As many of you might know bringing up a family is very time consuming and gaming takes a back seat for a few years, after those years have passed you start to look around at what is on the market and look back at the games you used to play with fond memories.

I used to play with minis and my wife would occasionaly oblige my playtesting of the rules with me, but one disastrous day my wife playing as the german patrol in some sleepy little French village attacked my British paras only to knock them down unconcious and stand over them shooting at them, unfortunatly a 6 was rolled meaning she had missed my men completely, her reply was "How can i miss some men I am standing over and who are unconcious" my homegrown rules needed brushing up, that was the last time my wife played any sort of wargame with me.

After the kids grew up I started back into wargaming, but alas no partner to play with, you can only play so many games of Ambush or Steel Panthers, then to my shock horror my wife started playing FF (oops thats Final Fantasy not Factory Fun, Fall of France, Family Feud etc etc), so you see my dilemma.

So to my question (finaly I here you say) I want to know if theres anyone out there who loves Final Fantasy with a wife(girlfriend considered) who loves boardgames who would be prepared to swap said partners, details of my wife - one careful owner, good body, good little runner, low fuel consumption, but sometimes dosent start too well in the mornings. All offers considered.

Draw her back into playing something with you.

Take a look at Anima: the Shadow of Omega for what might be 'acceptable' for Final Fantasy fans.

Well, Kingdom Hearts TCG is coming out.

Well, now I don't need my playstation.

Now back to the original question:

Maybe you could explain to your wife that you want a hobby that could include you both, a hobby where you can enjoy each others company.

Maybe the wargames she played were something more to oblige you, as you mentioned. Let her pick out some games. Maybe wargames aren't her thing.

I like wargames but my husband first tried 1776. While I enjoyed the game, it wasn't enough to entice me to start reading rules and getting really excited about wargames like I am now. When I was able to research and pick out my own games based on my own taste, only then was I really willing and excited about joining in my husband's hobby, so much so that it became my hobby too.

So, best of luck.

Picture, please.


-BvD

I suggest you make every effort NOT to get your wife involved in boardgaming. If she gets to like it, she might get a BGG account, and if she saw this thread... well, you can buy a lot of games with what you'd have to pay a divorce lawyer.

Couldn't have said it better...in fact, I was GOING to say it...

can she code?

also is she from a smoke-free home?
Does she come with original instructions?
Punched or unpunched?

Don't listen to these 'women' - they are giving you useless "Woman’s weekly" style advice. Here is the Mr Skeletor method for guaranteed results:

Ignore you wife. Come home from work late. Spray some perfume on your collar. Put a few fake phone numbers into your mobile phone. Then at night while in bed half asleep drop some comments about “not feeling appreciated” and “feeling like you have very little in common” – no big discussion mind you, just off the cuff comments!

When you come home one day and find her wearing nothing but a military helmet with a copy of ASL kit #1 under her arm you can thank me in writing.

Ooh, can I have it then?

This is now on my must do list when my wife gets back from a week away at work. Leave me alone with the kids for a week and now even so much as a game of carc before you go huh!!!

You either have the wrong board games or the wrong wife. Most likely wrong board games because the wife is always right.

Thanks for all the varied answers, I have to comment on a few of them.

I want to thank Jeff and Jim for their games suggestions, we play card games sometimes and I think a card game of these types would seem a simple step up from those as opposed to a boardgame and both seem to feature either FF or very similar, thanks again for these suggestions.

Thanks Helen of Troy I think the above games may do the trick.


Lori if my wife ever got that interested in boardgames and joined BGG i would be extremely pleased and i would promptly delete this thread, my name, my computer.....

Mr Skeletor your describing a typical Saturday night... duh minus the ASLSK

and last but not least I would like to thank Nisha, not just wives are always right but women are always right, i live in a house with 4 women, my wife and 3 teenage daughters, i know when im wrong even when im not and i am armed with chocolate.