Boardgaming is fantastic!

Vanity | 2/6/2014 | Your old Pappy

[olepap]

My friends, I have been playing board games with my geeky friends for the past 2 years and it has opened up a whole new dimension in my life. These are real, physical games with real people.

Twilight Imperium is the best I have found so far, but other great games are Warparty and Avalon: The Resistance. Sometimes I leave a gaming session and my BRAIN is working overtime, planning strategies, reviewing critical moments of the game.

This is my top recommendation for you, my unknown friends: get into gaming. You can find gamers on meetup.com -Pap

[caver]

Ah yes, Squad Leader, the orginal, I still have mine. I had about 200 Avalon Hill and other war games at one time.

[for-q-clinton]

CATAN is a great family game.

[Political Junkie Too]

My first game. I still have it.

-PJ

[Kommodor]

I still have my fleet.

[DCBryan1]

Space Hulk is on the computer now. Sin of Damnation missions are pretty cool.
my favorite boardgame now is Redneck Wars and Trailerpark Wars when I want to release my inner redneck with my West Coast and IL in-laws. Its a hoot!

[Coldwater Creek]

Thrift stores are the best. Just make sure everything is there before buying.

[Coldwater Creek]

My children and 7 grown grandchildren love board games. We have 3 Sequel games and have tournaments when we all get together. Sometimes I will supply a monetary prize winner takes all.

[AlienandStranger]

I’m 59 years old and I rediscovered boardgaming after being away for many years playing PC games.

I now have a gaming group that gets together for five or six hours on Fridays to play many of these games.

The new strategy games don’t have dice and are great fun. Excellent products that have way surpassed games like MONOPOLY, RISK, etc.

Check out the top ranked games for each category on boardgamegeek.com and have fun!

[Jotmo]

So good ones we have that many may not have heard of…

Dread Pirate
King Oil
Carrier Strike

[AlienandStranger]

Try

MANHATTAN PROJECT
THROUGH THE AGES
SMALL WORLD
CAYLUS
CARSON CITY
LE HAVRE
POWER GRID
et al....

[henkster]

I still have Avalon Hill’s “France 1940” and “1914.”

Do you have any of the SPI games? I have a box with, if memory serves:

PanzerArmee Afrika
Ardennes Offensive
Kursk
Moscow Campaign
Destruction of Army Group Center
NATO
CA
Combined Arms
The Fall of Rome
Red Star/White Star
Sinai
The East is Red
Invasion America

And probably a few others in the box that I don’t recall.

[warchild9]

Advanced Squad Leader player here.

I have probably played in excess of 1000 scenarios, along with hundreds of sessions of

For the People
Victory Games Fleet Series

etc

started on Tactics II as an 11-year-old.

[BlueLancer]

My favorites were .. and still are ..

Siege of Jerusalem (Avalon Hill)

and

Sonar Sub Hunt (Mattel)

[Ueriah]

great thread :)

growing up, I was a sucker for games with electronic components (The Black Tower, Stop Thief!, etc).

Axis and Allies eventually replaced Risk.

Fortress America and Shogun were a blast.

I played Stratego with my grandfather.

I remember my first group of gamer friends, and playing a lot of Car Wars, a game by Steve Jackson. Steve Jackson also put out Ogre, which was in the lexicon of the day, “way cool”.

Also got bit by the “Play By Mail” bug. Am I the only one here who used to look forward to getting their turns by mail? lol

[warchild9]

Researching backgrounds for my wargames

plus

growing in a Marine Corps family

produced a professional historian:

Me!

[sharpee]

Diplomacy: is a more difficult game than Risk. It has a map and armies but no dice and all the armies move at once. Negotiations and back stabbing are the stock and trade of the game. Best of all 2 to three hour games if you do not mind losing some friends.

Settlers of Catan: An interesting game of development and conquest. Popular with the Peace Corps folks

Rail Baron: a monopoly like game only with railroads across the U.S. favorite game for an evening

Acquire: A hotel buying game with mergers that add a few twists to how to finally win.

[AlienandStranger]

I sold/traded all my old SPI and AH titles for new ones.

The new wargames are way better products in design and components.

Check out the #1 game: TWILIGHT STRUGGLE

[Conan the Librarian]

Got it and played it! Loads of fun.

Have you ever messed with GMT’s Battles of the American Revolution? I play tested most of the newer volumes of that.

GREAT GREAT Fun.

I have a Purple box Squad Leader with most of the counters still unpunched. Picked it up on ebay a few years ago.

www.consimworld.com for all your wargame playing needs. :)

[Conan the Librarian]

PanzerArmee Afrika
Ardennes Offensive
Kursk Nope
Moscow Campaign Yep
Destruction of Army Group Center Nope
NATO Yep + the newer version from Decision games
CA Nope
Combined Arms Yep
The Fall of Rome Yep
Red Star/White Star Nope
Sinai Yep
The East is Red Yep
Invasion America (hardmounted maps) Yep

At last count, I had more than 500 different games from various companies, but, I did recently lose 10 or so due to water/termite damage. Including my original PanzerLeader/Blitz/Arab Israeli War set. :(

[S.O.S121.500]

Life is too short to play games..........