I've found a massively fun table-top game based on fleet level conflicts in Star Wars - Star Wars Armada. I'm way late to the party - games been out a few years. Essentially you assemble two fleets, each controlled by one person, and you play a match through 6 rounds with game objects (destroy certain opposing ships, capture objectives to score points, etc). The variety comes in with the ships, how they play, what abilities they have. You select cards that modify the ship abilities at the cost of points - and the fleet is limited to a point total. There are also squadrons that don't have modifiable abilities but do have their own special things they do. The large ships are all painted and really well designed. Squadrons just come in a gray or white-ish color. Some people spend time doing lots of their own custom painting but that's not in my wheelhouse.
For me, it's a ton of fun, and I've barely been able to get out and play it much with other people - I'll actually set-up and play both sides myself at home and it's still fun.
It's a long-ish game - games take ~2.5 hours to complete in general and set-up is probably 30 minutes if you don't do a lot of advanced preparation.
But, it's engaging in a way that video games haven't been in a while - to me at least. My kids think it looks great but are too young to play. I'm investing now with the hope that they'll enjoy it later and then I'll have everything needed (before it's out of print and impossible to get).
In general, I've also started researching and buying more board games. It's not something I had looked into for a while and there's really interesting options out there for games.
