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ORIGINAL: Dunhill_BKK
I was one of the few people that purchased The Campaign for North Africa. It was a boardgame on the level of WITP, and therefore unplayable in paper form, by any less than 10 people. It was a monster, and really should have been sent to War College as an advanced course in logistics. They had rules for evaporation in it,as well as the Italian preference for pasta in a desert campaign. This game probably requires a new category above "Grognard" for anyone who actually played it.

But the advantage of the boardgame format was that yiou could easily design-your-own, smaller, campaign: I had a one-map game with Italians running all over the Brits - I followed Al Nofi's advice, gave the Italians a LOT more motor transport, and watched what happened. (He said that if you doubled the initial supply of trucks the Italians would spend the first Xmas in Alex. I believe he may have been right.)

I love playing with games in that way.

Steve.

I still have 300 or more Board wargames, they cover a wall in one of our empty bed rooms. I have sold a few and gave some away over the years. The two I enjoyed the most over those 25 years- was two later titles. DAK and Pacific War. This Hollowed Ground wasn't too bad either.[:'(]

Mine was Kriegs Spiel, -5 for spelling, followed by many, many others. Sorry about the spelling; I never claimed to be able to speak German. I devestated my opponent in my first game. He had played wargames many times; I had played only once. He never played me again - my loss. After that, I was hooked.

My one was Russian Campaign from Avalon Hill about 24-25 (?? forgot...) years ago. Still in my collection and recently planning to teach my son in this Christmas[:D]. So good my son love to play wargames, just teach him Napoleon (Columbia), Victory in the Pacific (AH) and Naploeon Last Battles (TSR) in his summer holidays.

Happy Wargaming!

I can't remember which was my first, because I was pretty young. I think one of these two was my "First" wargame.

Ancient Art of War
or
Patton vs Rommel


I really really really loved Ancient Art of War, and the follow up Ancient Art of War at Sea. I had no idea what I was doing in Patton Vs Rommel, but I generally won.

The only board games I have played is Warhammer, and ya its technically not a "wargame", but give Imperial guardsman a garand and paint him green and its close.

Richtofen's War some 30 odd years ago....

Avalon Hill's Blitzkrieg, followed by Submarine.

I started out with Fifth Frontier War by GDW, an very interesting startefic level SF game.

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns


There were three games set up at once. The two opposing teams were connected by phone to the moderator who received moves and fire orders and only divulged what info about the enemy he felt was merited.

Jim

Wow...that sounds liek a blast. Plenty of time for brewskis and BS'ing too.

A blast indeed. That kind of multiplayer is the best thing. In UK there are a bunch of Grongards who run 'mega games'. And for a while one of them had a an 'in' at what was then the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. Wanna run Market garden as a game? Or Kirovgrad? Give very division a team of two-four , every Corps HQ a team, air force commanders , a cameo role for someone to be the dutch resistance fro MG, a bunch of umpires, a good telephone net but NO leaving your seperate room without an umpire escort (one 'German' comnad player got caught speaking sneaking off to speak to another unit who were technically 50 miles way and he was put into quaratine for 30mins (which was how long a one game turn took) due to to 'being strafed by allied fighters'). So fast and furious your team had to break down into COs, G2s, QM roles or you just got buried.

I was supposed to have a team of four to run the TacAir - only one turned up and I have NEVER worked so hard, to fly resupply , keep a CabRank up over 1AB stuck in arnhem and with 30 Corps shouting at me a lot. God it was fab.

I've played Flattop with an umpire. We all had a copy and the umpire allowed us to experience FOW. Quite good.