board games own.
I played the Battlestar Galactica board game for the first time the other day and I was really impressed.
It's a co-op board game where the objective is to reach a certain destination (don't have all the names down yet) before resources run out. Every turn has a "skill check" that has to be overcome or resources diminish. You also usually have Cylon activity every round, which amounts to shooting civilian ships and further reducing your food/morale/fuel etc. down to zero. All team members collaborate on strategies and pool resources in order to make the skill check/diminish the effects of Cylon attacks, reach the next jump, and ultimately reach Caprica or wherever. The rules are fairly nuanced and there's more going on then what I've described, but that's the basic gist of the co-op.
what really makes this game stand out is that one of the members of your team is intent on subterfuge. The game starts with each member looking at a card that informs them of whether or not they are a Cylon. And even if there are no Cylon's in the games first half, another wave of cards are drawn at half-time in order to activate "sleepers". This mechanic lends alot of psychology and melodrama to what would otherwise be a fairly rote board game. every participant on the deck gets paranoid and suspicious of one another, and the Cylon member(s) have to know how to play a good bluff until they decide to reveal. If you know what you're doing you can absolutely devastate the human members without anyone catching on that it's you.
I haven't played many higher level board games in the past, but I've decided they're definitely worth exploring based on how awesome this game was.
5 bags of popcorn, 2 sodas.
Also I played
Bohnanza.
5 bags of popcorn, 3 wax beans.
1 stink bean.
