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Zorfwaddle · Post by **Zorfwaddle** » Thu Mar 22, 2001 5:48 am

36, first wargame was Arab-Israeli Wars, in '76 or so. Played various games off and on, including War of the Ring and Pacific War, then descended into RPG's. First computer was in 92, first game was Civ, but the 2nd and 3rd were Harpoon and Pacific War... Due to PacWar being a favorite, Steel Panthers (GG) was definetly a pickup! To this day when I go TAD, Pacwar, Harpoon, and now SPWAW go with me....

BryanMelvin · Post by **BryanMelvin** » Thu Mar 22, 2001 8:49 am

Marauder Mel Here:

I am 42 soon to reach 43 next month. Heck, I started playing wargames with toy soldiers on the checkerd tile of my old family home when I was a spire 7 years old! Then bought my 1st AH game - Waterloo at age 9. SPI games and AH games filled my room. I taught all the kids I knew several of these games. Played Chess and was a local tourney winner too. As I got older, AH Panzer Blitz caught my eye and then came SL, COI, and ASL!! The years rolled by. Soon - I could not find the time to play the board games nor opponents. Then Computer games caught my attention and SP arrived. Meet up with a guy named Figmo at TGN and asked some design SP questions - introduced to Wild Bill - then became a Raider. My how time flies.. It is been one great pleasure and honor to work with both Figmo and Wild Bill these past few years. You guys are the best

Wild Bill · Post by **Wild Bill** » Thu Mar 22, 2001 1:24 pm

Now old Marauder (Bryan Melvin) was part of a trio that came in to help out via Figmo. As it turns out two of these three are team leaders with the Raiders. Both Bryan and Louie Marsh are two of the best.

And we can thank the old talent hunter, Jim "Figmo" Faletti for sending 'em my way.

It's nice to know in the gaming community such lasting relations can be cultivated. I hope to be in contact with all of you in the years to come too...Wild Bill
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Hammer2000 · Post by **Hammer2000** » Thu Mar 22, 2001 1:37 pm

Hi Bill ! Nice to hear from u.
Age : 29

I can talk to grandpas here

Hammer

adantas · Post by **adantas** » Thu Mar 22, 2001 10:10 pm

Hi folks!!

Well I'm 33 and divorced so now I have time enough to play!!!

well my first wargame was a bordgame called "Front" here in Brazil then "War I, War II" and my first PC Game came from SSI series "Utah, Veiliky Luiky"
But the best of all is SPWAW!!!
Thanks to WB and all the guys of Matrix!!

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Senta à Pua!!!

Marder_MatrixForum · Post by **Marder_MatrixForum** » Thu Mar 22, 2001 10:33 pm

23 - and addicted to spwaw since i was 14!

No chance for getting cured!!

Marder

Figmo · Post by **Figmo** » Fri Mar 23, 2001 5:40 am

Thanks for the kind words Bill and Bryan.

I'll tell ya - Bryan and Louie both came in with a talent and drive the still shows. You couldn't ask for better guys!! Keep up the good work!!

Figmo

ruxius · Post by **ruxius** » Fri Mar 23, 2001 5:51 am

TO DAVID MILLER :
Welcome aboard Mr. David Miller !!!
You will find here plenty of new friends who love strategy and WWII like you ! They take care of your problems even if you are wrong or silly...I like this very much !
And also Matrix is the first place in which WE are so important..
compliments to them will never be enough !

I am 30 years old....I owe my initiation at the old SP1 to my uncle Franco who shares at about the same age than you..He was always commanding its U-boot into the deeps hunting for enemy convoys...
It was a G-reat N-aval B-attle that kept him to sleepless nights playing his duty !
I was fashinated by him and decided to become a seaman..but into his G-N-B CD I found the demo of SP1 and it was love at first sight !! As I said somewhere here I never betrayed it since that day !....
That day I preferred to have my foot deep in the ground..no more doubts about it !
And here I am...
SPWAW is the best I could hope for the future of SP1 ! If you liked it now you can share with me the same enthusiasm for SPWAW!
However If you like , if you have time , ecc,ecc I will be glad to go back in history and have a battle with you in the old SP1 !!!
Tell me if you are interested at
ruxiusf@libero.it
Bye and Good luck (especially if you will play against me ehehehe..) !

Slayer · Post by **Slayer** » Fri Mar 23, 2001 6:30 am

I'm 18 now, but I've been playing wargames on computers before I was 10. Back then, the wargames I played didn't have things like "sound" or "graphics". The first computer wargame I played was 5th Eskadra by Simulations Canada on my Commodore 64. Nothing but text. Unless, of course, you count the laminated maps provided with the game to keep track of your ships! I first played SP1 three or four years ago, and was thrilled when I heard about SPWAW.

chanman · Post by **chanman** » Fri Mar 23, 2001 6:48 am

Every now and then, I see something that makes me start to feel old. Slayer's comment about the crudeness of the 5th eskadra game brought back memories of playing trek on the university computer. Terminals were teletypes connected via a 300 baud modem to a CDC mainframe. After each move, you had to wait for a new "screen" to print on the teletype. Hoping against hope that the vibration didn't wiggle the handset out of the modem cradle. Gave us incentive to be really efficient with our coding since we would use leftover "time" from our Fortran programming classes to play. I am extremely thankful that the card readers had been replaced the year before I got there. Thanks for all the work, Matrix. This beats the hell out of having to quickly calculate the sign/cosign of your firing angle so you can nail that pesky klingon. I think I nailed more than one star by accident.

Neil Stalker · Post by **Neil Stalker** » Fri Mar 23, 2001 6:54 am

I'm 49, a true blue Aussie and I wish I had the energy that Bill has he continues to amaze me.

I've been playing simulation and strategy games for awhile before a mate introduced me to SP1 and then I think I have played everything thats come out since. Getting involved in Leadeaters then TGN I have met and played against a lot of great wargamers.

And look forward to playing another couple of decades to come.

Brutto-Bob · Post by **Brutto-Bob** » Fri Mar 23, 2001 5:17 pm

Hi,
I'm 32, italian, married, and like Antonius I started making rules to play with my Airfix and Atlantic WWII soldiers when I was a kid..

Next step the board strategical games (classic exagonal map). The first was 'Sicily Invasion, the beginning of the end"

Finally PC games, the last played: Shogun total war, Sudden Strike, Jagged Alliance (all the serie), X-com ones, Panzer General, People's general, Sid Maier's Gettysbourg and SPWAW obviously...

davidmiller · Post by **davidmiller** » Fri Mar 23, 2001 6:21 pm

To Ruxius:
I would be more than happy to play you a SP1 battle, but am unable to since I don't have my old copy any longer. However, once this new SPWAW V-5 is released, I'd be very interested in doing a battle with you. I have to inform you, thst I have never played a battle pbem or over the internet. You may have to have a lot of patience with me as I may have to learn how to set things up. I would be willing to be any nationality you want as an oponent, but if you wish me to charge you on horse calvary versus your armour, then be sure you wait while I would get some liquid strength. I am awaiting the new version of SPWAW and am sure they will have some sort of support for internet play. If your're interested, send me an email if youre interested in beggining a battle and all your preferences you wish and since I am now retired off the old railroad, I'll see what kind of discontent I can bestow upon you in a battle. Seeing how often you appear in this forum, I may have to watch my flanks. Thanks to you and the other people in this forum for making playing these games enjoyable and also for meeting all of the wonderful people out there with the same interest.

GI Seve · Post by **GI Seve** » Fri Mar 23, 2001 6:25 pm

Well I'm 19 now so I quess Im kinda young here :rolleyes: . Cuz when I were younger we didn't have cpu and never heard of war gaming(with boards or cpu).. so I played with plastic toy soldiers creating own lil wars and I got some dice rules too

Well really when I first got any idea of cpu war gaming was with CloseCombat and that can't really be considered to be real deep stratedy gaming and I wanted to see more .. but cuz me iz lazy I still waited. Meanwhile I also got few SP 1 and 3 games with my friends cpu and I got interested .. so when I finally heard bout SP:WaW coming I decided to try it out .. and now Im addict

Really waiting for that SP:WaW 5.0 cd so I can buy it and support those WONDERFUL MATRIX PPL WHO HAVE ENLIGHTENED ME!!

Catholic_Sin · Post by **Catholic_Sin** » Fri Mar 23, 2001 8:31 pm

Well I am 29, married 8 years to a wife that loves to play computer games (and she is good looking, boy I lucked out )
First experience was in '93 played ASL vs a friend that had tried to convince me this was the kind of game to go with. Had a single panzerfaust and burned 5 shermans while firing from inside a building (boy he kept saying the backblast will kill, but the dice liked me) ever since then I have been hooked on these kind of games. Wife was happy when we got computer so she didnt have all those little chits to find in corners of the house from table top games like ASL. Thanks Wild Bill and all the rest that worked on this, this game rocks. :p

Christian Blex · Post by **Christian Blex** » Fri Mar 23, 2001 8:47 pm

Hi everybody,
I'm 25 years old. Started wargaming in the late 80's with the old SSI classics (Typhoon of Steel, Battleships, etc.). Bought quite a lot of SSi's wargames. In 1995 (?) I bought SP1, then SP2 and SP3. Found the Matrixgames homepage nearly a year ago. Very great site. Now, I know I'm not alone with my interests in wargames. (All of my friends realy hate these games).
Thanks a lot for SPWaW. It is a realy great game. Can hardly wait for version5.

Realy got depressed on my last birthday, but you guys showed me that there are still quiet a lot of years to come for me before getting senile.

Inuil · Post by **Inuil** » Fri Mar 23, 2001 9:07 pm

Hi Steelers.
I´m 36 years old and played boards games since I was 10-12... Risk and stratego were my first games, and in PC version... Spectrum "arhem", Amiga64 ( I remenbered specialy "brigade comander") next the PC games. Now, I have hundreds of games, in board and PC format. Tactics, Caesar en alesia, SL, ASL, Flat Top, Wooden ships, Russian Campaing, NATO, Harpoon, Arabe-Israely wars... but my favorite is "THE RUSSIAN FRONT". :rolleyes:
The list could be interminable... And now SPWAW. The best tactical game I have never seen (until today). ¡¡¡Thanks Matrix and all the people than makes this possible!!!
Years ago, when I had by first time the ST1 in my hands I thougth... "Thanks my god, I have lived to see this day"
My sons and the sons of my sons remenbered this day.

Rick Borovec · Post by **Rick Borovec** » Sat Mar 24, 2001 5:14 am

Hello everyone! I am 43 and have been wargaming since the sandbox in my backyard. Got SP1 at a book store just after it first came out, still remember asking the sales clerk if was a good game, he said it was good for a couple hundred hours of playing time. Now several hundred thousand hours of playing later I am a SPWAW junkie, although I have still never played a PBEM game. Nice to see I am in the best of company!

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Into your holes and gunpits!
Kill them with rifles and knives!
Feed them with lead until they are dead-
And widowed are their wives.
(excerpt from "The Battle of the Tenaru" by Robert Leckie)

Nikademus · Post by **Nikademus** » Sat Mar 24, 2001 5:55 am

I'm timeless. :p

I will say this much though.....i've been an advid computer wargamer since......

SSI's 'Tigers in the Snow'

My very first wargaming experience was playing the computer game "Eastern Front"

heh.....things have come a ways since then

Joaquim · Post by **Joaquim** » Sat Mar 24, 2001 7:00 am

Hi,

I'm 32, married at 10 years... with 4 kids. My firsts wargames were 1/300 battles with airfix rules (from an older cousin) -(not counting those with Airfix soldiers, a card and a small ball (?) - damn, I'm restarting these with my kids!..! but they prefer Age of Empires...)

In computers... well, I remember I brought a ATARI ST (instead of the Amiga, much more popular here) because of Colonial Conquest - the Atari version was so much better!!...

The only problem with the SP system is «going back» - I played every «General», but my favourite is still the Panzer General, and I'm still playing it sometimes... with SP... I played the 1, and it was good, then the 2 - it was good,I could still play sometimes the 1, but the grafics were looking silly..!...

The 3 was (is?) good, but was hard to get in scale... and now with slower hand and faster PC it's hard to get anywhere in the map!! but I get used to it until I find...
W@W (4.5)... well, it's hard getting in scale, but it has Maus, early 30's... who could resist?!?