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War board game is a type of board game that portrays either a real or imaginative military operation. Strategy is required for these games and they have difficulty level from simple to high level. The first known war board game published by Charles Robert in 1954 is the Tactics which has two editions, 25th Anniversary Edition and Tactics II, and its game mechanics became the forerunner of all other war board games mechanics. A popular game with World War II theme that depends on strategy, the Axis and Allies, is usually played from two to five players. The players can act as part of the Axis powers or with the Allies. The game comprises a dice, 299 detailed playing pieces, chips, markers, and IPC. This game has revisions such as Axis and Allies Revised, Axis and Allies Battle of the Bulge, Axis and Allies D-Day, and Axis and Allies Guadalcanal. The game known as the Risk involves great effort to rule 42 territories. Some choices of war board games are War on Terror, Memoir 44, Stratego, A House Divided, and Advance Squad Leader.
Helping out in Cooperative Board Games
When players work together to achieve a certain goal against the game or against one or two players, they are playing cooperative board games. These games emphasizes on team cooperation, which means winning or losing as a team, rather than individual competition. The events in the game come at random when the game advances making it more challenging for the players. The Scotland Yard was one of the first games to be released back in the 1980s. It is a game where several players act as detectives or police who works cooperatively to hunt down a player acting as the criminal within the game depicting the streets of London. Horror, also produced in the 1980s, is set in the town of Arkham and players also impersonate as investigators to secure the town from aliens and monsters that pass through the gates and also to close the access. In 2000 other cooperative board games have been published like The Lord of the Rings, Shadows over Camelot, and Pandemic.
The Challenging Game of Chess
One of the ancient board games that rely on strategy and can only be played by two is the Chess. The objective of the game is to eliminate the opponents king piece where it has no chance of moving or subduing an enemy piece without getting eliminated. The game is set in a checked game board eight squares horizontal and eight squares vertical summing up a total of 64 squares. Every player has 16 pieces for him to play the game which comprise of two rooks, eight pawns, two knights, one king, two bishops, and one queen. The players take alternate turns in moving their pieces and it should be noted that only one piece can be moved at a time with an exception on castling where movements of two pieces are allowed. The player with light colored pieces usually white moves first and can land in an empty square or capture an enemy piece on an occupied square and would mean its removal from the game. The World Chess Federation has the task of maintaining the games rules and regulations.
Party Board Games
The Game for the Whole Brain as others would love to call it; Cranium is composed of 4-16 players. It involves a variety of activities and requires a number of skills from the players. Published and made known to the public on 1998 by inventors, Richard Tait and Whit Alexander. The game is played by dividing the players from two to four teams where each team has a mover which is initially set-up on the Planet Cranium start space and the order of the game starts with the player whose birthday is coming up and goes around to the next team in a counterclockwise manner. In order to win the game, the players must perform well in the following four sections of the game namely: Word Worm asking players to define, spell out words, guess words, and unscramble words; creative cat asks players to draw or sculpt the clues using clay; trivia questions are asked in Data Head; and Start performer where players hum a song, impersonating personalities or act out clues.
