Grognard or n00B ?

[RevRick]

ORIGINAL: Kadrin

1986. Got ya beat by 2 years.

EGAD!!! My "baby," i.e., my youngest Son was born that year, and I was 37 years old and my mother thought I was crazy for having a child that late.

[Nikademus]

ORIGINAL: flipperwasirish

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

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

The original, not the electronic one.

of course! no cathod ray tubes for this one......infernal machines!

don't forget Risk! ah the true power of the die roll.

[Canoerebel]

If you combined Risk, Battleship, and Stratego, you'd have everything:  land and sea warfare, leadership, covert ops, and so on.  It would be the ultimate game!  You could throw in Operation to simulate battlefield medical units.

[Nikademus]

ah Stratego!.......

damn Spy....we hate the Spy...and those bombs.....stupid bombs!

[wworld7]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

If you combined Risk, Battleship, and Stratego, you'd have everything:  land and sea warfare, leadership, covert ops, and so on.  It would be the ultimate game!  You could throw in Operation to simulate battlefield medical units.

I heard rumors of people smoking pot, drinking beer and playing Risk back in highschool, but I do NOT remember being involved in such activities.

[Pascal_slith]

1960.
My first game was PanzerBlitz in 1974. What a discovery! Before that it was Milton Bradley's Civil War

I must have CRTs and IFTs and Terrain Charts out the wazoo.

So is there a wargamer down here in Orange County, Southern California?

[Big B]

ORIGINAL: Pascal

So is there a wargamer down here in Orange County, Southern California?

There is an ASL league out here in the OC. I'm sure a google search would turn something up on it.

[spence]

The original, not the electronic one

I played "Battleship" with my father using two pieces of graph paper with a grid set up on them when I was 6 or 7 (mid 50s). Seems like it was a good 10 years later before I saw "Battleship" with plastic boats.

[Charbroiled]

ORIGINAL: 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.

When playing ASL, the unit stacks would get so high, that we would stab them onto pins. Worked great....until you weren't careful picking up the stack, then you would impale a finger. You could really distinguish my game....all of the units had holes in the middle of them for the pins.

edit: the pins also made it easy to slip a string over it for LOS

[Hoplosternum]

1970. And I have so many CRTs it scares me.

ASL is still going strong as a board game although I have never got in to it (played Squad Leader though). It is a bit too much of a lifestyle game for me (one that you play to the exclusion of all others) and I already have one of those: WITP [:D] I have picked up Whispering Death - a sort of squad leader but with planes not troops in the Pacific - with the aim of playing it by email though and still play Squad Leader now and again.

[spence]

Ah....RISK. Played on Ocean Station Patrols back when the pieces were made out of wood (and consequently had some character: long ones, short ones, tall ones...bless them all). Had to put a doubled over piece of masking tape in the center of all the territories to keep the armies from sliding off the table.

[wdolson]

ORIGINAL: hvymtl13
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]

The old fashioned board game is still published too: ASL

They bought the rights from Hasbro shortly after they bought Avalon Hill.

Bill

[Anonymous]

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[hueglin]

Yes

1966

First game I owned myself was AH Arab-Israeli Wars. Also played lots of Third Reich and Squad Leader/Cross of Iron/Crescendo of Doom.

[Local Yokel]

Yes. 1950.

First wargame I played was Dover Patrol - so old it even pre-dates the use of hex grids.[:)]

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Local Yokel

Yes. 1950.

First wargame I played was Dover Patrol - so old it even pre-dates the use of hex grids.[:)]

The origin of hex grids (according to an article i read way back when) is sorta funny... the inventors of TACTICS II were brought in for questioning by (apparently) military intelligence, as apparently some of the things they were doing were considered "TOP SECRET" and the military was investigating a possible leak.

Apparently, they were questioned by military guys who were developing war games by the military, and they were brought to that facility for questioning.

While being questioned, one of the Avalon Hill guys noticed a curious map on the wall with a hexagonal grid superimposed on it, and thought "Hey, that's a good idea!"

The rest is history... [:D]

[Big B]

Interesting,...I wonder if the story is true?

A much earlier method was developed by staggering the squares to get six adjcent areas (like a KriegsMarine map).

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: Local Yokel

Yes. 1950.

First wargame I played was Dover Patrol - so old it even pre-dates the use of hex grids.[:)]

The origin of hex grids (according to an article i read way back when) is sorta funny... the inventors of TACTICS II were brought in for questioning by (apparently) military intelligence, as apparently some of the things they were doing were considered "TOP SECRET" and the military was investigating a possible leak.

Apparently, they were questioned by military guys who were developing war games by the military, and they were brought to that facility for questioning.

While being questioned, one of the Avalon Hill guys noticed a curious map on the wall with a hexagonal grid superimposed on it, and thought "Hey, that's a good idea!"

The rest is history... [:D]

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Big B

Interesting,...I wonder if the story is true?

A much earlier method was developed by staggering the squares to get six adjcent areas (like a KriegsMarine map).

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: Local Yokel

Yes. 1950.

First wargame I played was Dover Patrol - so old it even pre-dates the use of hex grids.[:)]

The origin of hex grids (according to an article i read way back when) is sorta funny... the inventors of TACTICS II were brought in for questioning by (apparently) military intelligence, as apparently some of the things they were doing were considered "TOP SECRET" and the military was investigating a possible leak.

Apparently, they were questioned by military guys who were developing war games by the military, and they were brought to that facility for questioning.

While being questioned, one of the Avalon Hill guys noticed a curious map on the wall with a hexagonal grid superimposed on it, and thought "Hey, that's a good idea!"

The rest is history... [:D]

i had read in an interview/article, and i suspect it is true... the magazine i read it in is long gone i think (there is a slight chance i have it on microfiche).

[Ian R]

The version I heard/read was similar to rtapasso's, except that it involved the AH guys coming up with the idea themselves independently, and subsequently being questioned because the US military had paid Rand Corporation lots of money to think of the same thing.

[Coach Z]

Born 1964
Very First War Game waas PANZERBLITZ!