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mcbradley -> (7/24/2001 1:59:00 AM)
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This is great! So far from 14 to 71! :cool: I’m 44, I think that comes out to be close to the median age here. I’ve been doing SP for only a year now, and am I sorry for what I’ve been missing. I started playing AH Afrika Korps with my dad back in the 60’s, then graduated to Third Reich. Some of the best quality time I've had with him. It was one of the few ways I could extract his WWII experiences out of him. He’s still around (77 and counting), so I hope we can get him to write down some memoirs.
When I moved out of the house, I lost my playing partner and wargaming faded into my past. I got back into wargaming in a round-about way from my interest in model-building, which itself was renewed from my love for PC combat flight simulators. When you’re building models, you have a lot of quiet time to think. I was building an IL-2 Sturmovik, when I started getting the urge to play something like Afrika Korps on the PC. That got me to searching about a year back to see if the old AH games had been developed for PC’s (that’s how far out of touch I was). Then I stumbled on the Matrixgames site (thank you Google.com!). Woohoo, talk about nirvana! A whole series of hex-based war games and they were FREE! So now the circle is complete . . . except I haven’t finished that Sturmi yet. :rolleyes:
Anyway, it’s interesting to see the age range. Great to see the "life veterans" here. Great to see some younger generations accepting a PC game that isn’t all glitz and blood, too. That’s good, it proves there’s nothing “lame” about exercising your brain instead of your hand-eye coordination. You've invested well, this type of entertainment will NEVER be obsolete. :D
O.Bradley
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