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.
The Battle to save the Houston, from US Naval Inst. Press is a good account of CL-81 (USS Houston). I had the opportunity to interview some of the CA-30's crew when I worked for US Navy Memorial. What an incredible collection of stories. I hope that there will always be a United States Ship Named Houston on active duty.
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.
The Battle to save the Houston, from US Naval Inst. Press is a good account of CL-81 (USS Houston). I had the opportunity to interview some of the CA-30's crew when I worked for US Navy Memorial. What an incredible collection of stories. I hope that there will always be a United States Ship Named Houston on active duty.
I read the book "The Last Battlestation" which is their story. Very awesome book! I have always wanted to get down to Houston, Texas in about August to meet some of the crew, since every August they meet there for rememberance. I dont know why, but their story just hits home to me for some reason... maybe in a past life I was on the ship, who knows.
Well the handle is Aprezto, cause I had to come up with something in the wink of an eye when 'Wobbly' was eaten by the matrix boards. Wobbly was the handle I came up with when I had just purchased UV, was still a lurker on the boards, and decided I wanted to contribute. The point of wobbly was I mustered up the courage to post after about a bottle of red wine, and I was decidedly wobbly.
Born '73, living in Christchurch N.Z, married with an 18 month old, who is also my job at present - although not for much longer as we need the cash after overdoing it on the 'nice place to live' house-purchase-front.
Never served in the military, although was nearly in the air force after a received a scholarship to gain my private pilots license. Never quite signed the papers though as had a bit of a family calamity at that time.
Played board and computer games since I was about 11. Was always very big in Dungeons and Dragons, imagination overload I reckon, but was riveted to WW2 history. I purchase Axis and Allies while in Australia and a friend and I made use of the plastic figures that came with it to make our own games. String laid out all over the spare room and a ruler to check sonar, radar and visibility ranges. Never once finished one of those games but we loved setting it all up.
Found UV via a game review site, bought it and it's ilk and they have been my worst hobbie addictions to the point of giving up cold turkey for a while there because it was dominating my life. The beginning of looking after my son gave me too much spare time and I cannot stand daytime TV. So ho hum, warm up the crack pipe!!
Well the handle is Aprezto, cause I had to come up with something in the wink of an eye when 'Wobbly' was eaten by the matrix boards. Wobbly was the handle I came up with when I had just purchased UV, was still a lurker on the boards, and decided I wanted to contribute. The point of wobbly was I mustered up the courage to post after about a bottle of red wine, and I was decidedly wobbly.
Born '73, living in Christchurch N.Z, married with an 18 month old, who is also my job at present - although not for much longer as we need the cash after overdoing it on the 'nice place to live' house-purchase-front.
Never served in the military, although was nearly in the air force after a received a scholarship to gain my private pilots license. Never quite signed the papers though as had a bit of a family calamity at that time.
Played board and computer games since I was about 11. Was always very big in Dungeons and Dragons, imagination overload I reckon, but was riveted to WW2 history. I purchase Axis and Allies while in Australia and a friend and I made use of the plastic figures that came with it to make our own games. String laid out all over the spare room and a ruler to check sonar, radar and visibility ranges. Never once finished one of those games but we loved setting it all up.
Found UV via a game review site, bought it and it's ilk and they have been my worst hobbie addictions to the point of giving up cold turkey for a while there because it was dominating my life. The beginning of looking after my son gave me too much spare time and I cannot stand daytime TV. So ho hum, warm up the crack pipe!!
Wobbly (aka aprezto):
Glad you'll be around. I was very much addicted to your AAR in WiTP.
One day I will figure out all those nifty avatar things and banners.........
"HistoryGuy" describes what I get paid to do at work - write history. Currently I am working on more recent stuff (about a Middle Eastern country that has been in the news since 2003), but I also have immediate access to the National Archives at College Park, Maryland where they let me rummage around their World War 2 records.
History graduate from Loyola College, Maryland in 1979. Had to join the Army to get a job. Luckily I attended ROTC in an effort to keep me out of bars during college (it didnt work) so I was commissioned as an armor officer with subsequent attendance at Armor Basic, Armor Advanced Course, Marine Corps Command and Staff College - as a foreign exchange student no doubt.........ranger, airborne, air assault (wait, I was a tanker, why did I go do that stuff??). Spent time in the 2d Armored Division, 2d and 3d Infantry Division, XVIII Airborne Corps, and 82d Airborne (wait, why did I do THAT?). Got assigned to the U.S. Army Center of Military History after writing a commercially and critically successful account of the German counterattack in Normandy in August 1944. Transitioned to writing history full time when I retired from the Army in 2006. Am a single dad with two girls, 8 and 10. They are somewhat fascinated by WITP AE for brief periods and have been indoctrinated to respond...."The bad guy airplanes have 'Red circles' on their wings. Blame it on my dad, I am a second generation soldier. Living in Northern Virginia TOO close to Washington DC and work at beautiful Fort Lesley J. McNair.
One of my (older) cousins was part of the original garrison of Corregidor in 1941 (60th CA) and my father was with the 6th Army when it retook Luzon (Quartermaster). I grew up listening to stories from the World War II veterans and my fate was fully sealed when I began reading History of US Naval Operations in World War II back in the early 1950s. Been studying World War II in the Pacific ever since and I have a rather good library on the subject.
I was also influenced by assorted John Wayne movies, which I took for accurate historical stories. Later found out that John Wayne had lied to me about some aspects of military service, especially those usually referred to under the general heading of poultry feces.
I joined the Navy on my 17th birthday in order to get the hell out of Phoenix. Or was it to get out of the hell that was Phoenix? Served two hitches, was on two ships, sailed around in the Gulf of Tonkin a bit, and spent time at two weapons stations, a shipyard, and some technical schools. Learned programming and how to shoot down airplanes. When I got out I choose programming as the one for a career and had a series of adventures leading to retirement and working on WIPT, then AE.
One of my ancestors was also a sailor - in Canada in the 1830s. He left his ship (pursued by the law) and settled in the then wild frontier of Ohio in 1836. One of his sons (and my Mother’s great grandfather) was in the 3rd Ohio Volunteer Cavalry (Troop H) during the Civil War. And one of her brothers was gassed in France in 1918. One of my Father’s ancestors was in the Virginia Militia during the War of 1812 and fired at some British troops attempting to land from small boats on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Luckily the British moved away and did not land. Performance and survivability of American Militia against British Troops was not especially great back then.
Now I’m retired, sit around for a living, and hope to start playing AE soon.
One day I will figure out all those nifty avatar things and banners.........
"HistoryGuy" describes what I get paid to do at work - write history. Currently I am working on more recent stuff (about a Middle Eastern country that has been in the news since 2003), but I also have immediate access to the National Archives at College Park, Maryland where they let me rummage around their World War 2 records.
History graduate from Loyola College, Maryland in 1979. Had to join the Army to get a job. Luckily I attended ROTC in an effort to keep me out of bars during college (it didnt work) so I was commissioned as an armor officer with subsequent attendance at Armor Basic, Armor Advanced Course, Marine Corps Command and Staff College - as a foreign exchange student no doubt.........ranger, airborne, air assault (wait, I was a tanker, why did I go do that stuff??). Spent time in the 2d Armored Division, 2d and 3d Infantry Division, XVIII Airborne Corps, and 82d Airborne (wait, why did I do THAT?). Got assigned to the U.S. Army Center of Military History after writing a commercially and critically successful account of the German counterattack in Normandy in August 1944. Transitioned to writing history full time when I retired from the Army in 2006. Am a single dad with two girls, 8 and 10. They are somewhat fascinated by WITP AE for brief periods and have been indoctrinated to respond...."The bad guy airplanes have 'Red circles' on their wings. Blame it on my dad, I am a second generation soldier. Living in Northern Virginia TOO close to Washington DC and work at beautiful Fort Lesley J. McNair.
I understand that being a single parent can take most of your time , but any chance that you might be interested in joining us for the DC.MD.VA WITP summit? [&:][:)]
I was born in Sydney, Australia in 1956. Enjoyed the Air Cadets in my teens and my father a captain of the commercial shiplines. My user name findmeifyoucan was chosen when I was searching for women and defaulted to this name as catchmeifyoucan was already taken. LOL
I am a verteran wargamer from back in the 1980's boardgames of Avalon Hill, SPI and the like after being converted to wargames from chess as I was a very strong chess player as well. I was convinced that wargames were more complex than chess and I just love complexity! Games like USN, War in Europe and War in the Pacific ( the monster game taking up two ping pong tables and over two thousand counters, 9 map sheets). My favourite time period is WWII whether it be the land war in Europe or the Pacific although I have endulged in American Cival War and Napoleon type games. I have very much enjoyed the Computer WIP game over the last few years and been waiting patiently for WIPAE to come out. I only wish that I had more time to play this game that I have been waiting for more than two years to play.
I do have a family and a full time job after all, son 24 and daughter 18 which limits the amount of time I can devote to games if of course I want to stay married and I do!
Glad you'll be around. I was very much addicted to your AAR in WiTP.
My thanks Chickenboy. I'll admit that those were the most intense days with the game (game? What game? you know this is life and death! these zeros and ones are counting on you!) They are also my lowest. I still cannot believe I threw in the towel.
Maybe that is a new thread for AW1Stevel your most esteemed opponent. Mine would have to be PzB from those AARs, man could he read me and eat me for lunch. You get to admire your enemy when he is that good. The game was different then, so many changes were actually forced upon it because he broke the mold, especially with India.
Geez! I'll admit, I feel rather humbled to be in the presence of wisdom, experience, and very, very neat day-jobs, all in one, on this board! But since this thread was one of my prime reasons for buying the game in the first place - after all, who wouldn't want to be part of this community? - I figure I might as well contribute. I don't have much of a story to tell, I'm afraid.
Name's Neil Goldstein, born in San Diego, California, in 1989 - October 16th, less than a month before the Berlin Wall fell. I obviously don't remember that event, but I've always considered it - and the ideas of reunification, national unity, personal freedoms and the end of long struggles - central to who I am. I grew up in Vista, a little town outside of Oceanside, a member of the first generation not to fear communism since the 1950s. I graduated with honors from Rancho Buena Vista High School in 2007, and have been attending college since then.
Except for a little hiccup involving running out of tuition for my chosen university, I've been a steady college student - at my local community college, I currently maintain a 4.0 GPA, for all that GPAs will be worth once I'm out of college and working (read: not much, I know. [:D]) I consider military service in some capacity to be a goal of mine, despite the fact that everyone in my life is adamantly opposed to it - my parents don't want me to go into the military, my friends don't want me to go into the military, and the wolves would probably say something against it if they knew how to talk. (My family keeps wolves, you see.)
Despite this, I remain intent on working the old saw - 'serving my country' - even in the face of the modern-day unpopularity of the military. My currently-preferred service is army - after a planned stint in the ROTC, and what I imagine will be a longer stint learning what being a good commander really is (since I'm the ROTC will be as lacklustre as ever in actually training me for that.) I've talked with recruiters, and taken a series of battery exams, that solidified my decision: according to the exams, I'm already more capable and qualified than 98% of the men and officers currently enlisted.
Realistically speaking, this probably means I have a lot to learn from them.
If I can't get army, I'm also very interested in the Navy. (Obviously, or I wouldn't be playing a game like WitP!) Military service does not run in my family's traditions, unfortunately - civil service does. My maternal grandmother, when she wasn't raising a family of seven or so children, worked for the government in various capacities - usually in support of my grandfather, who was one of the engineers involved in the Manhattan Project. My mother's side of the family can also claim a dubious descent from the late president Zachary Taylor. I imagine that I'd have to look back about that far to find significant military service in that branch.
The Jewish side of my heritage and family, my father's side, has never seemed too interested in involving itself with conflicts. Whilst still members of the Russian aristocracy, they fled the country when the Revolution came about, which seemed like a better idea than sticking around and getting shot. Technically, this means that I also have some old Russian royalty in my blood, but that's worth about as much as having a sliver of English royalty floating around in one, these days - or less, considering that Russia no longer even gives token recognition to their old monarchial families.
My username comes from my history. I was originally "GameMaster5001" on Starcraft, the first game I ever played online, but I eventually decided that my username wasn't exactly flattering, in a lot of ways, and also made a rather large and egotistical claim that I wasn't necessarily prepared to advertise myself with. I was obsessed with the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion at the time, and so chose the username KaoruNagisa as a replacement. That was over a decade ago, now, and since I've only ever identified myself by that moniker - or by Kaoru, or Kaoru Nagisa - anywhere I've gone, online, I've stuck with it.
After all, everyone who's ever known me has known me by this name, speakin' in digital terms. Unfortunately, it's not the most original name, so not every Kaoru you see out there is me. There are even some folks who've taken to using the name in contexts that I'm not entirely comfortable with - but enough about that!
That's me in a nutshell, at least. Probably not worth the paragraphs I've spent describing myself. Look me up again in fifty years, or so, I'll see if I can't have something worth reading about up here by then.
~Kaoru
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Whenever I should falter in my cherished belief that through the power of the human spirit, through will, and sacrifice, all things are possible, I read these.
Then I feel better.
