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Ah nice to see fellow HoI3 fans. I've got a buddy that swears by darkest hour, but it just doesn't do it for me. Personally, I like the Black Ice mod for HoI3.

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are you my long lost brother I've never had? [;)]

[&:]

I'm usually against the world by myself when arguments are coming

Got it.[;)]
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Black Ice is the only way to play HOI3 IMO[:)]


Here's a good question-

Wargaming is more of a geezer activity....

So how did we all get hooked?[:D] Lets see some origin stories!

Mine is simple, first played "Command at Sea" then graduated to "Harpoon" when I was about seven then onto my first ever "Rise and Decline of the Third Reich" game when I was in my teens. Had and still have Dad guiding me every step of the way. And he was hooked into wargaming since he was a kid AS WELL as all of his friends and his brother, so it was a good situation for him. I only have him, my brother (so far only WITE but I'll get him one day" and every now and then one of my friends will give it a try only to be limited by the lack of knowledge in the background.

And everyone on here of course.
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When living behind Iron Curtain wargaming was really limited, there were some hobbists releasing hex boardgames about historical Polish battles and I was drawn to them when I was about 12. Then it went downhill...
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I was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps during the summer of 1973.

I got an early-out by about 100 days to attend college, the University of California at Santa Barbara where I met Capt. Haggard.

Capt. Haggard had just got out of the Navy.

Besides dragging me to The Idle Hour (a local neighborhood dive bar) every single night, he introduced me to hex board war games. Through the years, we've played numerous hex board war games. Capt. Haggard can provide a list of them for us.

I introduced Capt. Haggard to WITPAE. He commands my submarine fleet and mine type ships.

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[&:]

I'm usually against the world by myself when arguments are coming

Got it.[;)]

rusty-

You remind me of Capt. Haggard.

Ask him about a class we had wherein he took on the professor and the entire class regarding the Internment of the Japanese on the West Coast of the US during WWII.

It is good that you can think for yourself.

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You guys are far too cheerful and polite to be posting in the Geezer thread ... GET OFF OUR LAWNS!
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It is good that you can think for yourself.

Not always. Gets me in trouble all too often. Higher ups frequently enjoy 'yes' men, could never do that.[8|]

Pfft, even in the game I can't follow the norm.[:D]
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You guys are far too cheerful and polite to be posting in the Geezer thread ... GET OFF OUR LAWNS!

Hey, you're in the Whippersnapper Thread.[:D]
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So how did we all get hooked? Lets see some origin stories!

Always loved history, especially when wrapped around war. I know, that inane feeling like watching a wreck. Well read some young, but not much. Rummaging around a local department store (~12 years old), find some Avalon Hill games. Friend buys D-Day, I buy Guadalcanal, done. Play, what really happened, read. Play, read, play, read... From there I never looked back. So ~50 years later still at it. Although there were times when it became limited due to RL.
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You guys are far too cheerful and polite to be posting in the Geezer thread ... GET OFF OUR LAWNS!

Hey, you're in the Whippersnapper Thread.[:D]
OOOOPS - a little geezer confusion there .... and my dog left a present on your lawn. I'm outta here!
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*shakes fist cheekily*

It's alright BB, you're alright for an old man [:D]

As for how I got in to wargames...well I'm not exactly sure. I generally play more action-y oriented stuff, like DOOM, The Division, etc. or Multiplayer games, World of Tanks and Warships mostly. I do like strategy games though. I've got hundreds of hours clocked in the Civ games and almost as many in the Total War series.

A friend recommended Hearts of Iron III and after beating up the computer a few times I went looking for good mods for it. Black Ice is near and dear to my heart and I'm sad the team has moved on to HoI4.

But really, what got me into WitP:AE? A let's play.

I'm 3 months into a grand campaign and its...intense at times. Especially watching replays of a pair of four stackers cutting into an enemy transport fleet. I think they fired every single last piece of ammunition they carried, all the way down to their AAMGs.
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I am truly torn here evidently being the exact threshold cut off between "wippersnapper" and "geezer" (i.e. exactly 50)

[8D]

However, between 1984 / 88 while in University I discovered war gaming and of course the RPG genre (MERP, D&D) much to the detriment of my grades.

I really cut my teeth on the Avalon Hill games. Especially Panzer Leader, Panzer Blitz and Arab Isreali Wars. Squad Leader less so.

Victory Games "Fleet series" became my mainstay.

I discovered "computerized war games" much later i.e. the old SSI Panzer General / Allied General / Pacific General.

I still have them on my hard drive. While I enjoyed them for a while once through "major victory" pretty much dooms their re-play-ability.

Took a 10 year hiatus somewhere in the late 1990s enforced by pre-teen dancing daughters and a spouse.

Took a detour through Neverwinter Nights / Dragon Age early in this 20 teens" decade but not really my main love. The RPG was okay.

And found this game "because of of a Facebook Algorithm" that suggested it to me. Who would have figured that. Facebook occasionally hits the spot or at least once before "fake news" [;)]

Had never even heard of the original version.
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I am truly torn here evidently being the exact threshold cut off between "wippersnapper" and "geezer" (i.e. exactly 50)
[8D]

In the same boat myself, but I've been telling jerks to get off my lawn since I was 30!![8|]

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Regarding HoI3, Black Ice is a weird mod with very strange combat modifiers. I don't know if I can call it good. The K/D ratios I was seeing when defending the river lines of France and Flanders were quite...crazy. I found DiDay's version of ICE to be a better mod.
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Ok here's a question- Am I truly the youngest member of this forum?

06/14/1997

If so, WHAT AN HONOUR[&o]

If not, I'd like to know who else is a fellow hashtagger and twittererer.[:D]
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As I got older

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