We usually end up tearing up the earlier tunnels to make room. Im Usually the OL so I dont mind missing a spawn spot to keep the table less cluttered.

That's one thing I dislike about this game. The board is actually not so big, in that there are not many hexes. Using all those silly plastic pieces just makes the game look bigger and grander. There is no reason for this game to take so much space.

lol

I played a game with 8 players once. We built a galaxy with two main 4-player galaxies connected by wormholes and 2 smaller galaxies with some juicy planets. It was a blast!!!!!!!

The tables at the gaming club I play are big enough, that's not the problem. My problem is transport. A friendly police agent informed me that it is illegal to transport this game by bicycle (sticks to far out).

Interesting. I wonder if we have similar bicycle transportation laws here?

However, with TI3, though, if you get a decent tackle box, you can fit the pieces in a much smaller volume than the big box would indicate; you'd need a separate place for the rules and the race cards, but those could probably fit in a backpack.

I vote friend.

When I play with my brothers, they sometimes try to do this just because they know it irritates me, not because it's more tactically relevant to do so.

This is a bad photo to illustrate your point since it features all the decks of cards neatly sorted into a vertical rack.

Imagine the same set up with all those card decks arranged higgledy-piggledy around the edge of the board ...

True, the game board is most of the times half of the problem.

We meet up in the dining area of Wegman's and the long board is perfect for their tables.
We take 5 tables and put them in a + pattern. Each investigator gets their own space and there is plenty of room for everything.
That is as long as we keep it to a 4-player game.

Oh, the horror of realizing your table is too small...

This was the one i was thinking of. This 'just' gets width-wise onto my dining room table, but has no rooms for elbows... Any my table is quite large!

This, and Twilight Imperium are the main reasons why we are looking for a new dining room table. My wife really enjoys Arkham Horror so she didn't take too much pursuasion.

Seems like fun though and a good way to play a "real" game with just a deck of cards (and coins and the other stuff :P)

I've created a variant which arranges 25 cards into a 'city center' map. It not only fits nicely on most tables, but also adds an enhanced element of strategy in card placement, since you run into some cards more often than others.

Plus I replaced the coins with dice. A huge fistful of dice. Sweet.

Hopefully, I'll get around to posting it here someday.

Yeah, I've heard the haunting stories :P

Why did the have to make the hexes so big?

And why didn't they make the board double sided, like Powergrid?

This is a potentially great game ruined by the map. All the juiciest cities are tucked in the North East corner.

All of these games fit on our dining table

It fits on my table just fine, but all the cash and bits end up in people's laps.

The game that I immediately thought of when I read the title of this list.

This is the problem in my house with respect to this game too. My wife wanted a new dining room table, and before we went shopping, I pulled out the board to RRT and measured the width. She asked me what I was doing, and I told her that I wanted to make sure that any new table that we buy has to be wide enough to hold this game. Of course, she called me a geek, but what can I say.

The table we got was the widest one they had available, and there is still very little room on each side to hold money, stock certs, trains, and other such hazzerai.

I don't even take it to game night at our church, because they don't have tables big enough.

The game I thought of first off....

This is a reason why gamers should be careful shoppers

For tables, anyway!!

I'm guessing game publishers have a secret agreement with Ikea or something.

and i'm playin this one today. On my MONSTROUS BEASTLY TABLE.

I have a 6'x4' table for Warhammer. It's the only thing that will fit this and Railroad Tycoon - especially since CoE requires additional space for all the armies, cards and so on that are going on during the game.

I was going to add this. I can't for the life of me figure out how a game with such small cards uses so much real estate.

I was hoping to see war games popping up along the way.

And yet it's the favorite wargame...

How do you even play this?

While we could play War in Europe (see below) on one set of tables setting this up is was too big to reach the center.

Fortunately the maps have a half sheet of overlap (the row just above his head in the photo) so our players split it into two table groups (northern and southern) with a little isle between the two. By far most of the action is in the north so its not really that bad moving across the isle.

Are there rules for cars falling out of bridges?

Same rules than getting off the track, but you run more to get your car.

I wouldn't even have space on the floor anywhere in my house for this

I thought of this one and the Europa series.

If you imagine someone pushing it in one of the corners and the table flipping and killing that person then it's a problem

Set on that table it doesn't seem that big.

Maybe I should've bought a ping pong table for my room

Plus this game seems to have big players too!

Even by grognard standards, that is a rather large map...

Yeah, on the warnings on the side of the game boxes besides number of players and playing time it should also bring game table size.

I was going to add this one, if someone else hadn't. I haven't played it in years and would like to but can't. Our table certainly isn't big enough, and I can't use the floor because we have several cats and dogs, all indoor, and we'd spend more time shooshing them away than we would playing if we set up down there. *sigh*

I had this as a kid and never even considered playing on a table. It was made for the floor man!

When my brother got this for Christmas one year, my parents had at the time two rectangular tables that went together nicely for a big enough square to put the mat on.

Unfortunately, it took up too much space to do this more than once or twice, and the tables weren't exactly the same hight for some reason. So we did end up playing this on the floor far more than we ever did with a table.

(It's interesting, because when I got married and moved back to Colorado after college, my parents gave me one of the tables, which they'd had out in a shed for awhile. I'm not sure what happened to the other one, though I doubt my wife would have permitted it anyway )

worse than that I can't distinguish between the king and the pawns!

The king's the one what hasn't got s**t all over 'im.

Silly me.

King jumps Queen...

Knight jumps Queen...

Bishop jumps Queen...

Pawns jump Queen...

yep don't know the rules of this variant but love played 'em
Thanks Mel Brooks!

This game deserves a bigger table! Cmon, I know you can do it, it's not soooooooo big!

A table made from Shrinky-Dinks? You're going to warp your board, mate.

This is on my want list, but the table to hold it is on top of it on that list.

This is one that would actually be improved by having a larger board.

Heh...true. And supposedly the collector's edition coming out will include a bigger board.

Big board, but also requires a lot of extra space to put the reinforcement units, "dead" units, character cards, cards-in-play, cards-in-hand, a cup for hunt tile draws, and a place to roll all those dice!

Awesome game though.

Much like the 2nd edition of Axis and Allies or any Eagle Games' title, what is needed is not so much a bigger board but better space management of the board you have. Hard to claim you need a bigger board when only 35% of the board is effectively used.

What do you mean? The entire board is used. The ocean is used for dice-rolling.

It's what happens on starcraft, except here you're on the middle of the game when you have to move all the pieces... It's not pretty

Tile-laying games like Carc (and Tongiaki), in which you don't know the direction the world will grow, I try to find a table cloth to put over the table before the match starts, so if we need to move the whole world so it won't go over the edge of the table, you just pull the cloth in the right direction. Works really well

I thought that the rules say if there isn't room for the tile on the table, then you can't play the tile there.

So in reality Carcassonne fits on every table.

Obviously that's the case. It's interesting to note, and that's why I entered this item, that that rule is almost always necessary, in my experience, because the board almost always tends to develop towards one specific edge.