Roll Call!

[Psycho]

Alrighty then...

Well, it seems to be that im a junior here... I am 20 years old guy from Finland. Wargaming... Well, as kid we always played with little plastic war figures at the sandbox. Cant really say it was a game, we just blew them up with firecrackers... And then about 6 months ago, a miracle happened... I started to play Steel Panthers: World At War v4.5! Actually, i had had the game for about a year. It came with Pelit-magazine, i tried it, didnt get the hang of it, and threw it in the drawer...
Last year i was in army for about 3 weeks, but had the drop out cause of my health... But ill try again after two years, though... I was in the logistics company (Is that correct in English, i dont know...)
Ive played rolep playing games too, mainly Dungeons&Dragons and Cyberpunk 2020, but all my playing buddies have either moved away, or "grown to adults"...
Ive always been interested in history, especially WW2 and the Nazi-Germany. I even have a Wehrmacht coffee cup from 1939.
My grandfather fought in the Continuation War, and got wounded in the "bottom"(couldnt write ***, you see...) and right arm. They had to amputate the arm. And one bullet hit his stomach, but was stopped by a clip for the Suomi-mp. The squad ran away. Then the enemy pulled back, probably they thought that there was more Finns, and it saved my grandpa. So, he ran back to the lines alone... The other guys were pretty embarrassed, they had told that he died out there...
Well, what else... I play the "doghouse fiddle". Not in a band yet, though... And i think that psychobilly´s the best music there is...
Well, i cant think of anything else to tell...

Toni

[ananias]

You´re not the only junior here, Toni. I´m 19, and I think there are even younger guys in here.

So, let´s see...I was born in 1983. My father´s a farmer, my mom´s a housewife. I have two brothers and a sister. Neither of my grandfathers fought in the wars (both were too young). Their fathers, however, did fight, the other in the Civil War and the other in the Winter- and Continuation War.

The first turn-based wargame I ever played was either X-com or Panzer General on PC. I never played any table-top wargames (I live in the finnish countryside, so there really aren´t much of those around).

I still think fondly of both of the games. Other favourites were Civilization 1&2, Colonization, Red Baron, Dune2 and The Settlers.

The first SP-series game I played was SP3, and I fell in love immidiately. I guess I woudn´t have to add that when I got my hands on SPWAW, I was ecstatic. It was, by the way, version 4.5 from the Pelit-magazine cd-rom. God bless them.

Currently I´m studying english in Huittinen for a few months. After that, I go to England for a month and soon after returning to Finland I´m supposed to go to army. And after that, I don´t have the faintest clue.

[Drex]

I'm 55 years, was a air force brat like Dave Briggs. I was in Tripoli, Libya from '59 to '61 and played with my toy tanks and soldiers in the same sand that Rommel might have trod on (Wheelus AFB used to be an Italian base). That laid the ground work for my love for wargaming. Started my first wargames with SSI's board games then sswitched to computer games to be able to overcome the ton of rules to remember and the space to play. I played solitaire until 1999 when after a bout with cancer forced me to sit at the computer day in and day out , I ventured online and discovered forums ,pbem and a whole new computer life. My real life is great but online just gives it a new dimension.

[Marek Tucan]

Hello!
I am twenty and a month and I have already started the Czech Technical University in Prague, dept. of Electrical Enginering (see www.feld.cvut.cz) and I live in Kladno (30kms west from Prague, for those who are interested in WWII and Europe and who know the fate of village Lidice, it is in the middle between Kladno and Prague Airport).
My first wargame was the Dune, then Command & Conquer, X-Coms and so on - one of my favourites was the Task Force 1942 - night battles near Guadalcanal, or Carriers at War. And then I`ve seen Steel Panthers for the first time and have fallen in love with it;)
I have found that the most exciting in SP series is altering data to be more realistic, adding some nknown units and so on - and I`m doing it just now with SP3 - I have moved the timeline - 1950 in SP now means 1980 in real - and I`m adding new units such as JSF and Comanche and T-95 and Merkava 4 on their correct place in time. And it`s very interesting... When you expect that the computer uses SSI units and then (playing, say, US vs USSR in 1989) you`ll find out that T-72s have the same armour and that your aircrafts are downed by some new type of SAM (the SP-SAM Tor - very interesting, trust me) or when you can send F-117s on the Iraqi positions...
And most of all - I have classed some airplanes as Attack helos, because I think that on 20*16km area the A-10, Harrier or Su-25 should be on-board...
And what else? Well, if someone wants two maps of REAL mid-european terrain, please, leave me a message at tuccy@seznam.cz
First map covers area between Kladno and Ruzyne intl. airport, Prague, and the second area south from Kladno, near river Berounka and the city of Beroun. Both maps are created according to 1:50000 scale military maps and especially the second one is very hilly and complicated to move through.
Ehm... A bit too long, isn`t it< I shall better end it. Bye!