Favorite Board Games?

[Gil-Estel]

Agricola....great game, love it!

 I just started playing Agricola a week or so ago.  Awesome game, but there's never enough time to do what I want to do. I get this same feeling when I play Kingsburg, it just seems to end before it's time.

It is indeed frustrating to have so many options and so little time to choose. The key strategy is obvious, get as many family members as possibly ASAP! The more actions, the better it is, haha. But that is easier said as done... It reminds me of poker somehow in this way: not difficult to learn, hard to master! But I love it and I'm converting all the people in my surrounding!

[Elrohir]

I have never heared of Agricola. Can anyone explain me what it is about? How are the mechanics?

[Gil-Estel]

You have to maintain your own farm. You get a plate with 15 squares on it. Each square is worth points when you built it. 2 are already taken by your house, with 2 rooms. You can axpand your house, grow grain, vegetables and have some lifestock, such as sheep, pigs and cows.
You start with 2 familymembers, and both of them get one action. The centerboard has all these actionfields from which you can choose actions. The game is devided in rounds, each of them lasts a shorter amount of time. At the end of each round you have to support your family with food.
Then there are a milion ways to gain points and to win the game. It is fun, most definately. Game of the year 2008.

[Fatty_Lumpkin]

Monopoly
LoTR Risk
Chess

I've always wanted to try Axis and Allies too

[Centurion]

You should its a really great game

[FingolfinFinwe]

I so want the A&A Anniversary Edition

[Ringbearer]

I lost track of all the board games I played but here are a few that I really like:

Age of Reinassance
War of the Ring
Junta
Diplomacy
Tide of Iron

and of course much much more....