So tell us a little bit about yourself...Part2

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

Bump![:)]

Figures. Who else would bump this thread.

Dont tell me you havent started a geezer thread in the AE forum.

Not yet. Do you thnik that I should? [&:][:D]

[derhexer]

My name is Chris. I was born right after WWII and grw up in Chicago. I picked derhexer as a userid based on a movie title. In late 1964 I was hitchiking thru West Germany and came across a movie theater that was showing Derhexer Von Oz with Judy Garland. It took almsot 30 years, but I finally claimed derhexer as one of my AOL ids. (I have several based on what personality I am.)

Been wargaming more than 50 years - started out with Tactics II, and later went on to play a lot of other board games. I was one of the origina; subscribers to Strategy & Tactics magazine. At one time I had over 250 board games. I was also a member of a naval wargame group in Chicago that used the Fletcher Pratt rules.

I am a husband, father, Vietnam veteran, and electronic wargame addict.

[helldiver]

Forced myself off reading the forums for a few weeks so I would actually start PLAYING AE. Just found this thread.

Born 1947 in NJ and been a wargamer since I used my paper route money to buy AH's Tactics and Gettysburg. Still have tons of board and SPI games.
Linguist and cryppie in the Army Security Agency before it mutated. Spent years in Panama and Southcom in those days. I'm seriously Married, four grown kids, and a grandson. We live in the hills of West Virginia.
Loner, so slowly made the switch from board to computer wargames to have someone to play against and to do the bookkeeping. Doggedly filled out those "what kind of games would you like to see in the future?" cards with "...strategic Pacific game.." and was finally rewarded with PacWar. Found Matrix almost by accident and got UV and Witp. Just retired from professoring and, at about the same time, received AE. I'm 62 and really only want from my remaining life to continue geocaching and to play one complete AE game from each side.

Happy Trails.

[LargeSlowTarget]

Lots of old farts here - make room for the younger generation [;)]. Born 1974, my name is Uwe, I'm a Kraut (and thus Axis fanboy by birth [:D]), but living in France with my French wife and two sons. My nick LST comes from my fascination with the often dark, morbid humor of military men. Well, my interest in military history got triggered by a small WWII cemetery near my parents' house, that explains. Started wargaming at age 14 on the C64 (e.g. "Kampfgruppe", "Guadalcanal"). Spent a year of compulsory military service in the Bundeswehr as a MBT gunner, then studied modern history and geography. Unfortunately I discovered PacWar and later UV and as a result squandered whole semesters [:-]. But not in vain, since now I am working for an online PC games distributor. Now have free access to hundreds of games - but spend 95% of gaming time with WITP and now AE. My colleagues jibe me for "still playing this Pacific game" after so many years (PBEM plodding along for almost 4 years now, has reached Jan 44) and maintain that "LargeSlowTarget" in reality refers to my proven ineptness in playing FPS games against them. Will stick to strategy games...
Btw, I'm tempted to change my nick to "OB West", since I recently moved to the city which hosted the German GHQ for France and Western Europe during WWII. Nuff said.

[Takeshi]

Didn't you used to have a more interesting banner?

[Anonymous]

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[Whisper]

Whisper comes from the name of a boat I have. It's the sound I make when I pass you. I am a Corporal in the USMC, and one day the CO said he was doing an outside CPX and would any body like to come along and there was a keg. Free beer and I'm on it. But i got hooked just like a bass. I'm from bayou SW part of Louisiana and believe kissing the blue one brings good luck.

[Macca]

Hi there,

My true name is Maciej. Born in 1981 November the 10th in northern Poland in Koszalin, not far from the Baltic Sea. Currently living in Warsaw, where I work for the Civil Aviation Office of Poland.

Studied English philology and political science.

I've been a hitory buff and strategy games nut since primary school. Together with a friend of mine we would play wargames both board ones and with little models of vehicles, soldiers, self-built 1:72 scale houses and walk among all these items on toes trying to take measurements to know if that Sherman tank had a chance of penetrating the Panther's armor from this angle. Now Combat Mission series do that on PCs, but I kinda miss the old days.

I enjoy reading (various kinds of literature - history, good SF- A.C.Clarke e.g.) and music (used to attend music school with guitar as the instrument of choice).

My avatar shows my love for SS2, which I played a lot on Amiga back in the beginning of 1990s and absolutely loved it. And my nick is partially becayse of my name MACiej and partially because I am a big fan of Paul McCartney, known as Macca ;)Signature is an art made by a mate of mine from a screenshot taken while playing il-2 online.

Since i started to work I find less and less time to play games (oh horror!), but when I can I play Il-2 Sturmovik, Silent Hunter 3 and 4, Combat Mission series and ArmA2. ArmA and Il-2 I play only online with my friends from the Fighting Irish Squadron and Platoon;)

Single, no kids. But would love to have 2 or 3;)

[AW1Steve]

Bump....

[Raverdave]

My turn.

Real name is Dave and born in '64.  Been gaming since I could walk.  Started with those plastic monsters that you would get out of cornflakes packets in the 60's and 70's...used to build large armies and have a ball until I discovered Airfix Soldiers and models !  Oh how my world expanded !  From then I spent the next eight years or so fighting the different battles of WWI and WWII with the occasional Waterloo thrown in for fun. I was in luck as there was a house down the road where I grew up that had three brothers.  We spent the some of the golden years of my childhood gaming with those airfix soldiers and models. 
Then in the late 70's I discovered board games !  Oh how my world expanded yet again !  First it was Panzer leader, then Luftwaffe, and then joy of joys the first Squad Leader game came out. Again many a good year was spent war gaming. 

Then I discovered girls and the Army and beer and that was the end of my gaming days for sometime.  

Until the C64 came along and I then spent endless nights playing a game called "ELITE" (remember the loading by cassette tape anyone?). Kids, work, wife and mortage fit in there somewhere as well as my first windows PC which soon had SP and Harpoon loaded. Those were the days....SP via email turns were the best.

Fell onto the Matrix site when I was looking to get back into wargaming after straying off the path to play FPS like DooM and Quake for many years (was even in a Clan !).
Anyway found UV which led to being a beta tester for WiTP and here I still am.  I have many great friends that I have met through this forum from all over the world and have even travelled across the world to meet of few (and had then come here it this lovely corner of the world called Mornington).

Currently working in Emergency Services and spend some of my "other" spare time as a volunteer with the Coast Guard.

This forum is my Virtual home.

[crsutton]

ORIGINAL: crsutton

It is my psuedonym. I am actually the Prime Minister of Swedan.......

Seriously, I wonder if he still plays the game?

As for myself, I am 54 and live in Maryland. Been playing games since the old square hex AH Gettysburg. I was in the merhant marine for ten years and now make my living selling and investing in real estate.

[JeffroK]

Grognerd

Me, I'm Larry Bush, I'm semi-retired in Melbourne Florida...

I had a girlfriend from Melbourne, and her parents lied in Naples, or did she live in Naples and her parents in Melbourne??????

Loooong time ago.

[cantona2]

Born 1975 and a history buff. Took a degree in it and i have been teaching since 1998. As far as i know I'm the only person from Gibraltar on the Matrix Boards [:D]

Interested in ww2 since my grandad told me he had fought at Cassino with the paras one day when he was helping me paint my FJ plastic soldiers and he told me the FJ did not have red helemts, must have been about 6 years old i reckon.

Long history of strategy, RPG and wargaming since the days of the C64. Crusade in Europe, The Bard's Tale, Pirates! and Silent Service all very fondly remembered. Never got much into pen and paper gaming other than all the versions of DnD, which i still play occasionally. Moving onto the PC with RPG games, the Baldurs Gate/Icewind Dale/Neverwinter Nights series, Panzer Generals, HOI and all the Paradox Games until one day i met and fell in love with the Operational Art of War. Fell into Matrix while reading about SPWAW when looking for TOAW scenarios. Bought one of the mega-campaigns (AGS) and then saw Witp and that was it. Been immersed in it so far. Also have UV, which ive played once i think. Now AE rules the roost. Recently also dabbling in MMORPG with a belated attempt at WoW, which i'm enjoying despite myself!

As for myslef i consider myself an Ost Frontkampfer and just began to dabble in the Pacific. I also collect German WW2 militaria focusing on medals and SB/WP. History has always been my passion and I am very fortunate to be able to persue it in my professional and personal life.

My nick is a tribute to my second passion, Manchester United Football Club and my avatar has been with me since the early days of perusing forums online. Cool little pic of a RTK of the SS Wiking Division

[LargeSlowTarget]

ORIGINAL: Takeshi

Didn't you used to have a more interesting banner?

Indeed - don't know what happened to it. Have not visited photobucket's website since I uploaded my sigpic about five years ago. Up to now this has not been an issue. Seems photobucket finally woke up.

Hope I kept a copy of the sigpic on the old machine. Have found a temporary placeholder though.

[DivePac88]

ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

Hope I kept a copy of the sigpic on the old machine. Have found a temporary placeholder though.

I have a copy of your old siggy, as I collect them. If you need a copy LargeSlowTarget just let me Know, and I can E-mail you one.

[bigbaba]

i was born in iran (1973) and since my father was a imperial iranian air force logistic officer, i was in contact with military since i was a little boy (that included US and israeli pilots visiting dezful AB and training with iranian pilots). before the mullah invasion, israeli and iranian pilots were simply the best ones in the mddle east.

after the mullahs took over and ruined the country, were were forced to move to germany where i am actualy.

my first PBEM game was UV in which i got my butt spanked by the nasty gaucho "ike99". after getting some XP, i moved to WITP and had /have a lot of fun with different great adversaries (the crazy aussie garry, historiker and roy from germany and chris from austria).

before all that, i played the good oly SSI wargames like "western front", "war in russia" and co. my first single player "wargame" was "north and south" at my high tech commodore amiga[:D]

and the first multiplayer strategy games i played were battle isle (great german turn based strategy game) against a freind and warlords against 4-5 former buddies around 500 years ago.[:)]

@LST: great sig, man. thats a real wildcat. the last thing a zero pilots sees in his life.[:D]

[tc464]

ORIGINAL: bigbaba

i was born in iran (1973) and since my father was a imperial iranian air force logistic officer, i was in contact with military since i was a little boy (that included US and israeli pilots visiting dezful AB and training with iranian pilots). before the mullah invasion, israeli and iranian pilots were simply the best ones in the mddle east.

after the mullahs took over and ruined the country, were were forced to move to germany where i am actualy.

I went to high school in Tehran and had to leave in 1977 because of the political situation. So, my father dropped us into South Africa and the whole apartheid/ANC terrorist thing. Sure made my teen years interesting [:D]

[Historiker]

ORIGINAL: tc464

ORIGINAL: bigbaba

i was born in iran (1973) and since my father was a imperial iranian air force logistic officer, i was in contact with military since i was a little boy (that included US and israeli pilots visiting dezful AB and training with iranian pilots). before the mullah invasion, israeli and iranian pilots were simply the best ones in the mddle east.

after the mullahs took over and ruined the country, were were forced to move to germany where i am actualy.

I went to high school in Tehran and had to leave in 1977 because of the political situation. So, my father dropped us into South Africa and the whole apartheid/ANC terrorist thing. Sure made my teen years interesting [:D]

Where you considered as whites or as coloured?

[tc464]

ORIGINAL: Historiker

ORIGINAL: tc464

ORIGINAL: bigbaba

i was born in iran (1973) and since my father was a imperial iranian air force logistic officer, i was in contact with military since i was a little boy (that included US and israeli pilots visiting dezful AB and training with iranian pilots). before the mullah invasion, israeli and iranian pilots were simply the best ones in the mddle east.

after the mullahs took over and ruined the country, were were forced to move to germany where i am actualy.

I went to high school in Tehran and had to leave in 1977 because of the political situation. So, my father dropped us into South Africa and the whole apartheid/ANC terrorist thing. Sure made my teen years interesting [:D]

Where you considered as whites or as coloured?

All Americans were whites, even the black Americans, who were considered "honorary whites". Didn't really matter though where I lived as the Afrikaaners hated us for helping the blacks, and the blacks hated us because we were white (until they heard our accents).

[Remenents]

Born 1981. Been using the name Remenents since I first got onto AOL in 1993 or 94 (which ever year was the year after it came out, cant remember). Always loved WW2, ever since I was in about 2nd grade. Learned everything I could get my hands on to read about the Pacific War. Joined the Marines in 2001. Got out in 2004, spent 2 years as a civilian and hated every minute of it. Got back into the military in 2007 and am still serving. Currently deployed to Iraq and it took me 18 hours to download this game because of how miserable the internet it [:@]

After playing PACWAR and WiTP for a bit, I formatted my PC because of a virus. I didnt have the CDs to reinstall, so I have been missing out. Absolutely love the game!

Played alot of other games for different systems based on WW2. My personal favorite was PTO 2, for the SNES. [;)]

My signature comes from my favorite ship of WW2. The USS Houston served in the Asiatic Fleet as the flagship and was know as the "Presidents Yacht" because President Rossevelt took 3 (or maybe 4, cant remember, its late here) personal fishing cruises on the ship and also as "Galloping Ghost of Java Coast" because of how often the Japanese would say "Today the Imperial Japanese Navy has sunk the USS Houston" and never did, until the Battle of Java Sea on the last day of Feb. 1942 when she and the Perth were surprised to find a massive Japanese landing force in Sunda Strait and were overwhelmed. The Houston and Perth went down like heroes, fighting until there was no ammo left except star shells. The Houston was last rebuilt as a light cruiser, which I do not know too much about.