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ORIGINAL: MajFrankBurns

Green - French? The French should have been Yellow!

Warspite1

I assume (hope) that was a joke? - hence the exclamation mark - but I think even so, the comment was misplaced.

An alternative-history setting where WWII would be like WWI could be pretty cool. Especially with rayguns.

ORIGINAL: Rotherman

ORIGINAL: sprior

I found this backstreet shop in Nottingham,

Which shop? There was, back in the 80's, a wargame shop in the Broadmarsh Centre.

I am certain it was Wollaton Street.

There was a small wargames shop on Wollaton Street in the Seventies. I used to pop in to browse around when I was a school kid. This annoyed the shop owner because I hardly ever bought anything.

I started wargaming back in 1976 when I was still at school. At that time, it was a case of playing Napoleonic or WW2 miniatures with Airfix ‘plastic soldiers’. I then gave up wargaming a few years later when I was distracted by other things. I took it up again when I bought my first computer in 1998. My first computer wargames were Talonsoft’s Gettysburg and Waterloo games.

@ Lordhoff
Didn't want to drift off topic droning on about 1914. Please check your PM.

Ah, fond memories. In spring 1982 at the tender age of 16 I discovered board gaming. It started with Fulda Gap. I fell in love with gaming so within weeks I bought Squad Leader. Then over the next year game Panzerblitz, Panzerleader then came Afrika Korps. I still play each of those early games.

Started in '83 or '84 with AH Russian Campaign+some try on AH Flat Top, bought in the till now biggest boardargames shop I have ever seen in Italy (unfortunately has closed).
The first PC game was battleground Waterloo from Empire Interactive.

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No boardgames. First computer wargame: Red Lightning from SSI on an ATARI ST. First PC wargame: Fire Brigade from Panther on an INTEL 286.

Mine was Axis and Allies followed by Panzer General. Close Combat was my first PC wargame and the rest was history....literally.

Also I played Dungeons and Dragons before it was cool.

mo reb

ORIGINAL: Missouri_Rebel

Mine was Axis and Allies followed by Panzer General. Close Combat was my first PC wargame and the rest was history....literally.

Also I played Dungeons and Dragons before it was cool.

mo reb

Dungeons and Dragons. Woot! I still have my 1980 manuals.

Avalon Hill's Tactics II, Gettysburg, D-Day, Bismarck, etc., ~1962.

1st War Boardgame (light): Battle Cry/Dogfight
1st War Boardgame (serious): Battle of the Bulge by AH
1st Computer Wargame: Battle of Shiloh by SSI for Apple ][

Noypi

1776 by Avalon Hill

Boardgame: Squad Leader (Avalon Hill)
Computer: Panzer Strike (C64/ SSI)

Oh wow, if somehow Dungeons & Dragons count, then count me in.  However, I could NEVER get into that "make it up as you go" groups who read from those books and roll dice and just make up silly things.

Computer version of D&D is another story altogether.

First Board Wargame: Tactics II by Avalon Hill
First Computer Wargame: Steel Panthers: World at War

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Third Reich, forget what edition, the year was 1981.

Shotgun shell hulls collected after my Dad's dove hunts with me and my next door neighbor using tennis balls for artillery.

Asthmatic, dad played chess with me for hours, when I was sick.

First, official boardgame: Tactics 2

First official computer game: Kampfgruppe, and Computer Ambush. (on cassette players I might add)

What was the first wargames you played?

AH Squad Leader