F:ATties Five Favorites - Wargames

#1: Twilight Struggle
#2: World War II: Barbarossa to Berlin
#3: War of the Ring
#4: FAB: The Bulge
#5: A Victory Lost

ratpfink wrote:

Memoir '44 Overlord(no one started a Five Favorite Party Games thread)

Someone did actually if you want to edit your entry :-p

KingPut wrote:

Dogmatix wrote:

Mad Dog wrote:

Dogmatix wrote:

Forgive me for making this a 3-part 5-game list but my shelves are overwhelmingly covered with wargames and I think there are 3 different niches worth making recommendations in:

This isn't about making recommendations or honorable mentions. Its supposed to be a list of just your five favorites.

Sorry. Though those are my 5 favorites in each of those 3 categories, it's corrected.

Dogmatix, I hope you captured what you wrote somewhere. Solo vs. online vs. face to face wargames recommendations are very helpful.

I'll second that--I could care less if it wasn't honorable mentions--this type of stuff is sometimes too rare on F:AT....I loved it! I hoped you can post it elsewhere.

ASL
War of the Ring (with expansion)
Struggle of Empires
Combat Commander
Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage

Merkles wrote:

KingPut wrote:

Dogmatix wrote:

Mad Dog wrote:

Dogmatix wrote:

Forgive me for making this a 3-part 5-game list but my shelves are overwhelmingly covered with wargames and I think there are 3 different niches worth making recommendations in:

This isn't about making recommendations or honorable mentions. Its supposed to be a list of just your five favorites.

Sorry. Though those are my 5 favorites in each of those 3 categories, it's corrected.

Dogmatix, I hope you captured what you wrote somewhere. Solo vs. online vs. face to face wargames recommendations are very helpful.

I'll second that--I could care less if it wasn't honorable mentions--this type of stuff is sometimes too rare on F:AT....I loved it! I hoped you can post it elsewhere.

I certainly don't want to run afoul of the F:AT Forum Covenants again. When I get back home to DC next week, I'll see if I can dig up my original post and throw up a blog entry.

The Royal Navy
Russian Campaign
Close Action
Viktory II
Tank Leader Series

World War II: Barbarossa to Berlin
Paths of Glory
EastFront (Columbia Games)
A House Divided
Breakout:Normandy

War of the Ring

Combat Commander

Wilderness War

Sword of Rome

Here I Stand

Napoleon's Triumph
Hammer of the Scots
Crusader Rex
Prussia's Defiant Stand
Conflict of Heroes

Updated 18 months later:

Napoleon's Triumph
Hammer of the Scots
Maria
Rommel in the Desert
Crusader Rex v2.0 (possibly)

Battletech
Twilight Struggle
Combat Commander
Memoir '44
A few others in the running for 5th (Conflict of Heroes, Federation Commander, C&C:A)

Not really much of a wargamer due to lack of opponents but:
Upfront
Nuclear War
Ace of Aces
Car Wars
Globbo

Just five huh?

1) ASL (Not really a game but more of a system I suppose)
2) Here I Stand
3) Wilderness War
4) Up Front
5) War of the Ring


-Will

I'm primarily a wargamer, though I got into the hobby through the GM series, so I have some Ameritrash roots. Hard to say--I'll come up with very different lists depending on whether you are asking which wargames I've played the most, which I think are the best designs, which I'm likely to keep playing going forward, etc, etc.

Anyway, I'll go with a combination of most plays and best designs:

1) Up Front
2) Friedrich
3) Washington's War
4) Paths of Glory
5) Combat Commander

Yeah, it's tough picking just 5.

1. Ancient Battles Deluxe
2. ATS
3. Breakout Normandy
4. Storm Over Stalingrad
5. Ogre (for being my first one)

Paths of Glory (hands down my favorite game, war or otherwise)
Lock 'n Load Band of Heroes
Europe Engulfed
Pursuit of Glory
A Victory Lost