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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/22/2018 6:58:00 PM   
rickier65

 

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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/22/2018 7:21:14 PM   
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First board game I think was Gettysburg at around age 9 or 10 (1970). My brother Mark used to beat me pretty severely.

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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/22/2018 7:28:03 PM   
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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/22/2018 10:52:18 PM   
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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/23/2018 1:27:23 AM   
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That's easy. Action Stations. Raw Entertainment and Alan Zimm. I still have the big floppys. The really floppy ones.


And all this time I thought I was the only one who had purchased Raw Entertainment's Action Stations.


No, you and jimi3 aren't the only ones that purchased Action Stations. I spent many an hour playing.

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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/23/2018 3:57:31 AM   
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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/23/2018 7:07:06 AM   
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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/23/2018 8:28:14 PM   
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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/23/2018 10:50:39 PM   
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My first PC war game was Mech Brigade on the Commodore 64. Later I moved to the V for Victory series which at the time were the best PC war games at the time.


What? You didn't get Steel Tigers or Typhoon of Steel on the c64? Those were the brothers and sisters of Steel Panthers W@W and WWII today.

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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/23/2018 11:03:47 PM   
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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/24/2018 1:36:42 AM   
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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/24/2018 11:25:47 AM   
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Oh man that is some sweet memories.
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Same. This game & AH's Guadalcanal game were my favorites for quite some time. My first computer wargame was SSI's Tigers in the Snow & Shiloh for the Apple II. It's the reason why I bought an Apple II.

I forgot what game was my first IBM PC game. I think it was either an SSI or SSG Apple II game ported to the PC. SSI & SSG were my favorite computer wargame companies then (mid-/late-80's). Time sure flies!!

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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/24/2018 5:47:14 PM   
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Or at least I could then. Today I'm too sclerotic to pull the very same feat. Some memories are not beautiful, but depressing

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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/24/2018 7:19:24 PM   
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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/24/2018 8:01:28 PM   
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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/24/2018 11:39:39 PM   
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Here's Theatre Europe.

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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/25/2018 6:34:51 PM   
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My first "true" wargame was Midway by SSI. It was written in Basic, and you could enter the program and change everything...

Midway was by Avalon Hill...



However, there is/was a Midway scenario in Carrier Force by SSI...





I played the shtdog out of Midway, Bismark and Planet Miners by Avalon Hill back in the day of great ascii wargames. Anyone else have Blue Powder and Grey Smoke or Under Fire?

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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/25/2018 6:39:43 PM   
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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/25/2018 6:55:22 PM   
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I played the shtdog out of Midway, Bismark and Planet Miners by Avalon Hill back in the day of great ascii wargames. Anyone else have Blue Powder and Grey Smoke or Under Fire?




While Blue Powder Grey Smoke was by Ralph Bosson (who did Under Fire, pictured above), he released it under his own company "Garde"...





Still those were two challenging games for their time. I like to have never beat the Union at little round top. My men kept getting slaughtered at devils den.

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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/25/2018 7:27:11 PM   
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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/25/2018 7:38:08 PM   
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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/26/2018 8:39:47 PM   
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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/26/2018 9:12:17 PM   
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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 2/26/2018 9:26:40 PM   
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My first PC war game was Mech Brigade on the Commodore 64. Later I moved to the V for Victory series which at the time were the best PC war games at the time.


What? You didn't get Steel Tigers or Typhoon of Steel on the c64? Those were the brothers and sisters of Steel Panthers W@W and WWII today.


C64 games were hard to come by where I was stationed at. The nearest 'retail' was more than 50 miles away and my occupation didn't provide much time off.

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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 3/15/2018 11:12:14 AM   
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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 3/15/2018 1:50:49 PM   
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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 3/15/2018 4:21:21 PM   
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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 3/15/2018 4:26:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		First Computer Wargame? Around the same time, I think it was 1981 or 1982, I received as presents two SSI games - The Warp Factor and Southern Command. The first due to my parents' knowledge of my enjoyment of all things Star Trek and the second because I already had a few tabletop wargames (pretty sure my first one was the original Squad Leader) and showed a lot of interest in them. I tried The Warp Factor first, which I loved (it was kind of like Starfleet Battles for the computer), then I played a lot of Southern Command (which led me to make sure I got all of Roger's and later SSG's games as well). So depending on what you consider a wargame, it was either The Warp Factor or Southern Command.

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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 3/15/2018 6:27:26 PM   
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RE: First PC wargame you played seriously - 3/16/2018 3:18:06 PM   
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Panzer General for first computer game. Fog of war hooked me from then on. You don't get that with board games.

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