- Joined
- Jun 5, 2021
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- 54
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- Wisconsin, USA
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Thanks, Bootie, for the add. Also thanks to Titan, who suggested that I stop lurking and join.
Like many others here, I developed an interest in history at an early age, fueled by my Dad buying me books and model kits. I love(d) reading about history, and building plastic models gave me a "hands-on" connection to that history - and I still do both of those things. My introduction to wargaming gave me another way to get "hands-on" with history. I played a number of board and early computer war-games as a young person, but never had good wargaming partners for "serious" wargames. I really loved the original CM series when it came out, and in recent years came to the new series after some time away from wargames. Lockdown over the last year gave me a LOT more time to explore all the different WW2 modules for CM2, and from there I found this site for mods and other add-ons. I also started watching a lot of AAR videos while waiting to pick kids up from this or that event. Inspired by Hapless, Josey Wales, etc., I recently decided to try making a few myself (see the YouTube link in my sig/profile) because it exercises my creative side even though I'm no military genius.
While I've done a few hot-seat PvP scenarios and QMs with friends, the one thing I haven't really done is PBEM or played PvP with serious CM players. That's something I'm looking to get up the guts to try, so I can fail and learn. There's certainly a lot of great testimonials here about how much players have learned by starting to play others here. The tournaments/ campaigns here also look like a blast. I'll have to make a priority to figure out how PBEM works so I can be ready.
Currently I have all the WW2 modules and expansions, and recently viewed AARs and kindling an interest in maybe getting Cold War - since that's the threat with which I are up.
I looked forward to meeting with you folks!
Like many others here, I developed an interest in history at an early age, fueled by my Dad buying me books and model kits. I love(d) reading about history, and building plastic models gave me a "hands-on" connection to that history - and I still do both of those things. My introduction to wargaming gave me another way to get "hands-on" with history. I played a number of board and early computer war-games as a young person, but never had good wargaming partners for "serious" wargames. I really loved the original CM series when it came out, and in recent years came to the new series after some time away from wargames. Lockdown over the last year gave me a LOT more time to explore all the different WW2 modules for CM2, and from there I found this site for mods and other add-ons. I also started watching a lot of AAR videos while waiting to pick kids up from this or that event. Inspired by Hapless, Josey Wales, etc., I recently decided to try making a few myself (see the YouTube link in my sig/profile) because it exercises my creative side even though I'm no military genius.
While I've done a few hot-seat PvP scenarios and QMs with friends, the one thing I haven't really done is PBEM or played PvP with serious CM players. That's something I'm looking to get up the guts to try, so I can fail and learn. There's certainly a lot of great testimonials here about how much players have learned by starting to play others here. The tournaments/ campaigns here also look like a blast. I'll have to make a priority to figure out how PBEM works so I can be ready.
Currently I have all the WW2 modules and expansions, and recently viewed AARs and kindling an interest in maybe getting Cold War - since that's the threat with which I are up.
I looked forward to meeting with you folks!