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Spinymouse
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Hello everyone,
New member here.
I've been wargaming for a long time. Started while I was still in high school with Avalon Hill's Arab Israeli Wars, followed by the original Squad Leader and all the additional gamettes. After college, I was too busy being a Soldier for real to play war games for entertainment, but I never lost my interest in gaming.
Somewhere, I still have an old issue of Avalon Hill's General magazine in which they discuss the possibilities of computer based war games. If I remember right, they dismissed the notion as too futuristic to really hold out too much hope. However, they pretty much nailed the potential that computers could maybe some day bring to the genre.
Back around the very late '90s (or was it the early 2000s?), I discovered Major H's TacOps. I absolutely loved that game, and ended up with multiple versions of it, including the one available for free to members of the Army. Shortly after getting hooked on TacOps, I picked up the original Combat Mission, followed by CMBB and CMAK. I was in gaming heaven. I hung out, but mostly I just lurked on the Battlefront forum.
Real life got in the way then for a few years again. I got CMSF when it first came out and was very disappointed that I was never able to get it running right. Real life then returned with a vengeance and war games went back on hold.
I picked up CMFI and the GL pack late last summer. I'm back at the gaming again now. I've also picked up Cold Waters for the sake of variety.
Most of my gaming over the years has been against the AI, with a few PBEM H2H games thrown in there for each of the older titles years ago. I'm interested in getting back to H2H play. Even though the AI does sometimes beat me, it's not as interesting as going H2H. And, I'm sure that mostly competing against the AI has led to my forming any number of bad habits and overall sloppy performance that a fellow human will use to embarrass me. So be it. I'll take that risk.
Spinymouse
New member here.
I've been wargaming for a long time. Started while I was still in high school with Avalon Hill's Arab Israeli Wars, followed by the original Squad Leader and all the additional gamettes. After college, I was too busy being a Soldier for real to play war games for entertainment, but I never lost my interest in gaming.
Somewhere, I still have an old issue of Avalon Hill's General magazine in which they discuss the possibilities of computer based war games. If I remember right, they dismissed the notion as too futuristic to really hold out too much hope. However, they pretty much nailed the potential that computers could maybe some day bring to the genre.
Back around the very late '90s (or was it the early 2000s?), I discovered Major H's TacOps. I absolutely loved that game, and ended up with multiple versions of it, including the one available for free to members of the Army. Shortly after getting hooked on TacOps, I picked up the original Combat Mission, followed by CMBB and CMAK. I was in gaming heaven. I hung out, but mostly I just lurked on the Battlefront forum.
Real life got in the way then for a few years again. I got CMSF when it first came out and was very disappointed that I was never able to get it running right. Real life then returned with a vengeance and war games went back on hold.
I picked up CMFI and the GL pack late last summer. I'm back at the gaming again now. I've also picked up Cold Waters for the sake of variety.
Most of my gaming over the years has been against the AI, with a few PBEM H2H games thrown in there for each of the older titles years ago. I'm interested in getting back to H2H play. Even though the AI does sometimes beat me, it's not as interesting as going H2H. And, I'm sure that mostly competing against the AI has led to my forming any number of bad habits and overall sloppy performance that a fellow human will use to embarrass me. So be it. I'll take that risk.
Spinymouse