100 Top wargames meme:

[jeffreyab]

Those of the top 100 Wargames I have played and owned:


Owned and played:
Britannia - replay of early British history fun but not historical
Call of Cthulhu - roleplaying where its quite easy to make up characters, mainly because its easy to die or go insane.
Carcassonne - simple but complex strategy game
Car Wars (old an new) - I think I own a copy but have not played since university.
Civilization - strategy game where I usually end losing and having a migraine.
Dungeons & Dragons - roleplaying I own and played the advanced version mostly in university
Empires of the Middle Ages - only played solitaire and I found it very hard to get historical results, you mostly put down rebellions, which is realistic I guess.
Fluxx - great card game where the rules change as you play cards.
A House Divided - strategic American Civil War fun against a balanced opponent
Illuminati - several versions I have the trading card version be the secret power controlling the world!
Kingmaker - the English War of the Roses, not a roleplaying game but we played it like one at university.
Magic: The Gathering - own a very few cards and have actually played a very few games but not with my own cards.
Ogre - the original micro game featured a giant robot tank versus the hordes of the conventional army.
Pendragon - roleplaying in King Arthur's time, my first character was a Jew from York
RuneQuest - one of the best roleplaying games ever, had a Bronze Age background but as if the mythology was real. Used percentiles for skills allowing skills at anything and easy to show experience.
The Settlers of Catan (and more expansions than you can shake a stick at)
Squad Leader - used play now play the computer version Steel Panthers.
Talisman - lots of fun board game fantasy roleplaying
Traveller - the orginal science fiction roleplaying game, it got swallowed by its major setting and is going on its fifth or sixth version.

Played:
Champions (old) - roleplaying superheroes making up heroes takes forever and fascinates math majors, only played at university.
Diplomacy - actual cut throat diplomacy with very simple rules only played at university.
Naval War - the original card war game long before Magic, WWII naval units.
PanzerBlitz - more a Panzer Leader player
Puerto Rico - Oh Boy lets pretend we are colonial administrators!
Star Fleet Battles - modern naval warfare badly disguised as a space tactical game
Tikal - a game not a simuation

Owned but not played:

Empires in Arms - strategic Napoleonic Wars

These I neither own nor have played:

Acquire
Amber Diceless
Amun-Re
Ars Magica
Axis & Allies
Battle Cry
BattleTech
Blood Bowl
Bohnanza
Button Men
Circus Maximus
Citadels
Cosmic Encounter
Cosmic Wimpout
Dawn Patrol
Descent
Dynasty League Baseball
El Grande
The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Fire and Fury
Flames of War
Formula Dé
The Fury of Dracula
A Game of Thrones
Gettysburg - looked at someone else's copy
Ghostbusters
The Great Khan Game
Hammer of the Scots
Here I Stand
Johnny Reb
Junta (want to play at some point)
Kremlin
Legend of the Five Rings
Lensman
London's Burning
Lord of the Rings
Machiavelli
Marvel Super Heroes
Metamorphosis Alpha
My Life with Master
Mythos
Napoleon's Last Battles
Once Upon a Time
Paranoia
Pirate's Cove
Plague!
Power Grid (will be getting it soon)
Renaissance of Infantry
RoboRally
Shadowfist
Shadowrun
Shadows over Camelot
Silent Death: The Next Millennium
Space Hulk
Stalingrad
The Sword and the Flame
Tales of the Arabian Nights
Terrible Swift Sword
Thurn and Taxis
Ticket to Ride
Tigris & Euphrates
Toon
Twilight Struggle
Unknown Armies
Up Front
Vampire: The Eternal Struggle
Vampire: The Masquerade
Vinci
War and Peace
Warhammer 40,000
The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
The Warlord
Wiz-War

Comments

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Where did you get this list? Many of these titles are not wargames, IMO.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

I called it Wargames because most of what I had played were wargames.

Its from a forthcoming book:

http://www.amazon.ca/Hobby-Games-Best-James-Lowder/dp/1932442960/ref=wl_it_dp/702-7235100-0834436?ie=UTF8&coliid=I5YKXUU99ZW8F&colid=33KDB5X0RKGH5

"Hobby Games the 100 Best" by James Lowder.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Meme adopted.