What Military Strategy games have you played?

[freebird]

What are some of the various strategy games that people have tried?

I must confess that I'm really "old school", I got into wargames back in the 80's when computers were not nearly advanced enough to run complex games. {Anybody else waste most of a week's allowance on Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Galaxian, Defender? )



So I'm mostly talking board games here, but I know there are cross-over video games now too....

[Hunter368]

Damn I have or had sooooooo many. Let me think and get a list.

[freebird]

Damn I have or had sooooooo many. Let me think and get a list.

I know that I am probably missing a bunch...

Did anyone else try SPI "AirWar"? It was a little complex, as you had to track all the flight paths for missiles as well as the aircraft too.

I know the Trekkies used to play "Star Fleet Battles" but it seemed Waaaay too complex, the rulebook was like a novel and each turn took ages....

[Thorlifter]

Milton Bradley used to make other games like Axis and Allies. I cant remember the names of them, but I have them tucked away under my bed. One was Broadsides and Boarding Parties. I think one was Shogun. I don't remember the others.

But these and Risk were all I played.

[Njaco]

Freebird, you beat me to it! I was just going to ask if anyone has played "Dogfight" by MB. As a kid I loved the game, WWI with little Dr Is and Camels to move around the board. Still have the game. I've been playing "Risk" with my kids lately.

[magnocain]

The board game Attack!.
It is a 1940's era world domination game. In my opinion it is better than RISK.

[DBII]

Back in the late 60's it was Dogfight and Battel Cry. I picked up Tacts II at a garage sale and was hooked on wars games. I could not wait until the PC was able to play war games. Microprose had a series of war games that I still have today. I would still be playing them if I did not lose my Commodor 64 in a house fire. I loss the machine but still have the software. My last assignment in the military was conducting computer simulations on main frames for the Active Duty Army, National Guard and Air Force. D** I miss that job. War games against live hundreds of live people. I had up to 1200 units to command. It did not matter if I was a Soviet Front or a British squad, it was always exciting.

DBII

DAN

[cristian.hidalgo]

wow that is cool min is rise of nations and battel ship gunners 1and2 and other ww2 typ games

[plan_D]

Hearts of Iron II (command any nation from '36 - '47), Company of Heroes (excellent World War II RTS), Blitzkrieg 2 (World War II RTS), All the Total War games (Shogun, Medieval II, Medieval Kingdoms, Rome, Barbarian Invasion).

As for board games, I used to play Risk a helluva lot!

[comiso90]

allied general!

I still play it!

[MacArther]

CHESS!!! YEAH!!!

[Vassili Zaitzev]

CHESS!!! YEAH!!!

yeah, I'm a chess fan as well, although I do play battleship from time to time.

[Marcel]

A friend of mine has Axis and allies miniature collection game. it's really great, with miniature tanks and a/c.

[HoHun]

Hi Comiso,

>allied general!

A friend once asked me for my opinion of Panzer General when the game was freshly out. My answer was "Captivating but not fascinating" - it manages to grab and hold your attention very well, but it offers only very slow development with hundreds of micromanagement tasks and the time panic at the end of a scenario as the main difficulty.

I don't know if you're familiar with the original "Empire" - it was sort of a "Civilization" without the civilization bits! In fact, Sid Meier's brilliance in creating Civilization was to replace the quantitative (and exponential) growth of units that bogged you down in unit-pushing tasks by qualitative growth, giving you fewer, more expensive, more powerful and (most importantly from a gameplay point of view) more manageable units instead.

"Empire" - much like the more complex "Panzer General", but also much like the far simpler "Tetris" - was able to generate a so-called Flow Effect ... something I'm sure most computer gamers will recognize even if they haven't heard it called by that name:

Flow (psychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

The list of nine components in the Wikipedia article is the bit to read ... for some reason, "flow" has been considered something entirely positive, but if you have experienced it, perhaps even with otherwise second-rate games, you'll probably recognize that it's neither good or bad in itself, just a mode the human brain can get into.

Regards,

Henning (HoHun)

[freebird]

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I don't know if you're familiar with the original "Empire" - it was sort of a "Civilization" without the civilization bits! In fact, Sid Meier's brilliance in creating Civilization was to replace the quantitative (and exponential) growth of units that bogged you down in unit-pushing tasks by qualitative growth, giving you fewer, more expensive, more powerful and (most importantly from a gameplay point of view) more manageable units instead.

Regards,

Henning (HoHun)

Civilization, now that is a great game!

Did you play Harpoon very much? GDW's were my favorites, some very good releases