The best Historical Board-Game - History Forum ~ All Empires

Who knows good and interessting and rare historical Board-Games ?

RISK!

Grrr..

There was a computer game of Axis and Allies, including the whole world, the multiplayer of that was also truly remarkable.

We gave up your happiness
Your hope would be enough;
we couldn't find neither;
we made up sorrows for ourselves;
we couldn't be consoled;

A Strange Orhan Veli

Axis and Allies is a great board game. I never saw the European one though

Risk is a good game with a few rule changes:

Bishops; Capital Risk General unit varient
First you pick territories one army at a time.
Then on the 5th turn starting with the first person you pick a capitial. You write it on a small piece of paper, without anyone seeing it. If you lose that territory you are out of the game. Whoever takes you're capital gets everything you owned, you're armies cards everything.

The General varient
I took a single calvary unit from every color and painted it, basically highlited it so it would stand out. This is you're general, you get one and only one. The General takes three armies instead of two when it wins out right on a dies throw on the attack. And takes three on the defense when it wins out right on the defense as well. Once the General unit is broken down to infantry he is dead. You can put you're General in the game whenever you like. If you put him in to early you run the risk of him getting knocked out amounst the small armies on the board.

This rule change has a build up and a cold war effect on the game. Because you really cant be killed until you write you're capital down. So for 5 turns, it's a cold war, then on turn 6 the war gets hot!

I thought about making forts and defensive structures but never came up with anything good. These changes alone make for a very different, much quicker game so you can play a few times a night instead of just once for 5 hours!

Edited by Bishop

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

axis and allies, hands down

people are the emotions of other people

(im not albino..or pale!)

.....or an alien..

jep ,but there are a few small publishing companys that issued some cool games. i played a lot when i was younger ,but can't remember all this games.
one was called britannia , which played during the roman empire and even later. anybod y knows it ?

Originally posted by Maju

Originally posted by gcle2003

There is a good board game called Kingmaker set in the English Wars of the Roses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingmaker_(board_game)

I've seen it once, yet I never played it.

The interesting twist is that it is the possession of the king, the royal heirs, and other nobles, that counts, not the possession of territory - though that of course plays a part.

Edited by gcle2003