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Ditto for me Raver

Thanks for resurrecting it Pauk

ORIGINAL: Raverdave

42 now.........I was 40 when this thread first started [:@]

36 and Axis & Allies  was my first game, first AH/ Victory game was Devils Den  bought it on our Honeymoon 14 yrs ago Wife said sure go ahead   hehehe  now she's sorry!!!!!!!!!  Have a huge closet full of board game's I don't play and a whole shelf of cd's I look at while I watch My Japs bomb the Allies in WITP  !!!      

38 and ASL was the first about 20 years ago. Huge Harpoon fan. WITP is my favorite.

Mike

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ORIGINAL: buzzz123

Amazing that a thread started 6 years ago is still running. We all need to get a life!
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6 years?

 
 
Ummm. It IS 2010 now. Isnt it???

ORIGINAL: Mynok

ORIGINAL: AU Tiger


I ran across an old copy of Tactics II after I was into the Squad Leader series. At first glance it was quaint, I thought. A buddy of mine and I started playing it, and soon forgot about Squad Leader. Tactics II was FUN!

I wish I still had the thing...

Still have mine. [;)] You ever come up to North Carolina we'll run a game.

I just might. Wait a minute... NORTH Carolina... Ain't that somewhere up there near New York?

38 years, starting with Avalon hill pc-games ,, operation crusader was the firts and of course CIV 1,, where the BBs were the stronger units once you build them ,, you conquer everything

ORIGINAL: Naskra

Tactics II would have been a decent game if Charles Roberts hadn't been such a BlueFanBoy.

Oh no! Another RedFanBoy rears his ugly head.[:D][:D]

The Tactics II database for a Red Inf Div gives an Assault Value of 1 (!) and a range of 1 (!!).  The historical
TO&Es for this unit indicate at least twice that.  IRL any 1/2" square red cardboard counter would be more than a match for any blue "citizen-soldier" formation.

ORIGINAL: Naskra

The Tactics II database for a Red Inf Div gives an Assault Value of 1 (!) and a range of 1 (!!). The historical
TO&Es for this unit indicate at least twice that. IRL any 1/2" square red cardboard counter would be more than a match for any blue "citizen-soldier" formation.

LOL

ORIGINAL: Naskra

The Tactics II database for a Red Inf Div gives an Assault Value of 1 (!) and a range of 1 (!!). The historical
TO&Es for this unit indicate at least twice that. IRL any 1/2" square red cardboard counter would be more than a match for any blue "citizen-soldier" formation.

I doubt it. Anyway, if you really think red got robbed you can easily mod the unit stats.

will be 55 on december 7. born in 1951. started palying tactics 2 in 1962 or so when it first came out. progressed through spi, panzerblitz and the monster games. first computer games were on an apple 2c in 1984 (kampfgruppe; battlegroup; gray seas, gray skies; fighter command). first games for my pc were simcity and red storm rining sub game.

now it's pretty much witp, wpo, toaw3, civ3. will look at caw and bob/botr.

55. Started with AH's 1914, I thing it was in 1914 (seriously around 1969 or 70 ?). Have over a hundred old boardgames and over a hundred computer wargame CDs. I don't play the boardgames any more, but I do wargame on the computer almost daily. I almost always wargamed solitaire anyway and the computer is excellent for that. I am greatful for all the work put in by designers over the years. The genre has grown and improved and the "hobby" is better than it has ever been.

1914 was a great game. IIRC, I was given the game in 1970. I had many hours of play with that. Unfortunately, it was a little too deep/long for my few opponents. It is a little difficult playing those games w/o an opponent. The few boardgames (A/H SPI) I have left have been untouched for about 20 years,

43.
I stopped wargaming at 25 and only restarted 3 years ago.
Wish I could roll back the clock 20 years and not make the mistake of getting hitched to Wife Mk1 and loosing my hobby. I have an Ex Mk1 so everythings fine now [:D] - but the GF Mk3 is starting to impact my WitP time [X(]

Just found this thread.  Hilarious.

I'm 46.  Been wargaming since age 10.  My sister bought me Panzer Blitz for Christmas.  She cursed that to her dying day. [:D]  I have a closet full of board games, but my wife and daughter blindsided me while I was deployed.  I had the war room (mine, all mine - the only place in the house where I could say that [:D]).  While I was gone (2004-5), they moved my daughter's menagerie (various birds and rodents) into the room after dismantling my table.  The only thing that saved me was that I got WitP when it came out (while deployed). [:D]  Haven't played a boardgame since I got this infernal game.  Some day I'll make my daughter move her rodents and fowl back to her room. [:D]  Probably after I finish my PBEM.....

Edit: Looking over this thread, it started while I was at the mob station. The year I was gone, I didn't have access to this forum so I learned WitP in a vacuum. I spent hundreds of hours playing the AI and learning the Japanese in amazing detail. When I got home and got back on the forum, I started a PBEM and never looked back.

I just discovered this thread as well.
 
Am 40 with two boys ages 3 and 6-months.
 
My favorite boardgames that I started with are Flattop and (I haven't seen ANYONE mention) Iron Bottom Sound.  My best friend and I played countless hours making up a campaign game using Iron Bottom, Destroyer Captain, and Royal Navy.  Several High School girlfriends portested that we liked our campaign more then THEM!  [:D]  Women just never understand...
 
Computer games were brought in for me by the Great Naval Battles series.  STILL love those games...
 
John
 

I'm 29.

Carrier Force rules!

I am 50. Gaming since 1972. First game was SPI’s Year of the Rat. Got subscription to S&T for Christmas, but the first issue came before the introductory game, Napoleon at Waterloo. Mostly have played board and mostly solitaire since, although I was in a wargame club for awhile. First computer game (not including some during my Army service) was Talonsoft’s Battleground: Antietam. While I still prefer boardgames, the limited time I have available for gaming now means it is much easier to do computer games and, naturally, WITP is my game of choice. Nothing like relaxing after a long day of working/commuting by blowing up enemy ships.

I'm three years OLDER since this thread started. [:D]

Yeees, posted this 2.5 years ago:
" 29..for another 6 months at least, so I'm still hanging in there "

Now I'm 32, but nothing else has really changed!-)
Never played many boardgames, mostly because non of my friends were die hard enough.
A few rounds of Axis & Allies, but I rolled snake eyes twice in two games and researched super long range bombers and that was it...

Also got a boardgame called 8th Army, but again - lack of opponents [8|]
Especially good with a site like this when you live in a small town in a small country [8D]