Best 3 Board Games in 2026

Deluxe Edition

Relive the cold war and change history

Quick-playing, low-complexity

The Hunted is a solitaire tactical level game placing you in command of a German U-Boat during WWII. This is the long-anticipated sequel to the award-winning, multiple-print edition release The Hunters, and picks up the action where The Hunters left off. You command one of many U-Boat models available starting in 1943 and look to successfully complete U-Boat operations until the end of the war.

Not only is this a standalone game, but fans of The Hunters will enjoy having the capability to easily combine both games to span all of WWII and experience the career of a U-Boat commander from 1939 until 1945.

Ages 14+

Package Quantity: 1

Excellent Quality.

Great Gift Idea.

Basic set includes a 22" x 34" map board

Full color illustrated manual with various player aids and reference cards

Full color illustrated manual with various player aids and reference cards

For 1-8 players (best with 4)

Takes about 6 hours to play

Explore historical scenarios

Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah is the seventh installment of our Great Battles of the American Civil War series, published by GMT Games. Eight full battles are included. Largely dormant for several years, the series is going forward in fine style with designer Greg Laubach and developer Bill Byrne.

The game pits a Unionist versus a Secessionist player. Each player uses the area control mechanic pioneered in my We The People design and immortalized in Twilight Struggle to place, move, and remove political capital.

Multicoloured

Not appropriate for children under the age of 3

Product is for use in the GMT Games table top game Normandy '44

Product Number: GMT 1008

Models and games are supplied unpainted and may require assembly or preparation before play

Recent historical theme

Communist player tries to keep Warsaw Pact allies in the fold, NATO player tries to create dissatisfaction and revolt

For 2 player strategy game

Board game of the French & Indian War, 1755-60

Uses the card-driven system of For the People/Paths of Glory

Wilderness War takes two players into the French & Indian War, 1755-1760, the climactic struggle between France and Britain for control of North America. It uses strategy cards and a point-to-point map similar to GMT's award winning For the People and Paths of Glory.

The original SPQR game contained five classic ancient battles

This Deluxe 2nd Printing contains those five

plus fourteen more battles

In Fields of Fire Vol. II: "With the Old Breed," you pin on your captain's bars and take command of a rifle company in the 5th Marines, the most decorated regiment in the US Marine Corps. Test your mettle in three campaigns spanning World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

Fields of Fire is a solitaire game system that gives players the challenge of commanding a rifle company between World War II and Present Day. The game is different from many tactical games in that it is diceless and card based.

There are two decks used to play. The Terrain Deck is based on a specific region and is used to build a map for the various missions your company must perform. The Action deck serves many purposes in controlling combat, command and control, various activity attempts. The units of the company are counters representing headquarters elements, squads, weapons teams, forward observers, individual vehicles or helicopters

4 Players

Pericles is a ‘sandbox’ (unscripted) wargame that covers the ENTIRE period of conflict described in Thucydides classic history on the Peloponnesian wars. Pericles is a four-player game, where two teams of Athenian and Spartan factions fight for Hegemony in 5th Century Greece.

Each team of two represents a faction vying for control of their City States, strategy, and honor. Athens sees the Aristocrats debate issues with their opposing Demagogues, while in Sparta House Agiad and House Eurypontid contend for royal dominance.

Battles of The Warrior Queen: Caesar Conquest of Gaul Module

Combat Commander:Pacific is a card-driven board game covering tactical infantry combat in the Pacific Theater of World War II. CC:Pacific's main theme is the addition of three new factions to the Combat Commander family:

CC:Pacific is a stand alone game in the card-driven Combat Commander game series. While utilizing Combat Commander: Europe's basic rules, CC:Pacific includes numerous rule tweaks and additions in order to more accurately portray tactical warfare as experienced by the participants in and around the Pacific and Indian Oceans. This will slightly ramp up the complexity of the Combat Commander series while at the same time imparting a bit more depth and realism.

Just a few of the additions include Banzai attacks, BARs and Thompson SMGs, Beach landings & river crossings, Hidden movement, Caves, Scouts, Aircraft, Bayonets, Mortar spotting and Reconnoitering.

An updated reimplementation of the Victory Games' classic.There are several small scenarios and a couple of campaign games. Each year is divided into four seasons (Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter), and each season has two turns (so, roughly 6 weeks per turn). The map scale is roughly 6 miles per hex and units are, generally, battalions or regiments.

During the operational phase, players take turns (who gets to operate is determined by the NLF player) conducting operations with their units to destroy the enemy, clear the roads, take towns and cities, or just reposition units.

In the Campaign Game, during Seasonal Interphases, each player decides whether and how many additional units and/or resources to bring in to the fight. The game features hidden VC units, airmobility, riverines, national morale, pacification, ARVN effectiveness, and many other nuances that allow the player to grasp the some of the experience of what it might have been like to conduct the war in Vietnam.

1848: Australia is a semi-historical railroad game for 3 to 6 people. Historical constraints have, as far as is possible, been taken into account. In other areas, history will be written anew. 1848 features the inclusion of The Bank Of England as a public company that extends loans and administers railroads that are in receivership, dealing with the different track gauges between states, and 'The Ghan' special train.

1848 has simple mechanisms at its base. The yellow, green, brown and grey tiles are placed on the map to form a network of routes, connecting stations together. The trains (train cards) make notional journeys from station to station, thereby earning money. The (imaginary) travellers pay for their journeys. The more and the more important the stations a train visits, the more money it earns for the company and its shareholders.

You and your fellow players will own 6 Private Companies, shares in 8 Public Companies, as well as shares in the Bank of England. The player with the most shares in a company is its Director and decides what the company will do. You will operate your companies, invest in others, buy better trains, and compete for routes. At game-end, players computer the value of their shares and add that value to their operating profits to determine their total wealth. The player with the most wealth wins.

Players: 1

Ages: 14+

Weight: 5.82 lbs