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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMScott" data-source="post: 1873612" data-attributes="member: 11734">When I was in high school (early-mid 80s), we played the heck out of <a href="http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/27" target="_blank">Supremacy</a>, which was kinda like a more complicated version of Risk in a Cold War-style setting. In addition to pushing armies and fleets around, you had to tend to a simple economy, and you could manipulate world commodity markets or start wars over resources. Plus go nuclear if the issue was serious enough, or try to set up a missile defence system. Very cool game, as I recall.Another good beer and pretzels type modernish wargame is "<a href="http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/99" target="_blank">Fortress America</a>", which was in the same style as Axis & Allies, and Shogun (now called Samurai Swords). It featured some kind of future history where an isolationist continental USA was invaded on both coasts and from Mexico by the Commie hordes. Units included helicopters, mechanized infantry, tanks (well, hovertanks) and so on, so it had a nicely modern feel.For a more tactical approach, I had a game called "<a href="http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/2079" target="_blank">NATO, the next war in Europe</a>" around the same time period, which was a traditional wargame based on the Warsaw Pact invading West Germany circa 1980. Two-player game, played well. As I recall, it was somewhat depressing because it always seemed that NATO had to start using tactical nukes to hold West Germany, which of course would've been a Bad Thing.A less sombre game in the same vein is "<a href="http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/5958" target="_blank">NATO, Nukes, and Nazis</a>" which is set in an alternate reality in which WWII ended with France and Scandinavia liberated, but Nazi Germany still a going concern that occupied a decent chunk of eastern Europe. NATO was established to guard against Nazi aggression, and the whole thing simmered until the 1980s when Nazi Germany invaded France. I've still got a copy of this game and play it once every blue moon, it's a lot of fun. This and the previous game might be more detailed than what you're looking for.Hope that helps.</blockquote>

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