What War or Boardgame are you playing?

[scalydemon]

Have been into old Avalon Hill games, especially Jim Dunnigan stuff. Lately into Eastern Front WWII stuff and enjoying Victory Point games (Market Garden series & Assault on Sevastapol)

Tried the Arkham horror BG and found it somewhat cumbersome rules-wise, but had fun elements

What are you playing lately?

[Deleted]

I played AH Games and others in the years before D&D was first published. The only problem is, I was not very good at them. None of the experience players wanted to waste time playing against me, so I ended up teaching newcomers who then went on to surpass my level of ability (and usually rather quickly).

My favorite two games were Blitzkrieg and Starship Troopers, both by Avalon Hill. The only AH game still in my possession is a solo game, B-17: Queen of the Skies.

[owlorbs]

Now you’re talking my language! Some of my recent Avalon Hill plays were:

PanzerBlitz (Dunnigan)
Blitzkrieg
Wooden Ships & Iron Men
The Legend of Robin Hood
Magic Realm
Wizard’s Quest
Speed Circuit
Wizards
Acquire
Civilization

And some other WWII plays:

Battle for Moscow (Operation Typhoon)
Band of Brothers (101st campaign at squad level)
Valor & Victory (Squad Level)
Winter War (Finland '39)
Battle for Germany (Brilliant Dunnigan fall of Germany game)
Panzer Grenadier Arctic Front (More Winter War but Platoon scale)
And the complete Memoir '44 Campaign of Barbarossa

[Falconer]

War of the Ring (first edition) and Mare Nostrum are my favorite heavy games, followed by Arkham Horror.

Favorite light games include all the classic gateway games: Carcassonne, The Settlers of Catan, and Ticket to Ride: Europe, plus San Juan, Pandemic, Airships, and 7 Wonders.

[Falconer]

Arkham Horror Miniatures — wow!

[welleran]

A lot of Arkham Horror, to be sure, but last Summer I made my own copy of Jutland from AH's CD of the game. Even better, I ordered and painted miniatures for all the ships for a very cool game indeed!

[verhaden]

Squad Leader

And then Catan, Carcassone, Risk Legacy (game 5 of 15), and Red November (if only because of FTL).

[stevemitchell]

Most recently, I played three of the four battles from GMT's Fading Glory: Salamanca, Smolensk, and Borodino. I followed that with Victory Point Games' In Magnificent Style. And I just received a box full of new games from Noble Knight yesterday, so I'm mulling over my next campaign.

[Finarvyn]

Kingmaker is one of my all-time favorite AH games.I also like SPI's War of the Ring and AH's Dune a lot. Zombies!!! is also a lot of fun.

Haven't played many wargames for a long time, however. Every time we get enough players together for a good boardgame, we figure we ought to role-play instead.

[makofan]

I played SPI's Breitenfeld last year; would love to play more but I'm the only wargamer around that I know

[Falconer]

Feb 8, 2013 14:18:08 GMT -6 verhaden said:

Risk Legacy (game 5 of 15)

Ooh, never heard of this one before. It sounds really cool!

[amityvillemike]

I recently played "Conquest of the Empire" again for the first time in about 25 years. It's much more fun as an older player.

I have FFG's "Game of Thrones" board game, but haven't had a chance to try it out as of yet. Like Arkham Horror, it's got a lot of fiddly bits. so it could either way.

[Zenopus]

I played the new Star Wars X-wing Miniatures (2012) last weekend for the first time. One of the fellows in my D&D group has it but hadn't had a chance to play. We figured out the rules and played a 50 point game, where Luke + Artoo in X-wing and a random Y-Wing (my forces) defeated Vader in a TIE plus another TIE. Fun! My friend has a special star field map for the game which adds to the feel. First time I've played a minis game that uses rulers for measuring move and fire distances, though they are special rulers provided with the game.

[verhaden]

Feb 8, 2013 21:28:33 GMT -6 Falconer said:

Feb 8, 2013 14:18:08 GMT -6 verhaden said:

Risk Legacy (game 5 of 15)

Ooh, never heard of this one before. It sounds really cool!

I mean, it's Risk. But the first few games go really fast--games haven't lasted longer than 1-1/2 hours. All the new rules for altering the map and gaining abilities really provides an interesting dynamic to the game.

You have to have some endurance though--we started out once a week, but now it's once every two or three weeks between games.

Caledea and Nexus Ops are also some good Risk-ish games.

[jasonzavoda]

Panzer from GMT

[runequester]

Does miniatures games count? If so, while it's been a bit of a hiatus, I play (when I get a chance) Stargrunt, my own "FAD" rules, 5150, Nuts, Striker, Beamstrike, TW&T and quite a few others

[Sean Michael Kelly]

Believe it or not, my 11yo son and I played a round or two of Star Frontiers Knight Hawks with the chits and hex mat during one of the previous "snow days."

I've been intending to get out TSR's Dawn Patrol as I have recently acquired a "like new" box and haven't played it since my original copy in the early 80's.

Also recently bought a brand-new "Stand & Die: The Battle of Borodino, 1941" by GDW but haven't found anyone patient enough to sit down with me to learn to play.

[Torreny]

For me, it's been a bit of solitaire play of Strange Aeons, the odd game of Space Hulk, and this little board game I found over Christmas called 'Labyrinth'. Up to 4 players, each is some kind of magic-user, and the goal is to capture all the loot in a constantly-shifting maze. Though the others aren't so fond of how often I win, but to be fair I just about always lose at Space Hulk! ;D

If most of my wargames stuff wasn't in storage, I'd also be playing Star Grunt or FUBAR.

[runequester]

Feb 10, 2013 14:56:05 GMT -6 Torreny said:

If most of my wargames stuff wasn't in storage, I'd also be playing Star Grunt or FUBAR.

FUBAR looks really keen for a quick and dirty game. Haven't had a chance to play with yet. I have some cold war Soviets slowly getting painted up to use with them.

[kenmeister]

I've been playing a lot of Dungeon and Catan Junior with my 7 year old. We've also played a few games of Talisman. At the edge of what she can handle is Starfarers of Catan. She also has one game of Cosmic Encounter under her belt.

[Otto Harkaman]

Hi owlorbs! Sorry I know we talked about playing some Alexander the Great using vassal, got distracted with a bunch of other things.

Got Aide de Camp2 to work on my Win7 laptop fairly well. Been poking at some old SPI games. Someone was really nice on boardgame geek to get me a copy of the old PRESTAG rules by John Young.

Here I have the battle of Chalons (451 A.D) setup to play in ADC2

[mordrene]

recently purchased a copy of FFG's Death Angel. Its a co-oroperative card game of Space Hulk. I highly recommend it.

[Otto Harkaman]

Because of the Crusading thread, I feel like trying SPI's Crusades by Richard H. Berg. A game I have always wanted to play. There is a really nice ADC2 module by Nick Bell for playing this in Aide de Camp

[owlorbs]

Feb 13, 2013 5:11:42 GMT -6 Otto Harkaman said:

Hi owlorbs! Sorry I know we talked about playing some Alexander the Great using vassal, got distracted with a bunch of other things.

No problem. I don't have ADC2, but I'd be up for some pbem Vassal gaming starting next week.

[scalydemon]

I played Nijmegen Bridge - Operation Market Garden by Victory Point Games today with a friend. Fun little game, though I lost with the allies.

Pic from today's game

[scalydemon]

Played Up Front today with a friend. I was the USA and he was the Germans. It was a scenario that used an AFV.

Anyone getting in on the Up Front kickstarter for the reprint?

I like my old copy just fine so I'm not. I own the Banzai expansion as well. Seeking Desert War

[Koren n'Rhys]

I get in the occassional game of Heroquest or Munchkin. We play a fair amount of Dominion, too. Not really any wargames though. Mg daughter is playing Diplomacy at school, and enjoying it, so I'd like to pick that up and given it a whirl eventually.

I loved Space Hulk and Blood Bowl back in the day. Is Death Angel good? I almost bought it at GenCon last summer but didn't get a chance to try it so I passed.

[scalydemon]

Anyone up for playing a game sometime on Vassal (perhaps also with a skype connection?)

I am on PST

Thanks

[Keith]

My 13-year-old son and I play Axis & Allies; we start with the global game, and now switch back and forth between that and A&A minis. He and his cousins love collecting the minis, and it's galvanized an interest in history and WWII, which is a very good thing, IMHO

[scalydemon]

I got in a game of War at Sea via vassal and Skype voice with a friend in Houston last weekend. We got thru 4 turns. Lots of fun, Game board at the end of our session is below. Vassal allows you to save game so we will hopefully be finishing this soon.