"What is your desert Island Game?" Topic

If you were trapped on a desert island and could play only one game (plenty of island native opponents). Which would it be?

For me it was a tough call between Bolt Action and Kill Team but Kill Team is the winner

ECW. I'd be Royalist and they would have to be the Parliamentary knaves.

DBA, so many historical periods!

Probably Saga. Somehow, there is a certain incongruity involved in playing a Viking game on an island that is, at least in my imagination, thoroughly tropical.

Grelber

DBA is going to give you the most variety, assuming the premise of the question doesn't restrict the miniatures in some unspecified way. Plus it's a great game. You can play that over and over, no problem

Ditto The Sword And The Flame.

Chess

DBA or the Song of… system of game rules.

Kingmaker.

As the rescue chopper arrived, I'd being saying, "Wait, one more turn. We've almost finished!"

(But we'd have a great time doing it)

Mary Ann, then Ginger, then Mary Ann again, Then Ginger again, then Mary Ann and Ginger… then the Native girls (hopefully only friendly opponents for a few seconds only). Sink the rescue ship! 😉

No restrictions on troops and terrain, and a guaranteed opponent? Oh, for a set-up like that, CLS. I could play a game a day for years if not decades without duplications. Mind you, such a system would require a fair size desert island.

Battletech would be mine. I play a lot of games, but if I only get one- this would be my choice.

Ahead of:
Lion Rampant
Naval Thunder
Bolt Action

DBA

QILS – Dozens of different games each year. Could play dozens in a week on a desert island.

I thought the question was this…
inlgames.com/atlantis.htm

My luck,…I'd break my glasses.

Narrow Seas with my 1/600 coastal forces collection

+1 to HMS Exeter for the "Twilight Zone" reference.

It'd be my luck, too.

TVAG

Kingmaker for me, too. Much less unlikely to travel with that than a box full of terrain, figures, dice, rules, etc.

Dal! I at least thought you would prefer Mary Ann, Ginger and the Native girls, to playing wargames. 😉

assuming the premise of the question doesn't restrict the miniatures in some unspecified way

It does not. You can get any supplies, minis and supplements but only for "that game"

So you're stranded but you get supplements?

I'm changing my vote to TiR.

Axis & Allies, 50th anniversary edition.

Dal! I at least thought you would prefer Mary Ann, Ginger and the Native girls, to playing wargames.

Somehow I doubt my preferences or wants would even enter into their consideration, 35th. I could expect more love from my dice- or even the missus after I've been on a book-buying binge.

It does not. You can get any supplies, minis and supplements but only for "that game"

My game doesn't have miniatures "assigned" to it. So, all 15K+ that I have plus any more I need (read: want) would be airlifted to me?