How Long Have You Been Playing Wargames?

Ol_Dog · Post by **Ol_Dog** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:40 pm

I bought AH Gettysburg ca1965 - but couldn't find anyone that would play. The game is almost new-in-box but the instructions are worn.

SSI Gettysburg - c1987 - and Operation Market Garden - I have more hours in SSI Gettyburg than any 2 other games - probably as much as in MS Excel which I use every day. Last time I played those 2 was about 2 years ago.

V For Victory series, Tigers, Panthers, TacOps, Empire, Perfect General, Fire Brigade, Halls of Montazuma, High Command, PacWar etc are all still on my bookcase shelves - but SPWAW really started taking my time and then led me to Uncommon Valor which proved GG could make a game which was playable by a common man.

SPWAW scens, campaigns, Mega Campaigns have so much replay value it's unbelieveable.

h_h_lightcap · Post by **h_h_lightcap** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:44 pm

I received AH's Luftwaffe in 1976 and Tobruk in 1977----Still love tobruk--Alot like steel panthers.

H_H_

Wild Bill · Post by **Wild Bill** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:02 am

Sturmpioneer! [X(]

Excuse me[8|] , but have you ever thought about some dental work? [;)]

I mean, you could look like this [:D] , then again, you might like the look [&:]

WB

BlueLavender · Post by **BlueLavender** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 1:13 am

Luckily, me as the post generation X-ers, do not go into playstation thingie... me still stick to the steel panthers, spwaw, talonsoft world at war, and now in fact goes into axis and allies boardgame :p

guess I'm a post generation X-ers who don't look like one... most of my friends who saw what game I play asked generally the same thing : "Are you born in the correct year" ?

Les_the_Sarge_9_1 · Post by **Les_the_Sarge_9_1** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 1:32 am

AH Tobruk, love it. Sadly it was raped by CH.

It could have been the greatest tanker game out there using the original formula too.

But no, it was used as a ploy to be obnoxious.

The original needed the player to perform rudimentary book keeping. Was an excellent simulation.

Kevin E. Duguay · Post by **Kevin E. Duguay** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 3:21 am

Sarge I have Tobruk by AH, great game but tonnes of die rolling. Good sim, but rolling for each round fired was a bit much. I actually though the infantry side of it worked much better, but the tank sim IMHO eventually led to ASL. ASL is still one of the best board based war games of all time again IMHO. My order for the Axis minors is still on hold![:(] But I do have some of the new White Fin counters!![:D]

Reg · Post by **Reg** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 7:44 am

1976. What go me hooked was a multi-player game of Patrol! after school with each person controlling a single squad member (Combination of board gamong and role playing really). Rapidly graduated to the classic Napoleon at Waterloo and SPI's Desert War. After that went on to just about everthing that was around at the time.

Most memorable moment: A group of spectators crowding around a game of Circus Maximus chanting "Run him Over, Run him over" and the cheer after the red player the had just enough movement points to reach the dismounted driver counter. Any one would think they were at a real chariot race.....

Reg.

joki · Post by **joki** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 2:14 pm

I have played for about 15 years, started with Avalon hill boardgame, and continued with SPWAW 4.x , 5.x..... and so on

/Jonas

John David · Post by **John David** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 5:23 pm

D'oh! voted but forgot to post to this thread.[8|]

For me it's over 3 decades. Played allot of board games, but the thing that sticks in my mind is a game a friend of mine designed in the early 80's that would have transferred amazingly to the computer had any of us in the group been into programming. The board for the game was about 4 feet wide and was a representation of the world ala Risk, which was hand drawn by my friend! All the game cards and accessories were written on the back of the cardboard from old cigarette packs! (cough, cough!

) It was a Risk type game, but much more in depth and broader in scope. We spent years worth of hours playing , testing and developing the game. Sadly, we have all moved to different areas over the years, (having all of us been from Montreal originally), so we no longer play the game.

This is why I love the SPWAW and wargamming community, it keeps me in touch with folks who have a love for these type of games and I constantly learn from reading the forums in regards to your game playing and experiences.

Long live Grognards!

JD

Major_Johnson · Post by **Major_Johnson** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 5:34 pm

Well I only choose the amount of years as far as pc war gaming goes, but if I were to include board games and plastic soldiers, I would have to choose the over 21 years!!! Thanks for reminding me how old I am! [:)]

AmmoSgt · Post by **AmmoSgt** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 6:02 pm

I think I got ya'll beat , my first wargame was a pretty amazing little game that was published in Life magazine back in the early 60's as part of their coverage of the centenial of the Civil War. Pretty amazing for it's day , I particularly remember it was my first introduction to Riverine operations and how critical the rivers were to controling the land.
I guess my first hex wargame was the S&T Mag's "Winter War" that came out about 1971 IIRC.

robot · Post by **robot** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 6:12 pm

Wow didnt know there was so many over 21 yrs here, Thats a lot of gaming, if you ask me. Glad to be a part of it still.[:)][:)][:)][:)]

NaKATPase · Post by **NaKATPase** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 9:53 pm

I guess I'm a youngun, but I've still been gaming for a signifigant percentage of my life (and all of my adult life)
Got started around first grade throwing marbles at ranks of toy soldiers in the backyard sandbox... the number of marbles was of course determined by the number of lincoln log cannons still assembled on the other side, so naturally one aimed at the cannons first. (That was probably the game I had the most luck getting my dad to play with me)

I belive it was third grade (1988?) when I got AH's Bull Run, and played the heck out of it... mostly solitaire. Around a year later, my parents got aquainted with a gentlemen at our church who had a huge collection of miniatures, so I got into Napoleonics and ancients on the tabletop. First got bequeathed some painted figures, then got started painting my own. Collected various AH games through the rest of elementary and middle school as Christmas and birthday gifts (I think about that time is when I no longer requested nintendo games)

Made my first "converts" to gaming in 7th and 8th grade when I startedan after school club that played "Wooden Ships and Iron Men". Had a blast with four or five other guys, trying to design the optimal fleets.

Got into both SP and SL/ASL around 9th grade when I first got a "modern" PC.

Discovered SPWAW while at college through an issue of a french gaming zine "vae victis".

Started another club at university devoted to miniature wargames, and now have several friends that are even more prolific painters than myself.

Look forward to continued fun and friendship as a result of this great hobby.

KG Erwin · Post by **KG Erwin** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:05 pm

An amazing amount of wargaming experience is represented by the membership. Truly impressive. [&o]

Igor · Post by **Igor** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:51 pm

Either Diplomacy in 1974, or Year of the Rat in 1976 (depending on your definition of wargame). So perhaps 30 years.

robot · Post by **robot** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 9:21 pm

Any of you oldtimers ever play the blue and the grey. Loved that civil war game. The way the rifles had 3 different ranges. Wish it had been made after everything went away from dos.

Dern just noticed i finally made 3 stars. Not much good at writing but read the new posts every day.

Capt. Pixel · Post by **Capt. Pixel** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 10:59 pm

I found SPI at the local commissary in '74. It all went downhill from there. [:'(]

M4Jess · Post by **M4Jess** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:08 am

oh baby!

Nickel · Post by **Nickel** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:43 pm

TheChin,
I have quite a few of the old AH games as well as a large selection of SPI and some other names including a box version of Wacht am Rhein with all the errata. Fact is I have three large Rubbermaid storage things filled with board games. I also used to get SPI mag Stragety & Tactics and they had games in each month. I have some that don't even have the counters punched.

Nickel · Post by **Nickel** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:45 pm

How did you get all the counters back into the cardboard?

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