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Best of AH 'Classics'

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« on: July 20, 2014, 10:14:54 am »

When I think of AH "Classics", I think of the games AH themselves labeled as the "classics"...

Gettysburg
Waterloo
D-Day
Stalingrad
Afrike Korps
Battle of the Bulge
Midway

I might be missing a few, but they were mostly the best of the original flatbox games, I think. Of these, Afrika Korps is still the best one for me, and I've played it again only a couple of years ago and still had a lot of fun with my buddy Dan. I also played Battle of the Bulge again, also with Dan, and using the advanced rules, it was actually a very fun and pretty solid wargaming experience. I played Stalingrad solo again a year a go or so, and I'll say this - while it does not model the actual operations on the Eastern Front very well at all - no breakthroughs and exploitations, no massive pockets of enemy troops, it IS an engaging game to play, and I do see the attraction that people had to the game. Waterloo was the first "real" wargame I ever played, and I've played it a couple of times in recent years and still found it enjoyable. Frankly, I like 'em all, because they are accessible and can all be finished in a long afternoon. That's refreshing because as much as I like bigger games that take multiple sessions to complete, it's nice once and awhile and come up for air with a relatively light play of one of the "Classics".

As for AH games that do not fall strictly within AH's self-defined "classics" grouping, I'd say three games stand out:
- Rise and Decline of the Third Reich
- The Russian Campaign
- Panzerblitz (and Panzer Leader)
I've played one or more games of all of these in the last five years, even with all of the newer fare in my collection. There is a lot of gaming goodness in these boxes. There are gamers out there that will tell you that these are dated designs and that there are better, newer choices out there, but I still enjoy playing these, as do my main wargaming buddies, so I suspect they will continue to get played in my group.
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