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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/7/2010 1:34:53 PM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/7/2010 1:47:20 PM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/7/2010 2:02:07 PM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/7/2010 2:28:56 PM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/7/2010 3:03:29 PM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/9/2010 10:41:38 AM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/9/2010 3:36:17 PM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/9/2010 4:00:50 PM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/10/2010 1:17:05 AM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/10/2010 3:22:09 AM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/10/2010 6:49:33 AM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/10/2010 9:41:15 PM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/10/2010 11:06:38 PM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/10/2010 11:35:25 PM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/11/2010 7:37:30 AM   
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Throwing rocks and dirt at plastic army men.


yep and cheap models.

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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/11/2010 7:48:10 AM   
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Back then, AH released one new game a year and it was always on my Christmas list (mine and my older brother who got me into the whole gaming thing).

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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/11/2010 1:41:43 PM   
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Throwing rocks and dirt at plastic army men.


Haha, I missed this comment the first time. That's hilarious, i used to do the same. I'd build forts and trenches out of sand and then stand back and start pelting them. At one point I upgraded to a BB gun and then really went at them. Many years later when I was cleaning out my childhood memories I was amazed at how many headless and limbless GI's I had. I was pretty violent as a child!

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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/11/2010 4:56:28 PM   
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Throwing rocks and dirt at plastic army men.


Haha, I missed this comment the first time. That's hilarious, i used to do the same. I'd build forts and trenches out of sand and then stand back and start pelting them. At one point I upgraded to a BB gun and then really went at them. Many years later when I was cleaning out my childhood memories I was amazed at how many headless and limbless GI's I had. I was pretty violent as a child!


Double ditto's.

We would have some big battles with two guys on each side. the rock throwing was controlled.

My kid brother was the Mr. distructo. He would cut the plastic soldiers in two-don't know why. He once cut a slot car ( mine) in two just to see what it looked like. He turned out to be quite the craftsman though.

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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/11/2010 5:53:16 PM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/11/2010 6:49:59 PM   
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ORIGINAL: junk2drive

Throwing rocks and dirt at plastic army men.


yep and cheap models.

Tabletop: ASL or Panzergrenadier

PC. Steelpanthers, CloseCombat, Aces series


Oh yeah, plastic models suffered the BB gun barrages, pellet rifle salvoes, and firecracker blasts. That was great fun.







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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/11/2010 9:52:12 PM   
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ORIGINAL: junk2drive

Throwing rocks and dirt at plastic army men.


yep and cheap models.

Tabletop: ASL or Panzergrenadier

PC. Steelpanthers, CloseCombat, Aces series


Oh yeah, plastic models suffered the BB gun barrages, pellet rifle salvoes, and firecracker blasts. That was great fun.




That was part of the 4th of July ritual for my buds and I. We would each have two or three good models saved up for the occasion. Cherry bombs were good for the final blow.../all in the water, of course.

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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/12/2010 4:31:47 AM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/12/2010 7:24:05 AM   
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First computer wargame was Knights of the Desert (and the second was SSG's Battlefront - their original Battlefront that is).

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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 6/13/2010 12:55:09 AM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 7/22/2010 11:45:19 AM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 7/22/2010 3:10:44 PM   
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Throwing rocks and dirt at plastic army men.


I hear you junk..........one of my buddies down the street had a big ole Dirt pile in his backyard and we would set up our plastic army guys up on that like it was a moutain..............the best times were around the 4th of July and X-mas when we could use 'live ammo' on them (firecrackers, roman candles, etc.)


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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 7/22/2010 7:45:30 PM   
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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 7/23/2010 12:54:48 AM   
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ORIGINAL: junk2drive

Throwing rocks and dirt at plastic army men.


yep and cheap models.

Tabletop: ASL or Panzergrenadier

PC. Steelpanthers, CloseCombat, Aces series


Oh yeah, plastic models suffered the BB gun barrages, pellet rifle salvoes, and firecracker blasts. That was great fun.




That was part of the 4th of July ritual for my buds and I. We would each have two or three good models saved up for the occasion. Cherry bombs were good for the final blow.../all in the water, of course.


Memory fails as we get older. How could I forgot all those things. So, revision: first throwing rocks, progressed to firecrackers thrown amongst hordes of enemy soldiers(I think they were German). BB gun came a little later. My last truly violent act was when I was 12. I lined up hundreds of soldiers. I went in my house, grabbed my 10 gauge shotgun and pulverized every one of those enemy hun. Only later did I realize I should have waited till mom was not home. OUCH. Dad laughed, which of course displeased dear ole' mom.


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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 7/23/2010 1:06:22 AM   
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Throwing rocks and dirt at plastic army men.

Blowing up my little army men and models with fire crackers.

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RE: What was the first wargames you played? - 7/23/2010 11:58:29 AM   
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