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V for Victory series: Gold-Juno-Sword and Velikiye Luki

Thanks for the memories. I'd play EF again, and lose.

I posted this elsewhere, but it is true:

Ironically, last week started playing SSG's Battles in Italy "The Ardennes Offensive" (TAO5) scenario. The U.S. 8th Regiment, 4th ID had been behind German lines entrenched for seven turns. Then I mistakenly left two arty units unprotected within reach. So it unentrenches, moves over to them and destroys them.

I don't see AI like that in many games today for sure. Games that cost a lot of money, too.

Desert Rats
Operation Market Garden
Vulcan

3 great games that I still miss.

Way long ago in the 70s with Tactics II (well, actually, even earlier it was me and dad, and toys soldiers vs my other toys on my bedroom floor ).

On a machine it was Chris Crawford's Patton Stikes Back.

I remember Patton Strikes Back. It wasn't great, but all we had back then

"Carriers at War" by SSG - not the current version but the Apple IIe version.

ORIGINAL: jimi3

That's easy. Action Stations. Raw Entertainment and Alan Zimm. I still have the big floppys. The really floppy ones.

And all this time I thought I was the only one who had purchased Raw Entertainment's Action Stations. [;)]

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SSI's Battles of Napoleon (1988)

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I love those old style colors and terrain from the early days of wargaming. Simple colors with simple units and a great AI to play against. That was back in the day where AI's were more important than graphics.

ORIGINAL: MrsWargamer

Way long ago in the 70s with Tactics II (well, actually, even earlier it was me and dad, and toys soldiers vs my other toys on my bedroom floor ).

On a machine it was Chris Crawford's Patton Stikes Back.

I have the 1958 version of Tactics II, not to boast or anything. [;)]
It is kinda beat up.

I agree aaa, I had more fun with those simple looking games

I got my first PC in 1998 and a friend of mine gave me three games to introduce me to computer wargames: Age of Rifles, Age of Sail and Battleground Waterloo. I last played Age of Rifles only last year. I'm thinking about playing Age of Sail again for old times sake.

SSI's Knights of the Desert

Board - AH France 1940

Oh my board game? Gettysburg by Avalon Hill, 6th grade.

I miss REAL wargames.

'Real" wargame to me = anything you can learn in a day and enjoy playing for a lifetime.

I no longer have some of my old classics. I think it was a mistake to let them go.

I've been puttering around with some beat up Squad Leader era materials. Pondering revising all the 3 modules back to initial Squad Leader complexity.

I still enjoy Panzer Leader and I have downloaded a lot of user made boards and counters (there's a great wealth of it out there).

I'd rather play a board game solo, than pretend a single PC wargame has ever actually equaled the experience of a single board game wargame.

The beauty of board games, is the issue of AI is never even in the discussion.
And no opponent means you either play it by yourself both sides, or you don't play it.
And you just don't play designs that require secrecy to function.
And there are no shortage of designs that don't require secrecy in the operation of the design.

My current deluxe experience is The Longest Day. 5x5.5 feet of pure simulation. No secrecy, simple rules design, you just need a place to put it.
And as I can't seem to find a man to waste space on in my apartment, I have the space

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I happened upon Avalon Hill's D-Day at Boardgamegeek 2nd hand market a while ago, ordered it, to my surprise it was the very 1st edition of the boardgame as well. First game with hexes, would you believe.

Plays beautifully even today. A fun, quick game, suitable to solo as well imho, I just roll a die for the Allied invasion decision once German's all set up, historically of course [&o]

Edit: here it is:

Conflict in Vietnam by Micro Prose