Wasn't cardboard cutouts, but Feudal was a great chess like game for multiple players. I also enjoyed Panzer Blitz and Advanced Squad Leader.

You said Avalon Hill "style" so I offer you Star Fleet Battles. A board game set in Kirk's era of the Star Trek universe. I first played it 30 years ago and it is the best game of that style that I have ever played.

There are also several computer games based on the board game that were released about 10 years ago. "Star Fleet Command II: Empires at War" is the best of these. It will even run under Win7, with a little effort.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Fleet_Battles

SFB was an incredible game and Star Trek Online actually uses aspects of the combat (like energy conservation and refresh times between operations and such) in it's game play.

Panzer Blitz.

Too bad you don't live near Cinci, dipplayer. I stillhave my copy and we could play.

My vote's with Panzerblitz. The computer game was also great. I also purchased, but no longer own, the Games Research verion of Diplomacy. Has some real knock-down drag-out face-to-face games.Remember Battle Cry and Guadalcanal? Guadalcanal had those cool game pieces.

It's only five hours, Draug. LOL

Chicago? Pittsburg? St. Louis? Where you at?

Not exactly the same genre, but I love Illuminati. Steve Jackson games all seem to have a quirky sense of humor that I like. Munchkin is good too.

Advanced Squad Leader - best game ever.
Russian Campaign.
Submarine.
Wooden Ships and Iron Men.
Luftwaffe.

Ahhhhn....such fond memories of war gaming in its hay day...

Nashville

Knightmare Chess.

I never did play Advanced Squad Leader. Wish I had discovered it. But I did play Combat Mission religiously when it came out. Yeah, not table top, but surely inspired by ASL.

Cosmic Encounter is my favorite. Mayfair edition. Not the crappy Avalon Hill version.

I still have all of my Star fleet Battles stuff from forever ago. That was the best game ever. I would play right now if I had someone to play with.

Ok...here's a blast from the past. Does anyone remember The Creature that Ate Sheboygan? LOVED that game. Fun and quick.

The Creature that ate Sheboygan was cool. I liked Snit's Revenge too, another quick one.

Oh and Kingmaker was fun.

Tsuro is a pretty good current one.

I just bought a copy of "Settlers of Catan" and it's fun too.

Settlers is a good game -- we have bought a coupld of the expansions and I definitely enjoy.

If you like Settlers, you might like Agricola and El Grande as well.

Dominion as well, but that is a "build your deck" game (but everyone starts out with nothing, and you have equal access to all the same cards - so it is a "strategy" game)

Settlers, Agricola, El Grande and Dominion are all good games, but aren't really of the style asked for originally.

Other games I enjoy include Android: Netrunner and Twilight Struggle

Used to play AH Arab Israeli wars. It was tactical, based on the PanzerBlitz model.

Great fun.

I played Arab Isreali wars - you wonder if a company could even get away with publishing that game these days without pissing someone off.

Titan! My vote for a classic AH game goes to the fantasy monster slugathon.

I give you ...
AH Battle of the Bulge
AH Midway (though too abstract ... the SPI Solomon Islands variant was good, too)
original SPI Arab/Israeli conflicts (the June 6 day war variant was best)
SPI Modern Battles Quad (especially Chinese farm & Wurzburg)
SPI Civil War Quad (especially Shiloh)
SPI Napoleonic Quad (especially Wagram)
SPI World War I (but only if you have a lot of patience ... the 'real' gunboat)
AH Guadalcanal
AH Afrika Korps (with suspended belief in reality)

I think the Arab/Israeli game I am referring to was actually entitled "Sinai"

Should probably add the SPI WW2 Quad as well, though 'Bastogne' (the Bulge variant) was disappointing.