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Nostalgia - 11/27/2017 2:03:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		I was born a couple of years later She reviews some cool old games, some are on my radar for nostalgic reasons...

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RE: Nostalgia - 11/27/2017 3:37:39 PM   
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RE: Nostalgia - 11/27/2017 4:21:47 PM   
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RE: Nostalgia - 11/27/2017 9:49:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		OMG. Tactics 11 was my first war board game back in 1980 when I was 12 years old. This game was what got me into war gaming. Thanks for sharing this.

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RE: Nostalgia - 11/28/2017 7:29:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		Tactics II was actually my 3rd or 4th game from Avalon Hill, I got Stalingrad first and then Battle of the Bulge, Waterloo and then I think Tactics II.

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RE: Nostalgia - 11/28/2017 7:36:33 PM   
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RE: Nostalgia - 11/28/2017 7:39:10 PM   
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First Avalon Hill Game I purchased Africa Corp

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RE: Nostalgia - 11/28/2017 7:39:23 PM   
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RE: Nostalgia - 11/28/2017 7:41:23 PM   
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RE: Nostalgia - 11/28/2017 8:34:52 PM   
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Iam a sucker for the "old-days"

Anybody like AH "Firepower"?

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RE: Nostalgia - 11/28/2017 10:12:06 PM   
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RE: Nostalgia - 11/28/2017 10:59:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have that game in the desk drawer. Plus, the first game I bought was Tobruk in the 70's. I am still mad about what happened to it? I think I let someone borrow it in the eighties and it disappeared forever. I still own air assault on Crete and single player Ambush.

However, I computer games, no opponent needed.

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RE: Nostalgia - 11/29/2017 2:31:39 PM   
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ORIGINAL: demyansk

However, I computer games, no opponent needed.


It depends, "Fields of Fire" 2nd edition (GMT) is on it´s way to my door. No opponent needed either


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RE: Nostalgia - 11/29/2017 6:20:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sadly I wasn't aware of Avalon Hill's existence until a few years before the company was purchased by Hasbro Games on 4 August 1998. By then I was no longer in the market for box games, but I did buy a number of their DOS games: Cavewars, Wooden Ships & Iron Men, Stalingrad, 1830: Railroads & Robber Barons, Advanced Civilization, D-Day: America Invades, Kingmaker, 5th Fleet, and Third Reich.

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RE: Nostalgia - 11/29/2017 9:26:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		I also had Guderian but never had someone to play against. I sold it online and stayed with computer games.

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RE: Nostalgia - 11/29/2017 10:48:58 PM   
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Status: offline 		In a way both are different worlds in there own right (PC vs Board). Each have there pros and cons, but back to the nostalgia thing, having a game like Tactics II in your collection is like having "Blues from Laurel Canyon" (John Mayall/Peter Green) on LP (Decca) in your record collection, you might not play it alot but it made history, and it´s so cool to have, look at!

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RE: Nostalgia - 12/5/2017 4:40:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		The first wargame I ever played was the old SSI Panzer General from 1994. It was that year or the following year when I played it, pretty soon after it came out.

Much more simplistic than the games that interest me today, but it got me into wargaming.

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