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Grogheads.com has a board wargaming section and many of the folks that visit here are also members there.

Thanks for the tip.....I will check out Grogheads...........I actually do have a website I setup some years back for my gaming hobbies...I lost track of my password and am having difficulty getting the people to let me set a new one.....It was one of those freebie websites but it worked well for a starting place.....

I just passed my 35th anniversary as a wargamer. Longer than that, if you count my many failed attempts at designing and constructing my own games. (I even used a Lite Brite machine for a time.) On Columbus day of '78 I bought Tactics II for five dollars at a mall toy store. I was instantly hooked. By the mid 90s I had most of the AH titles along with an untold number of SPI, GDW, and Victory Games products. I think ASL was my last board game purchase. By '92 I was "converted" to PC wargames and the board games spent more time on the shelf.

I never found a good way of solving the cat problem. I remember in the early 80s having had the Europa module of the invasion of France set up, with all of its hundreds (maybe thousands?) of counters in the right hexes. I went out for a few hours and came home to cat-produced piles of counters all over the table and the floor.

D-Day was a favorite, as was Fortress Europa, later. They look terribly primitive today, but they did play well and my imagination filled in the gaps as far as the "graphics" went.

Just curious, what does 28ID stand for? If you don't mind me asking!

Probably the Keystone

That's what I was thinking. My Dad was in the 28th ID during WWII.

I guess there are still many old time gamers around...I suppose we are not yet really old though we are working on it.I still am into using my imagination for graphics, even at 50 years old.If I really want extra graphics I get out my 1/32nd scale miniatures and have a huge battle. I will never grow up I suppose.

Well, I'm 71 and still gaming. If there was anyone left, I would still be pushing counters around a paper map and using tweezers to work over the stacks of counters!

ORIGINAL: Zorch

The thing about Afrika Korps was that it usually came down to a 2-1 attack on Tobruk.

Not if you were patient and methodical. In my experience, it usually came down to a 3-to-1 attack on Tobruk. It was only 2-to-1 if I was impatient to get on with it.

ORIGINAL: berto

ORIGINAL: Zorch

The thing about Afrika Korps was that it usually came down to a 2-1 attack on Tobruk.

Not if you were patient and methodical. In my experience, it usually came down to a 3-to-1 attack on Tobruk. It was only 2-to-1 if I was impatient to get on with it.

warspite1

Just like Rommel you mean? [;)]

Fantastic Treale.!! hope I am still gaming at 71....wish I was closer to you and could play a hex and counter game...tweezers and all.....

I'm from Ohio. Been here in Florida since 1997. In the Day, we had 8 of us gamers that would get together and play all day!

Nice....a fellow Buckeye......I am from Salem....just south of Youngstown....I do not mind giving out my location.....I know lots of people will not.

Mansfield here. I'm not familiar with Salem. I know of West Salem, but that is North of Ashland!

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: berto

ORIGINAL: Zorch

The thing about Afrika Korps was that it usually came down to a 2-1 attack on Tobruk.

Not if you were patient and methodical. In my experience, it usually came down to a 3-to-1 attack on Tobruk. It was only 2-to-1 if I was impatient to get on with it.

warspite1

Just like Rommel you mean? [;)]

I could never get 3-1 odds on Tobruk, even using both the 15th and 21st Panzer divisions.

brings back fond memories of my first computer game on tape even; Knights of the Desert by SSI. Fortunately it came with both a cassette tape and a 5-1/4 disk which I later used when I got a drive for my commodore 64. Man those were the days cause Ultima II came out not long after that. I used to play the dog out of Knights of the Desert thoughl. Being my first game I was constantly loading it. Then came Tigers in the Snow (a battle of the bulge game) by SSI once again and I played that one for a long time. Then I forget what came after that but I do remember getting some game about the D-Day invasion Battle for Normandy maybe...another game by SSI. Man those were the days. Real games with real ai's. Always had a tough time with all 3 of them. I miss SSI and Dave Landrey games. (sniff)

I kind of wish I would have got interested in the computer a little sooner than I did as I missed out some of the earliest computer wargames....I do have some of the early games by Sid Miers (not spelled right) Gettysburg, Antietam,Waterloo-Napoleons Last Battle....The graphics are kind of funny to look at when compared to what is out there today but they are kind of neat to play.I may just try installing my Sid Miers games again..I was also just looking at Afrika Corps ....I have the Vassal module for it and would like to play it as I never have.I am finding the Vassal module hard on the eyes though.The sandy yellow terrain makes the hexes hard to see and kind of blinds me...I am about half blind as it is...

ORIGINAL: aaatoysandmore

brings back fond memories of my first computer game on tape even; Knights of the Desert by SSI. Fortunately it came with both a cassette tape and a 5-1/4 disk which I later used when I got a drive for my commodore 64. Man those were the days cause Ultima II came out not long after that. I used to play the dog out of Knights of the Desert thoughl. Being my first game I was constantly loading it. Then came Tigers in the Snow (a battle of the bulge game) by SSI once again and I played that one for a long time. Then I forget what came after that but I do remember getting some game about the D-Day invasion Battle for Normandy maybe...another game by SSI. Man those were the days. Real games with real ai's. Always had a tough time with all 3 of them. I miss SSI and Dave Landrey games. (sniff)

Knights of the Desert was my first computer game as well - partly because it was the only computer wargame the computer store had. and I also had the Tigers in the Snow ( I still remember the cover art on the box).

Rick

ORIGINAL: sweeteye

I was going to suggest the vassal module also but since there is no AI thought they might not be interested in it.I may have to resort to using the Vassal module myself again for two reasons...I do not have a human opponent to get a game going with at my apartment so vassal multiplayer is looking like a good alternative...Also,I woke up to find that my kitten decided to jump up on the table and lay down right in the middle of the board..Going to try and get the counters back into their positions but it will be difficult to put them back where they were originally were....Darn Cat[:@] At least Vassal is kitten proof...

I used to put my game maps up on the rail around the stair well. I had an attic room as a youth which Dad had finished. After a good many months slogging solitaire through a grand campaign of Victory Games Civil War (oh that was a great one), my cat decided (for the first time ever) to hop up and stroll along that rail. Well as soon as she stepped on that mapboard all disappeared down the stairwell in a now-funny then catastrophic whirlwind of bawling, scrabbling cat and counters. I found counters for months in odd corners.

ORIGINAL: Rick

ORIGINAL: aaatoysandmore

brings back fond memories of my first computer game on tape even; Knights of the Desert by SSI. Fortunately it came with both a cassette tape and a 5-1/4 disk which I later used when I got a drive for my commodore 64. Man those were the days cause Ultima II came out not long after that. I used to play the dog out of Knights of the Desert thoughl. Being my first game I was constantly loading it. Then came Tigers in the Snow (a battle of the bulge game) by SSI once again and I played that one for a long time. Then I forget what came after that but I do remember getting some game about the D-Day invasion Battle for Normandy maybe...another game by SSI. Man those were the days. Real games with real ai's. Always had a tough time with all 3 of them. I miss SSI and Dave Landrey games. (sniff)

Knights of the Desert was my first computer game as well - partly because it was the only computer wargame the computer store had. and I also had the Tigers in the Snow ( I still remember the cover art on the box).

Rick

Wasn't it neat how simple the games were yet just complex enough to be wargames like Avalon Hill made cept on a computer. Wonderful games in wonderful times. Still to me the 80's and early 90's were the golden age of computer games and developers.