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A founding father passes on. - 3/14/2005 11:48:30 PM   
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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/15/2005 12:16:41 AM   
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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/15/2005 12:19:49 AM   
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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/15/2005 2:11:34 AM   
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In first post not this one.

< Message edited by donkuchi -- 3/14/2005 7:08:26 PM >

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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/15/2005 2:32:11 AM   
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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/15/2005 3:19:23 AM   
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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/15/2005 4:26:40 AM   
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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/15/2005 4:54:12 AM   
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ORIGINAL: dr. smith

Truly a giant in gaming . . . Man those SPI maps were a thing of beauty, couldn't wait to open up the game to look at the map and counters.


Yep. Even if I did not play the game for whatever reason I always checked out the maps and counters.

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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/15/2005 5:16:20 AM   
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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/15/2005 5:17:03 AM   
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ORIGINAL: irrelevant

If not for RAS, I wonder if any of us would be here today on this forum, talking about playing War in the Pacific. He made this hobby....


The hobby was well established before he bought into SPI. He was a mover and shaker but he hardly invented board wargaming.

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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/15/2005 5:23:17 AM   
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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/15/2005 6:04:45 AM   
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SPI boardgames were the first wargames I ever played.


For me it was Avalon Hill. Before that, toy soldiers on the floor.

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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/15/2005 7:07:45 AM   
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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/15/2005 7:08:14 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Tristanjohn

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ORIGINAL: Drex

SPI boardgames were the first wargames I ever played.


For me it was Avalon Hill. Before that, toy soldiers on the floor.


I started with AH, about sixth grade, because that's what my best friend played, but I quickly moved to SPI. I felt that SPI's games were generally more interesting and in-depth; furthermore, they just plain "looked" military, with their flat-colored counters and maps, and text-only rule books with their precisely numbered paragraphs.

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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/15/2005 7:20:03 AM   
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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/15/2005 10:45:17 AM   
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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/15/2005 12:21:28 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Tristanjohn

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ORIGINAL: irrelevant

If not for RAS, I wonder if any of us would be here today on this forum, talking about playing War in the Pacific. He made this hobby....


The hobby was well established before he bought into SPI. He was a mover and shaker but he hardly invented board wargaming.

Didn't mean he invented it. SPI changed everything.

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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/15/2005 3:13:28 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Mogami

Hi, SPI was my first as well. "War in Europe"


Glad you started "small" A few times I spread out all the maps in WiE, never played the full blown war.

SPI may not have been the 1st, but Redmond & SPI took the hobby to new level in sharp colorful graphics, plus as Mog points out in scale. They created the Monster Game, of which WitP is but a derivative.

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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/15/2005 3:33:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hi, While SPI was around I bought everygame they published as soon as it hit the shelf in my local wargame shop. In fact there was a period when I was between tours in military where my apartment was above the shop and we pretty much played wargames around the clock.

I loved War in Europe, Terrible Swift Sword, Bloody April, Wellingtons Victory, Campaign for North Africa, War in the Pacific, Civil War, Whact am Rhein, and so on. I bought every game they made. Then TSR bought them.

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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/15/2005 3:48:00 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Mogami

Hi, SPI was my first as well. "War in Europe"


Boy, you like jumping in the deep end, Mogami! WiE your first boardgame? WiE was great fun though. In one game our group got as far as the end of '43.

I also much preferred the 'look' of the SPI games over others such as Avalon Hill.

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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/15/2005 3:59:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hi, I was never a big fan of AH. (I thought their games were more generic compared to the detail in SPI games.)
I finished many games of WIE. We had a regular crew of players (multiplayer WIE)
In more then one location we had the game set up. I used to play at one house on certain nights and another on other nights and I had a game set up in my front room. (I didn't own a TV back then)

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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/15/2005 4:01:34 PM   
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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/15/2005 6:53:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		I met him once at Origins, he tried to sell me Campaign for North Africa. Unfortunately, for me or him I don't know, I did not have the money.

Still have all my games AH, SPI, GDW, GRD, Yaquinto etc. although wife 1.0 would love to move em out.

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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/16/2005 5:02:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		Skyros, it was definitely your loss - one of those in good condition, if you were to bring yourself to sell it, would be worth a fortune today. Personally, I bitterly regret losing most of my copy in moving - although a full game was nigh-on impossible I enjoyed playing with it so much that it didn't matter.

Redmond Simonsen contributed so much to gaming. He was superb at graphic design. I started boardgaming with Borodino in S&T32 (iirc) and stayed with it up to Jim Dunnigan's departure. If you compare the layout and graphic quality of S&T to it's rivals at the time, there's no doubt who was streets ahead.

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RE: A founding father passes on. - 3/17/2005 10:49:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		Just one further post: The NYTimes obituary.
<Raises glass>Bye, Mr. Simonsen.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/16/obituaries/16simonsen.html?ex=1268629200&en=e04893d0f1540299&ei=5088

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