Comments on: The Long Game

By: db

db — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:59:08 +0000

Right Rab iv got just the game for you.

The Warlord.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2574/apocalypse-the-game-of-nuclear-devastation

I used to play this beauty in my uni days and every time it ended in tears as your so called comrade aka backstabbing **** of a “friend” turns on you in the finale hours. I’m sure we had games well over 24 hours if someone didnt through a fit and wipe the board.

Theres no element of chance only skill and it gets personal.

Great times.

By: Edward

Edward — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:37:42 +0000

You’re going to hate me for this, but it is a board game rather than a war game, and I doubt you’ll find any longer. Europa Universalis. There, I said it, now read about it and weep.

By: Fat Peter

Fat Peter — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:56:18 +0000

Played Source of the Nile today, seemed to last 45,000 years. We managed to move about 6 hexes between us in 5 hours. It’s almost like it’s a real-time simulation of actually crossing Africa.

By: Jerome Chan

Jerome Chan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:26:50 +0000

Star Fleet Battles, The Assault on a Star Base Scenario?

By: con mcQ

con mcQ — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:01:18 +0000

Excluding wargames

Twilight imperium with 5 players is supposed to take a whole day

I would love to play it but no way would i get enough people to spend the amount of time needed to play this epic game.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/318308

By: Chris Shaffer

Chris Shaffer — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:09:11 +0000

I second the vote for 18C2C. Not a wargame, but definitely long.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:09:57 +0000

Thanks for all the advice, folks.

I’ll be updating soon with the game of choice.

By: Greg_FL

Greg_FL — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:43:24 +0000

I second World of Warcraft Boardgame with the expansions on the table also. I have easily played and couple 12 hours sessions and loved it.

By: Kanachi

Kanachi — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:45:23 +0000

woops sory i didn’t notice that you had already removed wargames! my bad.

By: Kanachi

Kanachi — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:43:33 +0000

To be honest it’s hard to really include war games in this with no firm limit.

I mean given limitless resources you could easily make a single warhammer game go on for years. If you’re a millionaire there is nothing really from stopping you renting out a large building and buying every space marine and tyranid in the country before embarking on an epic game. Obviously no one would do such a thing, but it is in theory at least it’s possible. You should therefore set a limit of say… “A single game which can fit on a 6 by 8 foot table” or something like that.

I’m going to throw Twilight Imperium in there, though in order to play it to the fullest you need 8 players. It takes about 8-10 hours and is probably the longest board game I have ever played except Diplomacy which took about 3 days the last (and only) time I played it.

A lot of games can reach extraordinary length due to the styles of the players participating. Any game which involves open ended negotiation between players is open to an extended play time. Diplomacy could be finished in a very fast time if players made their negotiations very simply, but then that’s not really the point of the game.