Any good WW2 wargames out there?

[Grayeagle]

I miss Panzer Battles ..an the like

Was wonderin if there are any good ones out there these days.

-GE (still plays Age of Kings of all things ..now an then)

[Nefarious]

Combat Mission series are fun. There older games, but I still play all three.

[vonKrimm]

I will take it that you meant computer WWII games:

Grand strategic:  Hearts of Iron2 Doomsaday/Armageddon Edition (HOURS of playing)
Operational:  Bltizkrieg I & II


I you meant board games:

Take-the-rest-of-your-life-to-play: World in Flames


If you meant miniatures:

Pass-the-beer&skittles: Flames of War

[Jing0]

I rather enjoy Flames of War mysef, its not overly complicated and full of possibilities...indeed just the other day i spent a pleasant afternoon kicking jerries aound with my company of Coldstream Guard and their matildas   

[DiabloTX]

When AD&D was just becoming the rage among dorks I made an RPG based on air combat in the Pacific called "Victory In The Air".  Never caught on though.  No damn half-naked elven warrior sorceresses.

[MrBill]

Martix Games has several good WWII games ... War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition is what I am playing now with a guy from Canada.

They are Board games on a PC that can be played solitaire or with a live opponent or PBEM.

I'm getting this one for Christmas
The War Engine

If you build it, they will play... The War Engine is the ultimate table top war game simulation and replication kit. Limited only by your imagination, all units, weapons and terrain are fully configurable in artwork and stats. Ready made worlds range from sci-fi to fantasy to space to World War 2.

http://www.matrixgames.com/

[Lusche]

Tactical: Combat Mission 2 & 3(Unless state-of-art fancy graphics are more important than actual gameplay ) I still have much fun in multiplayer
Grand Strategic: Hearts of Iron Doomsday (Where you can play every country from 1936-1953)
Boardgame: Fighting Wings Series (Achtung Spitfire, Over the Reich, etc.)

[Blooz]

HPS Simulations

http://www.hpssims.com/

Battlefront

http://www.battlefront.com/

[442w30]

Martix Games has several good WWII games ... War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition is what I am playing now with a guy from Canada.

They are Board games on a PC that can be played solitaire or with a live opponent or PBEM.

I'm getting this one for Christmas
The War Engine

If you build it, they will play... The War Engine is the ultimate table top war game simulation and replication kit. Limited only by your imagination, all units, weapons and terrain are fully configurable in artwork and stats. Ready made worlds range from sci-fi to fantasy to space to World War 2.

http://www.matrixgames.com/

War in the Pacific is outstanding for those that do not mind playing a slow moving game with almost infinite detail.   Admirals Edition? That doesn't even look to be out yet on the Matrix site- as of last weekend anyway. I better go check.  Let me know if you want to start up a pbem game.

[442w30]

also, Matrix has other excellent games as well on many historical periods.

[zoozoo]

red orchestra

[Grayeagle]

Thanks for the replies ..

..sounds like Hearts of Iron and Combat Mission will satisfy my 'itch' for a Patton moment 

-GE

[1pLUs44]

Call of Duty, World at war!


(You need a pretty advanced machine from what I've heard)


and if you don't have one... then THIS is a great one.

Medal of Honor, Pacific Assualt (for the PC) Great great game... you get to go from the Makin Atoll raid, From Edson's ridge at guadal canal, then to Tarawa after fighting more in Guadalcanal! 

[RipChord929]

Hmmm, Was thinking pre/PC...
Nevermind...

I'm a wargame geezer, so my
suggestions would probably
be a little too old for ya...

Complete sets of those old
boardgames are collectors
items now..

<S>RC

[Grayeagle]

'wargame geezer' .. aye.

It all started when my dad got me hooked on Chess.
Then came Risk.
Then I found a wargame based on 'what if' kinda stuff, based on combat in the Fulda Gap..
I don't even remember the name of that one.
It was back when the M-60 - T-72's were the state of the art tho, and TOW missiles were king.

I got hooked bad.
Cross of Iron, Squad Leader, War in the Pacific, Third Reich, Air War..Starfleet Battles, Car Wars, Ogre, amazing fun.
Ace of Aces, Knights of the Sky ..

Then .. along came the lil brown books of D&D.
How cool was *that* ..makin maps, creating a world and runnin adventures with 30 people gettin together on weekends
to hack an slash, cast magic, and in general just have a blast runnin half-elves, half-orcs, wizards, warriors,
..lawful good Paladins that everyone seemed to hate
-Skyl, the theif and part time assassin of the party, looked askance at the prissy Paladin's shiny hat,
..idly wonderin if it would make a good .. umm .. nm.

Nowadays ..I'd like to beat somethin up on my PC .. would be fun to recapture the fun of some of the old Avalon Hill games.
Nothin says 'breakthrough' quite like a Panzer Division in 1941 Eastern Front .. like a knife thru butter
(useda p/o the other player when I ran the Russians by just runnin as fast as I could savin as much as I could, until production of red units just overwhelmed the Wermacht and buried them.. when I ran the Wehrmacht I put all the panzers in Center and owned Moscow by January '42.. Hitler and Stalin were both such dweebs

-GE