What Do You War Game?

[Republika Jugoslavija]

For any/all war-gamers out there, what do you game?

When I did tabletop war-gaming it was mostly Warhammer 40k and to a lesser extent Warhammer Fantasy.

Now I mostly do computer based war-gaming and it is mostly WW2 (specifically the Eastern Front) and 1960s-1980s speculative NATO vs Warsaw Pact battles.

[The USOT]

That title is... very odd...

I would like to collect Warhammer but unfortunately cannot afford it.
I do however play the Hearts of Iron mod Kaiserreich which is an interesting war game based around an alternate history where Germany won WW1.

Its a really really flexible alternate history simulator where many descisions can happen and flow realistically. It also includes many non realistic events but ones which are amazing politics wise such as the 2nd American Civil War (where you are either an american/rebel american country and thus fighting for your survival, or a country who`s membership of an alliance and political hopes depends on a faction winning said war).
I reccomend it.

[Chestaan]

Rome:Total War. Still the best imo.

[Seleucas]

I've actually been going through all the Blizzard titles, more or less chronologically. I've gotten to the Warcraft 2 Expansion, playing as the Orcs.

[Safed]

I have bought and played every single total war game and expansion since the original medieval total war, it makes other war games feel bland.
Can't wait for Rome 2.
I also play 40K, having recently restarted now with a link to army pics

[Sidhae]

Just about any decent strategy game there is. My personal preference goes to the series developed by Paradox Interactive, to which Hearts of Iron, Europa Universalis and Crusader Kings are part.

Simpler strategies like Red Alert 3 or Dawn of War are also nice to play with friends online, though they don't need anywhere as much patience and foresight as those mentioned before.

[The Huskar Social Union]

I have bought and played every single total war game and expansion since the original medieval total war, it makes other war games feel bland.
Can't wait for Rome 2.
I also play 40K, having recently restarted now with a link to army pics

Guardsmen... *nods* takes a real man to fight off the orkish hordes, the chaotic demons and the tyrinid swarms with only a flashlight and a skimpy flakarmour piece.

Me? im playing Hearts of Iron3 at the moment and have waged a glorious war across europe as the soviets in my first game as them in hoi3, im at the streets of paris and have surrounded the remaining axis forces in the low countries and northern france. Eternal victory will be mine, and then the europeans can live under my puppet states as fresh cannon fodder to protect the glorious motherland

[Wisconsin9]

If you're referring to strategy games, then in terms of tabletop I cannot say anything but RISK. For turn-based strategy, I'm going to have to say Civilization V. For real-time, I'm going to go with Tom Clancy's Endgame.

[Priory Academy USSR]

Warhammer 40K: I play Space Marines-still kick ass despite every other species having some superpower.

Anyway, Europa Univeralis 3-playing as Austria at the moment, and trying to create my own German Confederation. I played France and captured Canada, and as Britain I captured all of the modern USA. Unfortunately, it wouldn't let me release them as sovereign states-I was very annoyed.
Civ 2 still is great. Just started a nuclear war on the Germans-I rule the Americas, Australia, and other far off islands, while they rule Northern Europe and most of Asia.

[Republika Jugoslavija]

Rome:Total War. Still the best imo.

It's a solid game, a few years ago I had a great thread on the Total War forum going about an ongoing game I was running on the Invasio Barborum mod, but I had some computer reformatting issues and would have to dig to find where I backed my saved games up to. That and I just really don't have the time to spend hours playing games right now.

[Trollgaard]

For any/all war-gamers out there, what do you game?

When I did tabletop war-gaming it was mostly Warhammer 40k and to a lesser extent Warhammer Fantasy.

Now I mostly do computer based war-gaming and it is mostly WW2 (specifically the Eastern Front) and 1960s-1980s speculative NATO vs Warsaw Pact battles.

I used to play Warhammer Fantasy, but haven't played since 8th edition hit. I'm on a break from 40k...a 6ish month break, but once the new edition hits I'll try it out.

Currently I play a game called Clash of Empires, which is basically what Warhammer Historical should have been. It got great support, with new books being made, and new army lists being put on every month. The designers answer questions online about rules, and take advice about how to redo certain armies and whatnot.

i play Early Imperial Romans and the Secleucid empire. None of my miniatures are painted at the moment, but hopefully within the next 6 months both armies will be painted!

Edit:

For fantasy the army I was playing for I took my long break was wood elves. I love the fluff behind the army.
For 40k I play mostly Imperial Guard and Blood Angels. (I've actually played Blood Angels since they had a pdf codex )

[Greater Shoggothia]

I play Fallout, which technically counts as apparently, "war never changes."

[Shnercropolis]

Civilizations series. Warmongering is FUN!

[Germanic Templars]

I would say the Total war series and Men of War. Maybe some Total Annihilation on the side. On top of that, The age of empires (Except III)

[Wisconsin9]

Civilizations series. Warmongering is FUN!

I tried to do a cultural victory on my last game, but every other nation declared war on me and I ended up having to do scientific.

[Trotskylvania]

Warhammer 40k Grey Knights

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/jk. I tend to play whatever my friends play, because I don't have the money to really get into table top wargaming.

[Republika Jugoslavija]

That title is... very odd...

I would like to collect Warhammer but unfortunately cannot afford it.
I do however play the Hearts of Iron mod Kaiserreich which is an interesting war game based around an alternate history where Germany won WW1.

Its a really really flexible alternate history simulator where many descisions can happen and flow realistically. It also includes many non realistic events but ones which are amazing politics wise such as the 2nd American Civil War (where you are either an american/rebel american country and thus fighting for your survival, or a country who`s membership of an alliance and political hopes depends on a faction winning said war).
I reccomend it.

I guess the title could be seen as somewhat odd...


I had at least thousands of dollars worth of Warhammer 40K stuff... I was huge into Space Marines with enough stuff to field about a 9,000 point army with 100+ space marines, 12+ terminators, multiple vehicles, dreadnoughts, etc, I had about 200-300 Imperial Guardsmen, several tanks, artillery pieces, and I was working on starting a Chaos army and had a demon prince, and about enough stuff/grunts for a 3,000 point army.

I wound up getting out of 40K just because I didn't have the time to spend 4-5 hours per weekend gaming and a lot of my stuff was not painted, so after a few years it was just sitting in the boxes/cases. If I am not mistaken I still have my Emperor's Champion, which I had professionally painted by a friend/fellow-gamer for about $30 dollars. It was the centerpiece of the Black Templar's army I was building.


Warhammer stuff can be expensive, but if you can get good painting the stuff, you can work as a professional painter for people and they'll pay you upwards of $4 dollars or $6 dollars to paint basic grunts and upwards of $20 to $30 dollars to paint their force leaders, commanders, basic human size heroes, and you can probably get $100 dollars for painting the demon prince sized characters as long as you are doing an excellent job. You could probably earn enough to buy your own 40K army in no time if you are a good painter and can get a steady flow of customers. If you can get good painting the 40mm models, you'll earn a fair sum of cash, probably enough for building your own army and then some.

I'd suggest hanging with a gamer's guild, watching them play, learning the rules, and asking to be allowed to use 20-30 grunts and 1 hero from one of the other guys, to do minor skirmish style 500-600 point battles with others, as you work on building up your own army.


Right now I want to get into actual war re-enacting, probably as a Waffen SS panzer-grenadier, but the cost of all the gear, uniform, rifle (even though I've wanted to buy at least one Mauser K98 anyway), blank ammunition, boots, etc, will be about $1,500 to $2,000 dollars and I am saving up for a Barrett M82. It is hard to justify $2,000 dollars on a hobby when I need $8,000 dollars saved up for a rifle. The one rifle system I just finished getting set up has wound up costing about $2,200 dollars and that's only because I was able to get stuff on sale, or else it'd have been $2,500 dollars, the scope alone was stickered at $1,500 dollars.

Any sort of war-gaming, such as miniatures, is not even on my radar right now, even though I have about $200 dollars worth of 10-20mm miniatures for the 1200s era Northern Crusades that I need to do something with at some time. I wanted to war-game the Battle of Lake Pepius. I'm mostly doing computer based stuff right now.


Hearts of Iron 2 has some awesome mods, I don't know much about Hearts of Iron 3 because HOI3 was a major disappointment and I could scarcely bring myself to play it.

[Shnercropolis]

Civilizations series. Warmongering is FUN!

I tried to do a cultural victory on my last game, but every other nation declared war on me and I ended up having to do scientific.

The best way is to have a few core cities doing nothing but culture and have every other city busy with unit-making.

[Republika Jugoslavija]

I play Fallout, which technically counts as apparently, "war never changes."

I was a big fan of Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics Brotherhood of Steel, then Fallout 3, and Fallout New Vegas. With New Vegas I only played on hardcore mode because I needed that extra challenge, but the game was solid and enjoyable, well worth the price for anywhere from 40-120+ hours of gaming enjoyment.


I am hoping that they set Fallout 4 somewhere outside of the United States, perhaps central Europe, a change of scenery/terrain might be interesting.

[Wisconsin9]

I tried to do a cultural victory on my last game, but every other nation declared war on me and I ended up having to do scientific.

The best way is to have a few core cities doing nothing but culture and have every other city busy with unit-making.

Well, I tried. Problem is, if you're playing as the Aztecs, the unit-making and gaining culture are essentially the same thing.

[Zanoroun]

The Age of Empires series requires a decent amount of strategy for most levels, but the expansion pack for Age of Kings seemed easier than it's ascendants.

[Morrdh]

Wot, no Warmachine lovin'?

[Shnercropolis]

The Age of Empires series requires a decent amount of strategy for most levels, but the expansion pack for Age of Kings seemed easier than it's ascendants.

I once conquered China as the Aztecs before I even made contact.

[Republika Jugoslavija]

I just bought Gary Grigsby's War in the East: The German Soviet War 1941-1945. I read the reviews, looked at video clips, screen-shots, read about the features, and decided to take a chance on the $90 dollar game and see how it goes.


Anybody else have this game? Anything to say about it?

It is from Matrix Games, a reasonably decent company that also made another game I have, Korsun Pocket.

[Wisconsin9]

Oh yeah, another game I like is DEFCON, by Introversion.