Out of Pod Experience

men memories

you forgot to mention SPQRn, great battles of Alexander, ( actually the whole series is great) the rise and fall of the luffwaffe ( and all its expansions
operation barbarossa ( the whole series all all 7 boxes ) all GMT games
the original Advanced squad leader

Actually GMT games isprobably the best known publishers that still makes those sort of games and regular reprint their old games

Sadly i do not have the time anymore to sit there with some friends bend over a map pushing counters and debating if those german divisions in front of moscow are in supply or not

You can get a lot of those old games, in good condition and at reasonable prices, at Noble Knight Games.

But, as you said, finding the time (and an opponent) for a marathon hexes-and-counters fest is tough. As a substitute, I used to play John Tiller games by PBEM. Those and HPS Simulation games are basically digitized board wargames. PBEM via Wargames Clubs was actually a lot of fun. Only one turn per 24 hours usually, but if you have two or three games going at once, that's a lot of wargaming per evening. The skill level of the opponents is typically pretty damn high, too.

All this talk awakened my inner wargamer. Got Matrix Games Carriers at War for PC downloaded, looking forward to some grognarding tonight. See you in a few days or weeks, EVE.

GW always had great figurines and some great games , but the problem i have and many other players have with GW iare
one they bring out a new game , that is really good and initially sells well to the many fans and is then discarded because sales drop , two examples are battle fleet gothic and warhammar fantasy epic


second each time they bring out a new edition they not only dumbed down the game they also almost force their customers to buy a new set of figurines because the old ones are not in the rules anymore , even lost count on what edition they are now

if you ever can get youtrrhand to warhammer 40 k first edition and its companion books and compare them with todays edition you will see what i mean
the game was much richer and the armylist well wriiten and gav you lots of background stories

never understood why they got rid of the squats , with their great figures n including bikes and trikes and replaceded them with the tau which look so generic and blend

Corey WHY? Why U PLAY TAU? No really ... WHY?

(angst scream)

Edit: I hate TAU .. I do , a lot, I hate their stupid drones.

They do actually, but Sniper Drone teams aren't very cost effective. There's a lot of competition for their slots that are much more useful on a table.

Haha. I remember when I played Tau. "Ooooh nice dreadnought you got there... A SHAME IT WILL GET RAILGUNNED! "

Was hilarious when (this was in FB) me and my friends got these enormous tables, put our armies on it (like 5 in total) and played FFA. Pretty much always lost due to being pinched between 2 enemies (A Slann throwing spells, skinks pewpewing darts on me from one side and a freaking large undead army throwing itself on me on the other.... Nasty experience, I tell you!).

Force on Force then. There are rules and figures for pretty much any kind of game but with the exception of Battlefront who make Flames of War rules and minis for WW2 and Vietnam none of them are close to the size of the Games Workshop empire. Favourite maker at the moment are Warlord Games who's sculptors and writers tend to be ex-GW. They've got Ancient rules and pike and musket by Rick Priestly while American Civil War minis by the Perry Twins for example.

Problem with real world wargaming is there are so many different sets out there finding players and rules everyone in a group is happy with is a chore!