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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 2/11/2007 3:52:48 PM

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I would name Task Force 1942. Nothing quite like it.

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 2/11/2007 4:05:57 PM

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I have never played that one. Is it on North Africa?

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 2/11/2007 4:43:45 PM

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No, it is on Gaudalcanal and the Solomon Islands as per your signature.

Made by Microprose- a surface action simulation.

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 2/11/2007 5:14:52 PM

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Hmm.

1)CC3
2)Great War in the East (SSG)
3)Carriers at war 1 and 2
4)Conquest of the Aegean
5)Panzer general 2

Plenty more, and probably needs a reshuffle, but this lists 5 of the Wargames I have played the most. Surely that means they are the best to me, no?

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 2/11/2007 5:30:47 PM

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Ok. Either I never heard of it or I forgot about it. Sounds like it was interesting.

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No, it is on Gaudalcanal and the Solomon Islands as per your signature. Made by Microprose- a surface action simulation.

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 2/21/2007 5:00:13 AM

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Computer:

Harpoon
Talonsoft Napoleonic "Battleground" series
Medieval Total War (I and II)
War in the Pacific

Board Games:
Midway (AH)
Empires in Arms (AH)
Wooden Ships and Iron Men (AH)
1776 (AH)
USN (SPI)
Diplomacy (AH)

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 2/22/2007 3:56:44 PM

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Operation Flashpoint also deserve to be on list

That game rocks.

And!

http://www.flashpoint1982.co.uk/

droool, I've been waiting for that mod for /years/.

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 2/22/2007 10:00:12 PM

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Steel Panthers
SPWAW
MegaMek
MekWars
Classic BattleTech
Battle Isle 3
Total Annihilation

Addition:
Supreme Commander

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 2/23/2007 6:18:25 AM

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Hmm... I'm not good at wargames, but here is my list, in no particular order

1. Dominions 3
2. Europa Universalis 2/3 (and HOI 2)
3. Medieval Total War 1/2
4. Galactic Civilizations 1/2 (with new expansion pack)
5. UFO: Afterlight and Aftershock (Squad based lite!)/X-com series
6. Conquest of the Aegean
7. Silent Hunter III
8. Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War series (yes, I know it is RTS)
9. Warlords series (including Battlecry)
10. Age of Magic/Master of Magic

As far as board games go, there really are only 4 major wargames for me:
1. Twilight Imperium
2. Diplomacy (6 hours to lose/win by backstabbing your friends)
3. Risk
4. Cults Across America (Lovecraftian Risk-clone)

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 2/23/2007 4:07:02 PM

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Computer:
X com series
Master of Orion 1 + 2
Civilisation 1+2+3
Harpoon
Panzer General
The Grandest Fleet
Carrier Strike
Theatre of Europe
red Lightning
No greater glory
Flight Commander 2
{ better have a matrix.... GGwaw}
And a favourite from the earliest days .. Alien
Spwaw
Secret weapons of the Luftwaffe {great great campaign mode..}
And i really liked original railroads , not a wargame but a great game.

Board:
{Should be or are being converted}

WIF
Raid on St Nazaire
Battle of Britain
Sniper / Ambush /Battle Hymn / Patrol / Bug Hunter Spi
Battle of Midway {gdw}
Civil war {VG}
Vietnam 1965-1975 {vg}
Federation and empire {FASA}
Hornet Leader
Defence of Rorkes Drift
Junta {weg}
Alesia {AH}
Paths of glory {gmt}
Gladiator {AH}

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 2/25/2007 12:57:15 AM

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Balance of Power
Civ IV
Alpha Centuri
Risk
Panzer General
Steel Panthers

Would like to try WITP

There was a game called Superpower which could have been good, but had too many flaws.

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 2/25/2007 10:34:34 AM

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I still like RISK!!

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 2/26/2007 12:35:19 PM

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1. CotA
2. CC2
3. CM series
4. Squad Battles series
5. CC3
6. WinSPWW2
7. SPWAW
8. PZC series
9. EF2\WF
10. BiI

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 2/28/2007 9:12:06 PM

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Fire in the East GDW
Hanibal AH
Am Civil War Victory Games
Terrible Swift Sword TSR
Highway To the Reich Victory Games
World In Flames 5th Edition ADG
Total War ROME Activision
Total War Sho-Gun Activision
Total War Medieval War Activision
1/300 scale WWII armor miniatures

The three computer games by Activision are pretty good.

World in Flames is my active favorite.
Terrible Swift Sword was made by another company before TSR

Victory Games were pretty good.

I left out the games that got me into the hobby, like SPI's Sniper and Napoleon's Last Battles Quad Game or AH's Panzer Blitz or Panzer Leader.

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 3/3/2007 2:26:45 AM

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Not in any particular order;

Decisive Battles (SSG)
Battlefront (SSG)
ACW (HPS)
HTTR/COTA (Panther)
Panzer General (SSI)
War in the Pacific
Civ 4
Campaign Series (Talonsoft)

Next I am hoping will make my top 10 list is (still 2 spots left);

Combined Arms of WWII

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 3/5/2007 9:49:31 AM

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Steel Panthers (the complete series)

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 3/5/2007 5:42:59 PM

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Only really two board wargames I ever really liked and wanted to play over n over.

1. Of course Squad Leader (the origional)
2. Swords & Sorcery (this was an excellent monster fantasy rpg wargame it had three ways to play. Armies vs armies, Armies & Heroes vs Armies & Heroes and Heroes Vs Heroes while playing armies & heroes vs Armies & heroes. You could even go questing while fighting the wargame to get the random power item in the game. That's what was neat no two games or wars were ever the same. Killer Penquins from the North could disrupt or destroy entire army groups on EITHER side. Vortex like tornadoes that could sweep thru raging battles and toss armies all over the map. One of the best fantasy board wargames I ever played. Wish someone had brought something like that to the computer.

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 3/5/2007 6:37:33 PM

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Some games, Some series
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe by Lucas Arts with all the expansion planes
Action Stations by Alan Zimm/Raw Entertainment
Wargame Constructions Set 2 and 3 (especially Age of Rifles)
Silent Hunter 1-3
Talonsoft Campaign Series Eastfront, Westfront and Rising Sun
Talonsoft Battleground Series 2,4,5,7,9 (Civil War)
CAW
Close Combat Series
WinspWW2 (Steel Panters)
HPS Squad Battles Series

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 3/6/2007 5:30:48 PM

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Wish someone had brought something like that to the computer.

Do you know Heroes of Might & Magic serie?

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 3/6/2007 5:43:32 PM

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..t3 + BioEd, latest upgrade..

..the rest are for the kiddies...

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 3/6/2007 5:59:40 PM

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What no Kampfgruppe? Panzer Blitz on a computer?
That game was VERY popular.

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 3/6/2007 6:13:13 PM

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..err, best top 10 wargames, toaw1, toaw-acow, toaw-acow+BioEd, t3, t3+BioEd, repeat till you you reach 10..

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 3/7/2007 7:58:25 AM

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Hmmm, in their day ...

Third Reich
Squad Leader
Dauntless
Risk/Supremacy
Panzer Leader/Blitz
Midway/Coral Sea
Starship Troopers
Ogre/Gev
Air Cobra
Nuclear War (What a blast!)

Some fine computer games:

The Operational Art of War
Carrier Force
Age of Empires
Medieval Total War
Gettysburg (SSI)
Empire
Mechforce (Amiga) much like Titans of Steel
V For Victory series
Falcon 1.5
Close Combat

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RE: Top 10 wargames... - 3/7/2007 8:06:34 AM

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Advanced Squad Leader is still one of the best. I for one still buy the modules and mags especially the historical ones. (great maps).

Alesia was another great game. Hope in the future to set it up and give it a whirle.

Starship Troopers was just as good.

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