The first war game? (Poll)

[Jarhead]

What was the first war game you played?

For me:

Board game-"Operation Barbarossa."(Spelling?)

PC-"The Perfect General."

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Semper Fi.

[Wesreidau]

Board game: Starship Troopers by AH -1980
PC Game: Carrier Strike - 1992

[Scipio]

'Kampfgruppe' , C64, 1987

[Slapdragon]

Tactics 2 and Gettysburg, both with my father in 1972. The first game I played that I bought with my own money was Victory in the Pacific, and then I started playing a game called Tractics by TSR, which for the time was not bad at all, very much like a less well researched CM played on the table.

Around 1980 I played my first tourney game, Squad Leader (I played the Tractor Works at Suncoast Skirmishes).

[Matthew_Ridgeway]

Monopoly with my older brother when I was six. It turned into a hand to hand melee after I bought both Boardwalk and Parkplace.

[Teamski]

Board Game: "Wood's Edge" by the Helen of Troy Game Company. It was one of those armymen games from the back of DC comic books. It was a really well thought out game. This was when I was 8. Anybody ever play it? They also advertised "Task Force".....hehehe

PC: The venerable "Panzer Strike" by SSI on the C64 (or Amiga, I can't remember). It had to be one of the very first squad level WWII wargames.....

Ahhh, the memories!!

-Ski



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"The Lieutenant brought his map out and the old woman pointed to the coastal town of Ravenoville........"

[Wesy]

Hmmm...First game that I comprehended the rules War at Sea, I think it was 1977 or 78.

First Computer Wargame: Maybe Harpoon the original...

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"Lack of weapons is no excuse for defeat"
- Lt. General Renya Mutaguchi, Commanding General, Japanese Fifteenth Army, 1944-1945

[Jarhead]

I seem to remember "Task Force." Anyway I ordered some army men from the back of one of the comic books. when they arrived, they were all flat, thin little units w/bases. I thought it was terrible. I sent em back. Must have been between 8, and 10 years old.

[Goofy]

I remember getting two at once for Christmas of 64 or 65, Hit The Beach and Red Baron. (I think that was the name, had little Spads and Fokker D7's with stands and maneuver and ammo cards you could draw, each victory got you an extra card the next time you took off!) Both were by Milton Bradley and from the Sears Mail Order Catalog! Seems like there was a third one but my misspent youth was between then and now!
For PC (if you can call it that) B-17 on the Intellivision. Then I remember Mech Brigade for the AppleII.

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Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!

[This message has been edited by Goofy (edited 01-21-2001).]

[Wilhammer]

First wargame anyone showed me was Squad Leader.
First I played (that day) was Tactics II.
Went that night to a local toy store and bought Third Reich.

Been hooked ever since.