F:ATties Five Favorites - Wargames

F:ATties Favorite Five is a series of forum threads, one per category, where every F:AT user can post their five favorite games in the appropriate category.

The threads will be sticky'd for future reference. So users are encouraged to update their lists using the EDIT function when they need to be changed. Therefore it would be preferable that posts commenting on someone else's list go somewhere else to make reading the lists easier as the thread gets longer, but that won't be enforced.

Lists don't need to be in any specific order. Its hard enough narrowing things down to five favorites. And obviously you can put less than five games, but please don't put more than five.

1. OGRE
2. UP FRONT
3. STORM OVER ARNHEM
4. TWILIGHT STRUGGLE
5. HERE I STAND

Twilight Struggle
Ogre
Fields of Fire
Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage

I'm not a serious history buff, so I tend to prefer war games with a fantasy or science-fiction theme. But I'm kind of old-school in the sense that I feel that a wargame should have a hex map. So though I love Nuclear War, I don't consider it a wargame.

1. Divine Right
2. Starship Troopers
3. Ogre
4. Squad Leader
5. Freedom in the Galaxy

And I think DoaM games should have their own category here. I bet that a lot of us have five favorite DoaM games.

Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage
2 de Mayo
Commands & Colors: Ancients
Warriors of God
Blackbeard (Avalon Hill)

2 de Mayo
Twilight Struggle
Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage
Commands & Colors: Ancients

Here is some serious sacrilage.

Tide of Iron (or is it AT??)
Squad Leader/Panzer Blitz (for getting me into gaming)
Conflict of Heroes
Russian Front

I'm a bit light in this category as well.

Twilight Struggle
Tide of Iron
Memoir-44

Ogre/GEV

Twilight Struggle

Here I Stand

Friedrich
Britannia
Here I Stand
Crusader Rex
Third Reich

Here I Stand
Great Campaigns of the American Civil War Series
Clash of Monarchs
Twilight Struggle
FAB: Bulge

Current favorites:

Hannibal RvC / Sword of Rome / (friend's prototype)
Napoleonic Wars / Kutozov / Wellington
Flying Colors series
Combat Commander: Pacific*
Empire of the Sun*

* PTO slut

C&C: A
Combat Commander
Titan
Twilight Struggle
Fields of Fire

There are really only 2 that I find essential:

ASL
La Bataille series

Angola
Maria
Successors (3rd Edition)
Warriors of God
Thunderbolt Apache Leader (2012)

I also want to add Hold the Line, Twilight Struggle and Struggle of Empires.