45thdiv | 09 Aug 2016 10:50 a.m. PST |
New board for board games that use miniatures. I like a lot of the dungeon crawl games like Descent and Warhammer Quest. I also like Tides of Iron for a ww2 boardgame. |
bogdanwaz | 09 Aug 2016 10:52 a.m. PST |
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MajorB | 09 Aug 2016 10:59 a.m. PST |
All the wargames I play are played on a board, so do they count? |
Weasel | 09 Aug 2016 11:07 a.m. PST |
I suppose once we factor games like PBI and Square Bashing, the term gets pretty wide :-) I am a huge fan of dungeon crawler board games with nice, snazzy miniatures. |
Winston Smith | 09 Aug 2016 11:13 a.m. PST |
Avalon Hill Hasbro Battle Cry. |
normsmith | 09 Aug 2016 11:15 a.m. PST |
Yes, there is a popular crossover point – gamers using figures for their Commands and Colors games would be well served by such a board. |
45thdiv | 09 Aug 2016 11:19 a.m. PST |
Yes, Battlecry is good too. I played that one until my cards were worn out. Such a quick game to play. I put the zommbicide games in with the dungeon crawl type. I have black plage and session 3. Very fun and the solo rules are good. Matthew |
zippyfusenet | 09 Aug 2016 11:35 a.m. PST |
If the criterion is that the boardgame is played with miniatures, then Axis and Allies in all its variants must be one of the all-time most popular. It's certainly a favorite of me and my buds. A&A is an interesting example, because it's a very un-miniatures-like boardgame. It seems to me that most games that we play with little toy soldiers (and tanks and ships and airplanes) try to model and visually present the spectacle of battle. They are pitched at a low level of granularity, from individual warriors going head-to-head a few at a time, to as much as a single day's battle between two great armies. A&A is not like that at all, it's a grand strategic game where the figures are just counters denoting piles of infantry, artillery or whatever. There's no terrain at all. Combat is strictly a dice roll-off with no maneuver. And yet it works. By 'works', I mean: Succeeds in entertaining players as a theater-of-the-mind exercise. The physical components of the game, including all those little raw plastic toys, convince players to willingly suspend their disbelief and imaginatively participate in the drama of a great world conflict. Wheee! |
rmaker | 09 Aug 2016 12:04 p.m. PST |
We still play Stalk-I from time to time. |
John Treadaway | 09 Aug 2016 12:08 p.m. PST |
Monopoly. Who hasn't superdetail painted their hat miniature, sought out a more detailed 28mm scale dog, replaced the battleship with something more detailed in 1/2400 and found a 1/300th race car to beat that old runaround… And as for the boot… |
Winston Smith | 09 Aug 2016 2:29 p.m. PST |
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kallman | 09 Aug 2016 2:49 p.m. PST |
I am planing on picking up Zombicide: Black Plague. It looks like fun and love the figures they have designed for it. |
sharkbait | 09 Aug 2016 5:49 p.m. PST |
Gears of War from Fantasy Flight Games & Incursion from Grindhouse Games are two of my favorites. |
miniMo | 09 Aug 2016 6:23 p.m. PST |
Super Dungeon Explore Ninja All Stars Blood Bowl Thunderbirds Are Go! Broadsides |
BrotherSevej | 10 Aug 2016 3:42 a.m. PST |
I like Descent, Runewars, and Battlelore. Okko's not using miniatures (paper standees), but I enjoy that too. |
45thdiv | 10 Aug 2016 9:13 a.m. PST |
But OKKO did sell miniatures that you could replace the cardboard stand up with. I enjoyed OKKO a lot. I was sorry to see it fade away. Matthew |
javelin98 | 10 Aug 2016 10:12 a.m. PST |
Dungeon Saga is very reminiscent of the original HeroQuest. |
miniMo | 10 Aug 2016 6:01 p.m. PST |
Oh, and of course — both Rivets and Ogre upgraded with miniatures! |
richinq | 04 Sep 2016 8:17 a.m. PST |
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PapaSync | 05 Sep 2016 7:15 p.m. PST |
Battletech Zombiecide Lords of Waterdepp Blood Rage |
mdauben | 06 Sep 2016 10:29 a.m. PST |
I'm new to the hybrid Board/Miniature game genre but to date I've recently picked up Descent, Imperial Assault and the big Cthuhlu Wars board games. The Imperial Assault and Cthuhlu Wars miniatures all seem to be first rate. The Decent miniatures (at least in the original box set) are acceptable but not quite as nice. I play BattleTech, too, but I play it with 3D terrain like a regular miniature war game, so I guess I don't consider it a board game, even though I know it was originally marketed that way. |
The Shadow | 14 Sep 2016 7:57 a.m. PST |
Memoir '44, Battlelore, Battle Cry, Axis & Allies, Axis & Allies War at Sea. I dropped Axis & Allies Land Miniatures when they changed the scale. |
Kirk Alderfer | 26 Sep 2016 7:23 p.m. PST |
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The Shadow | 27 Sep 2016 7:09 a.m. PST |
I'm getting "Tanks: Panther vs. Sherman" and "Mars Attacks" for Christmas. |