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ORIGINAL: Ian R

Prussians ....at Quatre Bras

??????? [:D]

They had obviously been drinkign [hic]!

But can you also recreate the 1-1 column from Napoleon at Waterloo and all its progeny?

No, having already advanced in years,by the time that one came out, to the point where the CRT was usually covered with the "wetrings" of my empties I must admit to a certain level of forgetfulness.

Prussians ....at Quatre Bras

???????

One must harken back to the dim dark days before Napoleon at Waterloo to AH's Waterloo. A big hill (doubled defense factors) with woods on either flank right smack in the middle of the board. Ligny was just a named spot on the map with absolutely nothing to recommend it as a place to fight a battle.

The true test of a grognard: who has played The Longest Day campaign solitaire from start to finish?

[:D]

30 years after it came out, I still have 'Wacht am Rhein' - my favorite board game.
 
Clear 1-1
Broken 2-1
Woods, Village, Night Combat 3-1
Die
Roll
1     D2
2     D1
3     A1
4     A1(1)
5     A2(1)
6     A2(2)
 
Worse was practicing with different dice to see which one's came up with 1's or 6's more often before a crucial role. [:D][:D]  Had to find the "hot" die.

The true test of a grognard: who has played The Longest Day campaign solitaire from start to finish

If that be you then playing War in Europe through 1941 by snail mail makes me just "a babe in the woods" by comparision.

Yes. 1966

I graduated from the CRT to the IFT.

The Wacht am Rhein game system was brilliant; Atlantic Wall was even better, with the ability to break regiments down into companies. But that situation was hopeless for the Germans.

Ideal would have been using this same system for operation Typhoon, or the operations in Ukraine in winter 42-43 or in North Africa....

I have never played WiE solo, but I had some friends and we played it from 1939 to 1945 somewhere around 200 times. [:)]

ORIGINAL: flipperwasirish

Duh...Combat Results Table oh God how I miss those.

1959 The Year of the Dolphin

1950. Year of the Patriot [:D]

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The true test of a grognard: who has played The Longest Day campaign solitaire from start to finish
 
Someone claimed to have played CNA somewhere, once, or at least some turns of it, didn't they? What CNA needed was computerisation of the detail tracking - and then it would be like playing........ WitP!

1958... started with AH D-Day and Battle of the Bulge.

Now I'm fighting the Battle of the Bulge on a different front

ORIGINAL: Ian R

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The true test of a grognard: who has played The Longest Day campaign solitaire from start to finish

Someone claimed to have played CNA somewhere, once, or at least some turns of it, didn't they? What CNA needed was computerisation of the detail tracking - and then it would be like playing........ WitP!

Me and Halsey played CNA, twice. We are both 1-and-1 [;)]

1950. The local newspaper wrote us up in the late 70's for playing SPI's War In Europe every Saturday in the basement of the local hobby shop. It was my game (still have it), so I got to play the Axis.

Yes.
Had all the Squad Leaders (and other games), and played them while at sea. My favorite for playability, and small scale, essential when you had to write down all the locations for the next time you set up, was Tactics II.

1965.

SPI Civil War Series were my favs but cat kept messing up map & units so never got through whole game. TLD took to long to set up for me so never really got started, wish I still had all of them though.

1971 here...

Played Squad Leader a fair bit when I was in the corps then didn't wargame again until Uncommon Valor showed me how little spare time I had...then WitP took that away...[:D]

Nope. I thought CRT was the TV screen. I was born in 1966, Year of the Horse.

The non-roleplaying tabletop games that I've played alot are Kingmaker, Axis and Allies, Shogun, Warhammer 40K, and Queen's Gambit.

Needless to say, I'm learning alot in WitP. [:)]

Yes, 1961

My favorite game series of all time was Europa. Played Fire in the East until the counters wore out.
 
Next favorite was Squad leader and ASL.
 
I iss the old days. Especially when Im waiting for a turn of WITP to show up in the mail=)