How old is this forum

Jakub · Post by **Jakub** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 12:30 am

Goblin,

Some questions to get me familiar with the forum....
How old is this forum? Do you play each other against often?
Are you guys were raised on "Squad Leader"?

My last favourite game was Talonsofts West and East front - do you guys play it or played it?

Goblin · Post by **Goblin** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 12:54 am

The forum is at least a coupla years, I believe. If you look at the DAR/AAR page, and the Opponents Wanted forum, you will see that we play eachother quite a bit. I have played a few Talonsoft titles, mainly the Battleground series. Battleground Gettysburg was my favorite.

Goblin

M4Jess · Post by **M4Jess** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 1:06 am

Originally posted by Goblin
The forum is at least a coupla years, I believe. If you look at the DAR/AAR page, and the Opponents Wanted forum, you will see that we play eachother quite a bit. I have played a few Talonsoft titles, mainly the Battleground series. Battleground Gettysburg was my favorite.

Goblin

Really...hmmm..me too!

Voriax · Post by **Voriax** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 2:22 am

Well, I joined this forum May 2000, I was 254th user

So I'd guess this forum came into existence a bit before that.

Voriax

Capt. Pixel · Post by **Capt. Pixel** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 2:35 am

Originally posted by Jakub
Some questions to get me familiar with the forum....
How old is this forum? Do you play each other against often?
Are you guys were raised on "Squad Leader"?

Yep. I came up from the Squad Leader era. I might even still have some first edition sets. Of course all of the cardboard chits have been popped and are raggedy-eared.

My war-room buddies and I found SP1 and brought back the days when we could spend a weekend staring at pizza-stained combat result sheets and arguing LOS with a thread. And all this for only an hour or two (or six) a night. We were in heaven. Or so we thought.

Little could we concieve back then, of SPW@W.

tracer · Post by **tracer** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 2:42 am

I remember another SPWAW forum that predated the 5/00 start of this one. I'm hazy on the details, so maybe one of the Old Guard could set the record (and me!) straight.

Orzel Bialy · Post by **Orzel Bialy** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 3:24 am

and Third Reich...and Bismarck...and Napoleon at Waterloo....and Afrika Korps Rommel in NA....I was raised on military board games via my older brother and his friends.

Good to see a few more people from Poland filing in here...even though I was born and raised here in the US.

Grenadier · Post by **Grenadier** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 5:46 am

Before the May 2000 Forum which coincided with the release of SPWaW v1 there was an earlier incantation that was about 6 months along on TGN or The Gamers Network. Before that there was a mailing list you subscribed to at TGN. There were at the most 150 members on the list, all playing SPWW2 and only the Raiders were really making many scenarios. The Forum setup really expanded the numbers rapidly

tracer · Post by **tracer** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 6:50 pm

IIRC, SPWAW was something of a sub-forum on what was mostly a SPWW2 site at the time. I remember WBW posting announcements about the progress and features of the 'SPWAW mod' that he and others were working on.

vahauser · Post by **vahauser** » Fri Dec 20, 2002 3:34 am

Yes, the forum on The Gamers Net came first and the Matrixgames Forum came in late April of 2000. I joined right after Voriax in May 2000 (I was member #406). Heh. Then that account got deleted so I had to rejoin. I can remember some really cool threads from back then with Voriax and Charles-22 and Fabio and Tankhead, et al.

Les_the_Sarge_9_1 · Post by **Les_the_Sarge_9_1** » Fri Dec 20, 2002 4:17 am

I remember coming to the forum and it was basically Steel Panthers.

It went through some growth, and the biggest boon was the obtaining of a serious look and a good provider (I think provider is the term I am looking for here, showing my net savvy limitations there).

I find the forum to be superior to a lot of other forums regardless of how long some others might have been around though.

Either it is the very good forum software, or it is the way the forums are managed.
Possibly it is because Matrix wants to be a business, not an indulgence helps a lot too.

As for the gamers found here, hmmm we cover all the bases here I think.
Turn based demons and RTS fanatics and die hard shooters gamers.
I think the predominant detail is the age level of the population is fairly old (or at least the vocal mob seems to be).
It is easy to get called a youngun and be 40 years old.

Steel Panthers being so entirely "Squad leader" looking, it is a logical thing, that the community has a lot of ASL fans (me being one of the loud ones hehe).

But the forum is home to players of everything wargamerish to the best of my knowledge.

And our General forum is nicely to say, not a dumping ground for the annoying threads, (you need Art of War if you wanna wrastle).

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