A little OT: Good strategy/tactical or RTS games?

Bustoff · 12-27-05, 12:07 PM

Hey all,

I was talking with some old time friends that I managed to see over Christmas and we began to reminice about our board game days. Back before girls would actually talk to us we were the original "geek squad". We would get together in this one guy's basement during summer break and play tactical board games. We started out with the usual, Risk then Axis and Allies but after a while those seemed like kids games. Then we graduated to the mother of all counter based tactical board games, "The Longest Day".

The game centered on the assault and breakout of the Normandy invasion. This goliath took hours to set up and if played from D-Day to the breakout took weeks to complete. There were over 1500 counters representing allied and axis units from infantry to aircraft to be placed on an hexagon grid map which was so large it had to be layed out on the floor. I remember we used sticks to move the counters just like the map room of the Supreme Alllied Command (Yes, we were super-dorks!).

Here is a link so that you can fully appreicate all this: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/5651

Now that we are all married our wives would never tolerate losing so much floor space! I was wondering if anyone here could recommend a good PC based tactical, stragtegy or even real time strategy game. I am kind of nostalgic for my Supreme Allied Commander days!

12-27-05, 12:07 PM	#1
Bustoff Watch Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 16 Downloads: 27 Uploads: 0	A little OT: Good strategy/tactical or RTS games? Hey all, I was talking with some old time friends that I managed to see over Christmas and we began to reminice about our board game days. Back before girls would actually talk to us we were the original "geek squad". We would get together in this one guy's basement during summer break and play tactical board games. We started out with the usual, Risk then Axis and Allies but after a while those seemed like kids games. Then we graduated to the mother of all counter based tactical board games, "The Longest Day". The game centered on the assault and breakout of the Normandy invasion. This goliath took hours to set up and if played from D-Day to the breakout took weeks to complete. There were over 1500 counters representing allied and axis units from infantry to aircraft to be placed on an hexagon grid map which was so large it had to be layed out on the floor. I remember we used sticks to move the counters just like the map room of the Supreme Alllied Command (Yes, we were super-dorks!). Here is a link so that you can fully appreicate all this: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/5651 Now that we are all married our wives would never tolerate losing so much floor space! I was wondering if anyone here could recommend a good PC based tactical, stragtegy or even real time strategy game. I am kind of nostalgic for my Supreme Allied Commander days!