Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: wegman58

Avalon Hill - the gateway drug for a lot of us. AFRIKA KORPS - the all important die roll for the attack on Tobruk.

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ORIGINAL: John 3rd

I worked for my Father at a movie theatre and bought my games that way. Avid D&D Fan, AH Fan, and played the monster version of WITP.

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: John 3rd

I worked for my Father at a movie theatre and bought my games that way. Avid D&D Fan, AH Fan, and played the monster version of WITP.

AD&D, Runequest, Shadowrun, Advanced Squad Leader, Axis and Allies-these were my allowance money kryptonite growing up.

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ORIGINAL: Doggie3

The War At Sea was my first naval oriented AH game.

Pretty simple game, I was probably 9 or 10 when I got it. The by-line on the box is "Begin a lifetime of pleasure! Begin with WAR AT SEA!" and so it proved to be.

Then moved onto Panzer Leader, Panzer Blitz and Squad Leader.

(I recently just bought an unpunched Panzer Leader on ebay, mine was too worn out to play, too many counters lost over the years.)

I also enjoyed the non-WW2 oriented - Shogun, Kingmaker, Civilisation and Richtofen's War.

The trading component of Civilisation was one of the better parts of the game - seeing what you could get away with. I recall there were three truths you had to say but I can't recall the third one - 1. The amount of cards (always 3), 2. At least one of the commodities had to be correct, 3. ??

I'll have to dig it out tonight and see what that third truth was...

Edit - I tried to paste a picture but couldn't seem to get it to work?

Cheers,

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

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ORIGINAL: Doggie3

The War At Sea was my first naval oriented AH game.

Pretty simple game, I was probably 9 or 10 when I got it. The by-line on the box is "Begin a lifetime of pleasure! Begin with WAR AT SEA!" and so it proved to be.

Then moved onto Panzer Leader, Panzer Blitz and Squad Leader.

(I recently just bought an unpunched Panzer Leader on ebay, mine was too worn out to play, too many counters lost over the years.)

I also enjoyed the non-WW2 oriented - Shogun, Kingmaker, Civilisation and Richtofen's War.

The trading component of Civilisation was one of the better parts of the game - seeing what you could get away with. I recall there were three truths you had to say but I can't recall the third one - 1. The amount of cards (always 3), 2. At least one of the commodities had to be correct, 3. ??

I'll have to dig it out tonight and see what that third truth was...

Edit - I tried to paste a picture but couldn't seem to get it to work?

Cheers,

warspite1

Yes, when I said Bismarck was my first serious wargame I did not include War at Sea - although perhaps should have as it was an AH game. It was pretty basic but got me on the road to proper wargaming so wasn't all bad

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ORIGINAL: crsutton

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ORIGINAL: wegman58



Avalon Hill - the gateway drug for a lot of us. AFRIKA KORPS - the all important die roll for the attack on Tobruk.

2-1 odds

This may be off a bit.

1: Attacker eliminated
2: Attacker back
3: Exchange (with the attacker always taking the higher loss)
4: Exchange
5: Defender back
6: Defender eliminated

You had to have a 3-1 to get rid of the attacker eliminated result. The one die CRT was brutal and showed no mercy.

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ORIGINAL: runescapecheapgold

When I was child ,I'd like go to fishing with my father,and got older ,I enjoyed FIFA!

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ORIGINAL: crsutton

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ORIGINAL: wegman58

Avalon Hill - the gateway drug for a lot of us. AFRIKA KORPS - the all important die roll for the attack on Tobruk.

2-1 odds

This may be off a bit.

1: Attacker eliminated
2: Attacker back
3: Exchange (with the attacker always taking the higher loss)
4: Exchange
5: Defender back
6: Defender eliminated

You had to have a 3-1 to get rid of the attacker eliminated result. The one die CRT was brutal and showed no mercy.

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ORIGINAL: runescapecheapgold

When I was child ,I'd like go to fishing with my father,and got older ,I enjoyed FIFA!

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ORIGINAL: Termite2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOBwVJQi6_Y

Surprised no one mentioned The Swamp Fox, starring Leslie Nielsen, 1954, it was in COLOR, of course no had color TV's. 1st episode above

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

Just watched an old war flick last night I had never seen before.

Attack on the Iron Coast starring LLoyd Bridges:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxyyDKCgULs

Was a fictionalized version of the Raid on St. Nazaire.

The target was LeClair and the premise was an old destroyer packed with explosives to be rammed into the dock accompanied by a Canadain commando raid on the port.

I always wondered why in that era of movie making they didn't just depict the actual operation, but instead create fictionalized versions of them.

It brought back fond memoires of the old AH solitaire game Raid on St. Nazaire.

WitP AE - Test team lead, programmer

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

Just watched an old war flick last night I had never seen before.

Attack on the Iron Coast starring LLoyd Bridges:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxyyDKCgULs

Art by the Rogue-USMC

WITP Admiral's Edition: Ship & Sub Art/Base Unit Art/Map Icon Art

"If destruction be our lot - it will come from within"...Abraham Lincoln

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ORIGINAL: wegman58
Shipboard life meant that the wargames were lost in the past.

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ORIGINAL: wdolson

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

Just watched an old war flick last night I had never seen before.

Attack on the Iron Coast starring LLoyd Bridges:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxyyDKCgULs

Was a fictionalized version of the Raid on St. Nazaire.

The target was LeClair and the premise was an old destroyer packed with explosives to be rammed into the dock accompanied by a Canadain commando raid on the port.

I always wondered why in that era of movie making they didn't just depict the actual operation, but instead create fictionalized versions of them.

It brought back fond memoires of the old AH solitaire game Raid on St. Nazaire.

US movie studios probably fictionalized these stories so they could star Americans. These days audiences will sit still for movies which have no Americans in them, but that wasn't so (or wasn't thought to be so) back in the 1950s.

Bill

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ORIGINAL: moore4807

Avalon Hill... I actually got invited to the AH Baltimore offices in the early 80's (when I was in High school) to pitch a board based wargame idea I had. The "idea" was to use the Luftwaffe game counters on a large strategic board of Europe, and using the AD&D 20sided and percentile dice sets were to determine occurrence/effectiveness of the aerial raid vs. the defense of the Luftwaffe.(think very vaguely of GGs 12 o clock high on standard three fold-out boards AH used)I spent over $50 back then to get a European/African map made up at a print shop to take with me to the meeting. I thought it was brilliant, the old guy and young guy who heard me out quickly tore my idea to shreds as unworkable in just over 1 hour... But after the old guy left, the younger guy told me to keep working on it and come back when I worked out the bugs. I never did/could fix my idea for the mass consumption requirements...

Fortunately those much more experienced than me undertook the task and did it well. <grin>

I for one was really sad to see AH go under, it felt like a family member died.

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ORIGINAL: crsutton

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ORIGINAL: wdolson

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

Just watched an old war flick last night I had never seen before.

Attack on the Iron Coast starring LLoyd Bridges:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxyyDKCgULs

Was a fictionalized version of the Raid on St. Nazaire.

The target was LeClair and the premise was an old destroyer packed with explosives to be rammed into the dock accompanied by a Canadain commando raid on the port.

I always wondered why in that era of movie making they didn't just depict the actual operation, but instead create fictionalized versions of them.

It brought back fond memoires of the old AH solitaire game Raid on St. Nazaire.

US movie studios probably fictionalized these stories so they could star Americans. These days audiences will sit still for movies which have no Americans in them, but that wasn't so (or wasn't thought to be so) back in the 1950s.

Bill

Yes, that is how William Holden found himself stuck in a British POW camp in the movie version of "The Bridge Over the River Kwai." American studio heads were convinced the movie had to have an American in order to sell.

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: crsutton

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ORIGINAL: wdolson

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

Just watched an old war flick last night I had never seen before.

Attack on the Iron Coast starring LLoyd Bridges:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxyyDKCgULs

Was a fictionalized version of the Raid on St. Nazaire.

The target was LeClair and the premise was an old destroyer packed with explosives to be rammed into the dock accompanied by a Canadain commando raid on the port.

I always wondered why in that era of movie making they didn't just depict the actual operation, but instead create fictionalized versions of them.

It brought back fond memoires of the old AH solitaire game Raid on St. Nazaire.

US movie studios probably fictionalized these stories so they could star Americans. These days audiences will sit still for movies which have no Americans in them, but that wasn't so (or wasn't thought to be so) back in the 1950s.

Bill

Yes, that is how William Holden found himself stuck in a British POW camp in the movie version of "The Bridge Over the River Kwai." American studio heads were convinced the movie had to have an American in order to sell.

In this case, they would have been right...

I think William Holden (and his character) were integral to the plot and the development of that fine movie. The camp also had Aussies and other nationals in it and would have been diminished in its scope, scale and impact had it been an (unrealistic) All-British exclusive camp and plot.