Roll Call Thread Addition -where are we all from ?

[wdolson]

ORIGINAL: Symon
Beyond weird. I'm April 4th. John 3rd turned 49, and I was born in 49. Ohh dude! the numerology is saying exceptional things. Aries is rising and if you got a Pisces or Aquarius in there somewhere, your SO is gonna SOOOOO seriously love it.

Seriously though [8D] Kelly. I'm in-country, but out of State in early June. I'm off to Massachusetts to talk with my publisher and then down to Groton to spend time with my sister. Her husband had a stroke, not as bad as Mom's, but bad enough.

After her husband died, Jeannie still rides and does the wagon trains. I'm kinda a go to riding buddy and cuddle pal. I get up your way a lot more than you get down mine. When I'm in the 'hood, I will make every effort to connect. Kin you ride a horse? I mean like all day long?

Ciao. JWE

Aires uber alles. [:D]

Bill

[TOMLABEL]

ORIGINAL: Symon
Kelly. I'm in-country, but out of State in early June. I'm off to Massachusetts

Understand. I actually will probably be in P'cola and Mobile one day each as I am supposed to be at the WWII museum in New Orleans Friday nite, Sat & Sun for the anniversary of D-Day. Will be back for a couple of days anywhere between Mobile and P'cola Monday/Tuesday before heading back to B'ham.

Oh, you might want to try out Hemmingway's restaurant on P'cola beach. I like!!! Lobster ravioli to die for!

[TOMLABEL]

ORIGINAL: Symon

Beyond weird. I'm April 4th.

[:D] Well, now, that explains a lot!!![&o]

ORIGINAL: Symon
When I'm in the 'hood, I will make every effort to connect. Kin you ride a horse? I mean like all day long?
Ciao. JWE

Absolutely not!!! I can hardly manage 3/4 day up and down the Oak Mountain trails around here!!!

I'll be back down several times this summer so....next time.

TOMLABEL

[TOMLABEL]

ORIGINAL: Symon
I'm off to Massachusetts to talk with my publisher

What are you working on? I must have missed this somewhere along the line.

ORIGINAL: Symon
Her husband had a stroke, not as bad as Mom's, but bad enough.

I am sorry to hear about this, John. I hope all is well and the news going forward is positive!!!

Kelley

[oaltinyay]

Do you think there is a chance for WITP:AE-CON ?

[Itdepends]

I just made my first purchase from Noble Knight this month. Postage is a killer to Oz (must be the wear and tear on the balloons) but oh the games!

Picked up Where there is discord, which i could not find over here and The Hunters. played my first game of hunters this afternoon,bloody brilliant. And as for sychronicity, who t showed up at my door the same day the second printing sold out and the other order i placed the same day from a shop in Eastern Australia came in the same delivery Thunderbolt Apache Leader, lots of solo games as my board gaming group arent into war games).

[Symon]

ORIGINAL: TOMLABEL
What are you working on? I must have missed this somewhere along the line.

A very short hijack, so please don't be concerned. I'm doing a book on construction techniques and differences with respect to English and French frigates of the Napoleonic period. I am doing 'center' models of each, detailing every aspect of the difference. Am making a set of full plans for a Sane frigate according to the establishment. I have a publisher that thinks that's cool and is willing to pay for it.

[edit] BTW none of this could have happened without the assistance and collaboration of Francois Charton (fcharton on the thread). There are so many sources on this forum; I can't begin to say ...
Ciao JWE

[KenchiSulla]

ORIGINAL: m10bob

ORIGINAL: Cannonfodder

ORIGINAL: wdolson




The Boomers and early Gen Xers grew up with board games and some of the younger of us had something like an Atari while teens. Computers really weren't capable of doing even a reasonable job with a complex wargame until the late 80s. The early wargames were essentially translations of board games onto the screen. As computing power continued to improve, game makers added more eye candy in the way of graphics and real time features.

The Millennials mostly grew up with live action, real time games. Games that require you sit back and think about it a bit is alien. So I'm not surprised this is mostly an older person hobby.

As far as the demographics go, I'm not a perfect fit, but close:

History and reading at an early age - I was always a history geek, but a bit slow in picking up reading for entertainment. My 10 year older sister was reading voraciously by age 3, can read blindingly fast, and I just felt I couldn't "compete". I did become much more of a reader as a teen and always had a pleasure reading book in my bag during college.
Model building - Started at age 3 and have an embarrassingly large stash of unbuilt models today.
Ex-military - never went that route. I knew I would chafe at the culture and I probably would have been 4F anyway (bad knees).
45-60 - Lower end of that range, very early Gen X.
Post secondary - Only a bachelors. Got accepted to grad school but decided not to go.

Bill

Born in 1980 ... There is hope? Jocmeister and Obvert are also around my age I think? Never served in the military but I did qualify as an engineer/deck officer for freighters (got about 330 sea days) before getting a Bachelor of Engineering.

That sea duty is fantastic..Thank you for your contributions..Maybe you should consider changing your name to a more nautical theme so we might remember your experience in that area..??I'm sure it helped Richard Dana..

Haha, don't think I have to.. xAKs and xAKLs are the cannonfodder of WitP:AE....

[margeorg]

Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Never left my hometown to live elsewhere [:)]

[rsallen64]

Born and raised in Central Pennsylvania, US Army Reserves Tanker, lifelong interest in military history, half a century old, doctorate degree (law), currently living and working near Tacoma, Washington, long history of wargaming starting with Avalon Hill in the 70s, lifelong interest in the Pacific theatre. I fit the mold as well, something else I rarely do when encountering people.

[GamesaurusRex]

Texas !
Yes, I'm a history and military history buff.
Yes, I started wargaming with AH's "Blitzkrieg" in 1966... which led to acquiring and playing too many games to name...
but eventually to SPI's "War In The East" and "War In The Pacific"... then GDW's "Drang Nach Osten" and "Unentenschieden"... AH's "The Longest Day".
You know the trail, because most of you have trod it... and naturally it led to WITPAE and WITE by Grigsby.
So many games... so little time. It's a good thing they became computerized, else we'd all be dead before we got through the rules. [:D]

[JeffroK]

Born in Carlton, raised in the Northern Suburbs of Melbourne in the late 50's so that makes me 50 something.
Lived in Perth (a couple of times) and Adelaide for about 10 years.

First war book I can remember was my brothers "Zhukov's Greatest Battles".

First wargame was Jedko's African Campaign, I was an SPI fan and the only AH game I purchased was ANZIO.
Got an Apple IIC in about 1989, found Pacwar in a discount bin, went to WITP before UV.
NOt a rivet counter, hate those who rewrite history based on the advantage of knowing the result.

Played at soldiers, would have made a crap real one.

The only way I learned about the world was through Stamps, Maps & Wargames, since then I have visited the USA (well Kansas City KS) and a few islands surrounding Australia like New Zealand (Love the place)Norfolk Island and last trip was Flinders Island.

My family seemed to miss Military Service in WW1, 2 uncles did WW2 in 2/8 Bn, 19 Bde, 6th Australian Infantry Division. One served in the Western Desert, Greece, Darwin and New Guinea. A cousin in law did Vietnam and a nephew did about 10 years with some mob based at Swanbourne.

I live in a country town and work in the middle of a 160 acre paddock 5 minutes from home, on a clear day I can see the skyline of Melbourne.

[anarchyintheuk]

ORIGINAL: wdolson

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

Just turned 49 a couple of weeks ago.

ORIGINAL: TOMLABEL
Me too almost - April 18th.

Happy Belated Birthday!!!![8D]

TOMLABEL

That's weird, we're only a day apart in age. Same year.

Bill

Eerie. Turned 49 on May 20.

[dox44]

Texas

[oldman45]

Born in 1959 in St Pete Fl, lived in Odessa Fl finely lived in Tampa before I joined the navy to see the world. That consisted of California, Scotland, Georgia, Groton CT and Charleston SC.

Grew up watching Combat, playing with GI Joes then I found AH games.... Out in California I was introduced to tabletop games and that kept me interested for years. In the 80's I found that computer games were a lot easier than painting soldiers. Played Pacwar on floppy disk and years later found UV and the rest is history.

Grew up around men that served in WWII or Korea, the only one that really talked about their time in the war was a guy that had been an engineer in Patton's army and a sub sailor stationed in Hawaii near the end of the war, man he had some stories.

There are some amazing people here and I have always enjoyed this forum.

As a footnote, the one thing I never liked about computer games is I miss the interaction between players at the gaming table. Pushing troops around in a garage swapping stories was always a great weekend event.

[Jellicoe]

Cranbrook, Kent, UK

comfortably middle aged life long wargamer. Airfix soldiers and kits, various rules sets, lots of games with lots of counters, assorted PC games - all ends in WITPae

[KMCCARTHY]

Maryland. I spent 4 + years at Fort Bragg, NC and five years in Tampa Florida for college and grad school. I work at NASA GSFC, a < 1 Klick from where I went to High School. Karma is funny.

[Feltan]

ORIGINAL: JeffK

Born in Carlton, raised in the Northern Suburbs of Melbourne in the late 50's so that makes me 50 something.
Lived in Perth (a couple of times) and Adelaide for about 10 years.

First war book I can remember was my brothers "Zhukov's Greatest Battles".

First wargame was Jedko's African Campaign, I was an SPI fan and the only AH game I purchased was ANZIO.
Got an Apple IIC in about 1989, found Pacwar in a discount bin, went to WITP before UV.
NOt a rivet counter, hate those who rewrite history based on the advantage of knowing the result.

Played at soldiers, would have made a crap real one.

The only way I learned about the world was through Stamps, Maps & Wargames, since then I have visited the USA (well Kansas City KS) and a few islands surrounding Australia like New Zealand (Love the place)Norfolk Island and last trip was Flinders Island.

My family seemed to miss Military Service in WW1, 2 uncles did WW2 in 2/8 Bn, 19 Bde, 6th Australian Infantry Division. One served in the Western Desert, Greece, Darwin and New Guinea. A cousin in law did Vietnam and a nephew did about 10 years with some mob based at Swanbourne.

I live in a country town and work in the middle of a 160 acre paddock 5 minutes from home, on a clear day I can see the skyline of Melbourne.

If you were in KC, I hope someone took you to Gates BBQ!

Regards,
Feltan

[Treetop64]

ORIGINAL: Feltan

If you were in KC, I hope someone took you to Gates BBQ!

Regards,
Feltan

Walks through the door: "HI! MAY EYE HELP YOOOUUU!!" [X(]

Incredibly good stuff, though. Especially after a Chiefs game.

[JeffroK]

ORIGINAL: Feltan

ORIGINAL: JeffK

Born in Carlton, raised in the Northern Suburbs of Melbourne in the late 50's so that makes me 50 something.
Lived in Perth (a couple of times) and Adelaide for about 10 years.

First war book I can remember was my brothers "Zhukov's Greatest Battles".

First wargame was Jedko's African Campaign, I was an SPI fan and the only AH game I purchased was ANZIO.
Got an Apple IIC in about 1989, found Pacwar in a discount bin, went to WITP before UV.
NOt a rivet counter, hate those who rewrite history based on the advantage of knowing the result.

Played at soldiers, would have made a crap real one.

The only way I learned about the world was through Stamps, Maps & Wargames, since then I have visited the USA (well Kansas City KS) and a few islands surrounding Australia like New Zealand (Love the place)Norfolk Island and last trip was Flinders Island.

My family seemed to miss Military Service in WW1, 2 uncles did WW2 in 2/8 Bn, 19 Bde, 6th Australian Infantry Division. One served in the Western Desert, Greece, Darwin and New Guinea. A cousin in law did Vietnam and a nephew did about 10 years with some mob based at Swanbourne.

I live in a country town and work in the middle of a 160 acre paddock 5 minutes from home, on a clear day I can see the skyline of Melbourne.

If you were in KC, I hope someone took you to Gates BBQ!

Regards,
Feltan

Stayed at Country Club, big motel near the Art Gallery. Ate at plenty of steak places.
Walked into Downtown on our spare Sunday, talk about roll up the sidewalks on a weekend!
Office was in Lenexa.

Bussed to Independence and looked at the Santa Fe Trail Museum & Truman's, went to the War Memorial before it was turned into the National Memorial, updated the guide about what took place before the USA got into the war [8D]

Nearly go a car to drive to Denver to catch flight home, if I had another day I would have.

Very nice place.