Grognard or n00B ?

[tabpub]

Yes, 1962
 
Playing "Onward Christian Soldiers" from GMT right now; now that's a CRT for you, 2d6 and the results table runs from -24 to +24, with a cutie called "unpredictable results" thrown in for good measure....[:@]...not that we've used it much. The Muslims just tend to watch us wallowing toward Antioch losing men to attrition; the ruddy Germans have lost almost a 1/4 of their men in 1/4 of a year so far...
 
The new "Shogun" is neat though, it uses a tower and cubes; you have to see it in action....

[rockmedic109]

Yes.  1963.
 
I thought I was one of the older guys here.  I feel MUCH better now.  I have scars older than the kids I work with.  Come to think of it, I've got scars older than some of the people here....
 
That wonderful person, Santa Claus, brought me Luftwaffe when I was young....a little too young.  But it still began a hobby that persists to this day.  I even worked at two different game stores to finance my hobby.
 
War at Sea, Victory in the Pacific, Ironclads, Tobruk, Star Fleet Battles {I still have the original little booklet that started that monstrosity}, Wooden Ships and Iron Men, Battle of the Bulge, Wings. 
 
Now if someone would program a turn based Richthofen's War or Wings, I will be found sitting in a puddle of drool in front of my computer for weeks on end.

[whippleofd]

1962.

First picked up Panzer Leader in 1977. I bought my first computer, an Apple IIE, in 1985 to play a computer wargame (North Atlantic '86), and every PC purchase since then has been because I needed to play some newer computer war game. Not sure if that makes me a grognard, but it sure makes me a wargame geek.

Whipple

[AW1Steve]

[:D] Same thing , simply a matter of degrees. [:D]

[Sonny II]

ORIGINAL: 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.

I came along a month after Hitler checked out. Never got to meet him.
[:D]

[RevRick]

ORIGINAL: spence

Who else can recreate the entire CRT from memory for the original version of D-Day (AH)?

Since I still have it, I don't need to recreate it.
Oh, 1949, and Yes - I have lots of CRTs around.

[Grotius]

I was born during the Eisenhower administration. Definitely a grognard. Played almost every Avalon Hill game from Tactics II on, though the ones that first really grabbed me were "Gettysburg" and "D-Day." Eventually became a "Third Reich" and "Advanced Squad Leader" junkie. The addiction to ASL didn't fade until the era of the PC. I still play board games, but more along the lines of "Puerto Rico" and "Tigris and Euphrates" than wargames.

[Fishbed]

1984. Oh my, am I the youngest game nerd out there?!

[Kadrin]

1986. Got ya beat by 2 years.

[TOMLABEL]

ORIGINAL: Fishbed

1984. Oh my, am I the youngest game nerd out there?!

Holy cow! That's the year I graduated high school![:D]

Boy, do I feel old now....

TOMLABEL

[treespider]

ORIGINAL: TOMLABEL

ORIGINAL: Fishbed

1984. Oh my, am I the youngest game nerd out there?!

Holy cow! That's the year I graduated high school![:D]

Boy, do I feel old now....

TOMLABEL

Feel your pain..

[Mynok]

Me too. I'd already been playing SL and COI for years when 84 showed up. [X(]

[Snowman999]

ORIGINAL: TOMLABEL

ORIGINAL: Fishbed

1984. Oh my, am I the youngest game nerd out there?!

Holy cow! That's the year I graduated high school![:D]

Boy, do I feel old now....

TOMLABEL

Don't feel bad. That's the year I finished SSBN patrol #6. After college.

[Oldguard1970]

yes.  1947
 
I played Tactics II and the old Gettysburg with squares and rectangular infanty units.  What a wonderful innovation hexagons were!  What an even better improvement computers brought to the hobby. 

[Big B]

Wow, what a thread.

I read the original post and and thought "Combat Results Table...what else?". Then I read "Cathode Ray Tube" and thought "Gee, that wasn't what I was thinking", but my son said "no Dad, you were right".

So anyway, yep, CRT - the only way to intelligently resolve action on a board game.

Oh, the year I was born,...[8|]...ok - 1956.


B

EDIT: I forgot to mention - definately a Grognard. There wasn't an AH (or SPI) wargame that came out that I didn't try...still have many of them. In fact my son, a friend and I even got out 'AH Battle of the Bulge' and played it a few months ago....ahhhh cadboard! [:)]

[hvymtl13]

ORIGINAL: OSO

Yes. 1966

I graduated from the CRT to the IFT.

Here here! IFT > CRT
61

ORIGINAL: Grotius

Definitely a grognard. Played almost every Avalon Hill game from Tactics II on, though the ones that first really grabbed me were "Gettysburg" and "D-Day." Eventually became a "Third Reich" and "Advanced Squad Leader" junkie. The addiction to ASL didn't fade until the era of the PC. I still play board games, but more along the lines of "Puerto Rico" and "Tigris and Euphrates" than wargames.

ASL is still around. Only now it's called Combat Mission. [&o] And you don;'t need a peice of thread to check LOS! [8D]

[Grotius]

ASL is still around. Only now it's called Combat Mission. And you don;'t need a peice of thread to check LOS!

Hehe, not only do I have thread; I have dozens of Plano boxes with ASL counters; umpteen sets of dice; huge clear plastic sheets under which I used to put Historical ASL boards; several three-ring binders full of rules; you name it.

I take it you mean Combat Mission, the computer game? I just never could get into it. It's the same idea as ASL, but somehow it didn't capture my imagination. Somehow WiTP did.

[Nikademus]

for sheer level of sophistication, you can't beat Hasbro's "Battleship"

[Knavey]

ORIGINAL: ny59giants

How many attacks did I launch with only a 6 being my friend and a 1 a complete disaster. [:D]

1959

Took me 6 posts to remember that I do know what a CRT is!

1969

[wworld7]

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

for sheer level of sophistication, you can't beat Hasbro's "Battleship"

The original, not the electronic one.