Anyone play board war games?
 

The forum has thread topics for all kinds of games on computers. I'll bet a lot of subsim folks grew up with and a lot still play tabletop. What about miniatures?
There are always lots of miniatures displays and diaramas at games conventions that I have attended.

How about it? Do we need a discussion thread about popular hobbies that don't need any electronics except light bulbs? :D

I've read many posts over the years about members who play board games. I play mostly tabletop miniatures games, on a weekly basis. In fact I do those a lot more than I play any computer games these days.

No but I remember some simplistic WW1 RFC and German air force board game from the 1960's that had these little plastic Fokker triplanes molded in red and I held them in my hands and had dogfights the likes of Mick Mannock and Verner Voss never dreamed of. :har::yeah:

Shameless plug for Wings of Glory.

I had one of those games. I don't think we ever played it as intended either.

As a teenager I was pretty good at Avalon Hill games though. I had Squad Leader, Afrika Korps, Panzer Leader and Wooden Ships and Iron Men.

I've read the rules for Wings of Glory and I find them extremely simplistic and boring. On a site for one of their games they actually take a jab at our system, saying "Wings of Glory is a game, not a complex flight simulator." There is only one set of rules that fits that description, and I play them every other week. :O: :D

You ol' dog fighter!!! Milton Bradley DOGFIGHT 1963!! still have along-side my Avalon Hill Gettysburg and Fury in the West. Options were real simple: LOOP, ROLL, AND BURST; the play was so intense...I had to wash the Spandau powder off my cheeks!:O: poor Werner's DRI was of course blue and he ran into James McCudden's Squadron(all ace elite) 56 of SE-5's(your model) and was demised by Arthur Rhys-David after an incredible display of airmanship, damaging all 7 of his opponent's aircraft in the process. My sig, in tribute, below says all...PS: do not fly a Cessna 172 inverted; I'm not Voss and it ain't a DRI.:doh:

I play Axis and Allies with my friend occasionally.

I would really like to get into wargaming. But, none of my friends have the patience and I really don't think many of them have the intelligence for it. I hate to say it...but it took me ages to explain chess to my class. :shifty:

I found it a lot more fun to chase my friends around the house making machine gun noises. :yep:

My friend Rocky's three sons did that until their mother told him to stop it. One day I was visiting and one the boys was sitting talking with us. One of his brothers popped around a corner, pointed his finger and whispered "Whick whick whick!" and ran off again. I looked at them quizzicaly and Rocky said "Squirt guns."

If yer doin' it in the buff as an MG 34, don't overheat the barrel; Ma' Deuce can fend fer hersef' KTAM! KTAM! BUDDA! BUDDA! have A Hamm's with your Ageless Male so's ya don't hafta' change out the belt(or canister) at a critical juncture:doh: Jimmy Hendrix woulda had ta' rewrite 'machine gun' after that!:D

Risk, Axis & Allies, and you can't forget the classic Chess.

And this thread is in GT because?

Old and lame. Thanks for putting a name to that game! :up:

I play ROF just to fly the models mainly and it's worth every penny just for that in my world. The models are awesome and I yearn for some more 1914 early war types.

http://www.vintagetoysillustrated.co...AR_I_BOARD.JPG

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I do believe I had Fokker triplanes in my game but this is the box art and board. Gawd I feel old..... :yeah:

Artistic license if ever; I don't recall Nungesser in a Nieuport 'bebe' ever getting the six-over on a all red 'diable rouge' of Manfred's, the Albatross III(v strut?) which was his main tally getter.