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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/3/2010 10:29:26 PM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/3/2010 10:42:21 PM   
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Like I said in another thread..we still want to play with our plastic soldiers and army at break time in school....I was always the Germans;)


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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/3/2010 10:47:50 PM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/3/2010 10:50:00 PM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/3/2010 11:00:22 PM   
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Don't marry her. You will anyway but years from now I want you to remember this post.

Find someone that shares your interests and thinks your soldiers are art and craft and keep you busy.


LOL It is my second one and I know what to expect.....

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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/4/2010 12:42:39 AM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/4/2010 5:13:36 AM   
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Don't marry her. You will anyway but years from now I want you to remember this post.

Find someone that shares your interests and thinks your soldiers are art and craft and keep you busy.


LOL It is my second one and I know what to expect.....


I'm still on the first at almost 38 years. I told her if Al and Tipper can quit at 40... she smacked me...

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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/4/2010 7:13:44 AM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/4/2010 7:30:41 AM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/4/2010 11:32:17 AM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/5/2010 5:59:46 AM   
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Either Avalon Hill's 1914 or Jutland, bought new in 1968, can't recall exactly which was first.  Still have both games although Jutland is long since boxless.


Q about 1914 - what did you think of it? I liked the step method of losses and it did an excellent job of mimicking the WW I style combat but units couldn't even travel the distance the IGA did in Belgium without defenders. I also liked how they handles forts. I'd like to see a PC game like that - maybe there is one already - haven't bought WW I gold yet - but I suspect its more strategic nature won't allow for such details.

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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/5/2010 8:19:14 AM   
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It all started with those nice Airfix models in the late fifties and sixties. Planes and tanks that should be glued together, eventually painted but of all: played with! In the garden behind our house, we had our battle field. From my room upstairs I had made a 'cable' along which the planes could be 'flown' over our battles. To make things more realistic, some planes (the yet-fighters) got a piece of cotton in their tail so we were able to simulate a burning plane coming down. My parents were not pleased! I can now understand that; at that time I couldn't.

Man, Where have all the good times gone....!

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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/6/2010 1:19:22 AM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/6/2010 1:31:17 AM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/6/2010 1:44:25 AM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/6/2010 2:43:11 AM   
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First board game was AH Panzer Leader, this was about 1974. First computer game was Computer Ambush for the Apple II+.



Hrrm, on second thought, the first computer game was a dedicated console which had Pong and a few other type games on it. I think it was an Atari. Then came coin op stuff, which I guess would normally be considered a computer game.



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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/6/2010 3:00:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		The first wargame I ever owned was AH's "Stalingrad", which my parents bought for me in 1967, when I was 10. Little did they know. My mom & dad were pretty liberal way back when, so they also bought me Beatles records. They bought me an acoustic guitar when I was 10, and I was listening to "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" when I just 11. I couldn't make barre chords, so I started picking out bass notes. A few years later I got my first bass guitar, and my life was forever changed. 40 years later, gaming and music remain my primary passions.

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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/6/2010 6:48:09 AM   
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Status: offline 		The first board game with a war theme I recall playing was Colditz - loved the coloured pieces Red - British, Blue - American, Orange - Dutch, Brown - Polish, Green - French and of course those sinister black pieces representing the Germans.

I also loved playing with Airfix HO/OO scale soldiers - they did a good selection of Napoleonic figures - Coldstream Guardsmen, Highland Infantry, Hussars, Imperial Guardsmen, Curassiers etc, and a nice model of the farmhouse at Le Haye Saint to go with them.

I then moved on to the likes of Risk, Stratego and Diplomacy, before "graduating" to Avalon Hill games - Bismarck, Panzer Leader and a Napoleonic Campaign game that I cannot remember the name of. The last board game I played (and that took over my life for two years) was ADG's World In Flames. Best.Game.Ever.

Computer games began with a Spectrum computer and Desert Rats! Am filling in time at the moment with the likes of Total War and Civilization V while waiting for the big one - Matrix World In Flames.



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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/6/2010 10:54:01 AM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/6/2010 11:10:39 AM   
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Green - French? The French should have been Yellow!


That's a disgraceful slur on the French. The individual French soldier fought as bravely as any other but was let down by generals who were trained to fight the last war.

If you're still in doubt, do some reading about the exploits of the French Resistance.

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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/6/2010 12:18:18 PM   
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Green - French? The French should have been Yellow!

Warspite1

I assume (hope) that was a joke? - hence the exclamation mark - but I think even so, the comment was misplaced.



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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/6/2010 12:43:49 PM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/6/2010 3:35:29 PM   
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I found this backstreet shop in Nottingham,


Which shop? There was, back in the 80's, a wargame shop in the Broadmarsh Centre.

I am certain it was Wollaton Street.


There was a small wargames shop on Wollaton Street in the Seventies. I used to pop in to browse around when I was a school kid. This annoyed the shop owner because I hardly ever bought anything.

I started wargaming back in 1976 when I was still at school. At that time, it was a case of playing Napoleonic or WW2 miniatures with Airfix ‘plastic soldiers’. I then gave up wargaming a few years later when I was distracted by other things. I took it up again when I bought my first computer in 1998. My first computer wargames were Talonsoft’s Gettysburg and Waterloo games.


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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/6/2010 4:24:07 PM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/6/2010 5:45:10 PM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/6/2010 7:40:00 PM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/6/2010 9:49:34 PM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/7/2010 2:48:44 AM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/7/2010 6:32:36 AM   
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Mine was Axis and Allies followed by Panzer General. Close Combat was my first PC wargame and the rest was history....literally.

Also I played Dungeons and Dragons before it was cool.

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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/7/2010 7:55:11 AM   
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