I bought a bunch of boardgames recently, my favourites being Legendary: Aliens, A Touch of Evil and Arkham Horror. Legendary: Aliens is a blast, it's a deckbuilding game with lots of sneaky monsters. By the end you get pretty powerful if you're playing good, which is nice, because you start off pretty weak.

I've been looking into picking up the XCOM boardgame, played it once and loved it, just worried about my friends who don't like time-based mechanics - I vaguely remember a few of those. I'd love to get them more into those sorts of mechanics though...