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I live in Maryland. I'm 35 years old. I am a hard core video gamer since early 80s (Atari to Xbox 360) and then switch to board game (PC/Board Game wargames) for something different.

P.S. I'm deaf : )

Grew up an Army Brat in the Sixties and Seventies, living in many places to say the least. Settled in Missouri when Dad retired. I now live in Saint Louis MO, business computer systems programmer.

20+ years as an Army National Guard Combat Engineer Officer, retired in 2007 as 6 year Major. Main Active duty time was a 15 month call up and deployment to Iraq in 2005-06. My wife is the Senior Major(ret), her date of rank beat me by 1.5 years.

began wargamming in 1976 when I got AH Panzerblitz for Christmas. Never looked back on the Wargame front. FPC:RS, along with Command Naval game, is my first journey back in PC wargames after about 2 years. Last game I bought was the Command Ops series, love those, love this one.

I got back into 'traditional' wargames in a big way about 12 years ago. I love playing them on VASSAL and currently help two companies by making Modules for Playtesting and the release version.

Italian here, 45 years old.
Only wargamer since 1990, ie no military experience. First wg ASL.

Live in Kansas. Served in Germany (post-Cold War), OIF, OEF. I started playing games in the 1980s, including ASL and a bunch of Victory Games games (6th Fleet, NATO, etc.). First computer wargame I remember playing was SSI's "Tigers in the Snow" -- it took about 20 minutes to load it from the cassette onto my Commodore 64.

In Maryland - got started as a kid with a blend of board and computer games; Red Storm Rising on board and Second Front on computer, along with a lot of time on various TOAW, V4V, Harpoon iterations and others in between. No military experience, just always a fan from a very early age.

Relatively recently discovered the matrix site and community with GG's WITE, so hoping to expand my presence from there outward soon...

Another spaniard.....living in Málaga. in Spanish Armed forces since 1992....

Hehehe...


42 Liverpool UK. Loved wargames since my plastic soldiers and a marble. Was never healthy\fit enough to join the forces due to my disability. Military History Obsessive esp WW1...

ORIGINAL: Mrs Darwin

I live in a padded bunker in a nondisclosed US location, east of the Mississippi.

I have loved computerized strategy sims as long as they have existed, although I don't readily admit to being that old.

46, I'm from Roma, Italy.
I play wargames and boardgames since 1979, quite a long time frame [8|]

ORIGINAL: Mad Russian
My first game was Panzer Blitz. When I deployed to Europe I ended up with 10 sets of counters and 4 sets of maps. We would set up division sized fights in Bn HQ and fight all weekend! [:D]

Div-sized game of Panzer Leader at Origins a few years ago.

Yes, that a 5x3 map setup

I'm in Maryland, an old Avalon Hill gamer since the 1970s. Lately I've been busy playtesting for the Strategic Command series, Schwerpunkt games, Empires in Arms, and now Piercing Fortress Europa.

I was an Army infantry officer back in the 1980s with the 101st Airborne and then 1st Armored in Bamberg, Germany (hence, pzgndr).

I still have not had time to get into this game yet but it's definitely on my list, along with World in Flames coming out next month.

ORIGINAL: bayonetbrant

ORIGINAL: Mad Russian
My first game was Panzer Blitz. When I deployed to Europe I ended up with 10 sets of counters and 4 sets of maps. We would set up division sized fights in Bn HQ and fight all weekend! [:D]

Div-sized game of Panzer Leader at Origins a few years ago.

Yes, that a 5x3 map setup

We only had 5 sets of counters for Panzer Leader! But we would mix maps like you guys did there as well. [:D]


Good Hunting.

MR

I wasn't crazy enough to play in that one - I just took the picture! (It was some friends of mine that spend 2 days playing it at Origins)


Me:
Wargaming since early 80s
14 years in the Army
Lots of years growing up in it before that
Armor / Cav / Intel guy
Game designer and website operator, when not earning a living doing things people actually fay for

Probably a fake picture: I don't see beers around the map ! [:D] [:D] [:D]

New Zealander now; in the British Army 26 years - first posting 3 Div BAOR 1980 ... spent 7 of next 10 years all over these maps, although in the abstracted supply chain (RAOC and REME)

Gaming since mid 70s for fun, then did more in the Army under the guise of Operational Analysis.

ORIGINAL: nukkxx

Probably a fake picture: I don't see beers around the map ! [:D] [:D] [:D]

it was 10am! (the beer came out around 11. Much earlier and people would've asked why they weren't fishing)

From New Jersey, USA. Craft/Artisanal Beer Geek Sales at a Liqour Store in NJ. Been computer wargaming on and off since High School. Got back into it after reading Team Yankee, which was recommended to me by my late Uncle Bill who was a Armored Cavalrymen stationed in Korea during the 60's/70's. I have never served in the Armed Forces, but I have family and friends who have. I used to be into operational/tactical WW2 computer wargaming, but Cold War gone hot has been peeking my interests lately.

Anyways I was a longtime lurker until now, and have been loving this game since purchasing it.

Btw- speaking of Team Yankee, would it be possible to create a "Team Yankee" campaign?

Thanks.

ORIGINAL: Elfastball7

Anyways I was a longtime lurker until now, and have been loving this game since purchasing it.

Btw- speaking of Team Yankee, would it be possible to create a "Team Yankee" campaign?

Thanks.

Welcome to the forums!

Thanks for buying the game.

Anything is possible to create with the game I've thought about doing some conversions.

There are so many out there. All the board game scenarios/campaigns. All the book scenarios/campaigns. All our expansion and module ideas. All those untapped theaters and time frames.

I'm thinking I'm going to have to let someone else do some of these conversions. There is just so much time.

The goal is to add more content to the game anytime we have an interaction with the FPC community. Whether that is a patch, an update, an expansion or a new module. Nothing is out of the realm of possibility.

Good Hunting.

MR