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I was just wondering what all war games are out there besides GW's and could you give a description of it or something along those lines?

We've got an entire stickied thread on it right here.

What are you looking for? Sci Fi? Fantasy? Historical? Skirmish? Mass battle? Land battle? Sea battle? Air battle? Space battle?

Um, not really looking for anything just trying to find out all the sorts of games out there.


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If you know anything about it, what is warmachine/hordes and flames of war?

Well, to start:

-Warmachine
-Hordes
-Flames of War

Warmachine/Hordes (or Homachine) are two sides of essentially the same wargame. Warmachine is a dark fantasy setting with steampunk elements (giant robots powered by magic and steam, for example), while Hordes is monster-smashing goodness in the same setting. They're geared more towards competitive, in your face gameplay than what I'm going to guess you're used to - I suppose a comparison of rugby to golf may be semi-accurate. They're 32mm 'skirmish' wargames. I play Cryx, a faction filled with techno-undead, pirate cheese bastards who love nothing more than to murder your face, and then bring back your dead allies to continue with the face murdering.

Flames of War is a 15mm, WWII historical game. It's a company scale game that should be semi-familiar to 40k players. You can play as Germans, British, Americans, Soviets, and minor allies like France, Poland, Italy, Romania, and Hungary, depending on what 'era' of the war you're playing in - Early, Mid, and Late.

Awesome thanks.

Saying "all wargames" is pretty broad, since there are thousands upon thousands of them. Some of the more popular ones are the aforementioned Warmachine/Hordes and Flames of War. Some other popular, or at least recent ones:
- Malifaux
- Battletech
- DBA
- Infinity
- Dust Tactics
- Anima Tactics
- Warhammer Historical
- Disposable Heroes
- Field of Glory

http://www.40kradio.com/archives/1522

That particular 40kradio podcast has a rundown of quite a few games with how they play, how much they cost to get into, what they are about etc.

It doesn't cover them all however, there are tons.