How old are the average Wargamers here?

[Gilmer]

I'm 60. I started like many with chess. In the middle 70s or so, we were part of a book club and we got this book by John Toland The Rising Sun. I read it and I was about 13 years old. Two volumes. Then I read Winds of War and War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk.

I then bought the game "Flattop" and I can't remember how much I played it, but I was fascinated by the Japanese theater of WW2. From there, we got a Nintendo at some point and I played Nobunaga's Ambition which is more of an RTS, but hey, I was a kid.

I remember reading computer gaming magazines and thinking how cool it would be to play those games. We couldn't afford a computer. I got my first computer about age 25 and bought games like War in Russia and Pacwar. I have played those so many times. Also, The Western Front(?) by SSI. I played that one a lot as well. I got Harpoon when it came out. And played it constantly.

I discovered Ageod and bought Rise of Prussia when it was still pretty new. I remember there was a bug I reported for a cavalry regiment that had a power of something like 1600. By itself it was beating whole armies. The Ageod guys thanked me for reporting the bug and said it was because it wasn't calculating experience correctly.

I discovered Matrix when I was looking for a copy of Pacwar and saw War in the Pacific.

I don't come around as often as I used to, but I'm still here.