Cant really say I have 10

Solid Favorites are AE-WW2 and Battletech

I love the Warhammer 40k setting and fluff but the rules leave a bit to be desired
No Limits is a good ruleset but alot of effort to creat an army for

And Ive never really done much small scale gaming.

Upcoming or interesting rules;
Infinity and Vor 2.0, maybe Battlefield: World at War

Probably forgetting some here. Also included a couple boardgames, but they’re close enough for me.

Confrontation 3
Blood Bowl
Chaos Warband rules from Realms of Chaos
Helldorado
Talisman
WFB
40k 2nd edition
Heroclix
Necromunda
AT-43

My list:

VOID (going to use it as a base template for most of my future 28mm skirmish games; as soon as I get around to it)
Blood Bowl
Mechwarrior (yes, the clix game)
Savage Worlds
Space Hulk
.45 Adventure
Troops, Weapons and Tactics
No Limits

And that’s it so far; still looking for new titles to add to this list. Of course, I could name some of those I’ve made on my own, but they won’t count, would they? ;)

I also don’t think I have ten favorites (ASL takes up about half my available gaming time… do boardgames count?), but here’s what I play on a regular basis in order of tabletop time spent:

1. Panzer Miniatures
2. MBT (boardgame converted to minis)
3. IDF (boardgame converted to minis)

All three of these are excellent games, having lots of detail without being bogged down in complexity. A game with roughly a company of AFV’s on each side takes 60-90 minutes on average (a little longer when you add infantry, guns, air support, and artillery).

4. Federation Commander (” “)
5. Rag’narok (v1)
6. Confrontation (v2/v3)
7. House rules for 6mm scifi
8. AT-43

…and soon to be added will be Land Ironclads/Aeronef (when I get them painted).

Hmmm - lots of skirmish and large army small scale games

I don’t have ten… I actually may not even have 5. But I’d say Warmachine, AT-43, Star Wars CMG and Anima Tactics are all up there. I have the starter for Urban Mammoth (but not fully painted or assembled yet, so not played), I have a Hordes starter but not painted yet and I have a bunch of other collectable miniatures but none I’d say was the be all end all. I’m extremely interested in Pulp City, Malifaux Matters and Mutant Chronicles. And everyone seems to say great thinga about AE-WWII. But I might go with the Tannhauser board game to start off the Weird War II stuff.

Well, as other, I don’t have ten… So, for me :

1- Infinity
2- Helldorado
3- Dark age
4- Anima Tactics
5- Confrontation 3

For the future, maybe Hordes, Warmachine, and SOTR ?

Ohhhh, forgot BFG, damn!

This is going to sound naive but do they sell Helldorado starters and rulebooks in English yet and side question, which is better for skirmish games, Helldorado or Infinity. Yes I know they’re different genres, I’m just trying to get an idea of which keeps the interest up and gets seen on the table at the local shops more.

HeroScape
Tannhauser
WH 40K Rogue Trooper
AT-43
Space Hulk
Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel
Star Wars Minis
HeroQuest

40K/Space Hulk are the only minis battle game I built and painted armies for.

As you can see I like games with minis in them. I just don’t have time to paint anymore…

With prepaints I will probably play Starship Troopers if they ever make it…

1. Flames of War
2. Urban war / Metropolis
3. War machine
4. Air Assault on Create (avalon hill)
5. Star Fleet Battles / Federation commander
6. Advanced Squad Leader
7. Warhammer Ancient battles / Warmaster Ancient battles
8. Warhammer
9. Spearhead: The Great War
10. HG Wells Little Wars

In no particular order:

Confrontation v3/3.5
Infinity
WFB
WH40K
BFG
Chess
All Things Zombie
Anima Tactics
Munchkin
Hell Dorado

Close elevenths+ :

Battletech
Space Crusade (purely rose-tinted… I think my old set is buried in the loft at my parents, if it didn’t get binned… But it did get me into sci-fi gaming from being a WFB 3rd ed dabbler and probably was the true start of my addiction)
Operation Overlord/Alzo Zero
Warmaster
Blood Bowl
Epic 40k/Space Marine (bliss to play, sheer hell to paint!)

Its a bit of an open-ended list really as there are a fair few other games that I would like to try that could easily stand alongside these, I’ve never played any PP games, Stargrunt, Urban War, Dark Age, Stargrunt or Rezolution, and I get the impression I could get on well with any of them. I’ve not played many historical games either and could see myself enjoying some of them, especially Flames of War, Warmaster Ancients, WAB, and Legends of the High Seas/Old West.

Some of the ones I’ve picked for my top ten are tried and tested favourites a bit like a pair of comfy old pants, some have managed to muscle their way into my affections for a regular slot on the gaming table, whilst others are still in the shiny new toy stage. I’d guess everyone else picks in roughly the same way?

Rich

My top ten:

1. Polemos Napoleonic MdE
2. Grande Armee / FPGA
3. Warhammer Ancient Battles
4. Flames of War
5. Spearhead
6. Wargods of Aegyptus
7. Confrontation Age of the Ragnarok
8. Ragnarok v2
9. Warhammer Fantasy v7
10. Fire & Fury

bish

Here we go:

1. Warmachine
2. Hordes
3. Anima Tactics
4. Necromunda
5. Infinity
6. Void
7. Vor
8. Blood Bowl
9. Dark Age
10. Space Hulk

1. Warmachine/Hordes - Privateer Press
2. Lord of the Rings - Games Workshop
3. Space Hulk - Games Workshop
4. AT-43 - Rackham
5. Confrontation: TAOR - Rackham
6. Warmaster Ancients - Games Workshop
7. Babylon 5 A Call to Arms - Mongoose
8. Starship Troopers - Mongoose
9. Warhammer Fantasy Battles - Games Workshop
10.Wargods of Aegyptus - Crocadile Games

Battleground Weird War II
Tyranid Attack
Trivial Pursuit
Monsters Menace America
z-Man Card Games
Freecell
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Kill Zone
Destroy All Humans
Zombies

Trivial Pursuit

That’s no tabletop game! If we’re going to stray into boardgames then that’s another top ten list!

Warlord…Sounds ok but it seems to lack popularity / player base - any reason for this?

It’s ‘ok’, but not great at anything.
Ok minis
Ok background
Ok rules
It really needs something to set itself apart.

Okay, I’m only going with games that I’ve played, and I’m rating them best evah at number 1, and so on down to 10. If a game isn’t there it doesn’t mean I didn’t play it (for just two examples, I’ve played AT-43 and Confrontation 2), it just means it didn’t make my top 10 list. And placement doesn’t mean anything in terms of number of times played. For example I have played more 40K than any other game there, and far more WFB than ATS.

1. Warmachine (best evah! pour moi)
2. Hordes
3. Warhammer Ancient Battles
4. Warhammer 40K 3rd and 4th editions
5. Advanced Tobruk System (Western desert games)
6. Warmaster
7. GW Lord of the Rings
8. Warhammer Fantasy Battle 5th and 6th editions
9. Battlelore
10.Crossfire (WW2)

1. Wargods of Ægyptus
2. Blood Bowl
3. Void
4. Spinespur
5. Dark Age
6. Anima Tactics
7. Hordes
8. Infinity
9. AT-43
10. Rezolution

1. Necromunda
2. Warmaster
3. Mordheim
4. Hordes
5. Fantasy Warriors
6. Space Hulk
7. Epic 40k
8. 40k
9. Dark Future
10. Warmachine

I only have a top 5:

1. Crossfire
2. Hordes of the Things
3. Superfigs
4. Space Hulk
5. B’Hoys

I like these games for their playability & rules design, not for their miniatures (most of them don’t have an associated miniature range) or their setting & backgrounds. Typically I use them for other settings, together with miniatures I like from games I don’t care for ruleswise (such as the 2 warhammers).

BTW, here’s a nice follow-up topic: a top ten of miniature ranges. While making my little list, I realized that the list of games whose rules I love is totally different from the list of games whose associated miniature ranges I like. For example, I genuinely like the newer WH40K & WFB plastics, but these days categorically refuse to play the shoddy Warhammer rules.

how about top ten in mini lines (not specific minis), top ten minis, top ten companies

anyone know any simple ways to tally up all the games listed? I’m curious to see what would come out and where

Yeah Zac, are you going to sort through all of this and tally it up? ; )

It would be neat to see, but not expected.

Yeah Zac, are you going to sort through all of this and tally it up? ; )

I am indeed

Sweet - Im eager to see what made it in the small list and if there are any surprises

Not in order:

AT-43
Warmachine
Space Hulk
Hybrid
Star Wars Minis
Flames of War
Gutshot
5150
All Things Zombie
Lord of the Rings GW

Hmmm… I guess for the betterment of science I will throw in my 2 cents

1. Space Hulk – it is what got me into miniature gaming back in ‘89

2. Warhammer 40k – the rules as of late are lacking but I love the dark sci-fi

3. Operation WWII – I love this game and painting 72nd scale models is easy

4. Confrontation 2 – still think this is the best fantasy skirmish rules I have read

5. AT-43 – never played a big game but I likes what I see

6. Battle Fleet Gothic – I know that there are other space fleet games that look great and I would play them if I knew people who did but my gaming group mostly consists of 40kers.

7. Necromunda – Goodtimes

8. Mordhiem – Ye olde good times

9. AE WWII – if I didn’t mention this matt and rob would kill me!

10. Various board game-like mini games such as Twilight Imperium,
Zombies!!!, Descent, squad leader and others but I don’t think they count.

Looking at this list and it become obvious that I am a GW whore L, I have Gorka-Morka, Epic and Inquisitor as well. I prefer Sci-fi above all else and the 40k universe has it all or at least some bastardized version of it. By playing all the subgames they can all be interwoven into a massive campaign, not that I ever had a gaming group that successfully did this but the dream still remains.

Games I want to play include Infinity, Heavy Gear, Hell Dorado and Warmachine/hordes so when I finish painting all my 40k armies I can justify other miniature games….LOL! A Sisyphean task indeed.

Here is my little input…

1 - Warmachine and Hordes - Lets face it… Same game! :)
2 - Mordhiem - Love the flavor and the way your gang grows
3 - Warmaster - I don’t get to play this much… Once every three years or so, but I like it. Would love to try Warmaster Ancients
5 – Flames of War – I kind of got dragged into this game… But I enjoy it, but not as much as some of my friends. Wish they would jump to a second game like Samurai or Napoleonics already!
4 – Blood Bowl – I need to try out elf bowl some day
5 – Void – fun, but haven’t played in years
6 – Aetherverse – this was actually a pretty neat little system. Lots of quarks, but as a homebrew trying to go big it was pretty good.
7 – WFB – Once again, I haven’t played in years, but I like the block movement vice free form you get in 40K. Forces you to think a bit.
8 – After that… It all gets fuzzy… ;)

jp

Looks to me like you can have a fair idea of how old/long the gamers have been playing by some of the items in their list.

Now that makes feel old, sigh!

For me the oldies are the goodies, but I only realised that after years of faffing about with newer systems.

But the new systems/games of today will be the old systems/rules of the future.

SW

1. Warmachine/Hordes
2. Classic Battletech
3. Warlord
4. AT-43
5. Necromunda
6. GASLIGHT
7. Legends of the Old West/High Seas (similar systems)
7. .45 Adventure/Fantastic Worlds/Gloire (see above)
8. Battlefleet Gothic
9. WHFB
10. 40k 3rd ed.

Space Marine / Titan Legions (Epic)
Blood Bowl
Silent Death
Battletech
Dirtside II
Warmaster (Fantasy & Ancients)
Heroscape
Man O’ War
AK-47 Republic (As modified for Spanish Civil War by a friend)
Warmachine/Hordes

Now that makes feel old, sigh!

And I feel old since I never had to ask people about any of the titles ;-) Even MBT.

5 Things I’m actually playing and enjoying:

Elfball (seriously digging this one)
Hordes (new convert)
AT-43 (big thumbs up)
Battlelore and
Command and Colors: Ancients (technically blocks, but with some time and Baccus 6mm, I could change that :D)

5 I enjoy but haven’t seen much table time lately:

Tannhauser
StarWars Minis (I need a mass combat version :D)
Blood Bowl (may be permanently replaced by Elfball)
Epic
Necromunda

And the ones I’m itching to try:

[b]Infinity[/b]
Legends of the Old West/High Seas
CAoR (I’m in for a pound, but not convinced yet)
Alkemy
AE-WWI/SOTR

I swung away from TTG and into board games fairly heavily over the past couple years, now it seems the pendulum is coming back the other way :D

Present interest to Past interest:

1. Infinity
2. Hordes
3. Helldorado
4. Pulp City
5. All Things Zombie
6. Anima Tactics
7. Heavy Gear
8. Confrotation V3
9. Epic
10. W40k before 4th ed

Jim

I’m a bit late and it’s pretty difficult to find 10 games I really know for having played them at last once…

1. Hell Dorado : skirmish, very nice minis, excellent rule system
2. Warmachine/Hordes : some nice minis, excellent rule system
3. Warlord : very versatile system playable with almost any fantasy mini I have
4. Confrontation AoR : the fantasy genre offers more depth than AT-43 (more interesting habilities, spellcasters etc…)
5. Confrontation 3 : had some of the best minis ever produced in the hobby…
6. Mordheim
7. Anima Tactics : nice minis, true skirmish, interesting system
8. AT-43
9. Tannhäuser
10.Star wars miniatures

Not to mention :

No Quarter - because it’s free (and probably a huge job for its creator)
Chronopia - because figs are now difficult to find and a bit under the actual standards
Inquisitor : for the background mainly
Cadwallon : for the background (and the minis) too
Battleground Fantasy Warfare : not minis… But a great game system and very affordable :oP