Chad Ellis
United States
Brookline
Massachusetts
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What games have really big playing boards...and how big are they? (I'm mostly interested in real cardboard boards, but alternative materials would be cool, too.)
Hugs,
Chad
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Geoffrey Engelstein
United States
Bridgewater
New Jersey
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Wargames definitely have the largest boards, albeit made from paper. In a single package, War in the Pacific springs to mind. I think the full map is probably in excess of 60 square feet (7 square meters).
If you're willing to go with a game 'system' I think Europa probably goes in excess of 100 square feet with all expansions.
The Longest Day had the largest mounted mapboard that I can recall. Probably about 20 square feet.
For non-wargames with mounted boards, I think that Conquest of the Empire, Railroad Tycoon, and Civilization (Eagle) have to be up there. Probably about 12 square feet.
Geoff
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Joe McKinley
United States
San Jose
California
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Attack! has one of the biggest I've played on:
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David Fair
United States
Damascus
MD
Or maybe PowerGrid?
Yeah, that's me. Handsome devil, I know.
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Railroad Tycoon has the biggest board I have ever seen.
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Games published by Eagle Games seem to tend to have huge boards. Railroad Tycoon and American Civil War are the two that I'm specifically aware of.
And War of the Ring by Fantasy Flight Games has a large board. Maybe some others of theirs too? (Twilight Imperium?)
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shumyum
United States
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This picture needs to be in this thread:
Campaign for North Africa
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Ray
United States
Carpentersville
Illinois
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See this geeklist too:
Games with ENORMOUS maps... please add!
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listi...
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Mark Rollings
United Kingdom
Peterborough
Cambs
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A soccer pitch beats the size of all games mentioned so far. According to FIFA regulations the length of the football field for international matches should be in the range (100-110 metres) and the width should be in the range 64-75 metres.
It's made of grass rather than cardboard. 
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Necessary Evil
United States
Glen Arm
Maryland
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BeyondMonopoly wrote: Railroad Tycoon has the biggest board I have ever seen.
I believe the new conquest of the empire board is the same size.
-M
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Gerald Dokka
United States
Unspecified
Minnesota
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Europa has the largest paper board I have seen. (truly massive)
War in Europe (SPI) and War in the Pacific have the largest mounted board I've seen (9 of their 3' x 2' boards). SPI had several other "monster games" of about this size.
I think that Columbia Game's Euro Front is probably the largest in print now. It's almost as large as SPI's monsters.
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Neil Carr
United States
Barre
Vermont
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Not the biggest, but one of the more manageable wargames with a big board would be the Eurofront system from Columbia. You combine Westfront, Eastfront, Medfront, and glue it together with Eurofront to make a game and board that needs about six feet by eight feet of table surface. The boards are stiff cardboard rather than paper. The maps themselves are very attractive with hand painted terrain and very large hexes that accomodate the wood blocks that are used in game.
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United States
Stratford
Connecticut
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Torpedo Run is pretty impressive.
It's a game that needs to be stored under a bed. Too big for the shelf.
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Nate Cockerilll
United States
Greenfield
Ohio
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Navy guys help me out here. Isn't there a game in the Navy they play ship decks. I've heard of it before but I can't recal the name.
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pronoblem baalberith
United States
Pleasantville
Massachusetts
Is it just me or do my balls itch?
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Chess... I've seen some big ones.
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shumyum
United States
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markrollings wrote: A soccer pitch beats the size of all games mentioned so far. According to FIFA regulations the length of the football field for international matches should be in the range (100-110 metres) and the width should be in the range 64-75 metres.
A polo field dwarfs a soccer pitch: 300 by 160 yards. It's considered the largest field in organized sport. Ironically, the field for elephant polo is much smaller...more in the range of of soccer field.
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Matthew Fisk
United States
Spanish Fork
Utah
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Twister has a pretty big board
I am now trying to get the image that seems to go hand in hand with it on the geek out of my head after the idea came to me...
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Philip Thomas
United Kingdom
London
London
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Surely the Universe itself is the biggest board of all. Just don't annoy the players...
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Nick Witchey
United States
Laguna Hills
California
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Philip Thomas wrote: Surely the Universe itself is the biggest board of all. Just don't annoy the players...
Don't know about that. How about don't annoy the designer. 
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Mr. B @ Rockin' B
United States
Batavia
Ohio
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Battle Masters: 4.5' x 5'
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Mike Cooper
United States
Lewisville
Texas
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Global Thermonuclear War is at 1:1 scale, isn't it?
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Tucker Taylor
Canada
Vancouver
British Columbia
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I think Borges wrote a story once about a map of the Empire at 1:1 scale.
Man, the wargames you could play on that sucker. You'd need to hire teams of peasants to move the counters, though.
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Leif Norcott
United States
Las Vegas
Nevada
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I remember seeing that gigantic monopoly board get posted a while back, but wasn't able to find it.
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David Me
United States
Bowling Green
Kentucky
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I've always thought of Dungeons & Dragons as having a huge board...the size of the setting's planet...or universe...or multiverse even.
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Tom Key
England
Guildford
Surrey
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http://www.gpsdrawing.com/gallery/land/usa/ca/hollywood_ttt....
But all that for Tic-Tac-Toe / Noughts and crosses... 
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Ludes
United States
Honor
Michigan
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The largest non-miniatures board I've ever seen is an 18-something-or-other that covers the entire United States, incorporating maps from 1830, 1870, etc. The plasticized paper board is probably over 6 x 3 feet. I believe it's only a prototype (if that, and it's not 18US - there are about 30 major corporations.) I've never dared played - I have no interest spending an entire day in order to get my butt kicked.
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