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ORIGINAL: Neilster
We both used to think, "Man, wouldn't it be awesome if there was a computer version of this?". Well, only 16 years or so later there soon will be
Cheers, Neilster

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ORIGINAL: Neilster

I was really interested in 20th Century military history and vaguely knew there were military games around but I don't think I'd ever seen one. I tried pretty unsuccessfully to make my own wargames using AD&G hex paper and to program one on my mid-80s Amstrad.

My first wargame came with a Strategy and Tactics magazine and was the excellent Case Green (a hypothetical 1938 German invasion of Czechoslovakia). I then bought some Arnhem(?)/West Wall one which was part of a much larger series where the maps all linked up to represent most of Northern France and the Low Countries. By the time my friend and I set it up we were too knackered to play. It looked great though and it stayed like that until my girlfriend started giving me grief and it went back in the box, never to be played . I foolishly chucked-out those games when I moved away to join the Air Force. Luckily, when randomly searching recently I picked up a mint copy of the S&T Case Green edition on eBay for $US10. It felt good to have it again. The articles on the Czech military and defences are excellent BTW.

In about 1992 I discovered the 5th edition of World in Flames in my local hobby shop and knew I had to have it. I taught my friend to play it once I had worked most of it out and we really enjoyed its vast scale and scope. There was always quite a bit of ideologically-based, 1940s-style trash talk..."Your mass of Russian untermensch are a rabble and are no match for my disciplined Aryan supermen! Oh bugger...a bad roll". We both used to think, "Man, wouldn't it be awesome if there was a computer version of this?". Well, only 16 years or so later there soon will be and I'm stoked to play a small role in its development.

Cheers, Neilster

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ORIGINAL: panzers

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ORIGINAL: Neilster

I was really interested in 20th Century military history and vaguely knew there were military games around but I don't think I'd ever seen one. I tried pretty unsuccessfully to make my own wargames using AD&G hex paper and to program one on my mid-80s Amstrad.

My first wargame came with a Strategy and Tactics magazine and was the excellent Case Green (a hypothetical 1938 German invasion of Czechoslovakia). I then bought some Arnhem(?)/West Wall one which was part of a much larger series where the maps all linked up to represent most of Northern France and the Low Countries. By the time my friend and I set it up we were too knackered to play. It looked great though and it stayed like that until my girlfriend started giving me grief and it went back in the box, never to be played . I foolishly chucked-out those games when I moved away to join the Air Force. Luckily, when randomly searching recently I picked up a mint copy of the S&T Case Green edition on eBay for $US10. It felt good to have it again. The articles on the Czech military and defences are excellent BTW.

In about 1992 I discovered the 5th edition of World in Flames in my local hobby shop and knew I had to have it. I taught my friend to play it once I had worked most of it out and we really enjoyed its vast scale and scope. There was always quite a bit of ideologically-based, 1940s-style trash talk..."Your mass of Russian untermensch are a rabble and are no match for my disciplined Aryan supermen! Oh bugger...a bad roll". We both used to think, "Man, wouldn't it be awesome if there was a computer version of this?". Well, only 16 years or so later there soon will be and I'm stoked to play a small role in its development.

Cheers, Neilster

Neilster. I have a question for you. I, too, played WiF, 5th edetion complete. So even though I haven't played it in over 10 years, I am afraid for my life how I am going to fare when it comes out on pc. I guess the question is: am I going to be ok, knowing the game like i do, but with the complexity of the game being converted into the computer, will I be able to pick up on it in a relatively short period of time?

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ORIGINAL: panzers

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ORIGINAL: Neilster

I was really interested in 20th Century military history and vaguely knew there were military games around but I don't think I'd ever seen one. I tried pretty unsuccessfully to make my own wargames using AD&G hex paper and to program one on my mid-80s Amstrad.

My first wargame came with a Strategy and Tactics magazine and was the excellent Case Green (a hypothetical 1938 German invasion of Czechoslovakia). I then bought some Arnhem(?)/West Wall one which was part of a much larger series where the maps all linked up to represent most of Northern France and the Low Countries. By the time my friend and I set it up we were too knackered to play. It looked great though and it stayed like that until my girlfriend started giving me grief and it went back in the box, never to be played . I foolishly chucked-out those games when I moved away to join the Air Force. Luckily, when randomly searching recently I picked up a mint copy of the S&T Case Green edition on eBay for $US10. It felt good to have it again. The articles on the Czech military and defences are excellent BTW.

In about 1992 I discovered the 5th edition of World in Flames in my local hobby shop and knew I had to have it. I taught my friend to play it once I had worked most of it out and we really enjoyed its vast scale and scope. There was always quite a bit of ideologically-based, 1940s-style trash talk..."Your mass of Russian untermensch are a rabble and are no match for my disciplined Aryan supermen! Oh bugger...a bad roll". We both used to think, "Man, wouldn't it be awesome if there was a computer version of this?". Well, only 16 years or so later there soon will be and I'm stoked to play a small role in its development.

Cheers, Neilster

Neilster. I have a question for you. I, too, played WiF, 5th edetion complete. So even though I haven't played it in over 10 years, I am afraid for my life how I am going to fare when it comes out on pc. I guess the question is: am I going to be ok, knowing the game like i do, but with the complexity of the game being converted into the computer, will I be able to pick up on it in a relatively short period of time?

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ORIGINAL: Neilster

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ORIGINAL: panzers

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ORIGINAL: Neilster

I was really interested in 20th Century military history and vaguely knew there were military games around but I don't think I'd ever seen one. I tried pretty unsuccessfully to make my own wargames using AD&G hex paper and to program one on my mid-80s Amstrad.

My first wargame came with a Strategy and Tactics magazine and was the excellent Case Green (a hypothetical 1938 German invasion of Czechoslovakia). I then bought some Arnhem(?)/West Wall one which was part of a much larger series where the maps all linked up to represent most of Northern France and the Low Countries. By the time my friend and I set it up we were too knackered to play. It looked great though and it stayed like that until my girlfriend started giving me grief and it went back in the box, never to be played . I foolishly chucked-out those games when I moved away to join the Air Force. Luckily, when randomly searching recently I picked up a mint copy of the S&T Case Green edition on eBay for $US10. It felt good to have it again. The articles on the Czech military and defences are excellent BTW.

In about 1992 I discovered the 5th edition of World in Flames in my local hobby shop and knew I had to have it. I taught my friend to play it once I had worked most of it out and we really enjoyed its vast scale and scope. There was always quite a bit of ideologically-based, 1940s-style trash talk..."Your mass of Russian untermensch are a rabble and are no match for my disciplined Aryan supermen! Oh bugger...a bad roll". We both used to think, "Man, wouldn't it be awesome if there was a computer version of this?". Well, only 16 years or so later there soon will be and I'm stoked to play a small role in its development.

Cheers, Neilster

Neilster. I have a question for you. I, too, played WiF, 5th edetion complete. So even though I haven't played it in over 10 years, I am afraid for my life how I am going to fare when it comes out on pc. I guess the question is: am I going to be ok, knowing the game like i do, but with the complexity of the game being converted into the computer, will I be able to pick up on it in a relatively short period of time?

MWiF (Matrix World in Flames) should actually be easier to play than cardboard WiF in many respects as the PC will take care of so much administration and rule checking. If you're familiar with the 5th edition, there are not all that many new concepts to learn (and old ones to unlearn). The MWiF forum has extensive tutorials that you can study already and supportive posters who'll answer any questions you have. The developer Steve is going out of his way to include potential customers in the development and is keen to help people get into the game. If you haven't done so, check it out.

Cheers, Neilster

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ORIGINAL: Yogi the Great

Back in 1962 when I was eleven, my 16 year old brother bought the original Avalon Hill Gettysburg. It was hard to find anyone to play so out of desperation he asked me to be his enemy. I won and was hooked on wargames for good. Over the next quite a few years I purchased most every Avalon Hill game and a spattering of other company games.

Eventually a new contraption came out and I purchased an Apple IIc and found a primitive computer Gettysburg to play on it. I moved on to the PC a few years later and have gone through the wargame changes ever since. I still tend to prefer games that look and play a lot like the old board games of old. In fact, I wish they could/would just put out the old games remaining true to those classic games of years past.

So here I am some 46 years later still hooked and wasting my time and money on war games.