Your Favorite Board/Table Top Games

Puke · #1 June 6th, 2002, 11:02 AM

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Originally posted by TerranC:

Ye gods, what do you americans play?

what continent is Canada on, these days?

on topic though, im shocked an horrified that Battletech didnt make the list. it might not be much on realism, and sure the art was stolen, but its one of the best tactical games ever writen. i tend to favor pre TR 2750 stuff, but it was all good. i think i still have some old beta test stuff in a box somewhere.

recently, i have had the chance to play a couple games from a small press company (i forget the name) on the 1939 war in finland. Blood on the Snow was the title of the first one, and there has been at least one sequel. they also have some games set in the pacific theatre, island combat and such. nice maps, chit based games, fast play. the rules are easy and effective, and the games are fairly true to history.

dumbluck · #2 June 6th, 2002, 11:44 AM

Umm, let's see.... Chess, ... um,... chess, and then I play some, um, ... chess, ... and a little Monopoly, and, um, what else... I play chess sometimes. Oh, and did I mention that I like to play chess? Not that I'm any good at it, really, but it's fun none the less. My wife likes Scrabble, so I play that every so often. And I play some chess, too.

EDIT: D'oh! How could I forget Vampire: the Masquarade??? That was a fun game. But I don't have any of the books, and no one to play it with now that I'm out of college, and no time to play it.....

[ June 06, 2002, 14:18: Message edited by: dumbluck ]

SgtBigG · #3 June 6th, 2002, 12:26 PM

I played the Avalon Hill "Great Campaigns of the Civil War" series nonstop. And then I got a computer. I really should try to play them again, but the stacks of counters falling over and figuring out morale and attack ratios etc. for myself would be to much like work after having it all done for me.

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Saxon · #4 June 7th, 2002, 01:02 AM

D&D. Little lead men on the table top, running around and killing orcs. We had a big pLastic sheet that you unrolled and could write on with overhead markers. We also had a huge piece of paper with one inch squares drawn on it. Life was good.

I did buy the D&D Battlesystem, which was a table top war game and we played out a few big battles that were worked into the campaign, but it was not as much fun.

With Mom and Dad we played Life, Careers and Rummoli. Sure, Rummoli is a card game, but with that big pLastic sheet and all the pennies we saved up, it took up as much space as a board game. Backgammon was also big with Dad and I, as was Stratego. He had no idea what he was doing, he just liked seeing his young son get excited when the cunning plans worked out. Of course, I did not realize this until I was much older, so I was convinced I was a Stratego god.

Mephisto · #5 June 7th, 2002, 01:24 AM

Star Fleet Battles.

Look at this page to get going as a PBEM game:
http://www.sfb-pbem.com/

Tampa_Gamer · #6 June 7th, 2002, 01:44 AM

Hmmm...prior to working for a living, marriage and children I enjoyed the following:

(1) Ambush! & Battlehymn series (Victory Games)

(2) Starfire

(3) Gamma World/Star Frontiers

(4) Twilight 2000

(5) Of course, AD&D/D&D

[ June 06, 2002, 12:45: Message edited by: Tampa_Gamer ]

tesco samoa · #7 June 7th, 2002, 01:48 AM

Risk. Axis &Allies. Chess. Squad Leader. AH Panzer Games. D&D and vampire....

Crib, Hearts, Spades, Bridge.

Turtles, Operation, mololopy, Game of Life.Trouble.(that one whre you have the marbles and the sticks )

Snakes and Ladders.

Does light bright count