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Can anyone remember the name of a fantasy wargame on the Amstrad 464? Even gave casualties by at individual level. Was bloody difficult. I just can't seem to find it online and can't remember the name. On map forces where shown as shields.

After searching again I think it was Sorcerer Lord

Harpoon, then Steel Panthers.

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My first PC war game was Mech Brigade on the Commodore 64. Later I moved to the V for Victory series which at the time were the best PC war games at the time.

What? You didn't get Steel Tigers or Typhoon of Steel on the c64? Those were the brothers and sisters of Steel Panthers W@W and WWII today.

C64 games were hard to come by where I was stationed at. The nearest 'retail' was more than 50 miles away and my occupation didn't provide much time off.

Panzer General on my very first computer too thos where the days untill I swapped my old Dos comp in for a Pentium II and didn't had a clue about CPU cycles which turned Panzer General unplayable boy did I regret that I didn't kept the old one [:(].

Ah...Western Front is the only I played seriously, probably yeah-

Eastern Front from Talonsoft, Steel Panthers, and Age of Rifles. But concerning earlier gaming, is Heroes of Might and Magic som kind of war game? I ask with some feeling of ankwardness, so i ask for understanding

First Computer Wargame? Around the same time, I think it was 1981 or 1982, I received as presents two SSI games - The Warp Factor and Southern Command. The first due to my parents' knowledge of my enjoyment of all things Star Trek and the second because I already had a few tabletop wargames (pretty sure my first one was the original Squad Leader) and showed a lot of interest in them. I tried The Warp Factor first, which I loved (it was kind of like Starfleet Battles for the computer), then I played a lot of Southern Command (which led me to make sure I got all of Roger's and later SSG's games as well). So depending on what you consider a wargame, it was either The Warp Factor or Southern Command.

My first board Wargame was 1914 by Avalon Hill (1968). My first computer wargame was Bomb Alley by SSI (1984).

Tactics II was the first. Had a great battle with AH Gettysburg where I beat my older brother on the first turn. I attacked his only unit on the board with 2 of my 3 units. I rolled an "exchange" which left me the winner with one unit still left. 50 years later and I still remind him of it.

Panzer General for first computer game. Fog of war hooked me from then on. You don't get that with board games.

John Tiller (Talonsoft) Battleground Series of American Civil War games, c. late 1990s.

Red Lightning on a Atari ST. Fire Brigade on a 286.

Harpoon. Nearly lost my job over this one. My workmate joined a BBS just so that the pair of us could download various scenario files.

I tried going back to both Classic Harpoon and CMANO but neither scratched the itch. I also tried the original Ghost Recon series.

You can't go home.

Does paying .25 for pong count (at the bar)? I bought a C-64 in '83 and Bruce Lee (only one in stock at the time) I think was the first store bought game I played. Best Wargame Battles of Nappy and Kampfgruppe from SSI and microprose I think.
The text based games (zork etc.), castles of dr. creep, Elite (had some lens for copy protection), some war game that had a dongle that plugged into one of the 2 game ports to play.
FWIW the C-64 for it's time was the best bang for the buck for gaming comp + 1541 disk drive $300.

Console war game: Operation Europe: Path to Victory 1939-45 back in 1991.

PC Wargame: Close Combat: The Russian Front

Tiller's WW2 Campaign Series.