What's your favourite two-player wargame? I don't play many wargames these days but I try to be open-minded about genres, themes & mechanisms because I'm so often pleasantly surprised. Doesn't have to be real-world. For whatever reason I like but don't love Undaunted: Normandy. I thought it was ok.
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A Few Acres of Snow, 13 Days, Meltwater, Shores of Tripoli are some favorites that haven’t already been mentioned.
The feeling of potential regret when you commit your pile of carrier blocks to a battle (or armor blocks in EE) is worth it alone. Also in AE, there's a real feeling that the Allies can lose it all...which swings to feeling that Japan can't hold out...
Flight of the Goeben
Twilight Struggle
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Grunt
The American Revolution
Fortress America
Napoleon at Waterloo
War at Sea
Crete
Arab Israeli Wars
Stargate
G.E.V.
Speaking of wargames in a more traditional sense, I'd love to try Twilight Struggle (can we consider it in the Venn's Diagram, can't we?)
(of course, today we played Anzio Beachhead, which *really* counts...)
Simple, quick and very tactical, but enough history and flavour to keep me interested.
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TBW is great. It’s a great intro to the COIN system. If you want a bunch of fast-playing maps that are not about direct combat and all feel very different, this is it.
there's great games for damn near any of them
Then I’ll add Ogre/GEV, which turned my head away from Monopoly/Clue as a kid. 🤯
I recently got a copy of Washington's War, but I haven't played yet. That one is supposed to be good.
Hmm, I just realized that they’re all from GMT. 🤔
War Of The Ring is so, so good, but it's 4-5 hours, so I'll recommend it but with a caveat.
Sekigahara is fun, but I've only played it the once - but GMT so more on the complex side.
Memoir 44 is great if you want something quicker and lighter, and it's also interesting because the scenarios can be (very, in some cases) unbalanced but as you play both sides in a single game,it works
13 Days is great, again a bit lighter than many others.
Again, one I've only played once, but Iron, Blood, Snow, And Mud was fun. Lighter, but also fairly asymmetric with the Axis having to maintain supply lines