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Humm, I wonder who is the oldest player?

 
Well, I'm 58, somebody else is 61.  So there are some old f..ts out here.
 

I am 53. My first wargame was Avalon Hills Tactics II.

And, you guys will all be pleased to know that I am a woman!

ORIGINAL: Gem35

Mynok is 725 or is it 726?

Left a zero off....7260..... [:D]

ORIGINAL: bjmorgan

Humm, I wonder who is the oldest player?

Well, I'm 58, somebody else is 61. So there are some old f..ts out here.

iirc, there was someone in his 70s (from an old thead...) but i don't know if he is still around... Some retired folk still around (i see their names from time to time) but i won't mention who they are... [;)]

I am one of the older crowd. My first real wargame (other than Risk) was SPI's Foxbat and Phantom. That thing is still around here in one of my storage containers.

I am 53. My first wargame was Avalon Hills Tactics II.

And, you guys will all be pleased to know that I am a woman!

 
I'll bet you lied. Either you are not a woman or you are not 53. Would find it hard to believe that both are true...

ORIGINAL: String

24 here, Alikichi is probably the youngest, considering his join date.

I am win! [:D]

It is a rarity to find a teen playing WitP, but what would REALLY shock me would be a female player.

I know someone who has a quality almost as rare in a genre like this...

46 here, started playing board games as a teen. My brother was a member of a Wargaming club and he used me as his practice dummy. The first game I ever played was SPI's Arab Israeli wars, course my brother convinced me that playing the arabs meant I could never lose... I had boxes of unopened SPI games that id bought, sadly I discarded them over the years. I do have my Heavy Metal magazine collection thought!

Wasn't my first game as I started wargaming in 1973 but quickly became my favorite. My friend David and myself played it so much we went through three maps.

ORIGINAL: Chris H

Anybody remember USN S&T 1981 I think, well that's my first wargame.

When did AH first release MIDWAY ?

No, I mean REALLY ??

That's when I started playing wargames, (not counting chess).[8D]

ORIGINAL: dennishe

I am 53. My first wargame was Avalon Hills Tactics II.

And, you guys will all be pleased to know that I am a woman!

I'll bet you lied. Either you are not a woman or you are not 53. Would find it hard to believe that both are true...

Ok, maybe I lied about the woman thing.

It is just that I fancy heels and makeup....[:D]

ORIGINAL: m10bob

When did AH first release MIDWAY ?

No, I mean REALLY ??

That's when I started playing wargames, (not counting chess).[8D]

1964 (according to WIKI):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_%281964_game%29

In 1969 I was eleven when my dad and I discovered AH games, purchasing Afrika Korps. I don't have all the games I ever purchased, and haven't played a board wargame in ages. The joy of playing it on the computer is that setup and takedown is so easy...

Check my daughter ... she was playing WitP one week old !!! She was born June 29th 2004 ... this time was WitP released !!! [/align] [/align][/align]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: m10bob

When did AH first release MIDWAY ?

No, I mean REALLY ??

That's when I started playing wargames, (not counting chess).[8D]

1964 (according to WIKI):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_%281964_game%29

Pretty sure I had it was closer to 1960 as we still lived at 3057 Central, did not move to "eagletucky" till 1962....
(Dad had a small hobby shop and as a hobby distributor carried very early AH products, but only till the move.)

47 but feel older some days!
 
MJT

Somewhere around 1981 and being fed up of playing board games against myself, I thought computer can do that. A computer with a 1Kb memory was purchased. You can call me naive if you like, but lI did learn Basic and found out how a computer worked. Then came my Apple IIe, great machine with good wargames, some with tough AI.

ORIGINAL: undercovergeek

"I'm 22, started playing WitP when I was 19. Before then I was playing UV for a year or two. My dad got me into this and he's been much more active on these forums than I have."


is Terminus your dad??

Haha, no not Terminus. If he's 35, that would have made him 13 when I was born. Plus he's in Denmark and not California. [;)]

ORIGINAL: Kadrin

ORIGINAL: undercovergeek

"I'm 22, started playing WitP when I was 19. Before then I was playing UV for a year or two. My dad got me into this and he's been much more active on these forums than I have."


is Terminus your dad??

Haha, no not Terminus. If he's 35, that would have made him 13 when I was born. Plus he's in Denmark and not California. [;)]

From what I have heard about the quite relaxed Danish attitude regarding sex and alcohol, this would not be entirely out of the question... Denmark may beat California in this regard! Perhaps Terminus can comment on the 'Speedbandits' or on 'Body Tequila' (and Peder Sass...) [:D].

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Just turned 3, been playing and working on the damn thing for 35 days.