War Games?

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War Games.

These are something I would be interested in, does any one do these type of games?
You know, not video games... how do I describe it?
Anyhow, my question is does anyone here play War Games?

I dont understand. If not a video game What kind of game? Board maybe?

I play Flames of War, Warhammer/Warhammer 40,000, Axis & Allies, Squad Leader (and associated "gamettes" like Cross of Iron), and Panzer Blitz. A fair mix of the old and new.

Played Warhammer 40K, Necromunda, Epic and Blood Bowl back in the 90's.

The computer game adaptation of Blood Bowl for the Pc is absolutely fantastic BTW and a sequeal is being developed by the same French Studio great news.

Used to belong to a local war game group in my home town. Played all sorts of era and scale games that I can't remember the name of. Was aspie central with those guys.
My favourite era was the Eastern Front of World War 2. I liked playing at all scales. Tactical, Operational and strategic games. Combat Mission 2 Barbarossa to Berlin was a dream come true for me (Pc game)

Big fan of the Classic Battletech boardgame but sadly that was never really popular over here in the UK. Despite Mechwarrior 2 getting people interested in the universe. The online interpretations of the boardgame you can get now that pretty much simulate the rules as if you played it IRL. Mechwarrior tactics and Mechwarrior Online are great spiritual successors.

I would love a succession wars era grand strategy game to be translated into a computer game. The current owners of Battletech are developing one for the modern board game which is in open play testing at the moment. But I think such a scale would be awesome for a 4x strategy game on the PC

There are some sci fi board games I would really have liked to get into such as Star Trek Battles and Babylon 5 but never had the time.

Computer games have sometimes done a much better job of bringing what I enjoy about a game system to life. If I had any group of people to play Battletech with I'd be up for it but never found any.

I will play any game, regardless of medium, in which I can utterly destroy my opponents

I play any game that I can blow things up. Counter Strike, Battlefield, Call of Duty, Klingon Academy, Wing Commander....

There are explosives that pre-date gunpowder.

Does World of Tanks count?

Shooters, no.

I'm a fairly story-oriented person myself, so generally I don't play many war games. I've consider Spec Ops: The Line, but I haven't made a clear decision yet or not.

In terms of War JRPGs, Valkyria Chronicles is the only one that comes to mind.