How old is our average wargamer?
Francis K. Lalumiere
Canada
Brossard
Quebec
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We know who you are, we see your posts all the time...
But how old are you?
So please answer the following poll, and then create a new entry with the following three bits of information:
- The very first wargame you played.
- The most recent "new to you" wargame you've played.
- Your favorite wargame ever.
And if you like this geeklist, please thumb it! The more people see it, the more answers we'll get.
Thanks for participating!
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John Bobek
United States
Chicago
Illinois
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I'm 61 though only 33 during Lent.
- The very first wargame you played. Hmmm, I played with toy soldiers and cowboys and Indians long before I got any actual games. First game was Milton Bradley's American Heritage Game of the Civil War.
- The most recent "new to you" wargame you've played. Conflict of Heroes
- Your favorite wargame ever. Boardgame? Tactics II. Miniatures? The Games of War, natch!
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Curtis Phillips
United States
Sonoma
California
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First Wargame: I came to boardgames via miniatures. I played Chainmail before D&D, but before Chainmail, there was Column Line & Square. I'm still nostalgic about the bloody game even though I switched to Empire decades ago.
Most Recent: I buy more than I play, which means I have a pile of unplayed games, but my most recent actual play was La Bataille D'Albuera.
Favorite wargame ever: This is really tough for me to answer. With the right group I'd say Empires in Arms is by far my favorite, but it's really hard to find six people worthy of the game. Other candidates would be Advanced Squad Leader (I've been playing it since SL became ASL), Jutland, Fifth Frontier War, any La Bataille or BAR, and Go.
Coda:
Due to faulty memory I completely forgot about Stratego and Risk. I had to have been playing both before CL&S.
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Frank Leidinger
Germany
Saarland
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born '64 in germany, i grew up in a wargame desert. beside boardgames with "wargame themes" like campaign, dictator, risk, panzerschlacht etc. there was nothing with the "real" feel, so me and my friends had to create houserules for the battles with our plastic soldiers and tanks. no one of these survived (the rules, not the friends), so i can't estimate if this were "real" wargames. at about '78 i heard from a game called "Armageddon: Das strategische Fantasyspiel". which me and my friens ordered as soon as we could afford the price, which was immense for poor teenagers as fa as i remember. we got some clear black and white hexsheets, some not-diecut countersheets on very thin cardboard and a *fascinating* rulebook. we made a 2 square meters hand painted battlefield out of it, and bloody battles raged a summer long until girls, partys and motorcycles got much more interesting. the once holy battleboard went to the trash can unnoticed, like all the brave plastic soldiers. but that was fantasy and not yet a "real" wargame.
later, in the early eighties, there were many demonstrations for peace and against atomic weapons in germany (btw, two issues i support). on one of these demonstrations i saw a hex-mapboard of germany filled with a-bomb-blast and ruin counters (i think it was THE THIRD WORLD WAR), created by a group of protesters to blame the us governmnent using games to prepare an atomic war. i was fascinated. by the game. so i asked where to get these things. after much debating i got the adress of a mail order shop and after a few weeks i opened my first "real" wargame box. infection started.
NATO was, and is, fascinating, as cold war is my favourite wargame theme.
after a twelve-years-break (job, kids, wives) the infection started again a half year ago, and my last, of many, order since them was THE NEXT WAR by SPI, mint, 36 € :-) (published '78, something of a closing circle).
favourite wargame: too much to name one, most played perhaps THE GREAT WAR by XTR.
greetz,
frank
*i don't speak english*
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Martin Gallo
United States
O'Fallon
Missouri
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This was the first wargame I owned or played. A girlfriend gave it to me for my birthday, thinking it was a puzzle. It is fun, but I have not had an opportunity to play it for years, unfortunately. Were I a better programmer this would probably be on my iPhone.
The most recent 'discovered' wargame is No Retreat!. Played it for the second time today (and lost). Tight, fun, competitive little game. Thanks, Mike.
I still hold Up Front as the best wargame I have ever played. Best game overall as well.
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Frank Fitzpatrick
Ireland
Unspecified
Unspecified
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This was among my favourites ever. Complex and challenging, it made you feel as if you were sitting in OBW, or SHAEF.
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Victoria
BC
Batavia
Illinois
New to me wargame: Ive been playing Frontline D-Day, and enjoying it very much.
My very favorite wargame? While I dont have nearly the wargame experience here, my favorite that Ive played is Conflict of Heroes Storms of Steel. I really like that system and enjoy that game quite a bit.
Oh Im 3-doggon-7. now get off my lawn.
Eugene
Oregon
So far, there's a very noticeable difference in the age distribution of wargamers as opposed to gamers in general.
Chicago
Illinois
For example, it would say "If you are between 41-50, How Old were you when you Started Playing Wargames?", with result selections similar: "15 and Under; 16-20; 21-30; 31-40; 41-50".
And do that for each age category in the original poll.
Twelve! It's an age my friends swear I'm still at!