2010 will be known as the year The Brog went analog.
Board games? Yeah, we do that too. Well, this post alone should solidify my 'geek cred' as an all-around gamer [including sports]. There are a lot of gamers that are only digital and some that are analog, but occasionally the Venn diagram overlaps [and if you're reading this then you may be one of them]. What you see above is a game that was produced in 2004 for people caught between the many strategic elements of Catan and the lax play of Carcassonne.
What you see is Memoir '44 -- a war game that mimics historic battles fought during [of course] World War II. Maybe its because I've been obsessing over the engineering and technology of this time, but Memoir '44 is a surprisingly easy game to learn. Really cool game to add to the collection if you haven't already. I'm still a novice, but Memoir clearly has made an impression on me big enough ... well, for me to write about it. It's a game more reliant on how you play your combat cards more so than Risk's position & camping strategy. You'll need to learn when to turn down a battle very early on, something the first-person-shooter-in-me finds very hard to do.
Honorable Mention: Arkham Horror, Call of Cthulu: Card Game, Carcassonne, Settlers Of Catan, Battlestar Galactica, Small World