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waynec -> RE: Our Ages..... (11/13/2006 4:23:40 AM)

will be 55 on december 7. born in 1951. started palying tactics 2 in 1962 or so when it first came out. progressed through spi, panzerblitz and the monster games. first computer games were on an apple 2c in 1984 (kampfgruppe; battlegroup; gray seas, gray skies; fighter command). first games for my pc were simcity and red storm rining sub game.

now it's pretty much witp, wpo, toaw3, civ3. will look at caw and bob/botr.

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Johnus -> RE: Our Ages..... (11/13/2006 4:52:11 AM)

55. Started with AH's 1914, I thing it was in 1914 (seriously around 1969 or 70 ?). Have over a hundred old boardgames and over a hundred computer wargame CDs. I don't play the boardgames any more, but I do wargame on the computer almost daily. I almost always wargamed solitaire anyway and the computer is excellent for that. I am greatful for all the work put in by designers over the years. The genre has grown and improved and the "hobby" is better than it has ever been.



06 Maestro -> RE: Our Ages..... (11/13/2006 5:21:28 AM)



1914 was a great game. IIRC, I was given the game in 1970. I had many hours of play with that. Unfortunately, it was a little too deep/long for my few opponents. It is a little difficult playing those games w/o an opponent. The few boardgames (A/H SPI) I have left have been untouched for about 20 years,



saj42 -> RE: Our Ages..... (11/13/2006 3:00:52 PM)

43.
I stopped wargaming at 25 and only restarted 3 years ago.
Wish I could roll back the clock 20 years and not make the mistake of getting hitched to Wife Mk1 and loosing my hobby. I have an Ex Mk1 so everythings fine now [:D] - but the GF Mk3 is starting to impact my WitP time [X(]



Mike Solli -> RE: Our Ages..... (1/31/2007 2:36:25 PM)

Just found this thread.  Hilarious.

I'm 46.  Been wargaming since age 10.  My sister bought me Panzer Blitz for Christmas.  She cursed that to her dying day. [:D]  I have a closet full of board games, but my wife and daughter blindsided me while I was deployed.  I had the war room (mine, all mine - the only place in the house where I could say that [:D]).  While I was gone (2004-5), they moved my daughter's menagerie (various birds and rodents) into the room after dismantling my table.  The only thing that saved me was that I got WitP when it came out (while deployed). [:D]  Haven't played a boardgame since I got this infernal game.  Some day I'll make my daughter move her rodents and fowl back to her room. [:D]  Probably after I finish my PBEM.....

Edit: Looking over this thread, it started while I was at the mob station. The year I was gone, I didn't have access to this forum so I learned WitP in a vacuum. I spent hundreds of hours playing the AI and learning the Japanese in amazing detail. When I got home and got back on the forum, I started a PBEM and never looked back.



John 3rd -> RE: Our Ages..... (1/31/2007 4:58:02 PM)

I just discovered this thread as well.

Am 40 with two boys ages 3 and 6-months.

My favorite boardgames that I started with are Flattop and (I haven't seen ANYONE mention) Iron Bottom Sound.  My best friend and I played countless hours making up a campaign game using Iron Bottom, Destroyer Captain, and Royal Navy.  Several High School girlfriends portested that we liked our campaign more then THEM!  [:D]  Women just never understand...

Computer games were brought in for me by the Great Naval Battles series.  STILL love those games...

John



Nikademus -> RE: Our Ages..... (1/31/2007 5:01:19 PM)

I'm 29.

Carrier Force rules!




DuncanLang -> RE: Our Ages..... (1/31/2007 8:14:23 PM)

I am 50. Gaming since 1972. First game was SPI’s Year of the Rat. Got subscription to S&T for Christmas, but the first issue came before the introductory game, Napoleon at Waterloo. Mostly have played board and mostly solitaire since, although I was in a wargame club for awhile. First computer game (not including some during my Army service) was Talonsoft’s Battleground: Antietam. While I still prefer boardgames, the limited time I have available for gaming now means it is much easier to do computer games and, naturally, WITP is my game of choice. Nothing like relaxing after a long day of working/commuting by blowing up enemy ships.



panda124c -> RE: Our Ages..... (1/31/2007 9:30:48 PM)

I'm three years OLDER since this thread started. [:D]



PzB74 -> RE: Our Ages..... (1/31/2007 9:56:05 PM)

Yeees, posted this 2.5 years ago:
" 29..for another 6 months at least, so I'm still hanging in there "

Now I'm 32, but nothing else has really changed!-)
Never played many boardgames, mostly because non of my friends were die hard enough.
A few rounds of Axis & Allies, but I rolled snake eyes twice in two games and researched super long range bombers and that was it...

Also got a boardgame called 8th Army, but again - lack of opponents [8|]
Especially good with a site like this when you live in a small town in a small country [8D]



jubail1999 -> RE: Our Ages..... (2/1/2007 12:58:57 AM)

49

Started gaming in 1970 with Afrika Korps, had a sub to S&T through high school, collected about 300 games by 1977 when I joined the USN and had a 20 year semi-hiatus till I retired from the military in 1998.

I kept into gaming by buying (but not being able to play) a board game or two a year, but what really kept me in the hobby was the personal computer and those grand old companies like SSI/SSG/EA/TalonSoft etc. Since 1998 I have continued to buy boardgames because I like to look at them, but really only play on the computer now, both full fledged wargames by Matrix and HPS and also using ADCII and Cyberboard to get some use for my boardgames (that way I can play them and keep them unpunched) [:D]

Have been fooling with WITP since it came out, played a PBEM for about a year, and getting ready to jump back into it when I decide I no longer need a life, which should be pretty soon.



kkoovvoo -> RE: Our Ages..... (2/1/2007 6:02:31 PM)

joined the forum when I was 24...and I will be soon 27



hawker -> RE: Our Ages..... (2/1/2007 9:33:50 PM)

I am 32,soon 33.



GaryChildress -> RE: Our Ages..... (2/6/2007 4:14:17 AM)

39.

First computer game was Civilization I. I've almost always been more or less of a hermit so I never did get into board games back before computers.



RUPD3658 -> RE: Our Ages..... (2/6/2007 5:00:22 AM)

39 next month.



stevemk1a -> RE: Our Ages..... (2/6/2007 8:43:49 AM)

I'm 37 years old. Got WitiP for Christmas this year and so far, I'm enjoying it tremendously!

Started out with the AH Third Reich boardgame ('nuther X-mas present) back in the early '80's ... then moved on to Squad Leader, ASL, and assorted early comupter wargames ... (Anyone remember SSI's North Atlantic 1986 :-)!

Found Spwaw (and I've been a real fanatic of that game!) and then CM .... and now WitP

Cheers,
Stephen.



wild_Willie2 -> RE: Our Ages..... (2/6/2007 9:36:37 AM)

WOW, I just checked and I NEVER posted in this thread before.... Although I could have sworn.

Wel, I just turned 30.

Got WITP from GF 2.1 for chrismas 3 years ago.

Nowadays GF 2.1 has moved on to bother someone else, and I am now fully into GF 2.2  [;)]

I have to admit that I hardly play WITP anymore nowadays, although I still lurk arround this very nice forum.



goodboyladdie -> RE: Our Ages..... (2/6/2007 10:21:52 AM)

Just 38 though if I was using "Nikmod" for my age it would still be 34!



Przemcio231 -> RE: Our Ages..... (2/6/2007 10:31:30 AM)

WOW waynec you are exactly one year older then my mom... i turned 25 on the 3rd of February[:D][:D] GF bought you WITP Willie??[:D] nice mine allowed me to play WITP on her Laptop when im at her place[:D]



Wolfie1 -> RE: Our Ages..... (2/6/2007 12:19:00 PM)

I'm 42, starter wargaming with napoleonic minatures at the age of 12 (christ! 30 years at it[;)])



DD696 -> RE: Our Ages..... (2/6/2007 1:05:51 PM)

Turned 60 about a week ago.. Been playing wargames since a buddy introduced me to them in 1967. I have boxes and boxes in storage of old boardgames. Favorite became SPI's War in Europe (combination of War in the East and War in the West). Impatiently waiting for the new War in Russia. Very happy with the latest patches for War in the Pacific - the game has finally gained the maturity it badly needed.

Now if we could only edit the d*** thing while playing it to correct those sometimes problems which crop up and to repair the data when errors are found - or even when you don't agree with the data.



grossmetzger -> RE: Our Ages..... (2/6/2007 1:28:35 PM)

39 and onward to 40...
first "real" game: kampfgruppe from GG.
(played it on my lovely amiga 1000)
followed by carrier strike, pac war, war in the pacific, all three steel panther games, BoB and 12'o clock high... so i'm a little GG addict.
greetings
béla



latosusi -> RE: Our Ages..... (2/6/2007 4:31:48 PM)

41 since december. Started with vic-20, c64 and amiga. o.O was it 20Kb?



Nikademus -> RE: Our Ages..... (2/6/2007 4:44:49 PM)

Ah the Vic-20....

long before there was F4F vs Zero.....there was Vic-20 vs. Atari 400.

[:D]



FAdmiral -> RE: Our Ages..... (2/6/2007 9:15:11 PM)

I will turn 68 next month. I have about 100 games for the PC, C64 and Atari on
my shelves but only have the PC now to play them. Naval games are my
favorite but I will play anything that is REALISTIC. NO fantasy or magic or monsters
are in any of my games. I also have the board game "Pacific War, The Struggle
Against Japan 1941-1945" made by VictoryGames Inc. on my shelve. Bought it
at a garage sale for $5. It has never been touched. All the pieces are in the original
state & condition. I almost got a chance to use it about 5 years ago when someone
tried to organize a large multiplayer game over the internet using around 12 players,
each taking a WW2 country-based part of the military structure. It never came off,
I am sadly to say....

JIM



Mike Solli -> RE: Our Ages..... (2/6/2007 9:27:24 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: FAdmiral

I will turn 68 next month. I have about 100 games for the PC, C64 and Atari on
my shelves but only have the PC now to play them. Naval games are my
favorite but I will play anything that is REALISTIC. NO fantasy or magic or monsters
are in any of my games. I also have the board game "Pacific War, The Struggle
Against Japan 1941-1945" made by VictoryGames Inc. on my shelve. Bought it
at a garage sale for $5. It has never been touched. All the pieces are in the original
state & condition. I almost got a chance to use it about 5 years ago when someone
tried to organize a large multiplayer game over the internet using around 12 players,
each taking a WW2 country-based part of the military structure. It never came off,
I am sadly to say....

JIM


I actually finished this game. Pretty good overall. The Japanese were trashed by the end of the war (surprise, surprise). The Allied fleet was hurting too and the US ground forces were in really sad shape.

Oh yeah, I played it solitare. A lobotomy works wonders. [:D]



pauk -> RE: Our Ages..... (2/6/2007 10:35:15 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: FAdmiral

I will turn 68 next month. I have about 100 games for the PC, C64 and Atari on
my shelves but only have the PC now to play them. Naval games are my
favorite but I will play anything that is REALISTIC. NO fantasy or magic or monsters
are in any of my games. I also have the board game "Pacific War, The Struggle
Against Japan 1941-1945" made by VictoryGames Inc. on my shelve. Bought it
at a garage sale for $5. It has never been touched. All the pieces are in the original
state & condition. I almost got a chance to use it about 5 years ago when someone
tried to organize a large multiplayer game over the internet using around 12 players,
each taking a WW2 country-based part of the military structure. It never came off,
I am sadly to say....

JIM


You are our oldest member FAdmiral[&o] AFAIK . Glad to see you here!

I'm 33, soon it will be 34....



Speedysteve -> RE: Our Ages..... (2/6/2007 11:04:16 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: pauk
I'm 33, soon it will be 34....



Mental age of 2 though[:'(]



hawker -> RE: Our Ages..... (2/6/2007 11:10:53 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Speedy


quote:

ORIGINAL: pauk
I'm 33, soon it will be 34....



Mental age of 2 though[:'(]


That is still one year ahead of you[8D]
Sorry,i cannot resist.



Speedysteve -> RE: Our Ages..... (2/7/2007 12:06:44 AM)

[:'(][:D]



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