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07-24-2010, 10:59 AM | #1 |
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My two favorite of all time are "Axis and Allies" and from back in they day, "Torpedo Run".
For those of you who are to young to remember or just simply never experienced the awesomeness of "Torpedo Run" let me explain. The game was played on a large (6x4 foot?) cardboard ocean and the objective was to sink your opponent's navy. This was accmplished by using your plastic submarine, to fire little red disks into the hulls of the opposing navy which was set up at the other end of the ocean. A direct hit would cause some portion of the ship (controll tower, gun turrets) to explode into the air. It was usually an intense 5-10 min free-for-all. "Axis and Allies" I've been playing for the better part of 12 years now and every version that they come out with is a dramatic improvement from the previous version. I've just picked up the Pacific Theater set and am really looking forward to the European one that is to be released late this year. The two board will combine to create the largest AA board ever! (70x30 inches!!) When it's released we will probably invest in a Poney Keg for what will likey be an all day event! Anyway, what other cool board / table top games are out there? I've seen "Flames of War" played at a local comic store recently and was thinking that might be fun to get into. Any suggestions? |
07-24-2010, 11:07 AM | #2 |
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Ahh, Torpedo Run...used to play that with my brother. Classic.
My dad introduced my brother and me to the classic Avalon Hill war games. Compared to them, Axis and Allies was a beginner's game...I'm talking games with thousands upon thousands of pieces to simulate one historic battle. They were fantastic; Caesar, which was the Battle of Alesia, at least one based on Gettysburg, one that was based on Starship Troopers, the novel, not the POS movie. Fantasy Flight's Lord of the Rings board game is a fantastic game for 2-5 people, and really only takes maybe 45 minutes to an hour to play any given session of. It gives you a really good look at just how doomed to failure the plan to destroy the Ring really was, and IF you destroy the Ring, it will be over a path littered with the corpses of Hobbits. I'm also dying to play their War of the Ring game, and their recent game based on GRR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire.
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07-24-2010, 11:48 AM | #3 |
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Even though it doesn't stack up to the intense strategy of the games you listed. I am having a blast with a game called "Small World". My game crew loves it as well.
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07-24-2010, 12:09 PM | #4 |
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omg I had Torpedo Run as a kid and loved it! Axis and Allies was great, but I've also come to love Attack!, get it with the expansion (Pacific theater) and use the advanced rules. There is something to be said for classic Risk too though...
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07-24-2010, 01:20 PM | #5 |
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Love me some Torpedo run I found one at a thrift store years ago. I played it once and now it's been sitting in it's oversized box since then
Honestly, many board games from the 80's were imaginative and nifty. Now days all we get are the same recycled 4-5 games with the latest "name brand" slapped on it (Transformers, Spongebob, GI Joe, Iron-man, etc...) |
07-25-2010, 09:52 AM | #6 |
Cobra Soldier
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Glad to see so the Torpedo Run fans out here -- such a sweet game.
Irid70 -- I did play Ghettysburg as a kid but I hated how linear the strategy seemed (of course as kid maybe I wasnt as creative...) But the Ceaser one I may have to check out. Spot -- Actually borrowed Attack and the expansion from one of my friends at the comic / card shop I just havnt had a chance to play it. Certainly looking forward to it. Dagger -- what is small world? Is it like Settlers of Catan? |
07-25-2010, 10:02 AM | #7 |
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Great Plains, USA
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A group of friends in Albuquerque play a game called "Big Map" .. basically it is a LARGE map of the world stuck up on the wall (9 feet x 15 feet I think) ... then they took game pieces from other games, made it so the pieces would stick in the wall with pins, then spray painted each players pieces a unique color, and the process was to take over territory. The hard part came in not necessarily just battling other opponents, but in battling the native inhabitants. My buddy lost serious fights with the Navajos and Sioux as he was trying to take over North America. The game would last a long, long time and they would leave it stuck up on the wall and have continued gaming sessions over the course of a year. They stopped playing around 1998-1999ish, because people started having kids. I hear one of the guys now built a new house, and he put in a game room above his garage and the Big Map is going up on the wall.
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07-25-2010, 10:02 AM | #8 |
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The biggest problem with Attack! is resisting the urge to paint your army durring your downtime... Such an awesome game though, I miss playing but my gaming group dissolved about 3 years ago. We used to do D&D, D20 mod, Attack!, LOT5R, Risk, and the Civilization board game.
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07-25-2010, 12:26 PM | #9 |
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Location: Minnesota
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Is Axis & Allies similar to Risk? I have never played it but figured it was Risk with Navies which would be pretty cool.
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07-25-2010, 12:43 PM | #10 |
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I used to paint warhammer and 40k miniatures but never got into the game really.
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