Barb
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Joined: 2/27/2007 From: Bratislava, Slovakia Status: offline
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One Slovak here! Born in the Bratislava (capital), living in Bratislava, playing in Bratislava. No military background, except reading every history book I can lay my hands on... Gaming passion started years back - with two of my best friends "creating" our own war-games based on whatever books we had chance to borrow from library. Created the basic rules, concepts, internal mechanics, and started creating OOB. Later the game was abandoned due to some weird results, or argument. Rinse&Repeat time and again. quote:
We have had few "epic" experiences... - like drawing Europe from mid-atlantic to Kaukazus, from Greenland to North Africa on sheets of "square paper" (5mmx5mm squares). The size of the complete map was bigger then the living room! - like sticking together empty cigarette-boxes with adhesive tape, adding gun turrets and superstructures to be used as ships - only to be blown off by petards. The survive-ability check was made in whatever puddle of water we were lucky to find around! - gluing safety matches to small pieces of papers - to represent planes (re-creating Pearl Harbor strike formations on the floor was epic), throwing darts to determine hits on paper cut-out ships (complete Pearl Harbor miniature) layed on the floor. Complete with "chance to hit something critical" like ammo, armament, engines, etc... - Convoy battle in Skaggerrak using complete 5x4m room - like trying to invade Guam with 6 Jap Battle-wagons in support on 7th Dec. 1941 - only to get two sunk by two subs immediately and 3 more seriously damaged. Jap ASW sucked! - Using whatever we have found to simulate some ground battles - including "8-sided paper box (formerly cheese package)" as pillbox, safety-matches box as tanks, plastic soldiers, ... Later came some early computer games - we three always competing. Finally got to the UV. Also tried to sold them on WITPAE. One tried as Allies till August 1942 when he got little kick out of Luganville with some carrier action too. Unfortunately they never got deeply to it - both of them really have to be in charge of everything - to let decide some freaking game what is actually going to happen was unbearable for them. But they are happy within their kind of games (FPS, War Thunder, etc...)
< Message edited by Barb -- 5/20/2015 9:24:49 AM >
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