"What is best board game when you aren't doing minis" Topic

For me I always enjoy a game of:

1812
Flash Point
Pandemic – Dice Game
Talisman
Monopoly

What games do you enjoy as a break from miniatures gaming activities?

"Shoots" & Ladders …

Flash Point is a great choice.
Star Trek Panic is really fun.
Settlers of Catan, not my favorite but willing to play.
Just about anything by Richard Borg

Air&Armor
Squad Leader
Central Front series
London's Burning

Junta

If I'm not playing with figures then I'm painting more figures.

Legion +1

Pandemic
Firefly
Setters of Catan, though I haven't played it in years.

Scrabble.

Junta, The Awful Green Things and the Waterloo campaign block game are all great.

SL/ASL.

Pandemic (board game), Red November, Awful Green Things From Outer Space, and Intruder are all fun and play quickly.

Generally any Richard Borg design (Memoir '44, Command and Colors, Battlelore, etc.). Hell, even Abaddon gets some love.

My current favorites are (in no real order):
Catacombs
Alien frontiers
Cosmic Encounter
Carcassonne Hunters & Gatherers
Kodama

Zombicide

I'm with Jim Duncan. If you're playing a non-miniatures game, you're neglecting your miniatures. Doesn't someone need touching up, at least?

What are you talking about Robert?! I am going to miniaturize my Awful Green Things from outer space, here is what I am going to use for crew and monsters.

I am seriously thinking about doint this for Junta as well.
The waterloo block game is great for generating battles to play with miniatures, so I reject your premise.

Advanced Squad Leader
Fire in the Lake
Twilight Imperium
Junta

Pandemic
Scythe
Smash Up
King of Tokyo
Time Line
To name a few

Risk.

Currently very into century:spice road

Mike

Just broke out my copy of Ambush and blew the dust off it.

Whatever the group wants to play. Lately we've done Star Trek Panic, Risk: Lord of the Rings, Risk: 2210, Risk: Star Wars, Risk: Star Wars a Original Trilogy Edition, D&D Conquest of Nerath (an excellent Axis & Allies system variant), and Conquest of the Empire. We also love Wings of War/Glory and X-Wing.

OSG's the library of Napoleonic Battles series

Agricola or Ground Floor

#1 – The Amazing Labyrinth

Risk: 2210
Scrabble
Pandemic
Elder Sign
Oh Gnome, You Don't!
Ticket to Ride
Colt Express

new fave … Forbidden Island

also mention … Ascension (which is a card game)

Santorini
Betrayal at House on Haunted Hill
Dead of Winter
Pandemic

Squad Leader
Liberty or Death
Fire on the Lake
Dominion
Through the ages

Combat Commander
Command and Colors series

Terra Mystica

A Game of Thrones
A Distant Plain
The Resistance: Avalon
Rebellion

Smash Up
Settlers of Catan
old school Arkham Horror
Fury of Dracula
Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu

Any of the classic Milton Bradley games such as Battle Cry, Dogfight etc.

Pandemic, Flash Point & Defenders of the Realm
Forbidden Island & Forbidden Desert
Pathfinder Card Game
D-Day Dice
Harry Potter: Battle for Hogwarts

While Dr. Who Risk! is not on my fave list (though it does have a couple of nice additional things going that add Dr. Who flavour and make a fun game (avoiding the Risk! grindhouse of death)), I'm not ignoring my minis for it.

In fact, only the Daleks came with it (and they were unpainted, mostly in garish non-Dalek colours), so the UNIT forces and cybermen are added. Next is Sontarans, if I can find some of the "old" or "classic" 15mm Prang (I guess they are)…

Where did the Star Trek playset come from Bashy ? Never saw it before !

Lock n Load games are very good. I especially like the Viet Nam, WWII Pacific and Falklands games. The maps are very well done as are the counters.

The away team is free as an STL on thingiverse.

Ogre, GEV, Commands & Colors

Anything from Plaay.com (favorites):
- Hockey Blast
- History Maker Baseball
- Soccer Blast

Fliip Football

Ambush
Combat!

Looking at the list above and others looking back on it

Would certainly add GEV, Melee (The Fantasy Trip) and perhaps even Kingmaker to my list

Britannia – AH classic version
Advance Civilization – AH
History of the World – AH classic version
Rail Baron – AH
Battle for Germany – SPI
France 1940 – AH
World in Flames – ADG
Winter War – SPI
Panzer Armee Afrika – AH
The Civil War – VG

I wish I played more board games but I have trouble finding players.

Commands & Colors: Napoleonic

Chess

Personally, I've also been doing solo Dungeon Saga, have played some Ogre, and am now playtesting my own rules for Three-Dimensional Chess (Star Trek style set).

I guess I really don't have a favorite game. Just whatever captures my current fancy.

Britannia
Kingmaker
Samurai

Ticket To Ride with my kids is what probably gets the most table time. I picked up Ogre 6th Ed. at Christmas and have enjoyed getting it on the table.

Thanks Bashy !

So many — 5 not mentioned yet:

Potion Explosion (best game with marbles since Chinese Chekcers)

Rise of Augustus (Roman Bingo)

Rivets (see my avatar)

Takenoko (pink bamboo is the tastiest)

Thunderbirds (somewhat like Pandemic, but really fun to play!)

Twilight Struggle
Heroes of Normandie
Commands and Colors
Corto
Notre Dame
Formula De