1 posted on
08/30/2010 7:15:29 AM PDT by
Sanjuro68
To: Sanjuro68
2 posted on
08/30/2010 7:17:11 AM PDT by
SJSAMPLE
To: Sanjuro68
Avalon Hill...that brings back some memories.
RIP Mr. Roberts.
3 posted on
08/30/2010 7:18:05 AM PDT by
Wolfie
To: Sanjuro68
Tactics II, Wooden Ships and Iron Men, Squad Leader, Third Reich. . . Good times with cardboard, charts, and dice.
4 posted on
08/30/2010 7:20:45 AM PDT by
Snake65
(Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!)
To: Sanjuro68
I was more of an SPI guy, but I did do a fair amount of Panzerblitz.
RIP
To: Sanjuro68
My two favorites were “Midway” and “Stalingrad”.
6 posted on
08/30/2010 7:21:40 AM PDT by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: Sanjuro68
Wow, I thought he’d live forever. Blitzkrieg!
7 posted on
08/30/2010 7:22:06 AM PDT by
ronnyquest
(There's a communist living in the White House! Now, what are you going to do about it?)
To: Sanjuro68
My first Avalon Hill game was Tactics II.
8 posted on
08/30/2010 7:22:57 AM PDT by
04-Bravo
To: Sanjuro68
That’s a shame, because wargames are history you can hold. When you game a particular battle, you understand it far better than you could by simply reading about it. It’s almost like role-playing, as you try to make the decisions faced by the great battlefield commanders, and see how they may have turned out differently. Wargames require time, thought, and study: things that seem in short supply these days. They were great learning tools
9 posted on
08/30/2010 7:24:59 AM PDT by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Sanjuro68
My favorite wargames to play were DIPLOMACY, D-DAY and NUCLEAR WAR.
Avalon Hill games required strategic thought in order to play them effectively.
To: Sanjuro68
11 posted on
08/30/2010 7:26:36 AM PDT by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Sanjuro68
Avalon Hill accounted for much of my teen years — the innocent parts at least.
To: Sanjuro68
and here i spent a happy four hours this weekend hurting the feelings of two noobies playing Red Barricades...
To: Sanjuro68
18 posted on
08/30/2010 3:22:04 PM PDT by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: Sanjuro68
Played a few of his games when I was a young kid. Great stuff. RIP. Was interesting watching the gaming industry convert turn based board games over the years to computer based simulations. Always preferred the turn based simulations over the real time battle simulations, but the new graphics and fast CPU’s really enhance the real time simulations. Have had some amazing real time battles over the past few years.
Wow, I wanted to meet him, bur alas, shall not be,
Avalon Hill Afrika Korps....THE GAME!!!!!
20 posted on
08/30/2010 9:03:53 PM PDT by
autocad
To: Sanjuro68
Tobruk all the way .... Godspeed.
22 posted on
08/30/2010 11:25:57 PM PDT by
Centurion2000
(WTF happened to my country?? I joined the Marines and defended the USA and it degenerates into this?)
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