"What boardgames have you used for miniatures campaigns?" Topic

I'll start with an obvious one. Kingmaker.

Soldier king and a House divided

I have never actually used a boardgame or map-and-counters wargame for a miniatures campaign.

A House Divided.

Kingmaker, VGs "1809"

Diplomacy. Three times for Napoleonic Campaigns.

We were using the old PoW Napoleonic rules. It certainly put me off those rules.

In one I was cast as the Turk, because I was the only one the umpire thought could handle that much cavalry. The Army Lists are fixed. The Turk can only fight the Russian until he has taken the next territory. The Turkish only have enough reasonable infantry to attack once.

Hey, we like a challenge, don't we ?!?

I used the Columbia block game "Wizard Kings" as the basis of a Dragon Rampant campaign. Like all campaigns it petered out after 5 or 6 turns….

Kingmaker
Blackbeard
Diplomacy

AH Blitzkreig
TSR Red Storm Rising
any of the Clash of Arms ACW games

The main one is SPIs BAOR for my 1981 Cold War gone hot games.

I've used the maps from a number of boardgames, notably VGs Hells Highway and AHGCs Victory in the Pacific.

Kingmaker
Successors

And one of Early Renaissance Italy that I cannot remember.

Empires in Arms (Napoleonic)

Many point to point and area movement works well for campaigns. The first long lasting was an Ancients campaign using the Strategy I map and later Blitzkrieg for a horse and musket campaign. At my Auburn we used several maps.

+1 Extra Crispy, unfortunately. Of the dozen or so campaigns I've participated in, over the years, not one ran to completion and most died after a few turns. Real life always seems to successfully sidetrack the most promising starts. Maybe when we've all retired and have as much time as we did when we were college students…

None. But I keep a game of Kingmaker just in case.

Avalon Hill's 1776 and War and Peace.

Tomb for an Empire (Peninsular War)
The King's War (ECW)
Caesar's Gallic War (Conquest of Gaul)

I have been slowly preparing to refight the Thirty Years' War using Europe in Agony.

I am vaguely looking for boardgames that might be used for the Anglo-Danish wars and 1066; the Wars of the Roses (Plantagenet looks suitable. maybe); the Jacobite Rebellions; WSS.

In due course, I would be interested in looking at how the approach might be applied to WW2.

I've used the maps and a rump version of the plotting rules from the AP Great War At Sea series, for WWI campaigns in the Mediterranean and the Baltic.

I also did all the work to rewrite the GWAS core rules so they would generate GQ2 battles and accommodate the GQ2 damage system, but I never played them. I never had enough patient players.

- Ix

King maker
Sam Grant and Bobby Lee
Firepower and Close Assault

Ages ago we used the old Avalon Hill game Afrika Korps (though when we played it it wasnt THAT old :) )

Napoleon: The Waterloo campaign (block game). 3rd Edition, because that has one block equals one division.

Stellar Conquest and Federation Space to generate spaceship battles for Full Thrust.

1809 (twice)
Empire Campaign System (multiple times)

I have done many games based on The Source of the Nile. Also applied the principle of entering unknown hexes to Searching For Kong.

Not actually a campaign, but I have made a miniatures game based on CLUE (CLUDO in UK), Carnivorous Lumbering Undead Entities. Players search the house for clues to undead plague, trying to avoid them. Likewise, done many miniature versions of The Creature that ate Sheboygan and Awful Green Things from Outer Space.