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ravinhood -> RE: Can someone recomend a US Civil War boardgame... (2/23/2004 12:30:59 AM)
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I found a great deal on ebay for "six" games for $36.00, one of them was the old origional Gettysbury, the others were Stalingrad, Africa Korps, Battle of the Bulge, Alexander the Great, and Waterloo. All of these games were the old origional versions of these games. They all are in excellent condition, no tears on the boxes, no pieces missing, all the rules, it's like they were barely played. I think I got a steal cause this was a new ebayer and he required a money order! heh. I remember back when I bought these games in the 60's they were $3.64 lol, Stalingrad was my first purchase. But, back then a kid with $3.64 was rich, I sold GRIT newspapers to make money to buy my games. Now who all remembers GRIT newspapers?
Gettysburg was one of the first board wargames I ever played. Was in the 6th grade just before school was letting out for summer, we got one of those free day play days and while everyone else went outside to the playground, I stayed inside with a friend who brought the game to school, so we played and I was hooked on board wargames up until 1981 when computers (commodore 64) came out with wargames.
At one time I had owned all of the above games and several others, but, over the years had lost them in moves. To get these six back was like a gift from heaven, the six games I broke my teeth on getting into board wargames.
Through ebay lately I have aquired several other games, Little Round Top is a very simple civil wargame, I rather like to call it a gamette though, there's others like it, like Devils Den. I got a Squad Leader game "unpunched", The Alamo (unpunched) heh, I'm from Texas so that one is popular here. I recenlty got the American Heritage "Battle Cry" 1961 version of a Milton Bradley Civil War Game (this one is definitely a beer and pretzels newbie game of the era).
What I'm looking for now is the battle of Isandlawana and Rourke's Drift, during the British invasion of Zululand. (heh and they called it a DEFENSE of Natal) lol. Anyone know any games that depic these battles?
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