Anyone play board war games?

[raymond6751]

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?

[Sailor Steve]

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.

[Buddahaid]

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.

[nikimcbee]

Shameless plug for Wings of Glory.

[August]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

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.

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.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Shameless plug for Wings of Glory.

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.

[Aktungbby]

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! 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.

[Red October1984]

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.

[August]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

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! 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.

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

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by August

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

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."

[Aktungbby]

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 Jimmy Hendrix woulda had ta' rewrite 'machine gun' after that!

[gi_dan2987]

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

[Feuer Frei!]

And this thread is in GT because?

[Buddahaid]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

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! 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.

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

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.





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

[Aktungbby]

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.