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Aloid, I feel your pain! Your story is my story. Same generation, grew up on Squad Leader, Rise and Fall of The Third Reich, and many others. (Ever get halfway through a game of cardboard armies only have the house cat jump on the table?..looked like a WW3 game after that) In high school a group of gaming friends and I would snicker whenever a classmate mentioned how tough and complex Risk was. [;)]

WITPAE is a game I play for a while and then life (job, kids, wife) stops the game for far too long.

Hang in there, this is a great game and great community.

Welcome aboard, Aloid!
Aren't your avatar taken from excellent game, Emperor of the Fading Suns? I really liked its rich production system, but land warfare could use some slowing down (and S...whateverwastheirname Brain Bugs, could have been more expansive).

I feel the same way. Started in the '70's with games like Panzer Leader and Squad Leader, then graduated to computers, played hell out of UV, and have had WITP-AE, played the Guadalcanal scenario but never a GC. Just starting my first one and looking forward to it. Can't wait to dive in, and have been reading the forum for years now. Welcome aboard to all of us relatively old-timer newbies!

rsallen64, I take it from your screen name you where a tanker in the Army?

Just curious if a fellow "tread-head" was on the board?

Log off this site. Turn off your computer, and run for your life. You will be subsumed. No one will ever see you again. Run, run I say. Your life depends on it. [:D]

Ignore these words at your own peril.[:'(]

jamesjohns: I was, and still miss it very much. Oddly enough, in the job I started two years ago I am working with a retired CSM who is also a fellow tread head. It's a small world.

Wow, thank you all again for the continued welcome!

As I mentioned previously, I had not been able to find a game with the right feeling of being connected to the era. The decisions I made didn’t seem to have meaning in the long run… there was always something visceral that was missing.

So I fired up the grand campaign to get a feel for what AE brings to the table… keeping my first couple turns light… it’s not like every commander had the sparkling clear view of the grand strategy in play on Dec. 8th or 9th…

A couple days in I witnessed Buffaloes catching unescorted Nells and actually doing some damage… Claudes clawing up to altitude to take on some early B-17’s…

It was glorious!! Exactly what I was looking for… and… then…

The Enterprise was torpedoed and sunk South of Pearl…

Thrill and agony…

What have I gotten myself in to?

ORIGINAL: jamesjohns

Aloid, I feel your pain! Your story is my story. Same generation, grew up on Squad Leader, Rise and Fall of The Third Reich, and many others. (Ever get halfway through a game of cardboard armies only have the house cat jump on the table?..looked like a WW3 game after that) In high school a group of gaming friends and I would snicker whenever a classmate mentioned how tough and complex Risk was. [;)]

WITPAE is a game I play for a while and then life (job, kids, wife) stops the game for far too long.

Hang in there, this is a great game and great community.

Yes!! Just finding space for games like Terrible Swift Sword, Operation Crusader, Atlantic Wall... and having the time.... ah... youth. [;)]

ORIGINAL: inqistor

Welcome aboard, Aloid!
Aren't your avatar taken from excellent game, Emperor of the Fading Suns? I really liked its rich production system, but land warfare could use some slowing down (and S...whateverwastheirname Brain Bugs, could have been more expansive).

Good eye... Yes that is House Hawkwood... I was happy to see my Avatar was still loaded here! EFS is one of my favorites and I wish someone would remake it!

ORIGINAL: rustysi

Log off this site. Turn off your computer, and run for your life. You will be subsumed. No one will ever see you again. Run, run I say. Your life depends on it. [:D]

Ignore these words at your own peril.[:'(]

Too late!!! [:D]

ORIGINAL: jamesjohns

(Ever get halfway through a game of cardboard armies only have the house cat jump on the table?..looked like a WW3 game after that)

Our cat never got up on things, my Mom would have skinned it alive. My nemesis was my younger sister, who thought all the colored counters were "cool!" She liked to examine them, and they often didn't end up back in their original location. In some ways, more disastrous than a cat, since one didn't always notice the errant counter until play had continued a bit ... ("hey, you're cheating, that wasn't there before")

ORIGINAL: Aloid

Yes!! Just finding space for games like Terrible Swift Sword, Operation Crusader, Atlantic Wall... and having the time.... ah... youth. [;)]

Or retirement..... It will give you something to look forward to. [:)]

I just hope I will still be able to absorb rulebooks which seem to be the size of encyclopaedias. [:D] One of the goals of maintaining an active mind for your entire life. [;)]

Yes!! Just finding space for games like Terrible Swift Sword, Operation Crusader, Atlantic Wall.

Don't forget 'Wacht(?sp) am Rhine', and 'Overlord'.[:D]

Or retirement.....

Soon... very soon.[;)]

ORIGINAL: rustysi

Yes!! Just finding space for games like Terrible Swift Sword, Operation Crusader, Atlantic Wall.

Don't forget 'Wacht(?sp) am Rhine', and 'Overlord'.[:D]

Or retirement.....

Soon... very soon.[;)]

'retirement' is something an auto shop does to my car every 30,000 miles.

I've been retired 12yr's, played all those games. I am still playing against the AI. I would like to get past 12/42.

I would like to get past 12/42.

You will, you will. My current game auto-vic or not I'm pushing on. So I can 'see behind the curtain'.