Steven K. Mariner

Last Updated: 18-Sep-2008

Wargaming

Index:

• Introduction
• Board Games
• Family Games
• Card Games
• Role-Playing Games
• Card Collecting Games
• Links

I am an avid gamer. The title of this page can be misleading; I do enjoy games which are not necessarily wargames. I dearly enjoy playing Mayfair railroad games, and I have always enjoyed a racecar game called "Speed Circuit".

But there's just something special to me about a game on a hex grid; just the sight of the grid itself gets me juiced up. Yes, I'm a gamer geek.

Here is a list of the games I have played -- it is not complete, but it's close. Within each category, they're roughly in the order in which I played them.

Board Games:

• Chess
• Wooden Ships & Iron Men
• Diplomacy
• Sniper!
• Ace of Aces
• Speed Circuit
• Conquest
• Swords & Sorcery
• The Creature That Ate Sheboygan
• Risk
• Summit
• Third Reich
• Stratego
• Richtoffen's War
• Fight In The Skies
• Ney vs. Wellington
• Cosmic Encounter
• KingMaker
• Squad Leader
• Panzer Leader
• Panzer Blitz
• Star Trek Tri-Dimensional Chess
• Air Force
• Star Fleet Battles
• BattleTech
• Tactics
• Tacitcs II
• Solarquest
• Advanced Civilization
• Talisman
• Circus Imperium
• Eurorails
• Iron Dragon
• Australian Rails
• Nippon Rails
• Empire Builder
• North American Rails
• Brittish Rails
• India Rails
• Silverton
• 1830
• The Fantasy Trip (Melee & Wizard)
• Axis & Allies
• Fortress America
• Shogun (Samaurai Swords)
• Pax Brittanica
• Legions of Steel
• Dogfight!
• Battlemasters
• Settlers of Catan
• Seafarers of Catan
• El Grande
• Ursuppe
• ElfLand
• Tigris & Euphrates
• Dragon Dice

Family Games (Yes, they're board games, but wargamers don't usually admit to playing these unless they're cornered or bribed with Doritos):

• Checkers
• Chutes and Ladders
• Chinese Checkers
• Monopoly
• Mancala
• Life
• Parchessi
• Yahtzee
• Backgammon
• Mastermind
• Sqvrm
• The Black Box
• Past Lives
• Boggle
• French Solitaire Peg Game
• Clue
• Master Labyrinth
• Mystery at Hogwarts
• Dance of the Witches

Card Games:

• Gin Rummy
• Go Fish!
• Rummy 500
• Solitaire
• Poker
• Euker
• Pinochle
• Back Alley Bridge (also known as Blackout, Oh Shit, Oh Hell, Screw Your Neighbor, and probably at least a dozen other names)
• Hearts
• Cribbage
• Canasta
• Spades
• Wizard

Role-Playing Games:

• Dungeons & Dragons
• Traveller
• RuneQuest
• Champions
• Rolemaster
• Vampire, The Maquerade

Card Collecting Games:

• Magic the Gathering

As time permits, I'll be converting the list of games above to links to pages describing the games in question, discussing my opinions of the game, tactics I've used or seen, etc.

Here are some links regarding gaming and related subjects:

• The Spiel By Web Home Page

• The GenCon Home Page
• The Origins Home Page

• The Middle Earth Games Home Page
• The Encyclopedia of Arda Page
• The Swords & Sorcery E-List
• The CyberBoard Home Page

• The Boardgame Players Association Home Page
• The Strategy Gaming Society Home Page
• The ConSim World Home Page

• The Greg Costikyan Home Page
• Or try: Greg Costikyan's Home Page
• The Ian Taylor's SPI Capsuile Page
• The Conquest Home Page Home Page
• The Grognard Home Page
• The Grognard PBEM Page
• The PBEM Emporium Home Page
• The Brainiac Home Page
• The EMG Home Page
• The Greg Lindahl's PBM Page
• The wargamer.com Home Page
• The World at War Game Series Home Page
• The Board Game Geek Home Page (find games and gamers)
• The QED Games Home Page

• The Middle Earth PBM Page
• The Fortress America PBEL Page

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