Front Page

Content

Authors

Game Index

Forums

Site Tools

Submissions

About

You May Also Like...

S
Sagrilarus
September 22, 2023
T
thegiantbrain
November 12, 2020

Bouldering

Staff Blogs
O
oliverkinne
April 27, 2020
Hot
SI
san il defanso
December 10, 2019
Hot
SI
san il defanso
December 02, 2019
Hot
SI
san il defanso
November 18, 2019
Hot
SI
san il defanso
October 03, 2019
Hot
SI
san il defanso
September 18, 2019
Hot
SI
san il defanso
September 11, 2019
Hot
SI
san il defanso
September 04, 2019
Hot
SI
san il defanso
August 27, 2019
Hot
SI
san il defanso
August 21, 2019
Hot
MB
Michael Barnes
August 13, 2019
Hot
SI
san il defanso
August 12, 2019
Hot
SI
san il defanso
August 05, 2019
Hot
SI
san il defanso
July 29, 2019
Hot

The Bomb

Hot
MB Updated
There Will Be Games

familyatomicsI believe that one of the most satisfying things we, as Ameritrash Gamers, can possibly experience in this hobby is the thrill of  nuking the living crap out of our friends and peers.   It's a critical feature that's really missing from pretty much every Euro ever made.  I'm confident PUERTO RICO would be a better game if you could build an IPBM (Interplantationary Ballistic Missile) silo hidden in your corn fields and use it to blow the shit out of your slavedriving competition.

The funny thing is that nukes in most games are a really crappy strategic option because their use usually means everybody at the table decides to kill you.  But who cares, I know there's been more than one occasion where I've dropped the bomb for no other reason than to say I did it.  So what's to stop world leaders from engaging in the same sort of behavior?  Human lives?  The biosphere?   Ha!

So this week's Cracked LCD features a couple of my picks for great games that feature nuclear weapons.  Have a look, and come back and let's gab about it.

There Will Be Games
Michael Barnes (He/Him)
Senior Board Game Reviews Editor

Sometime in the early 1980s, MichaelBarnes’ parents thought it would be a good idea to buy him a board game to keep him busy with some friends during one of those high-pressure, “free” timeshare vacations. It turned out to be a terrible idea, because the game was TSR’s Dungeon! - and the rest, as they say, is history. Michael has been involved with writing professionally about games since 2002, when he busked for store credit writing for Boulder Games’ newsletter. He has written for a number of international hobby gaming periodicals and popular Web sites. From 2004-2008, he was the co-owner of Atlanta Game Factory, a brick-and-mortar retail store. He is currently the co-founder of FortressAT.com and Nohighscores.com as well as the Editor-in-Chief of Miniature Market’s Review Corner feature. He is married with two childen and when he’s not playing some kind of game he enjoys stockpiling trivial information about music, comics and film.

Articles by Michael

Michael Barnes
Senior Board Game Reviews Editor

Articles by Michael

Log in to comment