All time favourite (wargaming) boardgame?

[Maenoferren]

Cry havoc
Samurai blades and the others in this set of games.
Diplomacy
A one where you play Arthurian knights and have arrived in a unclaimed valley and for the life of me I can't remember what it is called.
Also a pirate game which I can't remember. You spend ages stalking a merchantman and it either disapears or turns out to be a man of war. Doing well aren't I

[Maenoferren]

Also Shogun, heroquest and advanced heroquest withh the add ons and all the others that I have forgotten.

[FierceKitty]

Cry Havoc and its relatives were irritating; the odds very heavily favoured even a peasant on the defence against an attacker, even a knight.

[Pruneau]

We played the following games very regularly:

Kingmaker always was a hit - we always cheered when Sir Percy showed up, never knew why 
Magic Realm was loads of fun too - if you had a clear head
Squad Leader, COI, COD, GI... - I moved on to ASL though

And others less often:

Air War
Air Force
Ironclads
88

And nowadays it's mostly ASL and MMP ACW games like 'This terrible sound', as well as some fun games:

Battlestar Galactica
Dilbert
Dominant Species
and lots more at the club, most I only play once or twice

[FierceKitty]

Sir Harry. Percy is the family name, by which a knight is not labelled.

[Leman]

Anyone remember this one from the sixties. It was a laminated board onto which flat plastic hills, forests etc could be temporarily stuck. The opposing sides were small plastic forces of tanks, guns and planes. It was the first wargame I ever played but I can't remember its name.
DP

[going a-viking]

1) SPI's Empires of the Middle Ages. It is very different from most other games and covers a period of particular interest to me.

2) Diplomancy.

3) Risk. As popular with my son and his friends as it is with me and my friends.

[Paint it Pink]

Ogre/GEV

BattleTech

Risk

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Anyone remember this one from the sixties. It was a laminated board onto which flat plastic hills, forests etc could be temporarily stuck. The opposing sides were small plastic forces of tanks, guns and planes. It was the first wargame I ever played but I can't remember its name.
DP

Lt General B. Horroks on the box - then it was called COMBAT. Even wote a article abut it....

IanS

[Jubilation T Cornpone]

Our staple back in the 70's was the Napoleonic boardgame 'Campaign'. Excellent fun and still up in the loft as we speak. Buccaneer was good fun too!

[Leman]

Thanks for that 54 - it's been bugging me for years!

[Last Hussar]

Market Garden Firestorm is fun - another stage in moving the kids away from GW.

Junta.  I won a game by being the President for the entire game from turn 2 or 3, usually no one would want to be elected.  I had a Strategy.

I played a good one on the SYW, that resolved combat using a card deck - think it was German standard deck.  Movement was by marching between cities in a network, so irregular.  However the board had a grid over it with a card suit in each square.  You could only use cards belonging to the suit your army was in.

[sixsideddice]

Probably Cry Havoc (and all the add on box sets, Dark Blades, Seige, Outremer, etc)...  we re-wrote the rules to make them more workable and had many many many happy hours playing with this game - even switched the counters over for miniatures.

Close second would be TSR`s Little Big horn, or Space Hulk.

[Annatar]

Risk,

and Talisman

[lentulus]

Simulations Canada "Seapower and the State" -- WWIII at sea, whole world.  Great game.

[FierceKitty]

Rethinking shogi. Great game, but my wife has clobbered me four times in a row now. It's getting a bit depressing.