I don't know, we're up to six posts one these old board games already. Could be enough for a thread.
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That sounds like wonderfully fun detail! Oh to be in retirement with nothing else better to do than spend some time playing this kind of game just for the heck of it. Hold on to your copies, never know when they might come in handy some day.
When I was young, I'd play just about anything, didn't matter the length, complexity, number of pieces, whatever. The problem was always that I couldn't find a co-conspirator for such fun. I had 5 siblings and they rarely wanted to play, probably cause most of the time I would win.
And so I'd play solitaire. One side and then the other. Didn't work for hidden movement games, but everything else was fair game.
I enjoyed mostly Avalon Hill Games ... Alexander the Great, Gettysburg, Intermediate and Advanced Gettysburg, Victory in the Pacific, Midway, Squad Leader. There were others. SPI games mostly were the ones I got in their magazines, although had a few of their board games.