Diplomacy can spark tension. I played diplomacy once. One of the players was deeply and personally offended when he claimed I backed out of an alliance because I worded it too closely for his taste. It was his house so he kicked me out. I think it was like turn 3. My ride was so afraid to cause offense he made me wait outside in the snow for 4 hours to finish the game.I think it sounds pretty cool actually!! LOL.
There is this board game called "Scotland Yard" I think it is, where you've got this map of London and one person is the robber and the other is like, Scotland yard an there is this immense set of rules where it's like you draw a card, and you can move X amount in X direction and I think the Scotland yard person is visible on the board and the perp is not, and it's super complicated logically but you have to hem down the perp.
It's really fun and I have not played it for too long.
There's also a game called Diplomacy and it's basically a bunch of folks being countries and like, forming alliances with each other then lying and all (you need a game master for it, but that is ALSO a fun position) and well, basically you want to take over the world. It's kinda based on WWII but it is super strategic.
Anna
I don’t associate with miniatures war gamers any more.