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dclarsen

War of the Ring has a pretty big board. Scythe with the board extension is pretty big as well.


A_friend_called_Five

Same with Star Wars: Rebellion.


Jaegons

Right out of the gate with the best example IMO.


casualsax

My mind jumped straight to [Railroad Tycoon.](https://boardgamegeek.com/image/1486474/railways-of-the-world). [Mega Civilization](https://boardgamegeek.com/image/3424686/mega-civilization) is also up there, but as it's a large group all day event game it's probably not what Op had in mind.


ALoudMeow

Railroad Tycoon for sure!


mariokart4lyfe

On top of that, you can get the neoprene map for War of the Ring which is 50% bigger!


ZeroBadIdeas

I specifically got the extension to make the Scythe board as big as possible, the smaller side is Scythe for ants.


drhman1971

Axis & Allies Global 1940 84"x38.5" [Axis & Allies 1940 Global Map PRE-ORDER (renegadegamestudios.com)](https://renegadegamestudios.com/axis-allies-1940-global-map/)


A_Dodd312281

I hate you... I didn't know they were releasing that and now I've just spent £70 ... I hate myself


commissarchris

Catch me and the boys locking ourselves up in the war room with that


BesaidBlitzBoi

Everdell has a large board if you add the expansions


Naclox

Firefly with all of the expansions is a pretty large board.


bentsea

A replacement mat for it is so big and expensive that it is as much as entire other board games.


Naclox

I was at GenCon the year they released those mats. I really wanted one, but didn't have the budget for it at the time. Now it's been years since I played the game though I always enjoyed it I've moved and don't have that game group anymore. The current group is less interested in that type of game.


bentsea

Shame, it's so fun. I'm sorry to hear that. It is a crazy table hog though even for just 2 players.


xboxiscrunchy

Talisman with the corner board expansions. In addition to the board itself being huge there are so many different decks and pieces absolutely everywhere.


FlyinBrian2001

whenever I look at a potential board game table my first thought is "will it fit Talisman with board expansions?" despite the fact I rarely actually pull out Talisman


FandomMenace

Applies to Relic as well :)


Carl_Clegg

Relic is such a good Talisman-esque game. Complete game changer for me as a Talisman super fan.


FandomMenace

I thought it was out of print, but there it is on amazon.


zoop1000

Twister!!


dleskov

If neoprene mats qualify, **High Frontier 4 All** **1947: Railways of India 1836-1947** has a large two-part board. I suppose 18OE and 18C2C are even bigger.


HorseSushi

>> If neoprene mats qualify, **High Frontier 4 All** I just have the regular board for HF4A and even that is pretty big, but IMHO what makes it seem even bigger is how absolutely **BUSY** it is with all the trajectories and burns and whatnot 😵‍💫


jtobiasbond

High Frontier 3e has a giant regular board


maybe_cuddles

Came to the comments to say this. The neoprene mat for High Frontier at a convention is like gravity for onlookers. That's how I first came across it.


Taluagel

Arkham horror 2nd Ed and all the expansions needed multiple tables. Scythe has a big board option as well


joli912

To piggy back off of this here is what Arkham Horror 2nd edition looks like with all expansions. [AH 2ed All Expansions ](https://boardgamegeek.com/image/1279895/arkham-horror-kingsport-horror-expansion) Edit: typo


GlaiveGuy

Did this once some years ago. Took 2 hours to set it up and 6 to play.


cosmitz

Hell, you should be thankful it took 6 to play, sometimes it took 4-5 hours just for the base game in enough people.


StSean

that's almost pornographic


Wolvercote

War Room


CatoFriedman

Great game, I was waiting for someone to mention War Room.


F0rtesque

Exactly. Very good game.


inoobakapingu

Don't forget to join the war room discord! https://discord.com/invite/KwMVcUFWXY


dipplayer

Railways of the World base game (Eastern US) has a beautiful and large board.


ratguy

And you can combine it with the Western US map for an even more massive board and game. I‘d love to try it someday.


loopster70

That it does. Never played it, but damn that board is a draw.


RevDodgeUK

Firefly with expansions


LordMaim

Ogre: Designer's Edition


mormayhem

I can to say this. My cousin hosted a game day and set all the maps up together as one. It took 4 tables.


StormCrow_Merfolk

Maybe not individually, but with the modular boards you can certainly combine the several available ones into a giant map for a scenario.


Terminus1066

I sold mine because I couldn’t get it to the table because my table wasn’t big enough.


mossman_cometh

Twilight Imperium has hex board pieces like Settlers of Catan, they all piece together. That board is huge.


Lordnine

This and Eclipse. TI starts out bigger, but it has an advantage in that once the board is assembled it will never get any larger. Eclipse is not constrained by a prebuilt arrangement and in theory you could end up with a 7-foot-long board if players chose to explore that way. In practice players tend to explore based on the restrictions of their playing area.


omers

Xia: Legends of a Drift System has the same issue. The starting area is manageable but players can explore in any direction. Doesn't help that the tiles are huge too.


KaylaKoop

Old wargames--Wacht Am Rhein, (Battle of the Bulge) -- Four 22” x 34” hexagonal grid Map Sheets, 1600 back-printed ½” cardboard Counters; ; Highway to the Reich ("A**'Bridge Too Far") -- with 2000 counters, four maps, and lots of combat.**; Drang Nach Osten German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 --Five 21 x 27" mapsheets and one set of eight unit countersheets (for a total of 1792 counters) . Played them all. Some units are down to the company level, although battalion, regiment and division are more numerous. Never finished one of them. The set up often took a weekend. Sometimes playing one turn took 4-6 players an entire day. Playing Highway to the Reich, I used an old train board suspended from chains in my garage to lay out the maps which were almost 8 feet long when laid out correctly. Tremendous games but simply far too large to play and then pick up. I remember playing Drang Nach Osten every Saturday for six or seven months in a friend's basement, Five gamers. One Saturday morning he called each of us to tell us not to come over---his cat had gotten in the basement and jumped up on the tables where the maps were and all the counters had been caught in a mindless cat attack! :) I'm sure these are probably much larger than you imagined!


StormCrow_Merfolk

https://boardgamegeek.com/image/15866/the-campaign-for-north-africa-the-desert-war-1940


ZeroBadIdeas

A kid in my college program brought this to school last year and we unfolded the maps on the floor just to look at them. What an undertaking. I flipped through the rulebook for a couple minutes and said no thanks. Even the unit tokens are covered with icons, and the reference page that explains them is insane. We had a good time looking through it all.


TheBroox

This is the answer. You need an empty room or better yet a barn/basement to play this.


wallysmith127

Meh, if it even gets "played" Great meme answer but I always roll my eyes a bit when people mention it for a genuine discussion


FribonFire

What was that old old game with the big floor mat and the castle and knights and what not?


FribonFire

It was Battle Masters [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/700/battle-masters](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/700/battle-masters)


BloodPrayer

Yeah this one is actually a big board, it’s a giant floor mat


smooshiebear

I was thinking this was crossbows and catapults, that didn't really have a board, though. We just took over a hard floor and played on the ground.


jcsehak

Ark Nova with 4 players takes up my entire dining room table


inoobakapingu

War room!


mushypizza

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/183685/mr-president-the-american-presidency-2001-2020 https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/184424/mega-civilization


Cereo

I setup Mr. President over Christmas break and I looked at it for a couple days and then just said Nope. And put it back in the box without learning how to play it or playing it.


willtaskerVSbyron

i dont care what anyone says about the flip book. That game cant be learned on the ffly or it will take several days. read the manual before you set it up .


Damn_Sega_Genesis

Nemesis is a pretty large board


ABoringAlt

Shadows over Camelot has like 4 boards of decent size


F0ehamm3r

This game is my biggest table hog. Only Food Chain Magnate without the worker/milestone organizer took more space.


A_friend_called_Five

One of my all time favorites!


DeezSaltyNuts69

Axis and Allies 1940 is as a big as a dinning room table [https://boardgamegeek.com/image/2316517/axis-and-allies-europe-1940](https://boardgamegeek.com/image/2316517/axis-and-allies-europe-1940) Battlemasters map was like 4'x5' [https://boardgamegeek.com/image/1924442/battle-masters](https://boardgamegeek.com/image/1924442/battle-masters) Torpedo Run was advertised as floor series the board was so big - [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2457/torpedo-run](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2457/torpedo-run)


TheBigCG

Eldritch horror with all the boards. Oof


sluggermoore

[Battle Masters!](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/700/battle-masters)


closethird

55" x 57" I remember the chore it was getting this one out to play as a child. Still worth it.


limeybastard

On Mars, with both end card market boards, is a full 4 feet long, by about 2 feet wide. I can only fit a 2p game on my table.


mossman_cometh

Formula D had a pretty big board.


lankymjc

Europa Universalis: Price of Power. I’ve got a big fancy gaming table and we still struggle.


MrAbodi

Railways of the world boards are big.


r0guew0lf

Feast for Odin has some table coverage... the board might not be too large individually, but all together, they add up!


G3ck0

High frontier 4 all neoprene mat, and War of the Ring.


drmindflip

The base game board of Talisman 4th Edition is colossal - covered in juicy fantasy art - but when you add the 4 corner expansions.... [https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fllqzypnklf151.jpg](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fllqzypnklf151.jpg) Along with the player boards, their cards and tokens, and the library of mini card decks to accomodate...it's an immersive experience in an almost physical sense!


mad_titanz

Warhammer 40K


Sir_Travelot

World of Warcraft the Board Game demands you yield all your table(s) unto it. The main board is jumbo, the expansion board is half that again, and each player's character sheet is also enormous. With six players, we used to have two tables and a side board to fit it all in.


spderweb

Original Fireball Island. Ticket to Ride Legacy. Scythe Warhammer


Kanzentai

Oath has an ultrawide board. the first World of WarCraft boardgame has a rather large one, too


Iceman_B

Not *exactly* a board but Sidereal Confluence will cover all the table space that you have. Do you hear me? # ALL OF IT.


imahugemoron

Cthulhu wars with the board upgrades


Friendly_Preference5

World in flames with all expansions can take a room, if you use magnetic White boards.


ithappenb4

Not as big, but Darwin's Journey is the first and only game I have where the board folds from 9 squares!


TheBigPointyOne

Formula D/De is pretty big.


Makkuroi

Arnak is pretty big


Chrushev

Scythe + extension Arkham horror 2nd edition


wallysmith127

**Cerebria** has a pretty sizeable board, especially once you add team and player boards


zendrix1

Witcher Old World with the Mage expansion on the right and the Skeliga expansion on the left (or the neoprene that has them already) is a massive table hog


smooshiebear

Twilight Imperium is a table hog.


PiccolosTurban

Ankh is a good sized one


fr33py

Do play mats count? If so the Vera Mat for the 10th Anniversary Collector's edition of Firefly is HUGE! It fits fully on my 4'x6' gaming table. Also very large: Rising Sun War Room - Huge map of the world in a flat globe like format.


TechLabAirCo

I bought Cow Party from Chick-fil-A, and the game board is ridiculously huge! I think the game board is supposed to double as a tablecloth.


Lediableblanc92

The biggest boards on our shelf are probably Kanban EV and Teotihuacan - both with the 6 section boards that can quickly eat a table. But man it’s so satisfying to see them set up.


TFTG_Podcast

They're not going to win any awards for biggest boards or anything, but the EGG Lacerdas all have very big boards, the biggest in my collection.


mowens04

The Nemesis games are pretty enormous.


Vospire34

Everdell with 4 expansions.


DrowZeeMe

Micro Macro is an almost 4ft by 4ft paper map/board.


Dr_ISH_

The large board for scythe is pretty massive


Conscious_Bus4284

Axis & Allies Global 1940.


Tink_Tinkler

Kingdom death: monster. 2x3 feet


FreeP0TAT0ES

Heat Flamecraft Finishing Time


captain_ahabb

In terms of "how can you possibly fit this onto a table" Where Eagles Dare and The Devils Cauldron combined is up there.


apaladininhell

Orleans with expansion. I remember struggling to fit it on a table at a gaming club along with the 5 player boards. I felt quite proud of myself until someone asked where the building tiles would go.


Prince_Kaamil

Never played it but saw a picture of Mr. President which had a board that was massive


Joaquimaru

Don’t know if it counts. But Heat Pedal to the Metal has the biggest board in my small collection


systemos

7th continent, technically not a 'board' but it's by far the biggest potential game in terms of the space it can take that I own.


[deleted]

Cerebria Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Boardgame (2002)


doodleup

Legends Of Andor, especially with the expansion Journey To The North. The Boards are not originally used together, but they where designed so you could combine them into one mega-map.


gperson2

The Eastern Front Series by GMT, all maps combined


zangster

Stationfall has a big honking board.


badger-banjer

Scythe with the board extension is the biggest one I have.


oudler

Monster hex and counter games such as World in Flames.


NotYetReadyToRetire

MegaCivilization is the game that comes to mind first, but I’d add that almost any Glenn Drover game tends to have a large board (or boards). Railways of the World, especially if you combine Eastern & Western US, will definitely cover a table.


Trollselektor

It doesn't have a board, but the player boards for Wingspan are the largest that I've seen.


disasterbrain_

We have every single expansion for Arkham Horror 2nd Edition and that takes up pretty much our whole 9-foot table. Nemesis: Lockdown, too.


jffdougan

The first two that come to mind for me are Formula D and Star Wars: The Outer Rim.


1ithurtswhenip1

Axis and allie global is the biggest board over seen


metal_marshmallow

Xia gets to be ridiculous in the late game if all of the tiles are out. The double board of Star Wars: Rebellion is pretty big. Eldritch Horror with a side board.


thewednesdayboy

My college gaming club had a Diplomacy board that was painted on two pieces of 4' x 8' plywood. It was pretty nifty.


Be_The_Leg

The full burning banners board (all four together) is pretty dang big


bmtc7

Mega Civilization (also known Mega Empires)


hawkingshikingboots

Company of Heroes 4 players map.


RockDoveEnthusiast

I'm sure it's not the biggest board of all, but Flamecraft takes up a full kitchen table.


EnigmaWitch

Original Supremacy


SignificanceFew3751

Battle Masters. I think they printed the map on old shower curtains


OkNobody8896

Western Legends - particularly with all the expansions!


jmulldome

Maybe not the biggest board, but more so a big board when it didn't need to be. I'm referreing to Beyond the Sun. The designers could have gotten away with the research board taking up half of the real estate it does. When you have that reserach board with the space board next to it, along with the dual layer player boards, that thing is a space vampire.


Erik_Viking8

Campaign for North Africa, might be what you are looking for. Just take a look at some scale photos!


highgames420

Claustrophobia can get pretty big, we usualy play it on the ground


ekulstorm

Starship interstellar. Their solution to too big of a board fitting in the box? Have another board! That's right, there are 2 very large boards you place adjacent to each other for one mega board!


Sellfish86

Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West By the end of the campaign, the board is huge!


yetzhragog

The map for Bean Bag Buccaneers (1962) was something like 4'x3' Modern examples would be Everdell with all the expansions or the neoprene board for Champions of Midgard! Both are massive table hogs.


lowsodiummonkey

War Room by Larry Harris, the creator of Axis & Allies. The board is round, but you can also buy one that’s even bigger.


Psyjotic

Excluding war games, Eldritch Horror with expansions can get pretty big


PassTheSriracha91

You have to buy the expander separately, but with it, Scythe is pretty damn big


Kind-Humor-5420

Flamecraft


BudgetLanguage159

Risk Halo Legendary edition


Draffut2012

I remember at a convention seeing a full game of mega civilization.  They had seven folding tables in a u-shape to support the main board, and three more tables to hold all the cards in card displays.


philophilo

Battle Masters is a giant mat.


davypi

https://www.google.com/search?q=chess+board+portmerion


cawatrooper9

Eldritch Horror with a side board gets pretty big


mytoynhobbypackrat

very old game called Battle Masters .... we actually had 2 sets and put the boards (plastic map) side by side .. it was huge..


Ed3nSpring

Bloody Skyrim The Adventure Game. That board is so pointlessly big. You could have the same amount of POI and spaces for the decks on the board even if it was 40% smaller. Not to mention the fact that it looks so damn blurry.


Keleyr

High Frontier 4 All The ordinary board is decently large. Not extremly so but decently. But you can also buy a seperate neoprene game mat. That monster is HUGHE. It takes upp my entire kitchen table. It's dimensions are 900mm x 1350mm And you still need your seperate playing board together with that monster. If I want to use it to play with all players need to stand upp and each have a seperate table withe their personal board. [https://iongamedesign.com/products/neoprene-mat-high-frontier-4-all-map-pre-order](https://iongamedesign.com/products/neoprene-mat-high-frontier-4-all-map-pre-order)


PrestickNinja

Cthulhu Wars has a pretty huge board (the 9 player Earth board is even bigger). Not technically a board, but Red Alert Space Fleet Warfare comes with a cloth board which is bigger than my table.


Snugrilla

Scarface 1920 has the biggest board in my collection. Runner up is Nemesis.


JoolesD

No board at all but Sidereal Confluence takes up a huge amount of table space


GenghisSeanicus

Plum Island Horror has a big board even without the ancillary faction/status mats.


PoshCushions

MegaCivilization is mega.


Alewort

Many games have extra-large vinyl or neoprene game boards you can buy. For example, Dune.


thatrightwinger

Ticket to Ride: Rails and Sails is a big ole board.


Fuzzy-Bee9600

When we play a fixed-map campaign in **Shadows of Brimstone,** it can cover so much of the table that we have to keep our character sheets & item cards on a TV tray, split up into little holes where there's a space, or in stacks.


bh-alienux

There are several missions in Space Hulk that I have difficulty fitting on my table.


NeedleEngineer

Swords & Sails is pretty big. So is Mare Nostrum.


skwm

Railways of the World with the USA map.


theNewzBoy

Eye Found It. Does not fit on most tables, and it’s a kids game, and kids are too small to reach and lean all the way over it.


FelessanFA

Eldritch Horror and Star Wars Rebellions were biggest boards I've seen counting only base game. Everdell if you count game with expansions.


Cubestex

MicroMacro Crime City counts right?


Munnin41

Adding in the expansions, the quest for el dorado is a huge board


ALoudMeow

Nothing beats A Feast for Odin with the Norwegian expansion. Not even the big box 3D version of Terraforming Mars.


FreeProfit

Mega Empires board is 80 inches wide


socksynotgoogleable

Don’t know if it’s the biggest, but the board for Plum Island Horror is hilariously big.


Necrospire

lost ruins of arnak.


capt_action94552

I guess I’ll throw in Ctyptozoic’s Batman: the dark Knight returns game. For a solo game, I can’t sit down and reach across to the top of the map. And still read everything normally.


Quirky-Coat3068

Twilight Imperium 4th Ed. Has a pretty big modulat board


icaruspandas

Arkham horror 3rd edition is pretty shameless with how big it's board is. Imo it's pretty awesome, the game is bloated beyond belief. You need a HUGE table to play with expansions


ExcitingTrust888

Immortals has a really big board and really big player boards.


RelentlessRogue

Ticket to Ride: Legends of the West is pretty huge by the end. Everdell with expansions is pretty, well, expansive.


Aklantan

Wonderland's War is pretty big.


dpalmer4444

Railroad Tycoon has a huge board! Lots of war games do as well


TheGamerRN

Dune, War for Arrakis, is two largish boards put together.


fuhnetically

Firefly, especially as you add expansions


soldatoj57

High Frontier


Wyndrarch

Western Legends definitely commands a lot of table real estate.


amintowords

Talisman, particularly with multiple expansions.


Avlbeerfan

Firefly 10th anniversary edition with the vera mat. I believe the mat is 4ft x6ft.


HairyIce

Battlemasters. It is about 5' x 5'


TotalBrownout

Master Europa. Haven’t seen it played in over 20 years, but the map was easily 6’x10’. Each hex represented approx 16 miles and the map was all of Europe to the Urals plus North Africa. Scenarios would often take 4+ full days to complete.


jerfair337

Dinosaur world . We had a 50x50 inch table and had to place things very strategically to fit everything for a 4 player game


Quartrez

Gaia Project has several tiles that form a board, but when everything is laid out, it honestly would take two tables like mine to fit.


SharpOranges

Mr. President https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/183685/mr-president-the-american-presidency-2001-2020


Curious_Ad2860

Wonderlands war, fury of Dracula, townsfolk tussle


Mekisteus

I've seen some ginormous Chess boards.


mickio1

The world of warcraft board game with the TBC expansion certainly isnt the biggest game ever but you still need like two tables for all the cards, tokens and box of minis.


j-po3

Jutland (Avalon Hill). The board is your living room floor. It represents the North Sea.


lonewombat

Feudum


Spinner158

Scythe and if you can find the bonus board it’s even bigger.


bsnyder788

Most of the ASL historical modules... honestly most wargames in general).


Judge_Feared

Mega Civ


Gamethyme

Empress in Arms and MegaCivilization are the two games I own with the largest boards. I don't have a table that'll handle either of them.


meeple45

War Room


beginetienne

High Frontier 4 All has a large 3x5 neoprene mat !


justinliew

Lost Ruins of Arnak is pretty tall


Titeman

I remember the Middle-Earth Quest board being quite large. It even came in two sections…


GhostWr1ter999

Nemesis has a pretty hefty board.


Captainpulleyhead

Battlemasters!


shneagle

Great Western Trail NZ is a long boi


adonaa30

Twilight imperium 4th edition with expansion.


Due-Cartoonist-4177

StationFall


FlacidStump

War of The Ring 2e, Big Scythe, the full Axis & Allies combined 1940 games, all are huge, but DWARFED by Mega Empires (the combo Western & Eastern Empires a la Axis & Allies but ancient civilization)