To: 1rudeboy
Who needs computers?
6 posted on
08/22/2011 8:08:20 AM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
To: ClearCase_guy
Which one is that, Gettysburg?
In any case, you are not a hardcore "board"gamer unless you magnetize your counters, mount your map on sheetmetal, and hang the game on your wall. :)
Had a buddy do that with Avalon Hill's Stalingrad. Awesome.
8 posted on
08/22/2011 8:15:46 AM PDT by
1rudeboy
To: ClearCase_guy
I loved these games. Unfortunately everyone I used to play with is gone. Civil War Generals II was good but they never updated it to play on modern systems. Is that a photo of Gettysburg?
9 posted on
08/22/2011 8:19:21 AM PDT by
prof.h.mandingo
(Buck v. Bell (1927) An idea whose time has come (for extreme liberalism))
To: ClearCase_guy
I have several A-H and early SPI games stuffed away in my closet. I really should get into online play of that stuff.
11 posted on
08/22/2011 8:22:18 AM PDT by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: ClearCase_guy
Couldn't agree more!
22 posted on
08/22/2011 8:31:53 AM PDT by
Braak
(The US Military, the real arms inspectors!)
To: ClearCase_guy
Terrible Swift Sword?
Mike
26 posted on
08/22/2011 8:36:39 AM PDT by
doublecansiter
(without cartridge, load in nine times, LOAD!)
To: ClearCase_guy
Rather than look at the name of the file, I had my nose to the monitor to see The Wheatfield, the Peach Orchard, Devil's Den and Emmitsburg Road. Oooo that's Gettysburg with Big Round Top in the upper right corner.
From there it only took a little digging to find it is the first edition of Terrible Swift Sword.
28 posted on
08/22/2011 8:44:38 AM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(The Repubs and Dems are arguing whether to pour 9 or 10 buckets of gasoline on a burning house.)
To: ClearCase_guy
Terrible Swift Sword?
I miss SPI and Avalon Hill, not to mention “brick and mortar” game stores. I have fond, fond memories of Sword of the Phoenix, Hangar 7 and Historical Hobbies here in the Atlanta area.
29 posted on
08/22/2011 8:44:51 AM PDT by
Little Ray
(FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
To: ClearCase_guy
I still have several of those board strategy games tucked away somewhere, Operation Olympic was one of my favorites.
33 posted on
08/22/2011 9:57:08 AM PDT by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: ClearCase_guy
.
"Thanks" for the memories ...
"Sixth Fleet" ... and other GREAT Avalon Hill games ...
Plus ... the one that I can't remember ... "Germans vs. Soviets on the Eastern Front" ...
That's where I discovered the awesome power of massed artillery ...
.
To: ClearCase_guy
“Who needs computers? “ see post with picture of game board
wow that brings back memories. we played this in germany in 1977. when i pcs’d home through maryland after 3.5 years with 3AD i hit gettysburg the second day home after eating crab cakes.
looks like sickles is too far forward AGAIN.
48 posted on
08/22/2011 2:20:39 PM PDT by
bravo whiskey
(If the little things really bother you, maybe it's because the big things are going well.)
To: ClearCase_guy
This was my game of choice...
50 posted on
08/22/2011 2:36:39 PM PDT by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: ClearCase_guy
Who needs computers? Virtually all of the events portrayed in these games were undertaken begfore the advent of the computer age, and most were also *gamed* in command and staff school kriegspielen and TEWTS at the senior level, and om sand tables, CPXs and FTXs by junior, fieldgrade and troop command level officers and their troops.
Now computers make it possible for an individual to do the same, operating within authentic or realisticly modified OrBats and logistical realities, with variables such as weather added in. In that, computers make it pretty neat, and I look forward to advances in that application.
58 posted on
10/12/2011 9:36:53 AM PDT by
archy
(I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!)
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