Boardgames

[workerBee]

Nostalgia kicked in...

If you play (or used to play) war games in board game format:

1) What is your current favorite one?

2) What old one you haven't played in a while that you would play in a heartbeat if you had an opponent?

3)  What old one you haven't played in a while is really high on "cool" factor but you don't play (practically unplayable, as in:  takes up the dining room table and the wife gets upset, soooo long (but soooo good,) to play that you have trouble finding an opponent who will play to the end.)

4) The greatest disappointment?

5) The one that you really didn't initially want to play but turned out to be in your "Top Ten/Hall of Fame" mental list?

Gracias,

Glenn

[Tom Reed]

Hmm, top board games I would play in a heartbeat if the old gang was still around to play would be Junta, French Foreign Legion (Yanquinto), and Yanquintos pirate game.

[Conquistador]

1) What is your current favorite one?

2) What old one you haven't played in a while that you would play in a heartbeat if you had an opponent?

3)  What old one you haven't played in a while is really high on "cool" factor but you don't play (practically unplayable, as in:  takes up the dining room table and the wife gets upset, soooo long (but soooo good,) to play that you have trouble finding an opponent who will play to the end.)

4) The greatest disappointment?

5) The one that you really didn't initially want to play but turned out to be in your "Top Ten/Hall of Fame" mental list?

1) Currently nothing (last board game was an incomplete solo SPI WW1 game which tracked strength points IIRC multiple years ago.)

2) All SPI: Wellington's Victory, Seelowe, and the strategic game (NOT the monster game) WW2, ETO, 1939-45.  Pretty much best, "Bester," and "Bestest" (pardon the bad grammar.)

3)  Due to lack of crazed crowd of gamers like my 1970's Sacramento group - Wellington's Victory.  We played the entire game at a friend's parents house while they were out of town for a three day weekend, essentially 12 hour days.  Don't have that in Saint Louis...

4) AH's Victory in the Pacific or SPI's Operational battle game Lost Battles (WW2) OR any of the SPI later "Monster" games.  A lot ot SPI's magazine games came close but these three simply were the worst.

5) SPI's La Grande Armee - some of he scenarios are nail biters.

Gracias,

Glenn

[Doomsdave]

1) Heroquest

2) Axis & Allies

3) Freedom in the Galaxy

4) I can't recall any being that big a disappointment (and I've played hundreds of boargames)

5) All My Children by TSR (Don't judge, my wife made this demand in order to get her to play D&D.  While not in my top ten, it was a surprisingly fun boardgame)

[Johnno]

1) What is your current favorite one?
2) What old one you haven't played in a while that you would play in a heartbeat if you had an opponent?
3)  What old one you haven't played in a while is really high on "cool" factor but you don't play (practically unplayable, as in:  takes up the dining room table and the wife gets upset, soooo long (but soooo good,) to play that you have trouble finding an opponent who will play to the end.)
4) The greatest disappointment?
5) The one that you really didn't initially want to play but turned out to be in your "Top Ten/Hall of Fame" mental list?

My buddies and I try to play as often as possible. difficult due to kids, opposing schedules etc.
1. I have several - Small Worlds, Pandemic, Game of Thrones
2. Axis and Allies
3. Mage wars, Axis and Allies (Sooo long), Classic Risk
4. None yet 
5. Pandemic, Dominion: Intrigue