Our Ages.....

[Copper]

only 17, but i was there at Austerlitz, Ver dun, and El Alamien!

[Lex Talionis]

ORIGINAL: kev_uk

ORIGINAL: Lex Talionis

But for me "Arnhem" was the daddy of them all[&o][&o][&o][&o][&o][&o]. From looking at the "Highway To The Reich" site, HTTR seems to be based on the Spectrum "Arnhem" original! Been meaning to get that game.

Yup, I remember Arnhem, by R.T Smith (I think he works on the AI for the Total War series now, not sure tho). He also did Desert Rats as well, which was brill. Arnhem though, yeah that was a classic. AI was dumb as anything, but I enjoyed trying to hold onto the bridge with my paras against overwhelming odds whilst XXX Corps tried to make it up the highway..great stuff. He also did one based on Torch as well, never played that one though.

Another speccy game I liked was based on the Lynx helicopter, you had to shuttle troops all over this map to bolster defences and engage in A/G combat as well, having to outfit your Lynx with either troops or munitions...great game.

BTW I am 33 next tuesday!

Combat Lynx!!! was the name of it. I had it too but would never survive too long[:(]. I didn't like the "view from behind" perspective, it didn't allow you too target well at all. Thinking back now, the sound fx for it were terrible[8|]. Who'd have thought back then we'd now have games, graphics and sounds that we do now.

If we think that the games, graphics and sounds are good now, I wonder what they'll be like in say 5-10 years from now???[&:]

Will they be a virtual world? Will it cook your dinner and do your ironing aswell???[:D] And will it call in sick for you when we're still only as far as playing turn 875 of WITP which will be by then an obsolete and rated as a classic game and viewed similar to Pacwar.

[ctid98]

ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker

ORIGINAL: Iron Duke

Hi,

------------47---------- 1st computer wargame was Eastern Front? by Chris Crawford but it was GG and SSI that got me hooked.

Love the name "IronDuke". Wellington aside, probably one ofthe best names for a battleship ever. "Warspite" is another. Dreadnought of course. The British had some of the best names, along with France. (Sans Pareil is brilliant) Was never a big fan of naming ships after towns, states, counties however. Boring and politically motivated.

Then of course you have the British tradition of naming ships after girlfriends and wifes: HMS Battleaxe..........[;)]

[Ron Saueracker]

ORIGINAL: ctid98

ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker

ORIGINAL: Iron Duke

Hi,

------------47---------- 1st computer wargame was Eastern Front? by Chris Crawford but it was GG and SSI that got me hooked.

Love the name "IronDuke". Wellington aside, probably one ofthe best names for a battleship ever. "Warspite" is another. Dreadnought of course. The British had some of the best names, along with France. (Sans Pareil is brilliant) Was never a big fan of naming ships after towns, states, counties however. Boring and politically motivated.

Then of course you have the British tradition of naming ships after girlfriends and wifes: HMS Battleaxe..........[;)]

And parts of their anatomy? HMS Pink of the Flower class, or more appropriately, deFlowered class.[:D]

[Mr.Frag]

Then of course you have the British tradition of naming ships after girlfriends and wifes: HMS Battleaxe..........

Thought it was after mother-in-laws [:D]

[Sonny]

There was no Tacitcs I (I didn't know it at the time and kept looking). It was named Tatics II (IIRC) because it represented WW II - not because it was the second game of that name.

(At least that is how I remember it - but that was long long ago).

[kev_uk]

ORIGINAL: Lex Talionis

ORIGINAL: kev_uk

ORIGINAL: Lex Talionis

But for me "Arnhem" was the daddy of them all[&o][&o][&o][&o][&o][&o]. From looking at the "Highway To The Reich" site, HTTR seems to be based on the Spectrum "Arnhem" original! Been meaning to get that game.

Yup, I remember Arnhem, by R.T Smith (I think he works on the AI for the Total War series now, not sure tho). He also did Desert Rats as well, which was brill. Arnhem though, yeah that was a classic. AI was dumb as anything, but I enjoyed trying to hold onto the bridge with my paras against overwhelming odds whilst XXX Corps tried to make it up the highway..great stuff. He also did one based on Torch as well, never played that one though.

Another speccy game I liked was based on the Lynx helicopter, you had to shuttle troops all over this map to bolster defences and engage in A/G combat as well, having to outfit your Lynx with either troops or munitions...great game.

BTW I am 33 next tuesday!

Combat Lynx!!! was the name of it. I had it too but would never survive too long[:(]. I didn't like the "view from behind" perspective, it didn't allow you too target well at all. Thinking back now, the sound fx for it were terrible[8|]. Who'd have thought back then we'd now have games, graphics and sounds that we do now.

If we think that the games, graphics and sounds are good now, I wonder what they'll be like in say 5-10 years from now???[&:]

Will they be a virtual world? Will it cook your dinner and do your ironing aswell???[:D] And will it call in sick for you when we're still only as far as playing turn 875 of WITP which will be by then an obsolete and rated as a classic game and viewed similar to Pacwar.

Yeah Combat Lynx! Yes, it was bloody awkward to control the damn thing, I remember that alright, but I loved the aspect of having to layout your Lynx, how many troops, A/G weaponary etc.

Did you ever play Desert Rats or the Torch one? Desert Rats was great, spent many a evening playing that whilst I should have been revising for my O levels...fond memories. Lord of Midnight? Doomdarks Revenge? Classics, firmly engrained in the memory of my youth of early gaming.....

Yes, the future for gaming from the halycon days of the 80s looks promising. What I am looking forward to is a learning AI, an AI which learns from your moves/tactics/strategy and adapts as necessary. Neural networks offered something similar, but that seemed to die a death, unless I am mistaken.

[joliverlay]

49!

I remember tactics II, midway, gettesburg (rectulanger counters)....Avalon Hill and then came Strategy and Tactics

Favorites:

Boardgames: War in Russia, War in the East, War in Europe! S&T Pacific War

Computer Games: War in Russia, Bombing the Reich, North Atlantic 86, and USAAF (all by Gary Grigsby it think.)

25 mm minitures (ancients....have not played in over 20 years!)

Now of couse UV and soon War in the Pacific!

I thought war gaming had died before I found Matrix Games. Thank you so much!

[52nd Lowland]

Arnhem was a great game for the Speccy..i remember getting a copy out of the local library and just keeping it[:)]Desert Rats was great as well but wasnt too keen on Vulcan,the Operation Torch version.
I remember Combat Lynx as well,thought that was a good game for its time,especially using the lay minefield option to protect ur bases while shuttling about the map with troops etc.
Those were the days [:)]

[Lex Talionis]

ORIGINAL: kev_uk

Yeah Combat Lynx! Yes, it was bloody awkward to control the damn thing, I remember that alright, but I loved the aspect of having to layout your Lynx, how many troops, A/G weaponary etc.

Did you ever play Desert Rats or the Torch one? Desert Rats was great, spent many a evening playing that whilst I should have been revising for my O levels...fond memories. Lord of Midnight? Doomdarks Revenge? Classics, firmly engrained in the memory of my youth of early gaming.....

Yes, the future for gaming from the halycon days of the 80s looks promising. What I am looking forward to is a learning AI, an AI which learns from your moves/tactics/strategy and adapts as necessary. Neural networks offered something similar, but that seemed to die a death, unless I am mistaken.

I never played Desert Rats or Torch at all. Didn't know how to get hold of them [&:] I was young and naive[8|]. Arnhem was purely luck, it was given me by a friend who didn't like it, lucky me[:D]. Don't remember Lord of Midnight? Doomdarks Revenge?, though my brothers may have had them. Stupid really, we each had our own collections[8|].

[Lex Talionis]

ORIGINAL: 52nd Lowland

Arnhem was a great game for the Speccy..i remember getting a copy out of the local library and just keeping it[:)]Desert Rats was great as well but wasnt too keen on Vulcan,the Operation Torch version.
I remember Combat Lynx as well,thought that was a good game for its time,especially using the lay minefield option to protect ur bases while shuttling about the map with troops etc.
Those were the days [:)]

Thats probably why I used to lose all the time: spent too much time putting an impenatrable barrier of minefields around the main base that the others were easily captured. You spent ages deciding on weapons loadouts after assessing the current situation, then as soon as you were enroute to another base, they would attack another and you'd have all the wrong hardware to counter them[:@], and not enough fuel.

[52nd Lowland]

Yep going towards the end of the game in Combat Lynx the enemy would be swarming around your main base as all the others had been captured D O H
However it was a good premise to start with and i did spend a long period of time playing the game..if only to lose every single time.
I still play Arnhem and Desert Rats after downloading them from the Underdogs website,so much for the passage of time affecting those classics.

[Marc von Martial]

31, turning 32 in August.

KAMPFGRUPPE and PANZERGRENADIER on the C64 started all this crap [;)].

Before the C64 I had a tabletop game (don´t recall the company) called "Fulda Gap". But nobody played it with me and it was too complex (at that age) to play alone.

[pauk]

ahhh... we were young....

[Oliver Heindorf]

ORIGINAL: pauk

ahhh... we were young....

hehehe, the good old times (and forums names)

[pauk]

yes, some of them are MIA...

[m10bob]

Not 60 yet.

Master practitioner of the P 38 at night.

Proud (albeit humble) creator of the canteen cup Peach cobbler/pound cake delight![;)]

[VSWG]

ORIGINAL: pauk

ahhh... we were young....

Speak for yourself! [:'(] I'm 26.

[langley]

45 (46 in three months)
Started by playing some of the old SSI games in the early 1980's like "warship".

[captskillet]

50, started out with Ah's Panzer Leader back in 1979!