Quote Originally Posted by Alexios
I remember playing the game of Risk quite a bit as a young teenager. Then when my friends and I finally got bored with it, I embarked on a huge project to build a bigger and better map. The end result was a map that was about 48" x 60" and had practically every country on it from the modern world. We used combined game pieces from 3 different game sets in order to have enough armies to fill the map. I remember it taking two to three weeks for us to finish just one game. And when we combined it with the ability to draw up written alliances and treaties with one another... well... the game could potentially last for weeks on end!

Aaaaah... those were the days. To be a kid again with so much free time on one's hands. But now I'm all grown up.
At university we used to play Diplomacy of a lunch time - used to go on for weeks - people would be caught in a corner plotting and it would all go quiet when you came in - and if you stabbed somebody in the back, a grudge would be held for months - it wasn't unknown for people to fight their way across europe to get revenge. We then went on to a superb SPI game called a Mighty Fortress which was set during the reformation. Any game which involved military conflict, missonaries and burning at the stake has to be good fun!!!