Still has to be the original Axis & Allies from the late 80's early 90's ;)
Others thoughts?
ones that i always used to enjoy lots include
Kingmaker (until the endgame which usually stalemated)
Divine Right (not sure why i liked this but i did!)
Squad Leader (the original not the 372 volumes of ASL)
Machiavelli (a renaissance variant of diplomacy with lots of skullduggery rules added in)
Civilisation
Junta
Judge Dredd - always good for a laugh
Yeah, I'd plump for Kingmaker too. Even if you got knocked out you could still join up again. =)
Hardly ever played wargames board games. However, we did play a lot of a game based around Frederick the Great at Uni, but the name escapes me.
Some titles not yet mentioned:
Titan
Gunslinger
Kings & Things
Age of Renaissance
Old favourites are King Maker and Talisman, although we've recently been playing quite a lot of Arham Horror which is a scream ;D
Shogi. Single greatest combat game ever.
Waddington's Battle of the Little Big Horn. Virtually impossible for Custer to win but great fun all the same.
DP
Original Squad Leader
OGRE/GEV
Up Front (actually more of a card based game)
Kingmaker
Judge Dread Block mania
Original Squad Leader
Bang!
Munchkin
Chess 8)
AH Starship Trooper (pre movie version)
Cry Havoc
Snit's Revenge
Ogre
Awful Green Thing from Outer Space
Kevin Zuckers napoleonic campaign boardgames. Published over the years by Operational Studies, Avlon Hill, Vicotry Games
1796-97
1805
1806
1807
1809
1812 Russia
1813
1814
1815
He has basically covered all the major campaigns, great games that really show you the campaigns. Not only great games but fantastic tools to understand the campaigns, now he only needs to do Spain.
http://www.napoleongames.com/
William
Awful green things has to be right up there, I've got 3 sets :-[. Even done ship to ship battles.
Brittania as I love the whole 'what if' feeling and I could get non wargamers to play.
Junta. You have to just laugh.
Still have fond memories of Risk and Civilisation.
War on terror. The daily mail raged against it, so I got a copy. Great fun!
I forgot (beacuase I really don't consider it a war/board game) CARCASSONNE fantastic game after a few light-fallling-down-waters!
Squad leader
Shogun (MB)
Space Hulk.
Jim
Kingmaker
Zombies
Machiavelli
Risk
War on Terror is fun, even got my wife to play it
Games of Throne (Fantasy Flight)
Struggle of Empires (Warfrog Games)
Britannia (Avalon Hill)
Axis & Allies all the way.
Civilisation
History of the World
Shogun
Risk...'i rolled a five and a three; it got me Irkutsk'...
Funnily enough, didn't get on with Kingmaker...eveyone just piles up on a city and hopes to avoid the plague...
Yup Axis & Allies! But actually never got to finish a game even after a long bank holiday weekend playing it non stop.
Risk - fond memories
I can't remember the name of the game and I think it might have been made by Airfix. It was a vertical perspex screen which you moved spitfires and Messerschmidts around by rolls of the dice trying to "shoot" each other down by flying to the same occupying peg hole in the sky (bit like Headache - the game)
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 :(
Also Shogun, heroquest and advanced heroquest withh the add ons and all the others that I have forgotten.
Cry Havoc and its relatives were irritating; the odds very heavily favoured even a peasant on the defence against an attacker, even a knight.
We played the following games very regularly:
Kingmaker always was a hit - we always cheered when Sir Percy showed up, never knew why :D
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
Sir Harry. Percy is the family name, by which a knight is not labelled.
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
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.
Ogre/GEV
BattleTech
Risk
Quote from: Dour Puritan on 19 May 2011, 09:18:09 PM
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
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!
Thanks for that 54 - it's been bugging me for years!
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.
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.
Risk,
and Talisman
Simulations Canada "Seapower and the State" -- WWIII at sea, whole world. Great game.
Rethinking shogi. Great game, but my wife has clobbered me four times in a row now. It's getting a bit depressing. :'(