warspite1
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Joined: 2/2/2008 From: England Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Annagil Rome, Italy, turning 40 in a few months. Lived for a while in Germany (studying and working) and for an even shorter while in London (studying). My father passed a massive interest in military history (and geography) to me as a kid and initiated me to SPI and SPI-like (mostly Napoleonic) tabletop wargames. I guess he desperately needed a companion to play in the 80s, when wargames where basically unheard of in Italy and he was probably the only player at all in the small city we were living back then, but maybe he did regret it when I came up with the Ney-Grouchy inversion maneuver on my own (if anyone played Napoleons' last battles know what I'm talking about) a few years later :) I got slowly to the WW2 in the Pacific, as I started (obviously) with ancient Roman history, then Napoleon, then WW2 in Europe and only then the Pacific. However, naval history was a thread all along (punic wars, the struggles of venice against the Turks, the ill fated attempts of the French to achieve a viable fleet against the British, the Mediterranean theater of war in WW2... I always wished there was a WITM). Plus, I almost ended up with a career in the navy out of high school (served a couple of weeks on the Amerigo Vespucci as a sort of civilian cadet too, some of the best days of my life working the rigging and learning the basics of navigation and meteorology), but it was not to be. As far as Naval games go, I started with Harpoon (tabletop and computer), then moved to Supermarina (an insanely huge tabletop about just the first few months of the war in the Mediterranean sea) and then I discovered WITP and then WITP:AE. Unfortnately, the latter came too late for me to be able to invest the time necessary for a meaningful human to human game so I've only just played vs AI and I know it's not the same. These days, I'm mostly reading AARs now and then and playing much lighter and faster stuff (Crusader Kings 2, Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron series and so on). My greetings. G warspite1 + 1 billion Hi Annagil, may I ask what your avatar is of please?
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