Boardgames (with miniatures)

[Nosher]

OH, and how could I forget Bloodbowl...

Few things in life are as satisfying as *that tackle* that sees your opponents star player being carried off on a stretcher

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

  Love the Bloodbowl!

[Techno]

Space Hulk.
Bloodbowl.....What about a 'travel version' of that in 10mm...with a mini board...Oh all right...might be a little too fiddly
I also liked the early version of Talisman....OK....You had to buy the figures instead of using the stand up cards....And it was glorified snakes and ladders.
But I used to enjoy that.

The game i used to love in my younger days...and always wondered why it wasn't produced with little figures, rather than just plastic shapes was Risk.

Happy days.
Cheers - Phil.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

There are versions where you can have figures now.
I quite liked the abstract version!

[Luddite]

Yeah, Carcassonne and Thurn & Taxis, good games both, but hardly wargames. 

As i said...

Boardgames or 'war based' wargames?  I got a bit confused by your post.

[sultanbev]

We use the Empires in Arms campaign map and counters for a 15mm Napoleonic campaign if that counts.

What you have in figures can be bought and fielded in the campaign. Someone in the supporting Yahoo group made US and Asian maps, which I have copied/printed, so now we have Napoleonic armies stretching from America right across Europe to China.

Mark

[Sean67]

My introduction to Wargaming
was the board game  the Hunt for Red October by TSR games I think this was then addede to a line in the sand just after Gulf 1.
Ive done a mini Space Hulk in 6mm Pendraken Aliens and Epic S/M mounted on pennies with printed paper the whole thing fits in an old Video box with Dice. Just got some Scotia 6mm Sci Fi to replace the epic S/M these scale better to the 10mm Aliens I'm using as the

Just started doing LOTR in 10mm using the FUbar rules also mounted on coins fitting into a video case
regards
Sean

[Nosher]

I remember Line in the Sand - came out while I was in Germany. From what I remember it worked on a political as well as a war footing and when either the Jihad got too high (and Syria got dragged in) or pressure from back home waned was how the politics gauge worked.

[Sean67]

  Yes Nosher Many a Sat Morning/Afternoon playing that with a few Yellow Handbags to help lubricate the politicians
then off down the NAAFI Bop 

[Serotonin]

Noones mentioned Memoir 44 yet- its another Richard Borg wragme/boardgamne based on the Command and Colours system and its really fun. WW2 themed and theres loads of expansions that cover every theeatre of WW2. For anyone curious woith a PC theres a free version of it on Steam thats very well done.

Also on the Borg theme- anyone played Battle Cry or Battle Lore. Im tempted with Battle Cry (ACW) as it was the first Command and Colours game and therefore might be simpler (they are all fairly simple to be fair) becuase my 6yr old son is beginning to want to play wargames and as he already enjoys boardgames, this might be a good way in. I suspect he would like batte Lores setting (fantasy) more though, but apparently it adds in lots of new stuff like diffeent races and magic etc.

[Fenton]

How about the old Standard Games Cry Havoc etc, great games and many happy hours spent plying the Outremer scenarios

[FierceKitty]

How about the old Standard Games Cry Havoc etc, great games and many happy hours spent plying the Outremer scenarios

The combat system was absurd; the numbers favoured the defence to the extent that a peasant would beat a knight.

[Hertsblue]

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Diplomacy. Our club adjusted the map slightly (well, OK, a lot) and used it as the basis for a Renaissance campaign that ran for five years. Only trouble with the basic game is that it takes about that long to play.

[FierceKitty]

Diplomacy gets onto my top ten too. Great for playing with moves every second day if you work in the right sort of company.