Three's a crowd, Three's company but some times it's hard to find a good three player game.  With 2 players I can always play a war game.  There are tons of great games for 4 - 6 players.  And with 7+ you usually end up playing a party game.  But with 3 it's a little more difficult to find good games.   The problem with 3 player games is preventing the 2 against 1 situation that tends to come up in every game.  Or if you can't prevent it why not embrace it and create games that are designed to be 2 against 1.
My criteria for my top 20 for 3 players is that playing with 3 players is the sweet spot or the game plays equally well with 2 or 4 players.  I've also included games that have some degree of interaction.  Other peoples list may have low interaction games like Dominion, Race for the Galaxy, etc. but I'm not into that kind of game.  For me game like Arkham Horror, Ti3, Doom were taken off the list for me because both games play better with 4 players than with 3 players.

So here' my list of 15 games to play with 3 players
#1 War of Ring (hardcore fans of the game will only play 2 players but 3 works real well)

1997 Phil Eklund and Sierra Madre came out with American Megafauna a game about the evolution of reptiles, dinosaurs and mammals.   In 2007 he came out with Origins how we became Human.  Barnes review http://www.sierra-madre-games.com/index_reviews.htm. 

Ok, I know it's only March and I should wait until December to place my vote but it's not very often I get excited about a game to play with my kids.   I don't give a Trash Jr. Award out very often, probably only every 3 years.   The last award went to Cash n' Guns. Most years it is hard to find a really good kids game that I get excited about playing as some of my favorite Ameritrash games.   I haven't played The Adventurers and Defender of Realm isn't out yet but as of right now the lead candidate for the 2010 Trash Jr. Award is Summoners Wars.

On January 29, 2010, I went to my first hard core card driven war game convention "WAM" or the Winter Activation Meeting in Maryland.   The website about the tournament seemed inviting.  The cover had a picture of Dr. Strangelove.

This is a reprint from something I wrote recently on BGG.  I'm posting it here for 2 reasons.  First I'm tired of looking at my last Blog with Howard picture  on the Front page and second I hoping somebody will be inspired to do this type of write up for their favorite modular tactical war game like  M44, CC:A, Battlelore or Battle Cry.  I think this maybe helpful for people to pick the best scenario for them.