How old are the average Wargamers here?

[Gilmer]

I'm 60. I started like many with chess. In the middle 70s or so, we were part of a book club and we got this book by John Toland The Rising Sun. I read it and I was about 13 years old. Two volumes. Then I read Winds of War and War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk.

I then bought the game "Flattop" and I can't remember how much I played it, but I was fascinated by the Japanese theater of WW2. From there, we got a Nintendo at some point and I played Nobunaga's Ambition which is more of an RTS, but hey, I was a kid.

I remember reading computer gaming magazines and thinking how cool it would be to play those games. We couldn't afford a computer. I got my first computer about age 25 and bought games like War in Russia and Pacwar. I have played those so many times. Also, The Western Front(?) by SSI. I played that one a lot as well. I got Harpoon when it came out. And played it constantly.

I discovered Ageod and bought Rise of Prussia when it was still pretty new. I remember there was a bug I reported for a cavalry regiment that had a power of something like 1600. By itself it was beating whole armies. The Ageod guys thanked me for reporting the bug and said it was because it wasn't calculating experience correctly.

I discovered Matrix when I was looking for a copy of Pacwar and saw War in the Pacific.

I don't come around as often as I used to, but I'm still here.

[nemesisuk]

Just turned 69 - I don't recommend it.

69 and thoroughly recommend it

[Zovs]

Turning 60 soon, started in 1977 with Africa Korps, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge and Waterloo that Christmas (thanks mom! RIP).

Never looked back, still playing board wargames (got a BCS and OCS game going on, and a SASL game as well as learning the old SPI CFS)…

[RangerJoe]

Turning 60 soon, started in 1977 with Africa Korps, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge and Waterloo that Christmas (thanks mom! RIP).

Never looked back, still playing board wargames (got a BCS and OCS game going on, and a SASL game as well as learning the old SPI CFS)…

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You started your Battle of the Bulge that early!

[Zovs]

Turning 60 soon, started in 1977 with Africa Korps, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge and Waterloo that Christmas (thanks mom! RIP).

Never looked back, still playing board wargames (got a BCS and OCS game going on, and a SASL game as well as learning the old SPI CFS)…

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You started your Battle of the Bulge that early!

LOL

My Battle of the Bulge is now down to 170, so that battle is won, at a cost of course...

Submarines in tracks of mud

[DonH58]

I'm 67, young at heart. but can't seem to remember if I posted on this thread earlier.
First wargame- The Desert Fox army man set.
First board game Afrika Korps by AH
First computer game Operation Crusader by AH

[Neilster]

Mid 50s. I played chess with my father and brothers but we didn't really know how to play and it wasn't until I was about 19 that a friend who was a very good player taught me proper chess. My older brother, who was/is a huge Tolkien fan, came back from Perth (Western Australia) with a game almost no-one had heard of called Dungeons & Dragons and we played a lot of that.

My first wargame was Theatre Europe, a WW3 game, on my Amstrad CPC6128 (Google it, they were good computers). My first board wargame was Case Green (S&T 152) a hypothetical Wehrmacht invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938. I soon found World in Flames, which was my dream game: a strategic WW2 game where you control diplomacy, production and operations. I'm having a very small role in developing Matrix World in Flames.

I've played stupid amounts of Combat Mission and TOAW. I've recently purchased some new games and am going to dedicate myself to learning them.

[kakiki]

hi guys. I'm 30

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[RedwoodForest]

Early 30s.