More or less in order, and only one's I played significantly at some point (from earliest to latest starting in the mid 80s or so):
Ogre/GEV (chits)
Car Wars
Battletech (1st ed, but not Battledroids)
Axis and Allies
Risk
40K (owned Rogue Trader, but didn't play until 2nd)
Man O` War (One of my favorites)
Warhammer Fantasy
Epic 40K
Ogre/GEV (minis)
Full Thrust
CAV
Battlefleet Gothic (Full Thrust is better IMHO)

I own, but have not yet played Stargrunt and Dirtside II which really interest me and are the rules I would like to try next.

I'm still occasionally playing Battletech.  Anything pre-clans, as the clans and everything after are abominations.

Quote from: Marleycat;743750Does Blood Bowl count as a war game? I admit to really liking that game.

I love Blood Bowl too, but I'd call that a wargame when it came out and a tactical miniatures skirmish game today.

Quote from: Ravenswing;743751To wit: there are three full scale large maps, covering UMass-Boston (which is stuck out on a peninsula in Boston Harbor) and the arterial highway feeding it.  You each have your budget vehicle.  It is 8:20 AM.  Your first class of the day starts at 8:30 AM.  And there is only one parking space left on campus.  Have at it.

Holy crap, that is fucking beautiful! I wish I would have thought of it back in the day. :hatsoff:

Used to be, but it appeals less with age. I play the odd strategic board game but not often.

Yes, mostly fantasy or sci-fi. Historical gaming will do too.
However I prefer RPGs.

Quote from: Spinachcat;74373533 years of wargaming!

I am not a fan of historical games. It's a bit "misery tourism" for me to re-enact battles where dumbass peasants from Side A were marched into a blender against dumbass peasants from Side B on the orders of some rich assholes.  

But anything fictional? Bring it on.

Preach it Brother Spinachcat!

Been wargaming since 1972. Whittled down my collection massively in 2008. Still have the following though, and can play these at will;

Panzer Leader / Panzer Blitz (Looking for a copy of Arab-Israeli Wars)
Squad Leader / Cross of Iron / GI Anvil of Victory / Crescendo of Doom
Tobruk
Wooden Ships & Iron Men
Starship Trooper
Submarine
Imperium / Dark Nebula
Ogre/GEV

I do like SPI games as well, just don't own any of them anymore. I am actively looking for a copy of Strategy I though.

Ohhh... and thousands of 1/72nd scale minis. Revell, Airfix, Italieri, Zvezda, you name it... Mostly ancients with more Romans than anything else, Have Picts, Celts, Germans, and Slavs too. Also do have a few WWII (8th Army, Germans, Russians) as well as some US 7th Cavalry and Civil War Union figures that I use for Barsoom games...

Also have War of 1812 minis....

Mexican-American War Figures including Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, etc.

and probably 2,000 or so 1/72nd scale AWI American War of Independence minis... maybe 3-400 woodland and plains Indians as well. Still have nine boxes (almost 500) unpainted figures as well.

Quote from: Spinachcat;743735I am not a fan of historical games. It's a bit "misery tourism" for me to re-enact battles where dumbass peasants from Side A were marched into a blender against dumbass peasants from Side B on the orders of some rich assholes.  

But anything fictional? Bring it on.

I like "historical" games, but my favorites usually aren't recreations of actual historical battles (although those are fine, too).  To me, it's usually more about the kinds of units in the game.  I'm not a big fan of magic or sci-fi technology or fantasy monsters and races in my wargames.  I'd rather do a fictional/non-historical, well-balanced, but "historically appropriate" battle (e.g., Danes vs. Franks).  But I also enjoy stuff like pitting an army of HYW-era knights, men-at-arms, and archers against Mid-Republic Romans, just for the hell of it.

But if I'm playing, say, Chainmail, I'd rather leave out the fantasy supplement.  Not sure why that is, because I love the fantasy genre and fantasy role playing games.  For whatever reason that appreciation of fantasy doesn't usually extend into war games, though.  Weird, but that's how it works, in my case.

Quote from: jeff37923;743756I love Blood Bowl too, but I'd call that a wargame when it came out and a tactical miniatures skirmish game today.

What's the difference or separation between the two types?

Quote from: Marleycat;743822What's the difference or separation between the two types?

Yeah, to me 'tactical miniatures skirmish game' is still a 'wargame'.

Quote from: Marleycat;743822What's the difference or separation between the two types?

Good question.

My answer?  None whatsoever.

Sadly, we seem to be veering dangerously close to "tactical miniatures skirmish game is a game I like, and wargame is a game I don't like."

As I said above, back in the 70s Dave Arneson's group played a TON of "Modern War in Miniature" by Michael Korns, where 1 player controls 1 man, 1 inch equals 6 feet (yes, the miniatures were one inch tall), and one turn equals two seconds.

If anybody had said that was not a wargame, we would have looked at him like if he had just said that milk was not white.

Quote from: Marleycat;743822What's the difference or separation between the two types?

Bullshit, that's what.

Quote from: Marleycat;743822What's the difference or separation between the two types?

This is all based on the memory of my perceptions, but it seemed that anything not a role-playing game back then was a wargame, with a lot of overlap if you played GDW's science fiction offerings. Today, it seems like there is more granularity within the overarching definition of wargame - Blood Bowl would fall under tactical miniatures skirmish like D&D Miniatures or 4E, something like Risk would be more strategic and less tactical, Star Fleet Battles would be tactical except when incorporated with Federation and Empire when it would be overall strategic except for individual battles which would be tactical.

Quote from: Old Geezer;743834My answer?  None whatsoever.

Sadly, we seem to be veering dangerously close to "tactical miniatures skirmish game is a game I like, and wargame is a game I don't like."

Quote from: Old Geezer;743835Bullshit, that's what.

Thank you for that "Get Off My Lawn" moment, OG.

But some wargames were also role-playing games, like Squad Leader and the blank leader chit.