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Games for five players: Family and medium weight
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Similarly, my four brothers (ages 34-52--crap we are getting old) will probably play some boardgames. I'm looking for something not too heavy but trashy and fun, like a five player version of Incursion or something that plays in 90 minutes. I'm tempted to buy Shogun or Wallenstein just for this purpose.
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Condottiere is really good and plays fast. You can change it up by getting the FFG version and the Eurogames rules. There's a thread on BGG about which parts of the FFG edition to keep and remove to play the Eurogames version. Then you've basically got two rulesets that give the game a different feel.
Also, I hear Cosmic Encounter is OK.
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China, El Grande, Adel Verflipticht/Hoity Toity, Medici, Acquire, Railways of the World, Survive! with the 5-6 player add-on, Smallworld, Broom Service...I'd point you at that stuff.
When playing with this kind of group, I think it's important to consider what the goals of a game are...they need to be something very concrete and relatable without any kind of confusing gamer crud lain over them. Like making money, having the most of something, killing somebody else's stuff, taking an item from here to there.
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Banditos would be a good, über trashy game for 5 in about 1.5 hours. IIRC it plays 5. Been a while.
5p Heroscape would be just fine. Expensive though.
Cyclades would be a must-have for these specifications.
Five Fingered Severance is one I love but I am probably alone in that.
Lunch Money (shaddup, Michael) is the definition of trashy. Think it goes 5.
Settlers with the player expansion, but maybe plays too long.
Small World was a good call by Mike.
Escape: the Curse of the Temple is bad ass, but you need the 5th player.
Triassic Terror never lasts more than an hour wth 4, and I love it.
Epic Spell Wars would fly.
City of Horror is PERFECT for this group's criteria. So is Spartacus. The Adventurers (Chac) is a great choice, plays 6.
Junta: Viva El Presidente, though, would be my #1 choice, because you can create life-long enmities.
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STAR WARS RISK: THE CLONE WARS is really good with five. Same goes for RISK LEGACY, my god, man. What a set up.
Second CYCLADES. Tricksy endgame in that one.
Can't WIZ-WAR get played by 5-6 now?
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Make sure to tell the 12 year old to stop picking craftsman like a retard
I really need to lose that word.
I'm glad to start replacing it with Welshman
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For the family, maybe something like Kingsburg or Specter Ops. Hard to know without knowing their personalities and tolerances for games. Paperback is good if they're into scrabble. I'd do Bohnanza, Pandemic the Cure, King of Tokyo and Lords of Waterdeep to try and cover the casual spread. Bring a zombie game if anybody is into that.
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I have a metric ton of Heroscape, but set up time is a little lengthy.
Spartacus only plays four, I believe, but one of my brothers will probably bail to pay me back for dodging his Thanksgiving invite.
Duel of Ages II is probably a bad choice for my semi-gamer brothers.
Seven Wonders: ugh. I hate that game. Same with Puerto Rico.
King of Tokyo would probably fly with my brothers. I used to own it, but again my wife got mad while playing it. We just need to have her not play games with us.
Thunder Road might work, especially with a few extra rules.
Two brothers work for Union Pacific and one of them just lost Ticket to Ride in a divorce.
I traded away Steam recently.
El Grande does sound good. I wish there was a version of Android I could play with the brothers. Maybe they would play Tales of the Arabian Nights.
Thanks for all the suggestions.
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(Acquire would also a great choice IMO)
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