Patton's Best(1987)
Games like Patton's Best
Looking for games like Patton's Best? It's a grind of position and pressure, where territory and timing decide it — built on the constant fight to control more of the board than your rivals and pushing your luck against the roll. This page rounds up 12 of the closest alternatives, scored on mechanical overlap with the original (45%), complexity match (35%), and player-count fit (20%), then weighted by BoardGameGeek community ratings so every pick is one players genuinely rate. The strongest matches come first; the further down you go, the more a game trades exact overlap for a fresh take on the same core appeal.
12 recommendations · scored by ISO
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Raid on St. Nazaire(1987)
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Redvers' Reverse: The Battle of Colenso, 1899(2016)
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Battle Hymn(1986)
Shares Dice Rolling + 5 more
Dune: War for Arrakis(2024)
Shares Area Majority / Influence + 6 more
Blitz! A World in Conflict(2015)
Shares Area Majority / Influence + 4 more
Mrs Thatcher's War: The Falklands, 1982(2017)
Shares Area Majority / Influence + 6 more
Absolute War! The Russian Front 1941-45(2021)
Shares Area Movement + 4 more
Hitler's Reich: WW2 in Europe(2018)
Shares Area Movement + 4 more
Velikye Luki: Little Stalingrad of the North(2000)
Shares Dice Rolling + 4 more
Combat! Volume 1(2019)
Shares Dice Rolling + 3 more
Submarine(1976)
Shares Dice Rolling + 7 more
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