I must not be understanding you right, V. Playing in teams isn't a variant. You normally play an Allies team and an Axis team. Of course, you can play one-on-one, but as far as I know the rules always accommodated multiple players in team format.
I played one-on-one online once in PBEM format. In a way it makes more sense, but even though as a team you have no direct interaction with each other and it increases the time you spend as individual doing nothing, team play does bring more people to the table, which does make it more fun as a social game rather than a competitive game.
And yes, the more hands the merrier for set-up! Before the later updates, my friend had the 80s version and we'd all help set up, which wasn't so bad. Later I bought one of the updates, but I'm a bit obsessive, so it was more of a curse than a convenience. I always tried to set it up before everyone arrived to play, which was quite a slow process.
I really liked complex (in terms of design) board games like:
Wheel Of Fortune Guess Who? Mouse Trap The Grape Escape Forbidden Bridge 13 Dead End Drive
Most of those are pretty obscure...
Mouse Trap is by far, my favourite game that is fun for just casual play. But my Mouse Trap and yours are likely very different. Mine is fairly old, and I think it is in German... I haven't played it in a long time. It's fairly simple and based mostly on reaction time, but damn was it fun.
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The only board games I really play nowadays are Monopoly and Chess, I would say I am pretty decent at chess and can spend hours playing with a friend of mine who is about evenly matched. Monopoly is fun too as long as you are not playing against sore losers who lose interest when it becomes unlikely they will win, I have experience of this so will only play now if everyone vows to be 'in it until the end'.
Does Boggle count? It's my favorite word game. Anyway, my favorite boards games would be Monopoly, and this one game where you push down the middle of the board to make the die roll.
Risk is great to play with friends. you start playing then about 30 minutes in we start watching a movie while playing. 1 hour later we start playing mario party at the same time. then about 30 minutes later we leave saying we'll come back to it which we never do
but i also like Munchkin Killer Bunnies Robo Rampage Backgammon Scrabble Chess Chez Geek Slap Jack
Strat-o-Matic sports simulations games. I've been playing them since sixth grade and probably have amassed $10,000 worth of card sets dating back to the '60s.
I take Boggle doesn't count at all, huh? I remember Chutes and Ladders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was fun when I was little.
Boggle totally counts! Especially if you are playing the big version that uses a 5-by-5 board. (The 4-by-4 is good too... but sometimes bigger really is better.)
I played Trivial Pursuit on Wii last night. It was terrible. The questions were ridiculously easy most of the time (i.e. "Which member of a soccer team can use his hands?" "Manager" was an option), and they were often terribly, terribly classified. There was an art and literature question I got asking what kind of wagon was pictured. Someone else got a history question about Angelina Jolie and where she had her first kid. How historical. One player got all the wedges by his second turn, and spent the next two hours trying to get on the center spot but never getting the right die roll.
In other board game news, I just got the new expansion set in for Cosmic Encounter, so that will likely be what we play here for a long while.
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