Strategic Board Games

Pythagoras · February 12, 2000, 01:57

Anyone here ever enojoy any of these games:
Twilight Imperium (awesome MOO type game)
Age of Renniasance (great Euro trade game)
Machiavelli (Italian diplomatic game)
Cosmic Encounters (Quirky SF game)
Or any other such games?

Narck · February 12, 2000, 04:10

Hmmm... I have the feeling you accidentally posted this in the wrong section

Pythagoras · February 12, 2000, 15:28

yeah, thnx.

February 12, 2000, 21:01

Welcome.

One with the discussion...

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Dan; Apolyton CS

Sikander · February 16, 2000, 11:55

I believe that I have played Cosmic Encounters, but it was only a couple of times, and a very long time ago. Here are some multi-player board games that I have played and enjoyed:

Kingmaker - War of the Roses in England. Very fun game which moved quickly, and had excellent graphics for the time. (Mid 1970s)

Samurai - Kingmaker in Japan, a less interesting game which had very mediocre graphics for the time. (Mid 1980s)

Third Reich - Excellent multiplayer game of WWII. Played a lot of this while in the army and never tired of it.

Titan - another good game, though it could bog down sometimes into a massive war of attrition. 'Strategic' as well as tactical play kept it tense.

Diplomacy - A classic strategy game, which always seemed to bog down in midgame, but was fascinating in the early game.

Blackbeard - A very fun game, but as luck played a fairly large role, one which you could not enjoy if you must win every time. (I learned to do this, but it took awhile)

goofydrew · February 26, 2000, 21:59

SUPREMECY

a major board game...

it was THE best until puters came along, and CIV replaced it...

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The Mad Viking · February 29, 2000, 01:54

Anyone out there play any games from Strategy and Tactics?

"Legion" and "Viking" were very good historical simulations of ancient warfare - hex maps, die-cut counters...

"Sniper" was an excellent sim of individual soldiers, with simultaneous scripted moves, and featuring morale, panic, and a wide variety of weapons and tactics.

These were (gasp) mid '70s. (Showing my age!)

Zkribbler · March 1, 2000, 01:10

I played and enjoyed all those games mentioned by Sikander, with the exception of Blackbeard, which I never played, and Third Reich, which I played by thought some of the rules to be artifically restrictive (e.g. you can't attack such-and-such country until such-and-such a date.)

I never understood the point of Supremacy. It seemed whoever went first, won.

I also enjoyed many S&T games. My two favorites were a solitaire Roman Empire game, where you're fighting off hoards of invading barbarians and rebelling Legions, and a solitare WWII convoy game, where you had to get your ships safely across the Atlantic. As I remember it, S&T was a magazine which contained a new game every month. They were eventually bought out by--I believe--GDW and put out of business.

And if you want to show ages, although I did not buy "Chancellorsville" by Avalon Hill (which I believe was the first stategy board game to use hexes), I did buy the next one: "Gettyburg." I also owned Avalon Hill's "Tactics II," which was the first game to use the now standard "attack factor - movement factor."

colossus · March 1, 2000, 22:06

Somehow I was reminded of the original Civilization/Advanced Civilization boardgames by AH.

Simpler, subtler and more funny than the computer game, but it was hard to find enough guys sitting around for 8-10 hours for the boardgame.

Zkribbler · March 1, 2000, 22:17

Right-- There's only one place to find people smart enough to play strategic board games but dumb enough to waste that much time: college.

LordStone1 · March 2, 2000, 00:41

Isn't Diplomacy a strategic board game? If you think so, come over to the Stories and Diplomacy forum!

ghen · March 2, 2000, 09:26

Oooh how about Axis and Allies, Rail Baron, Risk, and stuff like that?

March 9, 2000, 02:02

Ooh, yeah, Kingmaker! A definite favorite. I liked the AH Panzer games too. I played Squad Leader once… have never since found anyone willing to spend a month learning the rules. Not even when I was in college.

S&T: I liked the Panzer '44 / Mechwar '77 series, and I've made comments before about Globar War, a wonderfully elegant game.