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RE: Grognard or n00B ?
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:26 pm
by vonCommander
Yes, 1974
My first game was SL, still playing it.Also playing WiF, Up Front, sometimes Flat Top. Lots of good memories and lots of good beer..........[:D]
RE: Grognard or n00B ?
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:35 pm
by ctangus
ORIGINAL: wdolson
ORIGINAL: bobogoboom
No, 1982. plus i played sports mainly growing up
Sports? What's that? [:)]
Bill
ORIGINAL: Snowman999
how about a third option?
1. Grognard
2. Noob
3. I talked to girls
1958.
Girls? What's that? [:'(]
RE: Grognard or n00B ?
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:53 pm
by FeurerKrieg
The only CRT I had was from my Avalon Hill's Stalingrad which I picked up at auction at my first gaming convention (Neocon, NorthEastOhioCON) back when I was twelve.
So yes (barely) and 1975
RE: Grognard or n00B ?
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:08 pm
by wdolson
ORIGINAL: bobogoboom
No, 1982. plus i played sports mainly growing up
ORIGINAL: wdolson
Sports? What's that? [:)]
Bill
ORIGINAL: Snowman999
how about a third option?
1. Grognard
2. Noob
3. I talked to girls
1958.
ORIGINAL: ctangus
Girls? What's that? [:'(]
That too. I went to an all male high school. Worst 4 years of my life.
Bill
RE: Grognard or n00B ?
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:33 pm
by AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: wdolson
ORIGINAL: bobogoboom
No, 1982. plus i played sports mainly growing up
ORIGINAL: wdolson
Sports? What's that? [:)]
Bill
ORIGINAL: Snowman999
how about a third option?
1. Grognard
2. Noob
3. I talked to girls
1958.
ORIGINAL: ctangus
Girls? What's that? [:'(]
That too. I went to an all male high school. Worst 4 years of my life.
Bill
[X(]Our sympathy is with you. Must have made the dances interesting. Pity the home-coming "queen".[:D]
RE: Grognard or n00B ?
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:37 pm
by KDonovan
Capillary Refil Time......oopps..wrong jargon [:D]
no....1981
RE: Grognard or n00B ?
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:43 pm
by floydg
1964 and biggest set of CRT I had was the book of them in the SPI War in the Pacific (which Coach Z has been "babysitting" for me for many years).
I remember when my mother went into the SPI store in NYC to buy it for me and they warned her it was really for adults. Perhaps they were right.
RE: Grognard or n00B ?
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 12:22 am
by Gen.Hoepner
1979...think i'm too young for those old-fashioned board game...but i'd love to try[:'(]
RE: Grognard or n00B ?
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 12:28 am
by TOMLABEL
1966. First game I ever owned was AH Midway. Dxmn - still love that game! Then it went on to Victory in the Pacific, War At Sea, Tobruk, all the Squad Leader games, Luftwaffe, Third Reich, D-Day, Submarine...the list goes on. I still have most of those games and wish I had the free time to play them all over again.
CRT? What about the dang LOS?
TOMLABEL
RE: Grognard or n00B ?
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 12:34 am
by Historiker
ORIGINAL: Gen.Hoepner
1979...think i'm too young for those old-fashioned board game...but i'd love to try[:'(]
One is never to young for this [;)]
I play such games once a week with some friends: Axis&Allies with it's various variants, Memoire 44 - but also games like monsters manace USA, etc [:)]
RE: Grognard or n00B ?
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 12:52 am
by Sonny II
ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
ORIGINAL: Nomad
I thought there would be someone older than me[&:][:(][8|]
Well, CobraAus hasn't checked in... neither has Pompack...
Oh yes, I forgot about CobraAus. He's definitely older than dirt.
Didn't know Pompack was in the senior class also.
RE: Grognard or n00B ?
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 12:53 am
by Sonny II
ORIGINAL: mantill
Yes '68
First game AH Ceasar at Alesia
Oh man, that was a good game. Never could get anybody to play for more than a few turns on that one. No one I knew was interested in that era.
RE: Grognard or n00B ?
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:03 am
by Dukemourn
Yes 1949,
My biggest worry is I won't live long enough to finish whatever the new Witp is gonna be.
RE: Grognard or n00B ?
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:23 am
by bilbow
ORIGINAL: Mike Solli
ORIGINAL: Ian R
quote:
The true test of a grognard: who has played The Longest Day campaign solitaire from start to finish
Someone claimed to have played CNA somewhere, once, or at least some turns of it, didn't they? What CNA needed was computerisation of the detail tracking - and then it would be like playing........ WitP!
A friend and I started that darn game. We played 1 turn and 2 op stages (2/3 of a turn) before I moved out of town for college. I still like it. Gonna play it someday if I can find someone crazy enough to play.
Hmmmm. I'd be tempted. I'm a few miles away in Pickerington. I have CNA, unpunched and never played
RE: Grognard or n00B ?
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:02 am
by RUPD3658
1968
Started with Tactics II at 9 years old then moved on to AH and SPI games. I played Squad Leader, Panzer Blitz/Leader, and Task Force Games Start Fleet Battles the longest.
Currently addicted to WiTP. I am married so not talking to girls is a good thing for me[;)]
RE: Grognard or n00B ?
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 4:55 am
by Snowman999
ORIGINAL: Dino
ORIGINAL: Snowman999
ORIGINAL: spence
Oh come now. Really? You mean in high school?[;)]
Hey, it was the 70's . . .
...and boy could we talk back then. [:D]
Yep, back when "talking" could be fixed with a visit to the doc. I heered tell they gots stuff what'll KILL ya, now . . .
RE: Grognard or n00B ?
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 5:32 am
by bradfordkay
" That too. I went to an all male high school. Worst 4 years of my life."
"Our sympathy is with you. Must have made the dances interesting. Pity the home-coming "queen"."
Not wanting to gross y'all out, but think about this for a second.
He (the home-coming queen) was probably in his own little heaven. It's more likely his "boyfriends" who spent the rest of their lives wondering about their manhood...
RE: Grognard or n00B ?
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 6:12 am
by JeffroK
'58
Jedko Games "African Campaign", then their "Russian Campaign"
Played a whole week of Campaign for North Africa.
Plus some of WITP.
I own Fresno Games "Eagle & the Sun", arent I stupid.
RE: Grognard or n00B ?
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:44 am
by Don Bowen
Did not play too many board games. Really got into it big time when computer games came along. Remember Empire?
I was born in 1945. At the time, World War II was still going on and God was a Midshipman.
RE: Grognard or n00B ?
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:10 am
by Gen.Hoepner
[:D]Woah guys...most of you could be my father (and no, my mother isn't called Islde and she didnt work in a pub[:D])......it's amazing how this game can be trans-generational