What was the first wargames you played?

[Alan Sharif]

Board Game Sinai by SPI when it was a new release mid-late 70's.  PC Atomic Games Arnham game ( title escapes me)

[Chris Bisson]

Yes Wodin we do all still want to play with our plastic sodiers to this day....well for me they are now lead/pewter miniatures...fancy name for toy soldiers I know [;)] Some things never change and it drive my fiancee nuts too [:D]

ORIGINAL: wodin

Like I said in another thread..we still want to play with our plastic soldiers and army at break time in school....I was always the Germans;)

[Arnir]

Mine was AH's Waterloo.  The first one I owned was AH's Midway.

[junk2drive]

Don't marry her. You will anyway but years from now I want you to remember this post.

Find someone that shares your interests and thinks your soldiers are art and craft and keep you busy.

[Chris Bisson]

ORIGINAL: junk2drive

Don't marry her. You will anyway but years from now I want you to remember this post.

Find someone that shares your interests and thinks your soldiers are art and craft and keep you busy.

LOL [:D] It is my second one and I know what to expect.....[X(][8|]

[Randomizer]

Either Avalon Hill's 1914 or Jutland, bought new in 1968, can't recall exactly which was first.  Still have both games although Jutland is long since boxless.

[junk2drive]

ORIGINAL: Platoon Crusher

ORIGINAL: junk2drive

Don't marry her. You will anyway but years from now I want you to remember this post.

Find someone that shares your interests and thinks your soldiers are art and craft and keep you busy.

LOL [:D] It is my second one and I know what to expect.....[X(][8|]

I'm still on the first at almost 38 years. I told her if Al and Tipper can quit at 40... she smacked me...

[stevemk1a]

My parents gave me AH Third Reich as a Christmas present in the early 80's, after that it was Panzerblitz with the geek club in the computer lab in High school after hours. Many more after that ... I have great memories of playing North Atlantic '86 vs. my brother on an Apple II clone.

:::Flanker attacks:::
:::Flanker attacks:::

I always made him play the bad guys [:D]

[ilovestrategy]

ORIGINAL: junk2drive


The lawn mower occasionally tossed out a dismembered casualty. Good for effect.

Oh good Lord, I laughed hard when I read this.

[blastpop]

I started off with "Major Campaigns and Battles of General George S. Patton", by RGI in 1973 and quickly followed up with Luftwaffe by Avalon Hill.

Man does time fly...

[lordhoff]

ORIGINAL: Randomizer

Either Avalon Hill's 1914 or Jutland, bought new in 1968, can't recall exactly which was first.  Still have both games although Jutland is long since boxless.

Q about 1914 - what did you think of it? I liked the step method of losses and it did an excellent job of mimicking the WW I style combat but units couldn't even travel the distance the IGA did in Belgium without defenders. I also liked how they handles forts. I'd like to see a PC game like that - maybe there is one already - haven't bought WW I gold yet - but I suspect its more strategic nature won't allow for such details.

[baltjes]

The first board game ever I played was AH's Panzer Leader. I got triggered by reading a 'table top teaser' - a kind of AAR - in the magazine 'Militairy Modelling'. It must have been in the mid seventies of the former century (Yeh....time is flying!!). Many, very many board games followed, ranging from 'Squad Leader' to 'Campaigns for North Afrika'. About 15 years ago, I sold them all, exept 'Cobra' and 'Battles for the Ardennes'. The first computer game, I can't remember exactly; it was some ACW game that could be played on my first computer, a Sinclair Spectrum.

It all started with those nice Airfix models in the late fifties and sixties. Planes and tanks that should be glued together, eventually painted but of all: played with! In the garden behind our house, we had our battle field. From my room upstairs I had made a 'cable' along which the planes could be 'flown' over our battles. To make things more realistic, some planes (the yet-fighters) got a piece of cotton in their tail so we were able to simulate a burning plane coming down. My parents were not pleased! I can now understand that; at that time I couldn't.

Man, Where have all the good times gone....!

Hajo Baltjes

[Jeffrey H.]

First board game was AH Panzer Leader, this was about 1974. First computer game was Computer Ambush for the Apple II+.

[Wolfe1759]

Race to the Meuse in the Wargamer, then Squad Leader - still remember the red Russian beserkers counters.

[Obsolete]

Axis & Allies.  Not sure if that one really counts though.

[Jeffrey H.]

ORIGINAL: Jeffrey H.

First board game was AH Panzer Leader, this was about 1974. First computer game was Computer Ambush for the Apple II+.

Hrrm, on second thought, the first computer game was a dedicated console which had Pong and a few other type games on it. I think it was an Atari. Then came coin op stuff, which I guess would normally be considered a computer game.

[KG Erwin]

The first wargame I ever owned was AH's "Stalingrad", which my parents bought for me in 1967, when I was 10. Little did they know. My mom & dad were pretty liberal way back when, so they also bought me Beatles records. They bought me an acoustic guitar when I was 10, and I was listening to "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" when I just 11. I couldn't make barre chords, so I started picking out bass notes. A few years later I got my first bass guitar, and my life was forever changed. 40 years later, gaming and music remain my primary passions.

[warspite1]

The first board game with a war theme I recall playing was Colditz - loved the coloured pieces Red - British, Blue - American, Orange - Dutch, Brown - Polish, Green - French and of course those sinister black pieces representing the Germans.

I also loved playing with Airfix HO/OO scale soldiers - they did a good selection of Napoleonic figures - Coldstream Guardsmen, Highland Infantry, Hussars, Imperial Guardsmen, Curassiers etc, and a nice model of the farmhouse at Le Haye Saint to go with them.

I then moved on to the likes of Risk, Stratego and Diplomacy, before "graduating" to Avalon Hill games - Bismarck, Panzer Leader and a Napoleonic Campaign game that I cannot remember the name of. The last board game I played (and that took over my life for two years) was ADG's World In Flames. Best.Game.Ever.[&o]

Computer games began with a Spectrum computer and Desert Rats! Am filling in time at the moment with the likes of Total War and Civilization V while waiting for the big one - Matrix World In Flames.

[MajFrankBurns]

Green - French? The French should have been Yellow!

[MikeBrough]

ORIGINAL: MajFrankBurns

Green - French? The French should have been Yellow!

That's a disgraceful slur on the French. The individual French soldier fought as bravely as any other but was let down by generals who were trained to fight the last war.

If you're still in doubt, do some reading about the exploits of the French Resistance.