What are some /his/-approved board games?
Pic definitely unrelated
Axis and Allies
Machiavelli
Drang nach Osten!
>>1157250
Stratego
Diplomacy.
And of course, the greatest board game of our time:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terror_(game)
>>1157485
>In August 2008, a copy of the game was seized by the British Kent Police because the balaclava included in the box "could be used to conceal someone's identity or could be used in the course of a criminal act"
Fuck this retarded country.
>>1157485
>dfw found out about Diplomacy 10 years ago
>still can't find 6 people willing to devote a day to playing it
>2 years ago, managed to get 5 (or was it 6?) people together, including a girl
>she quits about 2 turns in because she has "no idea what to do" despite me explaining the rules and the first two turns being successful
>it is current year 2016 and that time in 2014 was the closest I ever got to playing a full game IRL
NORMIES REEEEEEE
>>1157250
Axis and Allies
>>1157250
Chess
>>1157559
What changed Britain so much?
As late as 1996 you could buy handguns and shit without much hassle, and now you're famous for needing ID to buy butter knives.
>>1157250
risk is shit. just play civs. '
risk legacy on the other hand.
>>1159072
Our politicians knew that the average plebeian wouldn't give a shit, so they decided to implement a whole bunch of idiotic statist laws that lead to shit like this because it makes it seem like they're actually doing something.
Twilight Struggle
![SweatMan1[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/NX2opYN.png "SweatMan1[1].png")
>>1159079
>cardboard peel labeled "do not open. ever."
![e4cb61ee8a22d3e86a88d5a4438cf619_large[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/T59Rs4O.jpg "e4cb61ee8a22d3e86a88d5a4438cf619_large[1].jpg")
>>1159170
THIS
>>1157567
Play online. People used to play that game by fucking mail.
>>1159170
Can confirm. Maximum comfy.
>>1159072
Muslims.
Why not play these games on tabletop simulator together?
That would be fun for a /his/ steam group to exist.
>>1157567
>playing diplomacy with a girl
What did you expect?
The only reason I ever got three decent games of it was because I hung out with nerds in highschool.
>>1157250
>He doesn't leave his decisive battles entirely up to chance
This must be what Roman senators feel like when they draw the shit dictator card
Twilight Struggle is the patrician choice.
>>1159565
Make it happen Anon
>>1157567
there are variants for fewer people
More like Twilight Snuggle amirite.
The game LITERALLY lets you "play the China card".
No love for Illuminati, every paranoid nutcases favorite card game?
it's actually a really good game.
If the 40-page rulebook doesn't intimidate you, Virgin Queen is really great
>>1161260
And the Great Battles of History series of games is also pretty good
>>1159072
>What changed Britain so much?
Dunblane massacre, when some dude shot up a kindergarten.
>>1161275
Well, it's better than autism in post form
>>1161445
Europa universalis boardgame
>tfw stem faq
>tfw we only play boardgames on friday night or saturday night, when there are no big parties, whlie heavly drinking and blazing
>tfw i dont know anyone who i could play that games
>>1161469
Literally takes two and one half solid days to play.
>>1162235
>is that some Here I Stand kind of thing?
Literally the sequel.
Its combat and phases are a bit streamlined, and there's cultural VP stuff tacked on.
Electronic old men
running the world
>>1162240
And now with pic.
>some asshole plays india-paki war
>some assholes don't turn their control counters white side up when a country is not under control
>>1162243
Damn, I wish I'm happy like that when I'm old. Cool dudes.
>>1162262
100yearold dudes playing boardgames
what a world we live in
i wish i'm just like them in the future too
>>1162243
>not backgammon
fake
>>1162243
retirement goals
>>1162235
>is that some Saints in Armor kind of thing?
It appears to be in the same genre. Don't really know what characterizes SiA, but Chandragupta has a ridiculous command structure, guilds and tribes, as well as enough elephant units that rampage around to turn every match into a gigantic clusterfuck
