"Do you ever resuscitate old dead board games?" Topic

I confess a hankering for some old board games and have used them as bases for ideas for new games. Some of them were good, some turkeys. Some were flawed, and some seemed like they could have used more work. The ones I have done are

Game Expansion set for Tactics II. Subs, navies, industrial production, special units.

Outdoor Survival. Beautiful map. Designed an ancients camapaign.

Wizzard's Quest- Did a game I called Guelph/Ghibelline about faction and families in a Renaissance style Italy.

Blitzkrieg- Made an 18th century campaign system out of it.

Kriegspiel- Made a 20th century Military Assistance game of brinksmanship.

Bug eyed Monsters from Outer Space: They want our women! Great game, but I made one with no Aliens but where the various denizens of the town become more and more bound up in soap Opera plots. Sort of a "Twin Peaks" rip off.

Otto,

Was your 18th century Blitzkrieg ever in the newsletter or other place I could get a copy?

Ed

I used to play Imperial Commander on SL boards, and WRG 1925-50 using the counters from AHGCs Tobruk. Does that count?

I based 'Arnhem in an Afternoon' on VGs 'Hells Highway'.

I reuse maps in particular

Dear Ed

Yes it was in Saxe N' Violets about four years go.

I published all of the above there except the "Bug Eyed Monsters from Outer Space Soap Opera game.

Also published "SPACE BABES" which was an Outer speace game, and "LACE BABES" a Seven years War game in Saxe N' Violets.

Oh yes I was working on a game using the Battle of the Bulge board with an adaptation of "Into the Woods" the musical. The person who got the most fairy tales into the thing won. Never brought that to fruition.

You had to sing.

I am adjusting Striker/AHL
to be played on SL boards

yep my group recently played a 4 player Feudal game.

I really like SPI's Empires of the Middle Ages and come up with new scenarios for it.

amoeba Wars

I have used the boards from Alesia, SL, 2 variations of AH Gettysburg, for other periods and rules. Also have used various games with miniatures. Old board games never die they just morph.

Working on fantasy rules using the Ancients boardgame rules.

Used SL boards for Richthofen's War Steampunk variant. Players loved it.

Used Achtung Spitfire maps/Speed of Heat map and pieces for LuftKrieg.

AH Blitzkrieg for Interwar ImagiNation campaign.

Battletech maps for Space1889/Skygalleons rules. Miniatures or cardboard ship counters fit in the hexes perfectly. Experimenting with Skyreme 89AD airship system.

I have GDW's Europa and WWI series games-someday I may mix 'n match to do my idea of a Red Napoleon campaign.

May also use Imperium rules with SPI's Starforce map, Fallout:1946 wth ASL and Classic Traveller, FFT with SPI Firefight counters/SL boards, Avalanche Press' Great War At Sea as a aerial battleship game(like Leviathon)…

I bought all these games, I want to use them not sell them…

What is a 'dead' boardgame?

Still playing them.

All the time. I buy strategic level games just for that reason.

I have designed a number of simple quad style games but never tried to publish them. After Xeno's disaster publishing my 'Emperors of Europe' (wrong unit counters among other items), I have not ventured into letting anyone publish any more of my rules. Even though I have numerous games on file and have revised the above game using an easier to handle armies and troops, 'Shogun' system.