying to be a good student. Keep me in mind in a few years (it seems like it at the end of the semester) when I'm done with my Master's and we'll warm my skills up with Risk and then proceed on with Civ, Axis & Allies, etc.

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"risk"? What is this

Submitted by uladia on 11 December 2006 - 10:25pm.

"risk"? What is this "risk" you speak of?

Nowhere near enough rules for the game to be fun!

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Missing the Jay Era of Gaming

Submitted by mckenna on 14 December 2006 - 10:20am.

I'm always up for a long complicated board game, but have been short on interested players as well. The co-op was perfect for finding people on a whim. Let me know when you're interested in playing and I'll see if I can make it.

BTW, there is an Ann Arbor gaming group that meets regularly. I have yet to give it a try, but that maybe a good place to go if you're not having any luck finding people.

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Cool deal. This whole

Submitted by murph on 14 December 2006 - 1:31pm.

Cool deal. This whole whining online thing really gets results!

I went to a Wolverine Gaming Club day once in undergrad; I'm too darned much of an introvert in that kind of a setting to enjoy myself. Much less now than then, but still. If I can reel people in this way, so much the better.

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ahh, the 'Jay' era of coop gaming :)

Submitted by jobermark on 4 January 2007 - 12:17pm.

I feel so tingly inside.

I, too, miss the coop as a gaming grounds.
I did attend a few meeting of the ann arbor gaming group. They're more into euro games that can done in 2 hours than the old warhorses you are talking about but they were plenty friendly and more accessible than the wolverine gaming club.

The other places to look for recruits are 1 - boardgamegeek.com. This is the indispensable resource for boardgames. You can find local gamers, gaming groups , forums, trades for games, and reviews and add ons aplenty. Also if you are interested in the Ticket to Ride and other Days of Wonder specific games, they have a nice website with locations of registered gamers at the Days of Wonder site. If you are really intent on spending the whole day on old avalon hill games, you may want to check out consimworld. I will say that there is an inverse relationship between 'socially functional adult' and 'rabid old school monster gamer', statistically speaking of course. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

If you're interested, I have a number of games listed on my boardgamegeek site. I also have a fairly small basement storage area and if someone I knew wanted to provide a good home for some of them, I'd be happy to let them go for shipping expenses.

One other bit of advice for converting casual gamers into euro-gamers, is try heavier card games. These usually only take 30-45 minutes, can be relatively easy to digest and people won't run away from a deck of cards the way they might from, say, Titan. The card game Wizard is a nice fit.

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