rhondabrwn
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Joined: 9/29/2004 From: Snowflake, Arizona Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: rhondabrwn Ashley, the games I play regularly are mostly John Tiller's American Civil War campaign series and a bit of his Napoleonic series. My favorite game of all time is HPS Campaign Gettysburg and if I can claim to be an expert in any game, that is the one. I thought that when I retired from teaching I would have all the time in the world to finally play the many, many games I have collected, but actually I only played a few turns of Gettysburg battle I started back 2010! Turns out that ranching is hard work and the more animals I got and the more I worked at self-sufficiency (baking bread, making cheese, cutting firewood for winter) plus just the maintenance of running a solar/wind power system and doing mundane things like fence repair, chicken coop construction, horse training and grooming, goat herding and so much more just took the whole day (still mostly does). It's only been since last December that I've gotten pretty heavily into new game purchases. Got a little help from solar credits on my taxes that earned me a refund. I have 3 terrabytes of hard drives on each of my two computers so I've got hundreds of games installed and more sitting on the shelves. There are also shelves of board games, though I don't buy those anymore and want to sell my collection if anyone's interested. I also own about every flight simulator available. In addition, I have a recording studio set up on my sun porch and one computer dedicated to Cubase and video and music processing (haven't had much time for those either). I may be poor now, but I did accumulate lots of toys in my working years! If you are interested in some PBEM, what games are your favorite? I probably own them LOL Wow, you are busy - I would love to get into the Civil War and Napoleonic stuff sometime (very interested in the 19th Century at the moment). My time is pretty well spread between John Tiller Campaign Series and all the mods for it at theblitz.org, Squad Battles, Steel Panthers and Battle Academy. I recently got WitPAE and BOA2 - (which I am looking into at the moment) as well as Kharkov Disaster on the Donets. I would be very happy to play any of them against you - are you a member at theblitz.org? Yes, I am a member at the Blitz, but haven't done a thing over there. I've never really cared about "ladders" as I'm interested in playing a good historical battle without regard to winning or losing. I've never had any real focus on "winning" as such (though I am definitely a very competent player in HPS or Matrix ACW). I try to play in a historically realistic manner which doesn't always work out so well with a gamer only interested in the "win" and willing to use ahistorical tactics and rule loopholes to do it. For example, I respect unit organization and lines of command, I would never dream of assembling large regiments from different divisions and forming maximum strength killer stacks and then making a blitzkrieg attack through an historically deployed Union defensive line. It might be effective, but it isn't a Civil War battle any more... I've had WitP and AE for years, but have barely scratched the surface. I'd love to PBEM another relative novice. I have BOA and BOA2, but haven't gained any real mastery of the system. Again, willing to give it a try with a PBEM opponent. I've really about come to the point where solitaire play just isn't doing much for me. PM if you are interested and we can discuss possibilities (and I have lots of possibilities in my collection).
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