I was wondering if you know any good games besides tide of iron and memoir 44.

Other games that I play are conflict of heroes (around the same scale as Toi, but uses counters), combat commander, axis and allies spring 1942, europe 1940 & pacific 1940, no retreat 2 (GMT edition), napoleons war (reminds me a little of memoir without cards) & battles of napoleon: the eagle and the lion. As you can see im into historical games and mostly ww2. Although for a change im thinking of getting eclipse (a space empire type game).

RAF1945 said:

PanzerBlitz if you like platoon, company level game with easy rules, and a lot of variety of units. Just may need to change a few rules for trucks, and spotting, and use Opportunity fire  rule.

Victory in the Pacific, another old Avalon Hill game, is my all time favorite WW2 pacific war naval game. Very simple mechanics, and area movement, but very good  strategy game, and all the units are historically accurate, with names of ships and air units., and has reinforcement table historically accurate too. The sister game, War at Sea, is really good too, and even easier to play in only about an hour. Nothing really complicated, and lots of dice rolling. The British, although having more ships, have to control a lot of sea areas, while the German player can use U-boats and Luftwaffe to sink convoys. The Bismarck and Tirpitz are represented very well, and there is even the Italian Navy ships available in the Mediterranean Sea.

Victory in the Pacific :-) That is a dear old one.

Up Front, another old Avalon Hill game. Cardbased squad vs squad combat. Fastpaced with lots of tough decisions.

Axis & Allies Europe and Pacific 1940 played together is phenomenal. When I first set it up(took 1.5 hrs!!) I was awe struck. Although it's not a war strategy game, I've been playing Twilight Struggle alot lately. I've also seriously considered buying GMT's Case Yellow but haven't buried the hatchet yet.

 Thanks to you all.. I have some suggestions to you all Conquest of the Empire and Memoir 44 are both excelent. Can any of you tell me how the Battles of Napoleon and Battle Cry are?

RAF1945 said:

I can't speak for Battles of Napoleon, but Battle Cry is excellent. The first version was super, and I have to say that the rerelease of it is even better. They cleared up a few flaws from the original game (All Out Offensive card removed being one) and it is super.

I was hoping to see some more scenarios published for it too, as all the new ones they added were earlt civil war battles, leaving open the speculation that some later war scenarios were on the drawing table, but nothing as of yet.

Another game I picked up, but have not had the chance to play yet is Zvezda's Art of Tactic: Operation Barbarossa 1941. I always thought that ToI was a combination of AAM & M44. Art of Tactic seems like a blend of Tide of Iron, AAM & Flames of War, IMHO.

Battles of napoleon, has a sort of ToI feel in a way set in napolianic times. There a different mechanics that run the game but it just reminds me of a ToI sort of game. It is on the same sort of complexitly level as ToI. Though the support is non existant for the game now as the company that made the game have gone bust, FFG are the distributors but everyone has been waiting on a FAQ for the game which has not come out yet (and its been out for longer than FotB) So i dont see any expansions for it or more scenarios. I would probably look at other napolianic games if you are interested in that era that have support.

Tide of Iron: Total War Edition is fantastic.  It includes New Rules for transport of AT guns, Early war tanks, more SPGs, Katusha rocket truck, Nebelwerfers, field artillery models, AA guns, model airplanes, plus large campaign maps with area play mode option , plus realistic painted Tank models in the original TOI scale, with stacking changed to only 1 heavy vehicle allowed per hex... and gun ranges increased, while movement rate decreased.and Close range = half normal range. That version, which is only available to me, has become my favorite game.  

My 2nd favorite game, is the original TOI,with all its pecular funny rules or lack thereof, like CF, truck blocking, AT guns not allowed in entrenchments, no halftrack panzergrenadier assault option., auto destroyed passengers when transport is destroyed, complicated off board artillery sequence, auto spotted LOS to all units in cover, premarked Opt fire allowing opponent perfect intelligence of when and where not to move... and the initiative only once per round, rather than after each cycle of both players completing one action phase.

kaufschtick said:

Could you tell the differences between Battle Cry and Memoir 44?

If you're looking for WW2 squad-based tactical games I can recommend, in order of complexity:

* Conflict of Heroes

* Combat Commander

* Lock N Load (as complex as I want to go)

I've also got Fighting Formations, which is platoon rather than squad based, which is also ok and not too hard to get a grasp of designed by the guy the developed Combat Commander.

RAF1945 said:

IMHO, the game mechanic used in both games works the best with BattleCry.  As far as can you tell the difference between BattleCry and M44, I say yes. M44 has such a great company supporting it, and gets so damn much support, that that game has just taken on a world of it's own. It can be played in it's original version, or in Overlord style, or now in Breakthrough style,  there are mini combat card decks added, battle specific maps and scenarios, aircraft, terrain out the ying yang, different weapon types being added, troop types...and the list just goes on and on for that game.

Another thing that seperates M44 from BattleCry is the card deck used in each game, they have similarities in the section cards, but the rest of the decks are specific to the time period, and do a good job seperating one another.

Hope that helps.

The card systems however, to me, just feels 'right' in Battle Cry though.

VolksCamper said:

If you didn't like it, why did you pay for it?

waging_war said:

Because I was interested and the graphics portrayed the game nicely. The mechanics of the game quickly began to change my opinion, not long after playing the first scenario. However, having the set of figures and models and variety of boards was still a plus. So I just designed my own version, which is easier to play, more variety of units, more realistic, easier to start playing with new players., but more realistic than A&A or Memoir 44.

 It would be great to hear your variations.