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There was this Buck Rogers board game in the 90s that TSR made. I haven't played it in decades but I think it was pretty decent.

Necromunda for sure. First time I've played a game and had a character both my opponents and their models fear equally (although what would you expect from someone called 'The True Believer'?)

Also, recently played a boardgame called Bucket of Doom, and that was lots of fun - like Cards Against Humanity but with more imagination. I don't think I've ever played anything that ending up involving Lindsey Lohan Moth Orgies and Russian Cosmonauts attempting atmospheric re-entry in a wheelie bin in one game.

My favorite tabletop game of all time is Talisman

Warmachine
Infinity
Malifaux

My favorite game by far is X-Wing. Not only is it the go to game for me and my friends, but I'm fairly active in the competitive scene in my area.

I also am a big fan of board games and my wife and I have been really enjoying Viticulture as of late. My wife isn't much of a gamer and it's hard to find a game with a theme she enjoys (she doesn't like sci-fi or fantasy, my two favorite things!) but we hit the sweet spot with Viticulture. It's easy to learn, relatively quick to play, and the theme is wonderful.

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:
I also am a big fan of board games and my wife and I have been really enjoying Viticulture as of late. My wife isn't much of a gamer and it's hard to find a game with a theme she enjoys (she doesn't like sci-fi or fantasy, my two favorite things!) but we hit the sweet spot with Viticulture. It's easy to learn, relatively quick to play, and the theme is wonderful.

That looks quite cool, and would be an excellent excuse to drink more wine!

She might also enjoy Thurn und Taxis if you can find it. It's a little board game I was introduced to it by a girl I dated from Germany. It's set in 19th century Bavaria and you build little post offices and post routes, and you try to get the longest routes. It was good fun. (It's difficult to find in English, but the German language version is quite playable)

Warhammer 40k is my game. I love it mainly because I enjoy painting the models as much as (if not more than) playing the game.

I also love Star Fleet Battles. Pity I'm stuck with only solitaire scenarios (or playing both sides ) since I have no one to play it with.

I used to play Wizards of the Coast's excellent Star Wars Miniatures game (and still would, if anyone I knew still played). Despite being simplistic, it was loads of fun, and the miniatures were cool.

I have tried out a few games from Strategy and Tactics (and their affiliated magazines) with my dad. He has a LOT of those.

Bolt Action. What can I say? WW2 is an awesome setting and you can make some pretty tables with it. Check out Big P's thread in the Historical section about the wargame he is developing just for that pretty French ruined city table he made.

X-wing. I love x-wing. Guilt free impulse buys? Huge amount of custom ability without having to buy/assemble/paint new models? The Star Wars universe? How music from the movies always seems to play in my head while I'm playing? This is one of my favorite wargames.

Horus Heresy/30k: 30k is a better balanced version of 40k with awesome minis, a kickass setting and tons of support from Forge World. My only wish was that I had more money to spend on my Legion (XIII for the record).

 Smacks wrote:

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:
I also am a big fan of board games and my wife and I have been really enjoying Viticulture as of late. My wife isn't much of a gamer and it's hard to find a game with a theme she enjoys (she doesn't like sci-fi or fantasy, my two favorite things!) but we hit the sweet spot with Viticulture. It's easy to learn, relatively quick to play, and the theme is wonderful.

That looks quite cool, and would be an excellent excuse to drink more wine!

Indeed. We both love wine so it was a good fit.

She might also enjoy Thurn und Taxis if you can find it. It's a little board game I was introduced to it by a girl I dated from Germany. It's set in 19th century Bavaria and you build little post offices and post routes, and you try to get the longest routes. It was good fun. (It's difficult to find in English, but the German language version is quite playable)

Thanks for recommendation, I'll check it out!

Dropzone is my go-to game when I'm looking for something with a lot of substance. When I'm looking for something more relaxed I pull out X-Wing.

MTG, X-Wing, and the BSG board game from FF.

Infinity is by far my favorite. For me it's the perfect combination of excellent minis, rules and fluff. I also play Warmachine and X Wing.

In terms of models and rules, infinity is my favourite game. The models are simply the best in the industry if you ask me. The rules set is sublime, beautiful, and brilliantly functional. It is intricate and detailed and is extremely well balanced, and allows for so many different things. That said, I don't rate it as a tournament game. I think it requires too much 'trust' in your opponents, and for thst reason, I would play it in a close group.

Warmachine hordes. Again, I enjoy the models (though not as much as infinity), the rules set is simple and straight forward, though with a lot of moving parts, and like with infinity, had a lot of intricacies and details. Balance is solid, and due to te nature of steamroller, it's very easy to just turn up and get games in. For me, though infinity is my 'favourite' game, warmachine/hordes is my go-to game for ease of play. The linked rpg material is great and I am also a huge fan of the lore. More than anything, this is what makes WMH resonate so strongly with me.

I play other games too. Dropzone commander is excellent. Flames of war is great fun. We plsy some historicals and Dux bellorum is a fun rules set, though I need to play hail caesar too. Also tried firestorm armada. Fun game!

Bolt Action is my favourite game I play right now. I also like Black Powder, Hail Caesar, Ronin, Flames of War and Lion Rampant. The Sword and the Flame is quite fun too.

I've got or in the process of getting stuff for 40k, Frostgrave, In Her Majesty's Name, Infinity, Bloodbowl, Killer Katana 2 and AoS but I've yet to play them or play them recently.

For Board games Puerto Rico and Dominion are my favourites.

Space Marine, 1st edition (wish I still had it)
Star Fleet Battles
Federation & Empire
Traveller, Especially Trillion Credit Squadron
Flames of War, probably the one I actually play the most

Thanks a lot, this may be my go to list for exploring new stuff.

Darn you people being mainly Brits and Americans: no hunting you down and getting a game in. I think Talys is in Vancouver so might as well be in Britain...

Infinity looks easy entry.
"Frostgrave" I never heard of and saw it come up a couple times.

Seriously, I've been wargaming all my life, but I've never loved the hobby as much as I do now. WMH is a great, tight rule with fantastic and deep fluff. Infinity is the cyberpunk sci-fi tactical shooter of table top. Just an elegant rule set with such vivid game play. Perhaps the best quality minis I've seen. Malifaux's minis are the best plastic I've seen. The world and characters are just oozing personality and flavor.

It's a great time to be a wargamer.

Recently, throughout the whole summer I've been playing the old Starship Troopers Miniatures Game by Mongoose. Probably one of my favorite wargames of all time, and probably my favorite ruleset.

Occasionally, I will get a game of Warhammer Fantasy in, under 8th ed. rules. It has become more of a supplementary game, but I refuse to let it die out entirely, due mostly to the long history I have associated with it, as well as the sheer amount of models collected.

I try to get X-Wing in occasionally. Very fun game. But I'm terrible at it.

I have been playing Space Hulk (3rd edition) as well. A bit old-school in terms of mechanics, but I love it nonetheless.

I don't suppose I can say I love Warmachine/Hordes, but I'm certainly getting back into the swing of things, and I enjoy it to a degree.

I truly enjoy most of these games, and I'm happy that I can still play some of them (particularly Starship Troopers!)

 Talizvar wrote:
We all have some "go-to" games we enjoy / relax to.
What tabletop or even board-game is one you like the most?

For my wife and I, our favorites include:

Arkham Horror
Pathfinder Adventure Card Game
Lord of the Rings Deck Builder by Catalyst Games
Pandemic (fething game! Argh!)

From my old game group:

Battle Star Galactica board game (I'm not the fething Psylon! I'm the President and you will respect my Athori-tigh!) (I was totes the Psylon)
Talisman
Dominion
Cards Against Humanity (if potty humor and penis jokes offend you, you won't like it)
Lords of Water Deep? Not sure on the name, but fun worker placement game. My wife hates those so we don't play them, much.

Or playing RPGs. We were into HackMaster 4th Edition back in the day. Pathfinder is their currently RPG of choice. My new group really likes D&D 5th Edition. We play every Friday.

 Paradigm wrote:
Have to add the Batman Miniatures Game to the list. Very fast, very fun, very thematic and loads of depth to it! Great model range too!

I've been meaning to take a look at the Batman game. From what I've heard, it really feels right for Batman (and if you can be Batman, always be Batman).

 Smacks wrote:
Unsurprisingly, I really like Arcadia Quest. I confess, I only bought it originally for the miniatures, intending to use them with SDE, but Arcadia Quest is actually a much better game than SDE hands down.

AQ has become the 'go to' game. Different every time, fun to play, new people pick it up really fast.

 odinsgrandson wrote:

 Paradigm wrote:
Have to add the Batman Miniatures Game to the list. Very fast, very fun, very thematic and loads of depth to it! Great model range too!

I've been meaning to take a look at the Batman game. From what I've heard, it really feels right for Batman (and if you can be Batman, always be Batman).

That's definitely true, you do get a real sense of the source material in how it plays. Batman is all about setting up positions then totally mauling guys before batclawing away, whereas someone like Ra's Al Ghul can just walk up and cut the heart out of the enemy team, soaking tons of damage and dealing it all back. Joker is completely unpredictable in a game where predicting the enemy play is essential, while Bane is quite straightforward but very hard to stop. Even the non-hero characters work like this, cops play like cops, ninjas play like ninjas, so on and so forth.

You can get a full crew for about £30/$60 if you take a beefy character or two, and there's a free version of the last rules edition still around (the only 'changes' in the new edition are mostly translation corrections), so despite the high model price it's no more expensive to play than something like Infinity or Malifaux.

And yeah, it's Batman!

40K is sadly the most played at my group but when I can I like to play other games.

Bolt Action fills my WW2/WW1 historical needs

Warmachine is amazing and really fun to play. The games are also far quicker as well.

Dark Age is a great grimdark style post apocalyptic skirmish game.

Battle. Fleet. Gothic. Enough said.

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 Desubot wrote:
Having Way lot of fun with Dystopian wars. and Planet fall.

just getting into legions and its looking way fun too.

Are you in the NYC area? I've been looking for DW players high and dry!

Nope opposite side of the USA in sunny CA :/

I really like Warhammer 40k. If I don't play at least once a week I get all buggy.

Games I and basically anyone in my circle will play without hesitation:
Space Hulk
X-Wing
Dominion
Pandemic

Games I like, with a caveat
Settlers of Catan (setup can really mess with the rest of the game)
Malifaux (love it, but it really takes more effort than I'm often ready for)
Infinity (just because we haven't played enough to be certain)
40k (can't really force it to be competitive)

Malifaux is my go to minis game.

I'm in a weekly online Blood Bowl league with 26 coaches.

Board/Card games:

Splendor, Dread Curse, Forbidden Island, Chaos in the Old World, BattleStar Galactica are some of my favorites. I don't own Small World, but it's great. Setters is a favorite, of course.

Well, given we are about to wrap up a 2+ year campaign, Pathfinder, but it's not really a board game.

I love Mordheim and Necromunda, as well as Gorkamorka (my favorite, really). Space Hulk is amazing and you can let a new player run the genestealers and feel pretty good about himself.

The D&D Adventure System games are amazing and really a blast. We use them whenever insufficient party members make it to the session. It's really nice that they work as a source of cheap minis and usable dungeons for other things too.

GW's Legends of the Old West is a great game, with a minimal investment for players who aren't supplying the scenery. If you have one aficionado, the rest of you just need to paint up a posse. I hate that they dropped their historical line, instead of just moving them to ebooks.

Munchkin is fun, but I've gotten burned out on it somehow.

I've always wanted to play Bloodbowl and BFG, but never had a group which could sustain the interest.

I still enjoy 40K, but the last few editions of WFB really soured me on the system, while exciting me on the models. Of course, our 40K games are few and far between, but they tend to be heavily scenario driven, so we don't notice a lot of the glaring balance issues.

Dropzone Commander. Every game is great, the pacing is quick, and it's an all around good time.

Star Wars LCG. Love this game, play it with my nephew a lot. Deck building is a snap due to game mechanics, and the game shines thematically and mechanically.

Boss Monster. Fantastic quick game, really neat gameplay.

Having played 40k in a bit, behind on painting.

Warmachine is my main game. I tried to play Infinity as a side game but its complexity (not a bad thing, mind you) made it kind of difficult so I am scaling back. I like Star Wars Armada although being a FF game, it has its flaws which won't be fixed for a long time.

I also want to play Saga and Dropzone Commander, but I had difficulty finding opponents.