Anyone still play the board games?

[DerSoldat]

Was curious.Im 28 years old and still enjoy pulling out and playing the greats.Here are a few of my favorites.
CRY HAVOC,SIEGE,OUTREAMER (Standard Games)
CLOSE ASSAULT (Yaquinto)
SNIPER!/HETZER SNIPER!/SPECIAL FORCES (SPI/TSR)
AMBUSH! (VG)
Squad Leader/ASL (AH)
Shell Shock (VG)
Soldiers(Westendgames)
MBT and IDF (AH)

As you can see Im a big fan of tactical games
but I play a few of the bigger games like Gulf Strike,The Fleet games and Central America as well.Its so hard to find players these days.Play a few RPG's to like MERC and Twilight 2000.Mostly solitare now though due to it being so hard to find players or get new people interested.Most Ive tried to teach look at board games and get bored with them.I guess the computer and console systems are responsible for this.I still collect them in any event and have so many bookcase war games that I could fill 4-5 bookshelves.Its an addiction!

[ June 09, 2001: Message edited by: DerSoldat ]

[gdpsnake]

I'm an addict too since 1965! Got 5 bookcases full leading back to original Panzer Blitz and others. I live in San Antonio and have a very hard time finding human opponents. It can be done though we're a dying breed. Try the internet under games, wargames, etc. Most are teenagers into role playing stuff but you can find others. Keep trying and good luck!
Anyone out there in San Antonio?

[Bob Toncray]

Another board gamer here! Been playing since the late 50's. Started play games on a dinner table with matchbook covers as unit ids and stats. Used pieces of coat hangers as range finders. Ahh those were the days! THEN I found Tactics II. Was a lifetime subscriber to SPI's Strategy and Tactics. When they closed down, as a "lifer," they sent me a large box of back issues (about 50 in all). Miss those day!.. Enjoyed popping open my favorite beverage, looking across the table at my opponent and playing until dawn!

[DerSoldat]

Originally posted by Pioneer Bob:
Another board gamer here! Been playing since the late 50's. Started play games on a dinner table with matchbook covers as unit ids and stats. Used pieces of coat hangers as range finders. Ahh those were the days! THEN I found Tactics II. Was a lifetime subscriber to SPI's Strategy and Tactics. When they closed down, as a "lifer," they sent me a large box of back issues (about 50 in all). Miss those day!.. Enjoyed popping open my favorite beverage, looking across the table at my opponent and playing until dawn!

Ahhh Yes the all nighters.A few friends and I used to load up on Sodas and coffee and Id create large squad leader campaigns that would last a few days.Man I miss those times.

[Les_the_Sarge_9_1]

Hey love the look feel and entertainment of a board game.
Nothing does a better job of separating the men from the boys like a good game of Advanced Third Reich or Advanced Squad Leader
I play many other classics as well.

Alas computers are good at making the kiddies think that because they have a cool computer they can out think me when it counts.

Best way to win an arguement with a teen thats full of themself, and their superior strategical thinking, is make them prove it on the dining room table. Third Reich never had a tutorial no quick play rules. You couldnt make the game play with the slightest click of a mouse either. If you didnt read the rules you didnt have anything happen at all!!

Now granted I have played a few computer games that were a bit challenging.... sometimes.
But even the average teen is smarter than any AI I have encountered (maybe thats why they think they are so smart hehehe).

I play Steel Panthers mostly because its amusing. I only lose when I play my old wargamer buddy, and he is in the groove that day. Generally I have enjoyed trashing the computer. Thats perhaps the best thing I can say about 5.01. My first campaign, the computer handed me my butt on a platter, it was cool. I was getting bored of beating incredible odds so often.

If its not common knowledge on here. You guys might be interested to know that Advanced Third Reich has a mailing list devoted to the game (as well as the designs many extrapolations). And the software exists to quite literally play the actual board game not some modified or screwed up variant design, by email.

I dont have the specific sites currently handy but even a dolt could locate them.

[Bob Toncray]

Sometimes When playing a wargame on the computer, I think back to the times when I would study combat tables to see what I needed and if i could get a decent roll of the die/dice. Man! Miss those dice. D-Day by Avalon Hill. After playing 50 LONG turns, just to get down to the last turn, on more unit to cross the River into Belgium to win. 3:1 Die roll please!!! Must have shaken that die for 5 minutes. Across the table it tumbles and slid as I prayed to the gods of war to get that die to roll right. Then it stopped...... I must have cried for an hour after that. What a stinkin' roll.... Exchange. What a good game that was.

Man miss those dice.. Maybe somone should put a wave file in a game that as it is thinking of it's turn, you can hear the rattle of dice in a cup..

Rambling thoughts!!!

Originally posted by DerSoldat:


Ahhh Yes the all nighters.A few friends and I used to load up on Sodas and coffee and Id create large squad leader campaigns that would last a few days.Man I miss those times.

[degen]

One of my first games was the original Sniper. I liked the simultaneous movement feature and generally just played with 4-8 guys against a buddy of mine. It always seemed whoever controlled that middle building would when the game...

I also enjoyed Melee and Wizard for some good medieval/fantasy tactical combat. We adapted it to fight dungeon battles.

Btw, like your signature quotes. What do you think of mine?

[Brummagem]

forget the name of the Avalon Hill game ( it's been 30+ years but I can remember taking up the whole living room with ship counters as we fought, me with the German High Seas Fleet and Dave with the British. Come to think of it the name 'Jutland' comes to mind.
Our motto was 'beware the vacumm cleaner
I must say it was simpler time, and yes you had better be able to read and be pretty good at math (no hand calculators)

[CaptMalmgren]

The name of the Avalon Hill Game was Jutland. My first game was Avalon Hill's Waterloo Campaign. I was 11. I always found it odd how you could slaughter an opponent when he could see everything you were doing on the board. I never did just "play".

[DerSoldat]

Originally posted by degen:
One of my first games was the original Sniper. I liked the simultaneous movement feature and generally just played with 4-8 guys against a buddy of mine. It always seemed whoever controlled that middle building would when the game...

I also enjoyed Melee and Wizard for some good medieval/fantasy tactical combat. We adapted it to fight dungeon battles.

Btw, like your signature quotes. What do you think of mine?

Great quote degen.Im a big fan of the Desert Fox.In my opinion one of Germanys best.

[Warpup]

My first boardgame was AH's square Gettysburg. I remember many great games of Wooden Ships and Iron Men, Victory in the Pacific, and Cross of Iron. Worst dice rolls were in Cross of Iron. In "Breakout from Borisov" had my two Stukas drop a miss and a dud on the two big Russian tanks (that took some "12" rolls on that two die system. In "Defense of Luga" had my ambushes open up on Russians to virtually no effect time after time, and then had my 9-2 leader and two squads on the upper floor of a two story stone building get hit by a moving T-34/76 and break and kill them (ended that fight!).

My favorite two player game was Victory Games' Civil War. The way initiative shifted back and forth during each turn made this game almost as totally engaging for both players as a real time computer game. Although I enjoyed Stellar Conquest, Mighty Fortress, Civilization, and Pax Britanica, my all time fave multiplayer game was Empires in Arms. Actually, EiA is not so much a game as a powerfull narcotic drug. When I had to leave LA to get out of the smog I left behind a great 7 player game of EiA. I went through withdrawal symptoms for many years afterwards untill I tried some e-mail EiA and found that it just couldn't take the place of the FTF game.

[ron mosher]

Originally posted by Warpup:
I went through withdrawal symptoms for many years afterwards untill I tried some e-mail EiA and found that it just couldn't take the place of the FTF game. [/QB]

Try ASL on-line with the VASL interface using avoice connection--almost as good as face to face.


ASL has a monster Inet presence and is growing almost daily! An old groggie like me is constantly tripping over ASL newbies

ron

[degen]

Originally posted by DerSoldat:


Great quote degen.Im a big fan of the Desert Fox.In my opinion one of Germanys best.

That statement by Rommel always stuck with me. If he would have received 10th Panzer (plus supplies of course) at El Alamein the war in the desert could have been much different. He still may not have won the battle, but it would have been interesting to say the least and it could have unhinged the Allies grip on Egypt.