"Your top 3 favorite wargames "periods" to play." Topic

World War II (Combat Command)
Medieveal (Cry Havoc, DBX)
Fantasy (Hordes of the Things, Warhammer)

TomT

Napoleonics – Genéral de Brigade
ACW – Guns at Gettysburg
SYW – Die Kriegskunst

Ancients, especially Late Bronze Age TROJAN WAR
Medievals, especially Crusades
ACW

Oh, wait, I forgot about … and …, then there's that box of old … I've been meaning to pull out of the attic and …

My favourite ones:

1.) Burgundian wars
2.) Great Italian wars
3.) War against excessive cross-posting

I'm not posting because he didn't include WWII rules in the cross post
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Tim

Ancients
Dark Ages
WWII All, but esp East Front

LOTS of runners-up.

1) SciFi
2) WW2
3) Moderns (either Vietnam or Sandbox with AA/FoF)

Closely followed by:
Fantasy (WarmaHordes)

Getting into Napoleonics and pre-Samurai.

Depends on the week and whats on the TV.

1) Ancients (and, like most rules, I consider that to be about 3000BC-1500AD)
2) Napoleonics
3) Sci Fi

1) Medieval
2) 16th Century
3) WWII

Hmm, difficult. Well the order is difficult and I have to pick only three.

How about:
1)WWII
2)Medieval
3)Ancients

1) Napoleonics
2) Ancient/Medieval
3) 18th Cent.

Hmmmm.

1) Horse and Musket (1750's up to 1880-ish)
2) Early to mid-twentieth century (both World Wars and a few bits in between)
3) Dark Ages, although that doesn't really happen these days

Now that I think about it, a year ago the order of the above would probably have had the 20th century stuff at the top of the list. Definite shift in priorities/interest over the past 12 months, mainly AWI and Black Powder-related.

Things I currently get to play:
1) Sci-fi horror
2) Sci-fi post apoc
3) Sci-fi space fantasy

Things I'd like to try:
Pulp
VSF
WWW II skirmish
Old West
Old West styled Space Opera

1. WWII
2. Science Fiction
3. ACW

Colonials (TSATF)
WW1 (Thru the Mud & the Blood)
WW2 (Crossfire)

WW2
Ancients
Sci-Fi (hard-ish, i.e. The GZG rules family and Traveller)

I'd play Napoleonics and SYW as well, but for the moment I remain too awed.

1) Ancients + Medieval (Impetus)

2) Fantasy (Fantasy Rules!, HoTT, Fantasy Impetus)

3) SciFI (Alien Squad Leader, Warzone)

ACW
Colonials--Sudan
A sprinkling of lots of others

1 – Napoleonic
2- Napoleonic
3- WWII

1789+

Great War
Marlburian
Arthurian Dark Ages

I can't justifiably give broader periods than these particular conflicts. I couldn't write 18th Century because I'm not interested in the Seven years war or AWI at all. Ditto Ancients – I enjoy Dark Ages Arthurian games, but have no interest in, say, the Crusades or Assyrians. If this is to be a poll I think 'periods' will need to be broken down a lot more to appease us pedants.

Thanks to the wonders of Attention Deficit Disorder I'll play just about anything. However, if you're going to force me to pick three only, here goes:

1. Marlburian. Reason: it's a very colorful period, relatively easy to paint up, and cavalry is very potent if used properly.

2. World War 2. Reason: it's extremely popular, and I love combined arms.

3. Ancients up until the end of Rome. Reason: it's a fun challenge because success or failure usually depends on your initial plan and deployment.

1. 19th Century – Plains Indian Wars (Six Gun Sound:BoG & Yellow Ribbon)
2. Sci-Fi (5150)
3. Fantasy (Warrior Heroes & Reaper's Warlord)

WW II-British any theater
Modern-Southern Africa

Good & interesting answers from most so far. I appreciate those that tried to actually narrow it down to three.

Lots of names in here I havent seen involved in polls before so thanks for coming out (so to speak).

"1820 to 2200…or so."

Boooo Kyoto!

;-)

Ancients
ACW
WWII

Cheers,
Aaron

WW2, Especially early war
Ancients
Napoleonics

AWI
WWII
FPW

18th Cent. (F&I/SYW, AWI)
Napoleonics
19th Cent (ACW, FPW)

1) Napoleonics
2) ACW
3) Ancients

1) WWII (Disposable Heroes)
2) Fantasy
3) Modern (Vietnam and James Bond)

18th century
Napoleonics
Ancients – mainly Dark Ages

Napoleonics
WWII
Ancients (Roman Era)

Dark Ages
Medieval (Crusades era)
19th Century Wars of Unification

Napoleonic
Colonial

1) Napoleonics
2) Renaissance
3) Ancients

1) 14th-15th Century Medievals (HYW, wars of the Italian City States, Wars of the Roses, Burgundian Wars)

2) NWF/Second Afghan War colonials (mostly using TSATF)

3) Whatever someone else I game with wants to play.

It's a good question but I think an even better one, inspired by it, would be "tell us your favorite period and explain why you

@Mad Guru: that's not a bad idea. But there are so many factors involved in selecting a period. It's really a very subjective thing. Perhaps a poll would be the best bet for this.

Ancients (WAB)
Dark Ages (WAB)
Colonial (Bluddy all of it, start to finish, using Blackpowder, Sharpe's Practice, WAB, Empire of Liberty, Contemptible Little Armies, The Sword and the Flame, Thrilling Expeditions, Rugged Adventures, In the Dark heart of Africa and any other set, historical or pulp.)

1) ancients (various rules)
2) WW2 (battalion level mostly)
3) Medieval

And that's actually about it. If I wanted to expand, I think i would change to smaller scales in the above periods rather than branch into others.

AWI
ACW
WW2

only tla's

I enjoy too many periods, however top 3 are,

WW1 and WW2 Navy
Sci fi ground combat, mostly Dirt Side 2
Star ship combat, Full Thrust and A Sky Full of Ships

Others

WW2 ground combat (not FOW)
WW1 ground combat
Air combat

1) 14th-15th Century Medievals -- HYW, wars of the Italian City States, Wars of the Roses, Burgundian Wars, etc. (tactical level, mostly using Tactica Medieval)

2) NWF/Second Afghan War colonials (tactical level, mostly using TSATF)

3) Whatever someone else I game with wants to play.

Ancients
American Revolution (Not really 18th Century)
Samurai (Yea, not really any of the choices)

American Revolution really has a different flavor than the standard 18th Century game.

Samurai is more like fantasy or science fiction. Just weird enough to not really be any of the listed choices.

Napoleonic
Beer
Women

Anything without guns.

Anything with early guns.

Anything with real guns.

1st Sci-Fi (all aspects, post-apoc, skirmish, space, etc….)
2nd Fantasy
joint 3rd Ancients and WW2

Normans and Vikings, Normans and Anglo-Saxons, Normans on the First Crusade….