old war games board games

[Dry]

I started with:
- Quadrigames: Blue&Grey
- Quadrigames: forgot_the_name (NATO vs Warsaw Pact in hypothetical 1970 WW3)

Most played:
- War&Peace
- ASL (all expansions)

Enjoyed also:
- WorldWar II (European theater of operation)
- WorldWar II (Pacific theater of operation)
- Patton's 3rd Army

I also wanted to buy/play the whole Europa (GDW) serie, but bought only 2 of them: War in the Desert and... the one about Winter War... forget the exact name. My finances then forbad me to buy more. Very interresting game mechanics, but I didn't play them that much.

[Dry]

Originally posted by beingofone
We played War in Europe with 15 players

Oh, man! That monster!
A legend.
You need 2 game sessions just to install it.
It fascinated me. Never played it.

[Shogun Gunner]

For some reason, we never bought Panzer Leader. PanzerBlitz was awesome.

I liked the three foldout maps which could be assembled in any number of ways as the roads/rivers/terrain matched up no matter how you put the edges together.

[Shogun Gunner]

PanzerLeader & PanzerBlitz Online

While looking for an image of the PanzerBlitz box, I ran across this website. You can play Panzer Leader or PanzerBlitz online -- you still need the original game to play online.

PanzerLeader/PanzerBlitz Online

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Shogun Gunner


I wish I had read about this earlier. Did you go?

I live in Northern Virginia and I would have been close enough to check it out.

yeah, ended up 2-2

there is the board game world championships in August (has everything from Axis and Allies to ASL) in maryland as well

thre is actually a DC ASL club, I might go to a meeting or two

Jon Miller

[Barinthus]

PanerBlitz

As for game board set up you described, SG, about how you could asemble them in various ways.

Same thing with Starship Troopers game, I believe.

[Shogun Gunner]

This graphic represents all three boards put together. If you look closely at the rivers and the roads you could move the top 1/3 of this picture to the bottom of the map and the terrain lines up.

It provided some nice variety for different scenarios. Probably my favorite scenario was a German Fighting Withdraw in 1944 forget the location, but it was probably Poland. The scenario called for the maps to be assembled short-end to short-end (imagine seperating the 1/3's of the attached pic and putting the short ends together - you will see the road hexes line up again).

The objective, as the Germans, was to preserve your forces while inflicting damage on the Russians. The Russians have tons of T-34s and T-34/85s. The Germans have self propelled guns like the Wespe and the Hummel. You park those suckers on a mountain top 10-20 hexes back and when you sight the Russians - ya light 'em up. Retreat when they get to close and setup again in another location with a good field of fire. The Germans end up retreating the whole length of those three boards in the scenario.

A great scenario and a very innovative game.

[Barinthus]

Ahh memories... that was a fun one indeed.

[Rasputin]

yes the meories just keep rolling in...


i cant beleive i been palying wargames for nearly 2/3 of my life !!!!!

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Shogun Gunner


I wish I had read about this earlier. Did you go?

I live in Northern Virginia and I would have been close enough to check it out.

yeah, it was a lot of fun

I think I went 2-2, which was surprising

Jon miller

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Rasputin
yes the meories just keep rolling in...


i cant beleive i been palying wargames for nearly 2/3 of my life !!!!!

I hvae been also...

Jon Miller

[Jon Miller]

I need to get some of the odler games..

maybe if I get a job

Jon Miller

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Rasputin


never played any spi games, i think i got addicted to avalon hill and regarded them as the bst (rightly or wrongly)

SPI was more hardcore. Unlike Avalon Hill, SPI games werent sold in retail stores, IIRC. You bought them mail order or you subscribed to their military history mag, which included a game in each issue. Which meant you had to be pretty hard core even to have found out about them. And this was before the net, so it wasnt like you could find out about them from websites or whatever (You could buy their games at their HQ in NYC, however)

[Shogun Gunner]

SPI was cool because they would cover battles and conflicts that we less mainstream. Some very unique situations and historical battles were covered by SPI.

They were under pressure to design a new game for each issue. I can't imagine the rush to deadline that must have been.

[Paddy]

you lot are making me all teary eyed for my misspent youth