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RE: Roll Call Thread Addition
Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 7:38 pm
by 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
RE: Roll Call Thread Addition
Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 11:55 pm
by 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!
RE: Roll Call Thread Addition
Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 12:00 am
by 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
RE: Roll Call Thread Addition
Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 12:04 am
by 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
RE: Roll Call Thread Addition
Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 4:00 am
by oaltinyay
Do you think there is a chance for WITP:AE-CON ?
RE: Roll Call Thread Addition
Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 7:41 am
by 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).
RE: Roll Call Thread Addition
Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 1:57 pm
by 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
RE: Roll Call Thread Addition
Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 7:24 pm
by 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....
RE: Roll Call Thread Addition
Posted: Sun May 31, 2015 5:30 am
by margeorg
Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Never left my hometown to live elsewhere [:)]
RE: Roll Call Thread Addition
Posted: Sun May 31, 2015 5:38 am
by 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.
RE: Roll Call Thread Addition
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2015 10:06 pm
by 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]
RE: Roll Call Thread Addition
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2015 11:55 pm
by 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.
RE: Roll Call Thread Addition
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2015 4:48 pm
by 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.
RE: Roll Call Thread Addition
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2015 6:15 pm
by dox44
Texas
RE: Roll Call Thread Addition
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2015 9:57 pm
by 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.
RE: Roll Call Thread Addition
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2015 4:16 am
by 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
RE: Roll Call Thread Addition
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2015 8:12 am
by 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.
RE: Roll Call Thread Addition
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2015 11:27 am
by 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
RE: Roll Call Thread Addition
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2015 7:09 pm
by 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.
RE: Roll Call Thread Addition
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2015 7:34 pm
by 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.