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Justin Gortner
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Hi there,

I'm looking to get a block war game, but I'm not sure which. I have never played them, but I'm an experienced gamer.

Please feel free to add block wargames that
- can be played with 2 players (option for more is okay)
- can be played in under 6 - 8 hours
- uses blocks
- bonus if it uses hexes too (no required)
- can be purchased somewhere
- NOT a historical simulation (players control fate)
- complex but fun! (not so complex its mindnumming

Thanks so much!
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1. Board Game: Europe Engulfed [Average Rating:7.67 Overall Rank:230]
Justin Gortner
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This game would be perfect if it didn't take sooo long to play!
 
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Bill Eldard
United States
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I haven't played it, though I've seen it played. Is it not a historical simulation?
 
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This has shorter scenarios than simply the 'big one'.
I love this one.
 
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  • Posted Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:07 pm
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This IS the one. If you can find another player whom you don't mind spending large blocks of time with, I'd go with this. It's not too hard to record the units' positions... takes about a half hour to clean up, and then re-set up again later.

There are only so many ways to do WW2 Europe, but this is my favorite...
 
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2. Board Game: East Front [Average Rating:6.25 Unranked]
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Probably the king of them all. Add Volga Front to it and you have a pretty big map. Has scenarios that can play within your time frame.
 
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Steve Bernhardt
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Um, wrong East Front. Delete this entry if you want. I'm talking about the Colombia Games East Front.
 
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  • Posted Thu Sep 29, 2005 4:51 pm
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I just ordered this as my first block wargame. That is unless you count Bonaparte at Marengo as a block wargame, which, by the way, is another game you should look into.
 
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Bill Eldard
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I would consider EastFront a histortical simulation. Maybe we have different definitions.
 
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  • Posted Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:01 pm
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3. Board Game: Rommel in the Desert [Average Rating:7.64 Overall Rank:302]
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This one might be a good starting point.
 
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Dan Poole
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My vote would be this one. This is fairly complex, though less so than Eastfront (which is really cool). I also agree that it is worth checking out Boneparte at Marengo.
 
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Peter Stubner
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Even though the map seems big, it is not big enough.
 
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  • Posted Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:48 pm
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4. Board Game: EastFront [Average Rating:7.79 Overall Rank:332]
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This the the 'Eastfront' mentioned previously.
 
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Neil Carr
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Yep, this is the one to get. The system is great, with lots of tension for bother players in regard to their decision making, but not fiddily. Definitely get the Volga Front map extension.

The system itself is great, but beyond that the historical scenerio (which is open ended, you can even start with a different order of battle and placement) is just naturally a great one to play. It's a real slugathon where there germans start out pounding the russians back and back, but eventually the russians build up some steam and can hit back, so both players get the satisfaction of laying some good blows.

Once you become experienced and want to teach it to a new player then you can give them the Germans so that they have a satisfying learning game against your better experience.
 
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  • Posted Thu Sep 29, 2005 6:46 pm
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This is a great game. Lots of different scenarios and you will enjoy learning it as your skill progresses.
 
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  • Posted Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:08 pm
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Agree with previous posters. Even better than EE IMO.
 
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  • Posted Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:33 pm
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There is supposed to be an upcoming update to the Front series rules. I saw on Chris Ferrall's website that he played using the beta rules for the update and compared the game to EE. Sounded interesting and might be worth looking into if you're interested.
 
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5. Board Game: War of 1812 [Average Rating:7.05 Overall Rank:872]
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If you are interested in earlier periods of history, there's this...
 
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Bill Eldard
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There are no hexes, but there certainly is a lot more fre-play.
 
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Bill Eldard
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There are no hexes, but there certainly is a lot more free-play.
 
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I've played many block games over a long period of time - as a general rule I find that point-to-point movement and area movement seems to work really well with blocks - my experiences with hexes and blocks have been very disappointing.
 
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6. Board Game: Quebec 1759 [Average Rating:6.97 Overall Rank:913]
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.. and this....
 
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7. Board Game: Hammer of the Scots [Average Rating:7.66 Overall Rank:83]
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... and this ...
 
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This is a fun, quick game. I played it until I was really sick of it and I'm tempted by Crusader Rex.
 
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Super fun game...super I tell you.
 
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Certainly and entertaining wargame, but I wouldn't say this has a "big" map.
 
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8. Board Game: Napoleon: The Waterloo Campaign, 1815 [Average Rating:7.25 Overall Rank:513]
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... and of course, have to include Nappy...
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9. Board Game: Pacific Victory [Average Rating:6.81 Overall Rank:1431]
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Back to WWII, in the Pacific this time ...
 
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This is pretty good, but it wasn't good enough to keep.
 
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10. Board Game: Victoria Cross [Average Rating:7.13 Overall Rank:1521]
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This is a fun game that only plays in a couple of hours.
 
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I played this for the first time recently. What great fun! Even getting wiped out as the British, the tension was great.
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11. Board Game: Bobby Lee [Average Rating:6.80 Overall Rank:1781]
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Bobby Lee and Sam Grant can be combined. There are options to combine the two games using 4 players.

Remember that almost all the Columbia Games rules are online at their web site. You can check things out before investing your money.
 
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12. Board Game: Sam Grant [Average Rating:6.41 Overall Rank:3158]
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Quote:
- NOT a historical simulation (players control fate)


I'm not sure what you mean by this. The only "Block Wargames" I know of that aren't even supposed to be "Historical Simulations" are Victory and Wizard Kings.
 
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David;

I think he is simply saying that the game shouldn't be so strongly bent on simulation that it curtails the gameplay significantly. Of course this is a somewhat vague parameter, but from my limited knowledge of wargames there does seem to be a distinction that's drawn between those that are heavy on recreation at the expense of gameplay and those that are more GAMES with interesting strategic and tactical decisions.
 
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Hi,

Yes sorry about the ambiguity!

As far as the NOT a historical simulation parameter: I just don't want the game to be staged or weighted to one side that always wins.

I probably should have just said, a balanced game with all outcomes possible.

Thanks again in advance for all your help. These geeklists really help me to purchase correctly!!!

JustinG
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