What is your favorite game and why?

[HarlequinZero]

I realize this could get heated, so let's all try to keep our cool when defending our own, (obviously correct ,) opinions.

Anyways, as the title says, what is your favorite game and why? The WHY is the most important part. I've been evaluating my gaming collection and thinking about pruning some of the dozen odd systems I have models for and I'd just like to hear in from people. I'd like to keep the discussion limited to tabletop miniature games.

To answer my own question, my favorite game for quite a while has been Infinity. The game has a steep learning curve, but I think it's the most tactically robust skirmish game on the market. You have to use cover well and need to constantly be aware of firing lanes for both your own models AND your opponents models due to reactive orders. (You step out of cover into my field of fire I get to take a pot shot at you.) I really like the orders system where you don't necessarily have to just move one model and then the next one. The orders are pooled so I can allocate them however I want. The models are gorgeous although they are not for inexperienced modelers as they have LOTS of small, fiddly bits.

So what's everyone think?

[porkuslime]

Miniature game, or ANY game?

I have different favorites depending on whom I am gaming with. I belong to a Board game club, a miniatures club, and the "family around the dinner table" club..

[imp522]

Reaper Warlord would be my favorite. Things I like about it.
1) You can take any model you want and use it.
2) Scalable, you can play from 5-6 models per side to 50+ per side
3) Card deck determines which side moves a troop, so it's not IGO,UGO makes planning your strategy a little more interesting as your never sure who's going to move next
4) all models are important, from your lowly archer to your giant. Everyone plays an important part on the field.
5) Magic isn't dominate, It's useful but no one spell will determine the battle.

[Norseman]

I don't know about you guys but my favorite game is private and only me and my wife know the rules. LOL


Seriously though... I am leaning to Necromunda

[oaflord]

I don't know about you guys but my favorite game is private and only me and my wife know the rules. LOL


Seriously though... I am leaning to Necromunda

TMI Norse... T M I

I am an avid M:TG player but my favourite game of all time would be a little board game by the name of Clue. Many a day at the cottage has been burned away playing that game... I love it because it has so much depth for what seems to be a simple game and nothing beats the occasional bluff by supposing three cards you actually have in your hand. Can't do that one too often but when you do and you pull it off, you usually win.

oAF

[s_o_r_r_o_w]

My favourite, and i think the best, GW game is Battlefleet Gothic. Distortions arise in the form of the Necrons and Space Marines, but the basic four races were, I think, pretty well-balanced. It had everything I could have wanted in a space or naval game.

[spiralingcadaver]

Malifaux right now. I've played less than a dozen games, but it's a lot of fun.

Reasons I like it:
(pretty) solid rules set
lots of good minis
an adult story line. Not everything is motivated by some sort of innate desire to kill things you don't like.
not needing to wait 1/2 hour+ to do something
the card system
being able to improve a bad situation, and degrees of success

I've played much more Warmachine, which has a fantastic set of rules, but I'm not liking the recent hard sell on larger game sizes and lack of artistic integrity (in my opinion)

[tordeck]

I'd like to keep the discussion limited to tabletop miniature games.

Peeps be needing to learn how to read. LOL


Seriously though, I Love me some BFG but right now my fav has got to be Malifaux. I havnt gotten many games in yet but all of the things that make it differant than your standard miniatures game is what really draws me to it.

1. Alternating activation
2. cheating fate
3. cards not dice
4. flip for initiative each turn
5. really small skirmish scale
6. $50 gets you a crew and the core rules

[porkuslime]

D'oh!

Well, I would have to say, right now, Necromunda is winning by a hair over 40k. BUT, I am all sorts of excited to play a game called Blackwater Gulch (non wierd west gunfights) with my board game buds.. as an intro to minis..

[kturock]

I don't really have a favorite game.
I've played or collected so many from different genres, over the past 30 years, that there isn't much new. It just must be fun.
I'm past the collectible game phase. I don't hav ethe $$ to spend on random cards/models to play. I might pick up a stray now and then; or a starter to check out the rules.
I don't like the resource based games. Settlers of Catan or the A&A, & Risk where you have to capture to have grow armies.

On wednesdays we vary what's played. SFB or FC. Gorka Morka. Risk Legacy. Clix. This week its going to be SW minis. 40k is thrown in on request. Same with WHFB. Maybe if it's warbands, it'll get played.
Some nights there's 4 different games being played at once.
A random RPG, like Rogue Trader, might start up.

I brought Firestorm Armarda to show last week, but didn't get chance. Heroclix was requested. I might run FA to show the rules.

People come & go and the basic rules are: bring a game and enough minis for all or a couple to play and run it. All minis must be painted or at least primed in process of being painted. If we like it and have the minis, minis aren't needed or we can get them cheap or proxie them; then we'll play again. If it's a new take on an old genre, or a new set of rules; we might try it. Battlestar Galactica & Last Night on Earth we played on a whim.

Tide of Iron was a pick up 2 weeks ago. Guadalcanal was last weeks pick up.
If I can get some minis, I'll run Sharpe's Practice from toofatlardies. It's simple rules to recreate the Sharpe's Battle show & books.
Necromunda might have a resurgence again becuase of GorkaMorka.
BFG might because of SFB, FC and FA.

I very in mood of what I play. I like Savage Worlds for all my RPG, but I like Fudge for Dresden Files. Minis and board games just have to be fun.

[Ironhide]

My favorite game at the moment is EVE online. Much cheaper than playing GW.

[MEDEVL]

For miniatures my favorite game would be Mordheim. It had a great concept that was mostly based on the WFB rules that existed at the time so we didn't have to start from scratch but it added in just enough depth with new rules that it made the game fun and challenging without bogging it down too badly. I loved the extra modelling potential as you got guys with better equipment or permanent injuries. I also loved the advancement aspect as your warband got better (or worse!!) after each game. The suppliments they had kept adding new ideas and the community at one time was vibrant and full of great ideas. I rarely get to play anymore but it's still my favorite by far.

[spiralingcadaver]

Oh, Mordheim, how I loved thee…

Like almost all of GW's skirmish stuff ("almost" only because I haven't played all of them), it was better than GW's mainstream stuff, and for less investment, too.

My only real complaint was that I've never felt that a single unmodifiable d6 is sufficient for a skirmish-scale game, especially in a campaign setting. Roll a 1 and faceless Marine # 83 bites it (until next game)? Fine. Roll a 1 and your champion who became a leader when your last one died bites it in the 20th game of your campaign, and may come up hobbled? Too stressful for the amount of work you put in to it.

Also (from playing as them) I can state, for a fact, that dwarf post-game shenanigans were beyond broken. After I got 2 magic items in a row (for the record, the only way you should be able to do get one is to roll 6 6's in a row, and there are exactly six unique magic items in the game world), my entire group (myself included) unanimously decided that Grindak's Mining Union (or something like that) would be permanently retired to Mordheim's watch, only to be brought back as NPCs vs. 2 warbands, or possibly as punishment.

Mordheim is the spiritual predecessor to a lot of games I love, and the old aesthetic was nice, but there were... some flaws.

[MEDEVL]

Yeah, some of the dwarf stuff was broken but all in all we loved the game anyway. You make a good point about the d6 though. It would have been nice to have a little more flexibility in the mechanics of the random rolls, especially when dealing with heroes. At least the post game injury rolls were fairly easy on heroes, especially compared to henchman that died in droves!!

[jul]

As strange as it might seems my favorite game is not necessary my best game.. so i guess i'll split them up:

the best game for me currently is
1- Infinity for its complexity, the emphasis on the tactical deployment and the universe. The models also improved greatly since the original release and i just the love the JSA theme: bringing knifes and swords to a RPG world...
2- Necromunda, the only setting where 2nd rules were working properly...

my favorite game is
3- Age of the Emperor fandex for warhammer 40k. The set up allows you to replay the Horus Heresy era (actually 5 different eras: the great crusade, the betrayal, the heresy, the siege of Terra and the Scourimg, each with slight modifications to army lists). The near-professional presentation of the book and the fact that the community at its origin has close tie with BL authors make it, IMHO, the best 40k supplement available currently beside FW campaigns books. It is also a time of heroes, so the overhaul cheesiness is elevated almost to the level of WM..
4- 40k 3rd/4th ed. not because of the rules, but because it's when GW started to increase the quality of their models, also because at that time, i was playing a way lot more (up to 5 games a week) and the gaming group i was part of in Montreal was awesome...

Runners Up:
-Dystopian Wars, i have yet to play the game but the rules, models and setting attract me a lot

J