50 here. My first game was either SPI's "NATO" or "PanzerArmee Afrika." I learned and played both in the same weekend. Been at it ever since.
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AndrewKurtz
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55 going on 56. 
apy:
Been playing war games since circa 1962, beginning with AH Gettysburg, Tactics II (never really liked it much), D-Day, Waterloo, Bismarck, etc. My involvement in the hobby peaked with SPI and S&T in the 1970s. James Dunnigan and Redmond Simonsen are gods. About when SPI folded (sad, sad, ...), I joined the U.S. Peace Corps (ha! the irony!) and sold my ~100 title board game collection, then drifted away from the hobby. I resumed playing computer war games by Talonsoft ~10 years ago (sad, sad also when they sold out). Now playing games by Matrix (which picked up most or all of the Talonsoft titles), Paradox, HPS, and of course AGEod.
Wonderful hobby, and my entree to a life-long love of history. Back in the day, having to sum up combat points and compute attacker/defender ratios in one's head (over and over again, hundreds and hundreds of times in a single game) did wonders for one's mathematical abilities, too.
Between family, early music, computers and the Internet, reading history books, and last but not least war gaming, I have all I need to keep me happy. I'll be playing war games from now through retirement and onward until the day I die.
apy:
Been playing war games since circa 1962, beginning with AH Gettysburg, Tactics II (never really liked it much), D-Day, Waterloo, Bismarck, etc. My involvement in the hobby peaked with SPI and S&T in the 1970s. James Dunnigan and Redmond Simonsen are gods. About when SPI folded (sad, sad, ...), I joined the U.S. Peace Corps (ha! the irony!) and sold my ~100 title board game collection, then drifted away from the hobby. I resumed playing computer war games by Talonsoft ~10 years ago (sad, sad also when they sold out). Now playing games by Matrix (which picked up most or all of the Talonsoft titles), Paradox, HPS, and of course AGEod.
Wonderful hobby, and my entree to a life-long love of history. Back in the day, having to sum up combat points and compute attacker/defender ratios in one's head (over and over again, hundreds and hundreds of times in a single game) did wonders for one's mathematical abilities, too.
Between family, early music, computers and the Internet, reading history books, and last but not least war gaming, I have all I need to keep me happy. I'll be playing war games from now through retirement and onward until the day I die.
What this town needs is a good Renaissance band!
Early MusiChicago - Early Music in Chicago and Beyond - http://earlymusichicago.org
PIKT - Global-View, Site-at-a-Time System and Network Administration - http://pikt.org
AGElint - an AGE debugging toolkit - http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2978333
Your Mileage May Vary -- Always!
Early MusiChicago - Early Music in Chicago and Beyond - http://earlymusichicago.org
PIKT - Global-View, Site-at-a-Time System and Network Administration - http://pikt.org
AGElint - an AGE debugging toolkit - http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2978333
Your Mileage May Vary -- Always!
I am eighteen one of the youngest.
Quote General Lee Gettysburg movie,
"Do you see, General, there is the great trap, to be a good soldier you must love the army, to be a good commander you must be ready to order the death of the thing you love. We don't fear our death. But if this war goes on and on and the men die and the price gets ever high. We are prepared to lose some of us, but we are never prepared to lose all of us. We are adrift here in a sea of blood and I want it to end. I want this to be the final battle".
"Do you see, General, there is the great trap, to be a good soldier you must love the army, to be a good commander you must be ready to order the death of the thing you love. We don't fear our death. But if this war goes on and on and the men die and the price gets ever high. We are prepared to lose some of us, but we are never prepared to lose all of us. We are adrift here in a sea of blood and I want it to end. I want this to be the final battle".
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linktoforumsf1
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RELee
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Now, Pocus ol' boy, y'all gonna have to go and restart this here poll what y'all done started on account of I'm a gonna be getting a mite older this here year, and I'll be having to get my own self into one of them there other groups what you got listed instead of the group where I am at right now.
Do y'all be a understanding me, sir, or do y'all need one of them there "interpreter" what'cha'call its?
Course, y'all do what ya wanna, it being y'all's own web-type forum and all. apy:
Do y'all be a understanding me, sir, or do y'all need one of them there "interpreter" what'cha'call its?
Course, y'all do what ya wanna, it being y'all's own web-type forum and all.
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Rebel Yell
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You make me feel so young
26 Forever
Just a quick message to all that it was a sad day for me when my local boardgame store closed!! and to my girlfriends delight!!!! I made her play ASL and other great titles... she was actually pretty good but hated learning rules.
Just a quick message to all that it was a sad day for me when my local boardgame store closed!! and to my girlfriends delight!!!! I made her play ASL and other great titles... she was actually pretty good but hated learning rules.
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razorbackjac
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old
Just turned 59. Been wargaming since 78'. Bought every game ageod has developed. 
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comagoosie
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36 and in the best part of the bell!! 
I started wargames at 13, with "Kasserine". I remember I had to stick those hills on the board.... 
Since then, some wargaming (World in Flames especially) and of course PC wargaming. Apart Ageod's games, I'm a member (unfortunately not active enough
) of the french club dedicated to HPS games, which are the only games that can stand in my shelves along with AGEOD's.
And, I have to confess, HOI2 too.
I started wargames at 13, with "Kasserine". I remember I had to stick those hills on the board....
Since then, some wargaming (World in Flames especially) and of course PC wargaming. Apart Ageod's games, I'm a member (unfortunately not active enough
) of the french club dedicated to HPS games, which are the only games that can stand in my shelves along with AGEOD's.
And, I have to confess, HOI2 too.
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comagoosie
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Rafiki wrote:Well, in any case, we are minority-friendly around here; welcome to the forums
Yes, thank you Rafiki. Glad to see a familiar face
Go Norwegian Women's Handball!!
And FLS, don't worry, HOI2 is a good game. It is better to respect your enemies and learn from them than to toss them away without heed.
My dear,in some months I will be more on the way to the fifties growing a year older.Still 45 years old I am playing PC strategy games,preferably turn-based ones,since 1991 and I am very happy to get games like AACW and BOA and such else from AGEOD as they are the best ones in their corner around.
In the past I have played most of Grigsby's games and the Total war series and even some of the Paradox ones,but your games are the best as I think.
heartly greetings
Hohenlohe, an AGEOD fan...
In the past I have played most of Grigsby's games and the Total war series and even some of the Paradox ones,but your games are the best as I think.
heartly greetings
Hohenlohe, an AGEOD fan...
R.I.P. Henry D.
In Remembrance of my Granduncle Hans Weber, a Hungaro-German Soldier,served in Austro-Hungarian Forces during WWI,war prisoner, missed in Sibiria 1918...
In Remembrance of my Granduncle Hans Weber, a Hungaro-German Soldier,served in Austro-Hungarian Forces during WWI,war prisoner, missed in Sibiria 1918...
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I'll be 24 in september-
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kingtaso01
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17 about to turn 18. Started playing AACW 3 years ago (I think).
My first board game was... hum... does Risk count?
My fist computer war gmae (also my first computer game to play as far as I remember) was age of empires 2, after that it's been a bunch of games, with AACW, Rome: Total War and HOI2 on the top of my list right now (in that order)
My first board game was... hum... does Risk count?
My fist computer war gmae (also my first computer game to play as far as I remember) was age of empires 2, after that it's been a bunch of games, with AACW, Rome: Total War and HOI2 on the top of my list right now (in that order)
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Lord Irvine
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39 years old.
Started playing wargames on my Commodore 64 back in the 80's, which is long enough ago that I really have to think hard right now to try and remember what games I played on it! I think Nato Commander was my first wargame, gosh!! I must've been about 14 then. Crusade in Europe, Germany 1985.....some SSI games I cannot remember.
Does anyone here remember a game called The Great Northern War for the Commodore 64. It must seem pretty basic now but at the time it was brilliant.
Started playing wargames on my Commodore 64 back in the 80's, which is long enough ago that I really have to think hard right now to try and remember what games I played on it! I think Nato Commander was my first wargame, gosh!! I must've been about 14 then. Crusade in Europe, Germany 1985.....some SSI games I cannot remember.
Does anyone here remember a game called The Great Northern War for the Commodore 64. It must seem pretty basic now but at the time it was brilliant.
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