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I was born a couple of years later [:D] She reviews some cool old games, some are on my radar for nostalgic reasons...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKu76hegp2A

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Oh my. I am so old.

....ain't what it used to be [:)]

OMG. Tactics 11 was my first war board game back in 1980 when I was 12 years old. This game was what got me into war gaming. Thanks for sharing this.

Tactics II was actually my 3rd or 4th game from Avalon Hill, I got Stalingrad first and then Battle of the Bulge, Waterloo and then I think Tactics II.

Tactics II, the 1958 edition.

First Avalon Hill Game I played at 11 years old - hence my signature line

First Avalon Hill Game I purchased Africa Corp

I owned just about every avolon hill title plus a lot of stategy and tactics and other publishers had like 80 games when i gave them all away a few years back to someone with a gaming club

Some more nostalgia for you

Avalon Hill Games

Iam a sucker for the "old-days" [:)]

Anybody like AH "Firepower"?

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In the old days we had to make our own wargames. We used salt shakers for counters and rolled the family dog in lieu of a die. [:D]

I have that game in the desk drawer. Plus, the first game I bought was Tobruk in the 70's. I am still mad about what happened to it? I think I let someone borrow it in the eighties and it disappeared forever. I still own air assault on Crete and single player Ambush.

However, I computer games, no opponent needed.

ORIGINAL: demyansk

However, I computer games, no opponent needed.

It depends, "Fields of Fire" 2nd edition (GMT) is on it´s way to my door. No opponent needed either [;)]

Sadly I wasn't aware of Avalon Hill's existence until a few years before the company was purchased by Hasbro Games on 4 August 1998. By then I was no longer in the market for box games, but I did buy a number of their DOS games: Cavewars, Wooden Ships & Iron Men, Stalingrad, 1830: Railroads & Robber Barons, Advanced Civilization, D-Day: America Invades, Kingmaker, 5th Fleet, and Third Reich.

I also had Guderian but never had someone to play against. I sold it online and stayed with computer games.

In a way both are different worlds in there own right (PC vs Board). Each have there pros and cons, but back to the nostalgia thing, having a game like Tactics II in your collection is like having "Blues from Laurel Canyon" (John Mayall/Peter Green) on LP (Decca) in your record collection, you might not play it alot but it made history, and it´s so cool to have, look at! [:)]

The first wargame I ever played was the old SSI Panzer General from 1994. It was that year or the following year when I played it, pretty soon after it came out.

Much more simplistic than the games that interest me today, but it got me into wargaming.