This. Means. War! Defeat your enemies and vanquish your foes while playing these popular war board games. Battleship, Risk, Stratego, and Axis and Allies are some of the best war board games for kids. Do you have what it takes to lead an army? Command a cavalry? Conquer the opposing teams? Find out by playing these fun war board games!
The games featured on this list include: Risk, Axis and Allies, Memoir ’44, Stratego, Chess, Battleship, Diplomacy, Commanders and Colors: Ancients, Shogun, Heroscape Master Set: Rise of the Valkyrie, BattleLore, Tide of Iron and Warrior Knights. If there’s a game listed here that you think is the absolute best one out there, please share your opinion and vote! Also, please feel free to add any games that aren't already listed.
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The Best War Board Games of All Time,
Axis and Allies
Five major world powers are struggling for for supreme rulership.
Chess
Use strategic moves and lateral thinking to protect your queen at all costs.
Diplomacy
This strategy board game is all about cunning deception and strategy. Hatch your brilliant plans for world domination and form allies with other players.
Twilight Struggle
The US and the Soviet Union go head to head, each trying to make the world a better place according to their own ideaologies.
Combat Commander: Europe
Two players command the Axis and the Allies in this WWII European Theater combat game.
No Retreat! The Russian Front
This two-player game retells the story of the battle between Germany and Russia during WWII.
Advanced Squad Leader
This game teaches Infantry combat on a tactical level.
Commands and Colors Ancients
Battle it out in the ancient worlds of Carthage and Rome in this fun strategy board game.
Commands & Colors Napoleonic
History comes to life during this strategy game set in the Napoleonic time period.
Kemet
Manage an ancient Egyptian civilization and control your troops to defeat your enemies.