I play this tabletop war strategy board game every week. It’s far more complex than the Parker Brother offerings. A simple analogy would be what Risk is to Axis and Allies, Empires in Arms is to A&A (and then some).
It’s set around the Napoleonic wars around the 1800′s, involves seven players, takes an estimate 100 hours of playing time per game, and has aspects at the tactical, strategic, and diplomatic level. Quite a commitment, but quite a different kind of game. It sounds daunting, but people who are into strategy games should really give these kinds of games a try, IMO.
Here’s a picture from the game, June 1796. I’m playing Prussia, and Napoleon and the Prussian army just finished a huge bloodbath exchange involving all the able bodied men of Prussia and most of the French, just east of Holland.
