"Favorite game featuring tanks/“armored cavalry”" Topic

I'm not a big tanker gamer, so my familiarity with this genre is limited. I'm curious what others like. Note that this is across all wars, periods, and genres where tanks or tank-like vehicles appear. My list of what I know and have at least dabbled with, in alphabetical order:

Dystopian Wars (sort of)
Flames of War
Memoir ‘44
Ogre/GEV
Rivets (well, sort of)
Tanks! (Gale Force 9)
Warhammer 40K

Bolt-Action in 54mm, yes, Modified a lot for the larger figs and AFV's.

What a Tanker, by a country mile!

I have a warm place in my heart for the old SPI game "Mech War '77. I was playing it when it was current equipment, not historical….

Today I'd say:

Ogre / GEV
What a Tanker
Tigers and Stalins
Tanks!

Dave

Does Axis & Allies count?

From BF direct out of fantsy island , Clash of Steel and coming May Late War Leviathans .

Also Battlegroup and NorthAG .

Warlord's BA Tank War and Achtung Panzer .

What A Tanker.

Accept no substitutes.

Eric

I just discovered Seven Days to the Rhine River by Great Escape Games. Easy to learn and play, deals with technical aspects found during the cold war era. Really well designed and I look forward to playing with my club members.

Freshest ideas in game design "I" have seen in 2 decades. Combat Patrol by Buck Surdu comes in a close second for fun playing What a Tanker, third. ALL fun games and deserve yo be played more! (All IMHO, of course.)

Blitzkrieg Commander
OGRE/GEV
Rivets
The Rules of Sensha-do (homebrew, Girls und Panzer)

Striker and Striker 2.

Our RULES we use to do tank games is BA.

@ Bill: A&A? No, I wouldn't think so. I'm thinking games where the players can specifically control tanks in a battle simulation (of some sort) and the tanks behave more or less as tanks do. A&A really doesn't have that, being a strategic level game. It's certainly not what I mean by the question.

Blitzkrieg Commander and Memoir 44 are the ones we play.

Jim

Ogre / Gev

For me the best ruleset has been Mein Panzer by Old Dominion Gameworks (ODGW).

Particularly on the issue of armored cav … these were usually mixed formations with mechanized infantry and armored components. To game with these you want rules that are balanced between armor and infantry combat.

Here for example is a 1944 platoon of US Armored Cav from ETO. Crews in the M8 armored cars would be expected to scout and fight mounted. But cav men in the jeeps would be expected to frequently dismount for scouting and combat.

The jeep teams included 60mm mortars in their kit. These would always be dismounted for use, even if the MG jeeps decided to fight in their vehicles.

Both jeep teams and armored car teams could dismount for scouting and combat on foot. Here we see a platoon with M3 Scout Cars vs. the earlier M8s. This is a 1943 US Armored Cav team from NATO*.

Over the years I've played with perhaps a dozen or more rulesets. While I have tried platoon-per-stand and higher unit scales, I prefer one-to-one with each model representing a single vehicle. In my experience all rules I used were over-weighted either to armored/vehicular combat or infantry combat. With Mein Panzer I can freely mix armored units and infantry units in the make-up of game forces, and the game plays with a consistent tempo, which is always pretty good ("quick play" vs. several other rulesets I've used). It is reasonably easy to go with a re-enforced company per player (giving about 18 – 25 game pieces per player), and scales up to multiple gamers for a battalion or more per side quite gracefully, as the game turn mechanism keeps gamers on both sides actively involved throughout the game turn.

This has been my experience. Your tankage may vary.

-Mark
(aka: Mk 1)

*Note: Using US Army WW2 abbreviation for the North African Theater of Operations, not the more modern post-war NATO.

Favorite game – PanzerBlitz

Favorite set of miniature rules – Bolt Action

For sci-fi tanks:

Renegade Legion: Centurion – late 1980s minis based game with hover-tanks from FASA was a lot of fun.

Flames of War v3

joedog, I never played Renegade Legion, but those plastic hovertanks are great and did a lot of duty in many sci-fi games here!

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