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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/2/2007 12:41:34 PM

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Yes, 1962

Playing "Onward Christian Soldiers" from GMT right now; now that's a CRT for you, 2d6 and the results table runs from -24 to +24, with a cutie called "unpredictable results" thrown in for good measure....

...not that we've used it much. The Muslims just tend to watch us wallowing toward Antioch losing men to attrition; the ruddy Germans have lost almost a 1/4 of their men in 1/4 of a year so far...

The new "Shogun" is neat though, it uses a tower and cubes; you have to see it in action....

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/2/2007 1:00:07 PM

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Yes. 1963.

I thought I was one of the older guys here. I feel MUCH better now. I have scars older than the kids I work with. Come to think of it, I've got scars older than some of the people here....

That wonderful person, Santa Claus, brought me Luftwaffe when I was young....a little too young. But it still began a hobby that persists to this day. I even worked at two different game stores to finance my hobby.

War at Sea, Victory in the Pacific, Ironclads, Tobruk, Star Fleet Battles {I still have the original little booklet that started that monstrosity}, Wooden Ships and Iron Men, Battle of the Bulge, Wings.

Now if someone would program a turn based Richthofen's War or Wings, I will be found sitting in a puddle of drool in front of my computer for weeks on end.

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/2/2007 1:32:45 PM

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1962.

First picked up Panzer Leader in 1977. I bought my first computer, an Apple IIE, in 1985 to play a computer wargame (North Atlantic '86), and every PC purchase since then has been because I needed to play some newer computer war game. Not sure if that makes me a grognard, but it sure makes me a wargame geek.

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/2/2007 2:22:58 PM

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Same thing , simply a matter of degrees.

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/2/2007 3:34:56 PM

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Did not play too many board games. Really got into it big time when computer games came along. Remember Empire?

I was born in 1945. At the time, World War II was still going on and God was a Midshipman.

I came along a month after Hitler checked out. Never got to meet him.

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/2/2007 5:29:54 PM

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Who else can recreate the entire CRT from memory for the original version of D-Day (AH)?

Since I still have it, I don't need to recreate it.
Oh, 1949, and Yes - I have lots of CRTs around.

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/2/2007 5:54:59 PM

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I was born during the Eisenhower administration. Definitely a grognard. Played almost every Avalon Hill game from Tactics II on, though the ones that first really grabbed me were "Gettysburg" and "D-Day." Eventually became a "Third Reich" and "Advanced Squad Leader" junkie. The addiction to ASL didn't fade until the era of the PC. I still play board games, but more along the lines of "Puerto Rico" and "Tigris and Euphrates" than wargames.

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 2:09:59 AM

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1984. Oh my, am I the youngest game nerd out there?!

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 2:15:42 AM

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1986. Got ya beat by 2 years.

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 2:20:37 AM

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1984. Oh my, am I the youngest game nerd out there?!

Holy cow! That's the year I graduated high school!

Boy, do I feel old now....

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 2:26:05 AM

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ORIGINAL: TOMLABEL

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ORIGINAL: Fishbed

1984. Oh my, am I the youngest game nerd out there?!

Holy cow! That's the year I graduated high school!

Boy, do I feel old now....

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Feel your pain..

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 4:55:48 AM

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Me too. I'd already been playing SL and COI for years when 84 showed up.

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 5:29:27 AM

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ORIGINAL: TOMLABEL

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ORIGINAL: Fishbed

1984. Oh my, am I the youngest game nerd out there?!

Holy cow! That's the year I graduated high school!

Boy, do I feel old now....

TOMLABEL

Don't feel bad. That's the year I finished SSBN patrol #6. After college.

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 5:42:30 AM

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yes. 1947

I played Tactics II and the old Gettysburg with squares and rectangular infanty units. What a wonderful innovation hexagons were! What an even better improvement computers brought to the hobby.

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 7:15:11 AM

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Wow, what a thread.

I read the original post and and thought "Combat Results Table...what else?". Then I read "Cathode Ray Tube" and thought "Gee, that wasn't what I was thinking", but my son said "no Dad, you were right".

So anyway, yep, CRT - the only way to intelligently resolve action on a board game.

Oh, the year I was born,...

...ok - 1956.

B

EDIT: I forgot to mention - definately a Grognard. There wasn't an AH (or SPI) wargame that came out that I didn't try...still have many of them. In fact my son, a friend and I even got out 'AH Battle of the Bulge' and played it a few months ago....ahhhh cadboard!

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 12:02:33 PM

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ORIGINAL: OSO

Yes. 1966

I graduated from the CRT to the IFT.

Here here! IFT > CRT
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ORIGINAL: Grotius

Definitely a grognard. Played almost every Avalon Hill game from Tactics II on, though the ones that first really grabbed me were "Gettysburg" and "D-Day." Eventually became a "Third Reich" and "Advanced Squad Leader" junkie. The addiction to ASL didn't fade until the era of the PC. I still play board games, but more along the lines of "Puerto Rico" and "Tigris and Euphrates" than wargames.

ASL is still around. Only now it's called Combat Mission.

And you don;'t need a peice of thread to check LOS!

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 6:17:16 PM

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ASL is still around. Only now it's called Combat Mission. And you don;'t need a peice of thread to check LOS!

Hehe, not only do I have thread; I have dozens of Plano boxes with ASL counters; umpteen sets of dice; huge clear plastic sheets under which I used to put Historical ASL boards; several three-ring binders full of rules; you name it.

I take it you mean Combat Mission, the computer game? I just never could get into it. It's the same idea as ASL, but somehow it didn't capture my imagination. Somehow WiTP did. :)

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 7:58:56 PM

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for sheer level of sophistication, you can't beat Hasbro's "Battleship"

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 8:50:55 PM

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How many attacks did I launch with only a 6 being my friend and a 1 a complete disaster.

1959

Took me 6 posts to remember that I do know what a CRT is!

1969

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 8:51:25 PM

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

for sheer level of sophistication, you can't beat Hasbro's "Battleship"

The original, not the electronic one.

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 9:03:28 PM

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1986. Got ya beat by 2 years.

EGAD!!! My "baby," i.e., my youngest Son was born that year, and I was 37 years old and my mother thought I was crazy for having a child that late.

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 9:16:44 PM

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

for sheer level of sophistication, you can't beat Hasbro's "Battleship"

The original, not the electronic one.

of course! no cathod ray tubes for this one......infernal machines!

don't forget Risk! ah the true power of the die roll.

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 9:22:54 PM

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If you combined Risk, Battleship, and Stratego, you'd have everything: land and sea warfare, leadership, covert ops, and so on. It would be the ultimate game! You could throw in Operation to simulate battlefield medical units.

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 9:39:27 PM

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ah Stratego!.......

damn Spy....we hate the Spy...and those bombs.....stupid bombs!

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 9:40:28 PM

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

If you combined Risk, Battleship, and Stratego, you'd have everything:� land and sea warfare, leadership, covert ops, and so on.� It would be the ultimate game!� You could throw in Operation to simulate battlefield medical units.

I heard rumors of people smoking pot, drinking beer and playing Risk back in highschool, but I do NOT remember being involved in such activities.

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 9:49:56 PM

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1960.
My first game was PanzerBlitz in 1974. What a discovery! Before that it was Milton Bradley's Civil War

I must have CRTs and IFTs and Terrain Charts out the wazoo.

So is there a wargamer down here in Orange County, Southern California?

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 10:20:34 PM

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ORIGINAL: Pascal

So is there a wargamer down here in Orange County, Southern California?

There is an ASL league out here in the OC. I'm sure a google search would turn something up on it.

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 10:35:23 PM

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The original, not the electronic one

I played "Battleship" with my father using two pieces of graph paper with a grid set up on them when I was 6 or 7 (mid 50s). Seems like it was a good 10 years later before I saw "Battleship" with plastic boats.

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 10:37:50 PM

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ASL is still around. Only now it's called Combat Mission. And you don;'t need a peice of thread to check LOS!

Hehe, not only do I have thread; I have dozens of Plano boxes with ASL counters; umpteen sets of dice; huge clear plastic sheets under which I used to put Historical ASL boards; several three-ring binders full of rules; you name it.

When playing ASL, the unit stacks would get so high, that we would stab them onto pins. Worked great....until you weren't careful picking up the stack, then you would impale a finger. You could really distinguish my game....all of the units had holes in the middle of them for the pins.

edit: the pins also made it easy to slip a string over it for LOS

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RE: Grognard or n00B ? - 11/3/2007 10:40:05 PM

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1970. And I have so many CRTs it scares me.

ASL is still going strong as a board game although I have never got in to it (played Squad Leader though). It is a bit too much of a lifestyle game for me (one that you play to the exclusion of all others) and I already have one of those: WITP

I have picked up Whispering Death - a sort of squad leader but with planes not troops in the Pacific - with the aim of playing it by email though and still play Squad Leader now and again.

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