The November 2024 Monthly Debrief Video saw us discussing the subject of Tactical Wargames. We really do enjoy tactical scale wargames as the action is fast and furious, is focused on single men or small squads and involve lots of cool tactics such as shoot and scoot, the use of smoke, calling in air strikes, group firing, suppression and the like. We also love the narrative that is created as the game feels much more personal and you connect to the individual soldiers rather than a larger operational or strategic scale.
Also as usual, we covered the games we played in November, discussing our trip to San Diego to attend SDHistCon and all the games we played there, and talked about the games we plan to play in December.
We will remind you here that we are fortunate to be continuing our relationship with Noble Knight Games as the sponsor for our Monthly Debrief Video series. In case you don’t know, Noble Knight Games specializes in hard to find games but also carry all the new releases. But what makes them truly unique is that you can find some of the rarest games, long out of print games, hand made games, imported games from overseas, etc. Thanks to them for their sponsorship and we hope that you will consider them first when looking for the games we cover.
-Grant
The Players' Aid 
You guys did a great job highlighting tactical war games. However, I feel that you did miss one genre: Naval action.
Yes, there are many great submarine and anti-sub convoy games, I feel the best Naval tactical game is Captain’s Sea from Legion games. Your thoughts?
Alexander, having played Squad Leader since 1977, I would love the opportunity to chat with you outside of this form on this series pro’s (there are several) and con’s (of which there are many).
Slainte!
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Captain’s Sea is incredible. We just couldn’t possibly cover everything. That video could have been 4 hours.
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Good monthly debrief on a very large topic that you could spend days going over all the tactical games out there. I’m continually surprised that Alexander thinks ASLSK rules are dense, given some of the games you play that have significantly denser rule sets. I will admit they could be laid out better with more examples of play. Grant are you trying to get rid of the Pom by inciting all of us ASL players to pile on?
One of my first games was AH’s Firepower which is individual solders and weapons. I think GMT’s Panzer deserves a mention even though both of you bounced off it’s sister game MBT. I still have AH’s MBT and IDF, plus the new GMT versions and enjoyed watching James Day being on The Chit Show last week. Panzer North Africa is a heavy box!
Quite a few air war games are tactical such as CoA’s Fighting Wing series that scales from operational, to tactical to combat where a turn is 4.1 seconds, or my old favourite AH’s Knights of the Air.
Grant during the whole video I was watching my old favourite Sci-fi tactical game sitting just above your head, Space Hulk. I still enjoyable after 30 odd years.
I will ask what you think is the best fantasy tactical game?
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Best fantasy tactical game. Hhhhm. That’s a good question I’ll have to think on.
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OST is very good and my favorite of the 2 you asked about. I’d go with OST!
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