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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 2839439" data-attributes="member: 5">Yes.I've utilized the excellent database at <a href="http://www.boardgamegeek.com/search.php3?title=&designerid=&designername=&publisherid=&publishername=&yearmin=&yearmax=&ratingmin=&ratingmax=&numratings=30&weightmin=&weightmax=&numweightratings=&searchuser=&minplayers=&maxplayers=&playingtime=&categoryids%5B%5D=19&B1=Submit#P" target="_blank">BoardGameGeek.com</a> to put together a list of wargames I have owned and/or played over the years, my first being Tactics II in the very early 70s.  I used their advanced search function and chose "wargame" as the only parameter.  Some of the games that come up by that method might not qualify as a true wargame for some people but I will defer to the judgement of the database.  I tried to avoid including expansions of games that are on the list, though I suppose with many of the games I have played with other people an expansion or two was included even the first time I tried them out.  Naturally, there are a lot of games that aren't on that list that I have played as well.I may have overlooked a couple on that list that I have played but I didn't want to be all day about it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />(The year is that when the game was first published, included to possibly distinguish it from other games of the same name.)Stratego (1947)Tactics II (1958)Gettysburg (1958)Risk (1959)Battle-Cry (1961)Broadside (1962)How To Play War Games in Miniature (1962)Dogfight (1963)Stalingrad (1963)Afrika Korps (1964)Blitzkrieg (1965)Confrontation (1967)Jutland (1967)Combat (1968)Anzio (1969)Panzer Blitz (1970)Centurion (1971)Chainmail (1971)Luftwaffe (1971)Breakout & Pursuit (1972)Conquest (1972)Decline and Fall (1972)Don't Give Up the Ship (1972)Winter War (1972)Battle Cry (1973)Panzer Leader (1974)Rise and Decline of the Third Reich (1974)Battle of the Five Armies (1975)Caesar's Legions (1975)Dreadnought (1975)Punic Wars, The (1975)Siege of Minas Tirith, The (1975)Sorcerer (1975)Spartan (1975)Viking (1975)Wooden Ships & Iron Men (1975)Yeoman (1975)Cromwell (1976)Invasion: America (1976)Lankhmar (1976)Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers (1976)Swords & Spells (1976)Lords & Wizards (1977)Squad Leader (1977)War of the Ring (1977)Dragonlords (1978)Mayday (1978)Demons (1979)Ironclads (1979)Wizard's Quest (1979)Ace of Aces (1980)Barbarian Kings (1980)Dragon Pass (1980)Raiders and Traders (1979)Adventure Gaming (1981)Attila (1981)Civilization (1981)Cradle of Civilization (1981)Cry Havoc (1981)Demonlord (1981)Ragnarok (1981)Richard I the Lionheart (1981)Broadsides and Boarding Parties (1982)Car Wars (1982)Dawn Patrol (1982)Dragon Rage (1982)Dragonhunt (1982)Ambush! (1983)Bug-Eyed Monsters (1983)Axis and Allies (1984)Battle of Five Armies, The (1984)Demonwand (1984)Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Battlesystem (1985)Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Battlesystem Skirmishes (1991)Greyhawk: Wars (1991)Dungeons & Dragons Chainmail (2001)Most of the wargaming I have done since the mid-eighties has been miniatures based or computer based.  Still, I sometimes enjoy an old tabletop wargame and have added some I found while making my list to another list of games to seek out and play. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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