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The Tabletop Wargaming Thread

1 by Gramsci
I thought I’d separate out the wargaming from the RGPs because they are very different beasts and spamming the Roleplayers isn’t polite.

I restarted playing Warhams 40K about 18mths ago. Anyone else into other games? I hear Bolt Action is good.
clocker bob may 30, 2006 wrote:I think the possibility of interbreeding between an earthly species and an extraterrestrial species is as believable as any other explanation for the existence of George W. Bush.

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2 by kicker_of_elves
Gramsci wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 1:56 pm I thought I’d separate out the wargaming from the RGPs because they are very different beasts and spamming the Roleplayers isn’t polite.

I restarted playing Warhams 40K about 18mths ago. Anyone else into other games? I hear Bolt Action is good.
I dipped my toe in the Warhammer lake last year, after many years of curious observation. Man, once you're in you're in. I'm running a small Black Legion rabble, and my kid is totally in with the Space Wolves. I even found an old Bjorn the Fell-Handed model for him.

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3 by Gramsci
kicker_of_elves wrote: Mon Aug 30, 2021 3:13 pm
Gramsci wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 1:56 pm I thought I’d separate out the wargaming from the RGPs because they are very different beasts and spamming the Roleplayers isn’t polite.

I restarted playing Warhams 40K about 18mths ago. Anyone else into other games? I hear Bolt Action is good.
I dipped my toe in the Warhammer lake last year, after many years of curious observation. Man, once you're in you're in. I'm running a small Black Legion rabble, and my kid is totally in with the Space Wolves. I even found an old Bjorn the Fell-Handed model for him.
It’s called Plastic Crack for a reason… Games Workshop is now worth more than British Gas or the entire U.K. fishing industry… which made for some great memes during Brexit.
clocker bob may 30, 2006 wrote:I think the possibility of interbreeding between an earthly species and an extraterrestrial species is as believable as any other explanation for the existence of George W. Bush.

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4 by Geiginni
I never played Warhammer, but I have a good friend who was into the classic SPI and Avalon Hill games from the 70s. I've played some of those, like Napoleon at Waterloo (the quickest, easiest and in some ways, most enjoyable of the group), Panzer Leader, Siege of Jerusalem.

A few of the games published by The General were interesting and fun. Cortez and the Aztecs was kind of bizarre. The Chaco War wins the prize for most obscure and also least interesting aside from its reliance on inter-war technology and difficult supply chain requirements.

The games I tended to enjoy most, however, are the ancient battles ones that a number of publishers had out. Those games seem to have a most chess-like playability and lack so many of the extraneous rules and tables to account for modern military technology or units with more capabilities or complexities than: Infantry, Hoplite, Chariot, etc...

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5 by biscuitdough
Geiginni wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 11:50 am I never played Warhammer, but I have a good friend who was into the classic SPI and Avalon Hill games from the 70s. I've played some of those, like Napoleon at Waterloo (the quickest, easiest and in some ways, most enjoyable of the group), Panzer Leader, Siege of Jerusalem.

A few of the games published by The General were interesting and fun. Cortez and the Aztecs was kind of bizarre. The Chaco War wins the prize for most obscure and also least interesting aside from its reliance on inter-war technology and difficult supply chain requirements.

The games I tended to enjoy most, however, are the ancient battles ones that a number of publishers had out. Those games seem to have a most chess-like playability and lack so many of the extraneous rules and tables to account for modern military technology or units with more capabilities or complexities than: Infantry, Hoplite, Chariot, etc...
The old Avalon Hill and 3M stuff is a trove of nerdity I’d never been aware of until now. The strategy games look cool, but even moreso the attempts to create the next chess, Go or cribbage with games like TwixT and JumPin.

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6 by Geiginni
biscuitdough wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 11:21 am The old Avalon Hill and 3M stuff is a trove of nerdity I’d never been aware of until now. The strategy games look cool, but even moreso the attempts to create the next chess, Go or cribbage with games like TwixT and JumPin.
I have a copy of Twixt I used to play regularly. Cool game. 3M had a lot of good ones. I still have my copies of OhWaRee and Facts in Five.

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7 by Gramsci
Warhammer Fantasy Battles relaunches as The Old World tomorrow.

Looks great from the batreps that are up.
clocker bob may 30, 2006 wrote:I think the possibility of interbreeding between an earthly species and an extraterrestrial species is as believable as any other explanation for the existence of George W. Bush.

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8 by losthighway
This might be a few generations of board games behind, but in college my friend would host all day games of Axis and Allies and I loved it. For a while we had this 'Games by Email' knockoff we were playing as a kind of primitive looking correspondence version. It didn't seem to have the same upsets and unpredictability in the coding that I enjoyed rolling dozens of dice on the real one.

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9 by Gramsci
I’m currently prepping for a month in isolation post Stem Cell transplant buy creating a large “pile of shame” to get through
clocker bob may 30, 2006 wrote:I think the possibility of interbreeding between an earthly species and an extraterrestrial species is as believable as any other explanation for the existence of George W. Bush.
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