Hi,
I decided to join after watching Combat Mission videos on youtube and hearing about the site. I started out wargaming in 1976. My first wargame was Foxbat and Phantom from SPI. It was probably too complex for me at the time. My uncle and I spent hours reading the instructions. Even back then I dreamed of a day when computers might be capable of running complex wargames.
Before long I was playing all sorts of board wargames. Squad Leader, Terrible Swift Sword, Panzer Leader, Panzer Blitz, ect. NATO vs Warsaw Pact was a popular theme at the time. I recently played some Flashpoint Campaigns which is excellent and looks like Combat Mission is going to do a Cold War Series!
I think my crowning achievement was playing SPIs War in the Pacific over the summer and fall in 1981 with a friend and 2 full PBEM campaigns of Gary Grigsby War in the Pacific in the mid 2000's.
I have own quite a bit of computer games-its one of my big hobbies-far more than I can play. I own all of the Combat Mission series and have many campaigns going on-I play for a while, take a break and come back to it.
I have a few combat mission h2h games under my belt so I have some idea of what to do-or I'm knowledgeable enough to be dangerous to myself. As a series I love Combat Mission. I've also started to like Gravteam. I bought Gravteam years ago, played it for a little while, then gave up. After recently watching video explaing Gravteam, I finally got the hang of it and find to to be a very good war simulator.
I also started buying broad games again. Mainly for collection purposes, but the Warfightseriers by DVG is playable solitare and looks interesting. Tank Duel by GDW and Tiger Leader and Thunderbolt Apache Leader by DVG also looks fun so I'll probably open them up and play.
Today Paradox released a big update to Imperator Rome so I'm checking it out at the moment.
I'll be retiring soon, so I should have lots of time for hobbies and interests. Would like to play some Combat Mission h2h. Maybe try Gary Grigsbys War in the West h2h.
I decided to join after watching Combat Mission videos on youtube and hearing about the site. I started out wargaming in 1976. My first wargame was Foxbat and Phantom from SPI. It was probably too complex for me at the time. My uncle and I spent hours reading the instructions. Even back then I dreamed of a day when computers might be capable of running complex wargames.
Before long I was playing all sorts of board wargames. Squad Leader, Terrible Swift Sword, Panzer Leader, Panzer Blitz, ect. NATO vs Warsaw Pact was a popular theme at the time. I recently played some Flashpoint Campaigns which is excellent and looks like Combat Mission is going to do a Cold War Series!
I think my crowning achievement was playing SPIs War in the Pacific over the summer and fall in 1981 with a friend and 2 full PBEM campaigns of Gary Grigsby War in the Pacific in the mid 2000's.
I have own quite a bit of computer games-its one of my big hobbies-far more than I can play. I own all of the Combat Mission series and have many campaigns going on-I play for a while, take a break and come back to it.
I have a few combat mission h2h games under my belt so I have some idea of what to do-or I'm knowledgeable enough to be dangerous to myself. As a series I love Combat Mission. I've also started to like Gravteam. I bought Gravteam years ago, played it for a little while, then gave up. After recently watching video explaing Gravteam, I finally got the hang of it and find to to be a very good war simulator.
I also started buying broad games again. Mainly for collection purposes, but the Warfightseriers by DVG is playable solitare and looks interesting. Tank Duel by GDW and Tiger Leader and Thunderbolt Apache Leader by DVG also looks fun so I'll probably open them up and play.
Today Paradox released a big update to Imperator Rome so I'm checking it out at the moment.
I'll be retiring soon, so I should have lots of time for hobbies and interests. Would like to play some Combat Mission h2h. Maybe try Gary Grigsbys War in the West h2h.