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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....

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.

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

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

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]

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.

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.

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

1986. Got ya beat by 2 years.

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

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..

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

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.

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. 

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! [:)]

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]

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.

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

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

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

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

The original, not the electronic one.