Posted on 10/18/2020 12:31:05 PM PDT by rfreedom4u
I still do Hearts of Iron 3 with the BlackIce mod. I can’t get into HoI 4, too busy on the eyes and a bit cartoonish. ASL was great, and you’re right, the rules were crazy for those games. Frankly, they should have just stopped at Cross of Iron.
A buddy of mine in high school mounted the map on his bedroom wall. Insanely huge game.
Hint: Germans always lose.
Yes indeed — Squad Leader, Panzer Leader and many other Avalon Hill games! Loved them. Still play. I also enjoy GMT, Compass, and a whole host of others.
Wargaming is a great hobby! Been playing since 1975.
Hoss
Sure have! Played the original many moons ago...
Hoss
Me and some buddies used to play MBT. A pretty complicated NATO/soviet board game using tanks, choppers, AA, planes, etc. I found it when I was a kid helping a soldier move and he forgot he had it and gave it to me
I have all the monster SPI games. A few I even ventured to play. I do not consider these to be monster games though they are complex and need a relatively large play area are Terrible Swift Sword (Gettysburg), A Gleam of Bayonets (Antietam), Bloody April (Shiloh). These I played regularly back when I was in college. Of the Avalon Hill games my favorite is Jutland. Also liked Anzio & Wooden Ships, etc. I still have them all and they moved with me when I moved. Me keeping those games when we moved made my wife question my sanity but she got over it.
I probably have a couple of hundred AH, SPI and a few other brands stored away.
Never liked fantasy or RPG games !
MY husband plays loved to play Diplomacy but no longer can find anybody to play and donated the game.
Alexander was a classic, had great balance and whenever I played the Persian side I would always make a run for the Greek baggage camps, which is really a bad strategy!
Am glad to see a fellow Go player :-D
It is said that to become good at Go you must play and lose one hundred times. I have proven this is not the case, LOL. Lost to a 12-year old kid once, he was REALLY good.
Ticket to Ride, 7 wonders Duel, Risk
Many available on line ( check out Board Game Arena)
Fun pastime.
Candyland
My wife and I fell in love playing Scrabble together. 34 years later we still play Scrabble and we’re still in love.
In college in the late 60s played AH’s Stalingrad. Massive game and it took at least a couple days to play. Great way to explain why invading Russia/USSR is a bad idea.
European Russia is shaped like funnel, the deeper in you go, the wider your front gets. And then after so many turns, winter hits. It’s virtually impossible for the German player to win. You have to take Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad by a certain date. For the Russian side, to win all you to do is keep that from happening.
I used to play Squad Leader a few times a week. All of my fellow gamers are either dead or moved too far away.
Bkmk.
I play Warhammer 40K and have an embarrassing amount of models in 2 glass cases. Love it though. We play Settlers of Cataan a lot, Axis and Allies too. My 14 year old has a weekly Dungeons and Dragons game he DM’s. I played D&D a ton back in 1980 to 86 or so. Great memories of youth. My wife and I mostly play backgammon and scrabble. She’s an engineer who scored a 1600 on her SAT’s back when the test was hard in the 80’s. She’s very hard to defeat...but I try. I kick her ass in chess at least
I play www.railnation.us. There are Euro versions, too. Typical start small > get big progression. Steam engines to mag lev, haul freight & passengers. Teams are formed. Takes 13 weeks, then restarts. There are also double & quad speed games.
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