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Post by 101ABN on Feb 16, 2015 17:47:43 GMT -8
So here it is.
Use this board to discuss war games and gaming.
Talk about you favorite platforms and scenarios to your heart's content.
Anyone can start a thread but it may be easier if we stick to one conflict per thread although I'm open to suggestions.
Let's have fun with this one!
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Post by warrior1972 on Feb 16, 2015 18:13:31 GMT -8
Thanks, Mate!
Much appreciated.
I started "gaming" with the old stuff. RISK, Milton Bradley's BROADSIDE (War of 1812 naval) and BATTLE CRY (Civil War army). Man, did I just give away my age. Also STRATEGO. I guess I've been playingf wargames ever since in one fashion or another.
AVALON HILL produced a LOT of good stuff.
And then came computers.
Hooooo, BOY.
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Post by 101ABN on Feb 16, 2015 18:38:21 GMT -8
I used to have quite a collection of Avalon Hill games, hard to remember all the titles.
Midway and Blitzkrieg were probably my favorites although Arab-Israeli Wars could be interesting. That may have been one of the first to use a modular board setup.
I had some others from Strategic Simulations, Inc.(SSI) that sometimes blurred the line between realism and playability.
One thing I did find, if you beat the cheese out of people too many times, they won't play with you again.
True with Scrabble as well.
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Post by warrior1972 on Feb 17, 2015 5:08:26 GMT -8
I used to have quite a collection of Avalon Hill games, hard to remember all the titles. Midway and Blitzkrieg were probably my favorites although Arab-Israeli Wars could be interesting. That may have been one of the first to use a modular board setup. I had some others from Strategic Simulations, Inc.(SSI) that sometimes blurred the line between realism and playability. One thing I did find, if you beat the cheese out of people too many times, they won't play with you again. True with Scrabble as well. Agreed. I always wished that the Avalon Hill games had been computerized, however. the level of deatil is something I admired greatly, and in most cases the deatil was historically accurate. I miss them. |
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Post by 101ABN on Feb 17, 2015 6:28:00 GMT -8
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Post by warrior1972 on Feb 17, 2015 16:56:49 GMT -8
DAMN you. I am going to spend a HELLUVA lot of money on this.  (If my wife doesn't kill me FIRST, that is....)  Just kidding. My only regret is that I can't explore these with YOU guys. I've played some like "War at Sea" and "Tactics' (which is a great way to lear how to play the REST of them, by the way), and can't wait to play the ones I HAVEN'T played. Thanks, Old Friend. -A Warrior from 1972 |
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Post by tankcommander on Feb 17, 2015 17:36:30 GMT -8
Man, back in the day, my old roommate and I played so much Risk that we started making up our own rules. Like the "Nuclear Strike", where a roll of triple sixes wiped all the enemy armies off the country you were attacking. |
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Post by 101ABN on Feb 17, 2015 18:15:46 GMT -8
DAMN you. I am going to spend a HELLUVA lot of money on this. (If my wife doesn't kill me FIRST, that is....) Just kidding. My only regret is that I can't explore these with YOU guys. I've played some like "War at Sea" and "Tactics' (which is a great way to lear how to play the REST of them, by the way), and can't wait to play the ones I HAVEN'T played. Thanks, Old Friend. -A Warrior from 1972 My first war game was Tactics II. My mother bought it for me for Christmas when I was about 12. The neighbor kids and I nearly wore the damned pieces out. It was the first of the AH genre, unique in that its board was marked in squares rather than hexagons, which made movement a bit herky-jerky. Its too bad they wont lend themselves to distance play...not that I have the space to set up and play a prolonged game or anything. |
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Post by Sailor on Feb 18, 2015 8:46:13 GMT -8
DAMN you. I am going to spend a HELLUVA lot of money on this. (If my wife doesn't kill me FIRST, that is....) Just kidding. My only regret is that I can't explore these with YOU guys. I've played some like "War at Sea" and "Tactics' (which is a great way to lear how to play the REST of them, by the way), and can't wait to play the ones I HAVEN'T played. Thanks, Old Friend. -A Warrior from 1972 Sounds like my issues (wife issues). |
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