First Board war Game

Started by bob48, March 30, 2012, 05:17:25 PM

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mirth

I remember looking at AH's Bismarck in my local Kaybee Toys back in the day. I must have been about 14 and the game couldn't have been more than 8 or 10 bucks. Why I didn't buy it then I couldn't tell you. I probably bought a Super Soaker instead :(
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heh - unless we're allowed bags of plastic soldiers, tanks and marbles ill go for risk, then a game called Blood royale (not flat out war - but there was some war (more CK2 really)) which i loved and spent weekends upon weekends playing. After that a game i think called conquest which was napoleonic and didnt have dice, then diplomacy, then axis and allies - then im afraid i fell foul of WH40k

ken ellis

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for I can find no sign, nor mark upon it!


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Quote from: ken ellis on May 24, 2012, 06:08:42 AM
a womans breat is the hardest rock the almighty GOD ever created....


for I can find no sign, nor mark upon it!

im thinking kens first wargame was with some kind of boob simulator?!

besilarius

If he found the game too easy, maybe he was playing with a bunch of boobs?
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ken ellis

well I wanna get this boob game!

and it would be cool if it was your first wargame!

I was just remeniscing about the movie jeremiah johnson!

lets see, Busen Memo

here is the geek link, but alas it may not be a wargame

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6749/busen-memo


Cyrano

AH's "Starship Troopers".   I bought it in 8th grade (1979) at a Gimbels' (department store here in Milwaukee). Still one of the best SCI-FI games out there and easily the best based on the source material.

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Besides standing my Airfix miniatures I remember a milton bradley or parker brothers game that had tanks about 3-4 inches in size that you lined up on the board and somehow fought with. I was young and this was probably 30-35 years ago.... I think it was actually and simply called tank battle.

I remember also playing....Snits Revenge!!! HAHA

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Bapek

AH Midway in 1968. Had just moved to Hawaii while my Dad was doing his year in Vietnam (USAF gave dependents the option of moving there for the year so servicemember could get home on R&R) and saw it in the Pearl Harbor PX. Still have the game in a closet, though box and counters have seen better days.

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DennisS

Ummm....and this shows my age, bigly....Tactics II, around 1966.

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Quote from: Cyrano on June 05, 2012, 02:01:50 PM
AH's "Starship Troopers".   I bought it in 8th grade (1979) at a Gimbels' (department store here in Milwaukee). Still one of the best SCI-FI games out there and easily the best based on the source material.

Best,

Jim
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This was a GREAT game...."BUGS, Mr. Rico! ZILLIONS of them!"

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I think the first board wargame I played was either Divine Right or Magic Realm.  I joined the RPG club in junior high and learned about a weekend gaming club held at the local college so I went out there and met a bunch of burly rednecks who played 25mm Napoleonics and Ancients.  Got way too into minis but I wanted to do something fantasy based so the rednecks (I'm sure gladly) pointed me towards the guys who were playing the aforementioned board games.

The first boardgame I bought with 2 months of newspaper money was SPI's StarForce Alpha Centauri.  Trying to make sense of the rules broke my 13 year old brain.  I never did play it.