Yep, that's a good selection.

If you do go with Pandemic, you'll probably find it quite familiar (in a good way) because Forbidden Island is basically Pandemic Lite.

BSG is also excellent, but only with 5 or 6 players. You can play with fewer, but it really loses something.

I'm going to be an annoying cunt and keep banging on about Chaos in the Old World. If you can regularly scrounge up four people (five with the expansion), it's a great game. Enough variety to last years, and, as I've discovered, very entertaining to merely observe when others are playing.

In any case, good job finding time to play regularly. More than can be said for us lot, but I guess that gives our board game nights a sense of occasion.

Yeah, I know about that, so I want something really like FI but bigger. So Pandemic it is. For Battlestar Galactica, well, I have a band of brothers and sisters of 6 people, so it will be epic. I know it should be played like that, because the climate of paranoia is bigger then.

Next addition will probably be Munchkin Cthultu with expansions, but later. :P Man's gotta eat too :D
I hope it lasts longer. We play every weekend for now (my friends have their own games too), but that probably won't last forever.

as for the Chaos... one day, I most definitely will :P But I guess I shouldn't order it by postal service, so many miniatures with fragile elements...

by the way, I stumbled upon this one very cheaply as well:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28025/wicked-witches-way

should I buy it if I like short / dynamic games from time to time ?

Unfortunately I have no idea, haven't played that one. However, here's something one of our board gamers discovered recently. The great thing is that the rules are freely available so you can give it a try with improvised materials and pledge if you liked it. There's even an online version (Beta phase at the moment). Seems simple enough to me, a kind of combination of Dungeon Petz and Galaxy Truckers or something.

Don't worry about anything happening to minis during shipping. I get most of my games from online sources, so they have to be shipped. I have NEVER encountered any issues with damaged minis during shipment. Most board game minis are made of softer plastics, so they have enough flexibility that they really aren't fragile.

And I agree with AIKim...Chaos in the Old World is awesome. You need it. :)

Actually, if you're looking to add to your collection while money's a bit tight, there are a LOT of free to download, print and play games on Boardgamegeek. Obviously you'll still need access to a printer, but it's an option.

So why people are doing this:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/1579108/chaos-in-the-old-world

:P

Because people are absolute OCD about 'protecting their games'. The only things I use are baggies and Plano boxes, and I only use Plano boxes if there's a lot of little bits that needs to stay sorted.

I can understand using foam for stuff like 40K minis or something that's been nicely painted, but using it for CitOW, which does not have fragile figures, is insanity.

I play Chess...sometimes

I only use card sleeves and some bags to speed up the game's setup.

The top 3 boardgamegeek games - Twilight Struggle, Through the Ages, and Agricola - happen to be my three favourites at the moment.

Twilight Struggle is just unbeatable for 2 player.

Through the Ages has free online play (with leagues!) at boardgamingonline.com, which I was pretty into for a year before I realized that the stop and start nature of it was making me a little obsessive.

A game that hasn't been mentioned here that's always a (relatively quick) good time is Ticket to Ride. The Europe version is the best :)

As for finding gaming partners, I managed to find a couple groups in my area on meetup.com. The first one wasn't a good fit but the second one was great. Highly recommended if you're struggling to find people who appreciate how awesome boardgames are.

this website doesn't seem to work for me.

A little update here. I recently bought Thunderstone on a sale, and I love everything about it. The setting, the beautiful artwork, the game mechanics. What's even better - my girlfriend loves it too! The best part for us is, we don't fight each other although we compete with each other. It's a welcome change from time to time, when we start to hate each other after kicking each other's butts :P

Sadly, expansions are not avaible in Poland and never will.

I love to play board games with my iPad! My last favorite is Eclipse!

I tried playing board games on PC, it was fun, but it didn't have any of the magic of playing actual games with real life cards, minis and all.