Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Help For a Tabletop Gamer


TableTop Gamer, over on YouTube, asked me a question about Napoleonic and American Civil War Boardgames.  Well, these aren't my forte.  So, I did some Boardgamegeek.com searching and found these links for him.  And he asked about World At War Series.
This is a blog covering many things, World at War being one of them.  He's recently written a very detailed series of posts on how to play this game.  You can also click on the labels to the right for Nations at War and you'll see a very similar game...based in WWII though and not the imaginary WWIII that WaW covers:
http://hexsides.blogspot.com/search/label/waw?m=0

There's Battlecry for a basic ACW boardgame.  However, TG was asking for bigger strategic games focused on a battle or series of battles.  Here are some Geeklists that can give some info:

http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/108933/top-10-battle-of-gettysburg-games 

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/7509/games-in-the-tssgreat-battles-of-the-american-civi

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/7548/great-battles-of-the-american-civil-war-the-next

http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/70657/top-10-strategic-american-civil-war-games 

http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/142808/top-10-battle-of-antietam-games

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/33665/battle-above-the-clouds


Below are the Napoleon lists.  Though I have pulled up a couple of games that seem to get a lot of mentions.  Napoleons Triumph and Napoleon the Waterloo Campaign (3rd Edition).

http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/70656/top-10-strategic-napoleonic-games 

http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/70663/top-10-battle-of-waterloo-games

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18098/napoleons-triumph

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/15839/bonaparte-at-marengo 

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/33908/napoleon-the-waterloo-campaign-1815-third-edition

Though, it looks like Napoleon The Waterloo Campaign is now on Kickstarter for a deluxe 4th edition - 30+ days to pledge:

 


Below are a general list of wargames that only take up to 3 hours to play:

http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/1540/wargames-that-take-3-hours-or-less-please-add-to-t 

The list below shows Wargames by ranking on Boardgamegeek. No, I don't consider Twilight Struggle a wargame...but let's not get into semantics.

http://boardgamegeek.com/wargames/browse/boardgame

4 comments:

  1. If you want to play a complete ACW battle with agreeable complexity then I'd recommend the GMT Glory series. It's hex and counter with a brigade taking usually two counters. I'm not sure if the Columbia offerings for ACW are that good. Badges of courage was ok, but the c&c mechanic was difficult for beginners and the board was way too crowded.

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    1. http://www.gmtgames.com/p-112-glory-iii.aspx

      It appears the first two glory are out of print. But you can probably find them on BGg or eBay.

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  2. I have Glory 2 and 3. One might want to avoid number two because it features Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, which aren't exactly sporting. Fredericksburg made an excellent solitaire game though..

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