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RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2014 5:37 am
by runescapecheapgold
When I was child ,I'd like go to fishing with my father,and got older ,I enjoyed FIFA!
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2014 3:34 pm
by Big B
Oh the memories!
I hated the 1D6 CRT....so glad when they went to 2D6 in later games
ORIGINAL: crsutton
ORIGINAL: wegman58
Avalon Hill - the gateway drug for a lot of us. AFRIKA KORPS - the all important die roll for the attack on Tobruk.
2-1 odds
This may be off a bit.
1: Attacker eliminated
2: Attacker back
3: Exchange (with the attacker always taking the higher loss)
4: Exchange
5: Defender back
6: Defender eliminated
You had to have a 3-1 to get rid of the attacker eliminated result. The one die CRT was brutal and showed no mercy.
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 10:51 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: runescapecheapgold
When I was child ,I'd like go to fishing with my father,and got older ,I enjoyed FIFA!
I would remind you that in WitP-AE you're allowed to bite. No suspensions.
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 8:47 am
by HansBolter
ORIGINAL: crsutton
ORIGINAL: wegman58
Avalon Hill - the gateway drug for a lot of us. AFRIKA KORPS - the all important die roll for the attack on Tobruk.
2-1 odds
This may be off a bit.
1: Attacker eliminated
2: Attacker back
3: Exchange (with the attacker always taking the higher loss)
4: Exchange
5: Defender back
6: Defender eliminated
You had to have a 3-1 to get rid of the attacker eliminated result. The one die CRT was brutal and showed no mercy.
Lost track of this thread for a while. Came back today to discover this. Damn it brings back fond memories.
I recall once in high school days of spending the night at my buddies house and playing AK on his living room floor till dawn.
We played 4 games switching sides each time and every time the game came down to the 2-1 on Tobruk.
Third Reich (our favorite go to multiplayer game we based our Friday/Saturday night gaming around in my 20s and 30s) had a similar decisive element in its CRT with te results for a 1-1 attack.
One chance in six to kill the enemy.....one chance in six to kill yourself.....gotta love it.
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 10:15 am
by John 3rd
Those die rolls were pretty crazy! Remember them with great fondness and FEAR!
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 11:16 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: runescapecheapgold
When I was child ,I'd like go to fishing with my father,and got older ,I enjoyed FIFA!
Moderator, you can't let these skalawags in here. Use your photon cannons and ask questions later.
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 9:50 pm
by Skyros
Started with Stalingrad in 1970, then Ak and D-Day. Owned over 60 games from SPI, Yaquinto,Mayfair, AH etc. Played D&D, Runequest, and of course moved on to computer games. Started with Pacwar in 90s moved on to WiTP and then AE. All that I play now is AE and Catania with my daughters. Still have the old games though, no time or room to play them.
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 9:58 pm
by Bearcat2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOBwVJQi6_Y
Surprised no one mentioned The Swamp Fox, starring Leslie Nielsen, 1954, it was in COLOR, of course no had color TV's. 1st episode above
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 1:20 am
by rockmedic109
I saw the last 10 mins of one episode or movie just after I got back from a camping trip. It was on Disney's Sunday night "Wonderful World of Disney". Never saw it again.
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 8:18 am
by wegman58
A bit before my time. But I did a reserve cruise on USS FRANCIS MARION (LPA-249) in 1977. Norfolk to London, Copenhagen (took a ferry to Malmo on the Sunday Borg won his second British Open - Sweden was closed) and Bremerhaven before back to the US. That was when I first heard of the Swamp Fox.
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 8:58 am
by HansBolter
Just watched an old war flick last night I had never seen before.
Attack on the Iron Coast starring LLoyd Bridges:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxyyDKCgULs
Was a fictionalized version of the Raid on St. Nazaire.
The target was LeClair and the premise was an old destroyer packed with explosives to be rammed into the dock accompanied by a Canadain commando raid on the port.
I always wondered why in that era of movie making they didn't just depict the actual operation, but instead create fictionalized versions of them.
It brought back fond memoires of the old AH solitaire game Raid on St. Nazaire.
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 7:43 pm
by wdolson
ORIGINAL: HansBolter
Just watched an old war flick last night I had never seen before.
Attack on the Iron Coast starring LLoyd Bridges:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxyyDKCgULs
Was a fictionalized version of the Raid on St. Nazaire.
The target was LeClair and the premise was an old destroyer packed with explosives to be rammed into the dock accompanied by a Canadain commando raid on the port.
I always wondered why in that era of movie making they didn't just depict the actual operation, but instead create fictionalized versions of them.
It brought back fond memoires of the old AH solitaire game Raid on St. Nazaire.
US movie studios probably fictionalized these stories so they could star Americans. These days audiences will sit still for movies which have no Americans in them, but that wasn't so (or wasn't thought to be so) back in the 1950s.
Bill
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 8:32 pm
by moore4807
Avalon Hill... I actually got invited to the AH Baltimore offices in the early 80's (when I was in High school) to pitch a board based wargame idea I had. The "idea" was to use the Luftwaffe game counters on a large strategic board of Europe, and using the AD&D 20sided and percentile dice sets were to determine occurrence/effectiveness of the aerial raid vs. the defense of the Luftwaffe.(think very vaguely of GGs 12 o clock high on standard three fold-out boards AH used)I spent over $50 back then to get a European/African map made up at a print shop to take with me to the meeting. I thought it was brilliant, the old guy and young guy who heard me out quickly tore my idea to shreds as unworkable in just over 1 hour... But after the old guy left, the younger guy told me to keep working on it and come back when I worked out the bugs. I never did/could fix my idea for the mass consumption requirements...
Fortunately those much more experienced than me undertook the task and did it well. <grin>
I for one was really sad to see AH go under, it felt like a family member died.
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 10:21 pm
by TOMLABEL
I watched that too. Never had seen that before. I thought it was pretty good.
TOMLABEL
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 11:56 pm
by 98ZJUSMC
ORIGINAL: wegman58
Shipboard life meant that the wargames were lost in the past.
Deployments/PCS/OCONUS FTXs.....sad.
All vanished into the mist somewhere.
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 12:03 am
by 98ZJUSMC
Or Midway.
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 10:56 am
by crsutton
ORIGINAL: wdolson
ORIGINAL: HansBolter
Just watched an old war flick last night I had never seen before.
Attack on the Iron Coast starring LLoyd Bridges:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxyyDKCgULs
Was a fictionalized version of the Raid on St. Nazaire.
The target was LeClair and the premise was an old destroyer packed with explosives to be rammed into the dock accompanied by a Canadain commando raid on the port.
I always wondered why in that era of movie making they didn't just depict the actual operation, but instead create fictionalized versions of them.
It brought back fond memoires of the old AH solitaire game Raid on St. Nazaire.
US movie studios probably fictionalized these stories so they could star Americans. These days audiences will sit still for movies which have no Americans in them, but that wasn't so (or wasn't thought to be so) back in the 1950s.
Bill
Yes, that is how William Holden found himself stuck in a British POW camp in the movie version of "The Bridge Over the River Kwai." American studio heads were convinced the movie had to have an American in order to sell.
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 10:58 am
by crsutton
ORIGINAL: moore4807
Avalon Hill... I actually got invited to the AH Baltimore offices in the early 80's (when I was in High school) to pitch a board based wargame idea I had. The "idea" was to use the Luftwaffe game counters on a large strategic board of Europe, and using the AD&D 20sided and percentile dice sets were to determine occurrence/effectiveness of the aerial raid vs. the defense of the Luftwaffe.(think very vaguely of GGs 12 o clock high on standard three fold-out boards AH used)I spent over $50 back then to get a European/African map made up at a print shop to take with me to the meeting. I thought it was brilliant, the old guy and young guy who heard me out quickly tore my idea to shreds as unworkable in just over 1 hour... But after the old guy left, the younger guy told me to keep working on it and come back when I worked out the bugs. I never did/could fix my idea for the mass consumption requirements...
Fortunately those much more experienced than me undertook the task and did it well. <grin>
I for one was really sad to see AH go under, it felt like a family member died.
Reed Street in Baltimore. They had their own game store in the basement. I used to ride my BSA up there to buy parts and games.
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 12:48 pm
by Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: crsutton
ORIGINAL: wdolson
ORIGINAL: HansBolter
Just watched an old war flick last night I had never seen before.
Attack on the Iron Coast starring LLoyd Bridges:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxyyDKCgULs
Was a fictionalized version of the Raid on St. Nazaire.
The target was LeClair and the premise was an old destroyer packed with explosives to be rammed into the dock accompanied by a Canadain commando raid on the port.
I always wondered why in that era of movie making they didn't just depict the actual operation, but instead create fictionalized versions of them.
It brought back fond memoires of the old AH solitaire game Raid on St. Nazaire.
US movie studios probably fictionalized these stories so they could star Americans. These days audiences will sit still for movies which have no Americans in them, but that wasn't so (or wasn't thought to be so) back in the 1950s.
Bill
Yes, that is how William Holden found himself stuck in a British POW camp in the movie version of "The Bridge Over the River Kwai." American studio heads were convinced the movie had to have an American in order to sell.
In this case, they would have been right...
I think William Holden (and his character) were integral to the plot and the development of that fine movie. The camp also had Aussies and other nationals in it and would have been diminished in its scope, scale and impact had it been an (unrealistic) All-British exclusive camp and plot.
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 1:51 pm
by crsutton
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: crsutton
ORIGINAL: wdolson
US movie studios probably fictionalized these stories so they could star Americans. These days audiences will sit still for movies which have no Americans in them, but that wasn't so (or wasn't thought to be so) back in the 1950s.
Bill
Yes, that is how William Holden found himself stuck in a British POW camp in the movie version of "The Bridge Over the River Kwai." American studio heads were convinced the movie had to have an American in order to sell.
In this case, they would have been right...
I think William Holden (and his character) were integral to the plot and the development of that fine movie. The camp also had Aussies and other nationals in it and would have been diminished in its scope, scale and impact had it been an (unrealistic) All-British exclusive camp and plot.
Well, it was not horrible but he was not in the novel and that seemed to work out just fine.