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NormanDStudent
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Wargamed a fair bit in my distant youth (HO scale miniatures plus several Avalon Hill games). Have read mil hist (and lots of other hist) all my life. Took up Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy (my first ever computer wargame!) a couple years back as an adjunct to intensive reading on the Normandy campaign and on tactics more generally. Have learned a lot from it, both about the real Normandy goings on and about CMBN! Recently added board wargaming again, with France 1944 from Compass Games.
Canadian who's lived in the States most of my life (w coast Florida then NJ since ~1980). Trained in analytic philosophy. Worked most of my career (ongoing) as a financial software developer (C++ in recent decades), with a 10y break in the middle to teach in a high school (math, philosophy, logic mostly).
Discovered FGM through Usually Hapless's *FANTASTIC* YT channel. My favorite mil hist period is WW2 through 1970s, gradually tailing off before and after that period. Considering buying CM: Fortress Italy next. (I don't spend money readily, except on books--my wife helps me slow down there.) Wishlist for CM: (1) Burma Campaign; (2) Korean War; (3) Arab-Israeli Wars 1940s thru 73. Chiefly here for book recs, game-versus-history comparisons. But may eventually stick my toe in the P2P CM waters.
Canadian who's lived in the States most of my life (w coast Florida then NJ since ~1980). Trained in analytic philosophy. Worked most of my career (ongoing) as a financial software developer (C++ in recent decades), with a 10y break in the middle to teach in a high school (math, philosophy, logic mostly).
Discovered FGM through Usually Hapless's *FANTASTIC* YT channel. My favorite mil hist period is WW2 through 1970s, gradually tailing off before and after that period. Considering buying CM: Fortress Italy next. (I don't spend money readily, except on books--my wife helps me slow down there.) Wishlist for CM: (1) Burma Campaign; (2) Korean War; (3) Arab-Israeli Wars 1940s thru 73. Chiefly here for book recs, game-versus-history comparisons. But may eventually stick my toe in the P2P CM waters.
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