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GeekList: Your Thrift Store / Bargain Finds: 2-8 April 2012
Board Game: Gettysburg [Average Rating:5.42 Overall Rank:6884]
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Have to count it, but it looks complete. Someone appears to have helpfully electrical-taped together the two boards though. But, hey, 1961 printing! I can't really complain.

$0.99, GW
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GeekList: Your Thrift Store / Bargain Finds: 2-8 April 2012
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$3.50 Salvation Army.

Seems complete. Though my husband is a Gettysburg aficionado, none of his friends are, so this may go on the trade pile.
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GeekList: Worthy Successors to Classic Wargames
Board Game: Gettysburg [Average Rating:5.42 Overall Rank:6884]
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This classic has been revised several times, but what do you think of as its worthiest successor?
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Enrico Viglino
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Thunder at the Crossroads (second edition) is the best handling of Gettysburg I've
seen. It's a lot more game than this though.
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Thunder at the Crossroads (second edition) is the best handling of Gettysburg I've
seen. It's a lot more game than this though.


Agreed. Best game on the battle imho although it's been out of print something like 20 years now. I'm hoping The Guns of Gettysburg can fill the void that has existed since this went out of print.
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IIRC, Gettysburg had infantry divisions, whereas TatC uses brigades, which means those two aren't really the same scale, either.

Frankly, don't know that there would ever be another Gettysburg game at divisional level - it doesn't seem right, after playing with either regiments or brigades.
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DarrellKH wrote:

Frankly, don't know that there would ever be another Gettysburg game at divisional level - it doesn't seem right, after playing with either regiments or brigades.


It's a fairly large battle though, and I rather like the idea
of being able to handle it on that scale when desired. Just as
I like to pull Napoleon's Art of War out now and again.

Then again, I'm happy enough with the reprints of this one.
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calandale wrote:
I'm happy enough with the reprints of this one.

Even Gettysburg (1977 Edition)?

I bought that when it was brand-new, and I liked it at first. Breezed through the basic game and kinda liked the intermediate game. I put off trying the advanced game, and then I started reading about how others were finding it impossible. So eventually I abandoned the whole thing.
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Board Game: Gettysburg [Average Rating:5.42 Overall Rank:6884]
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I have an unpunched 3rd edition copy. Will never play it but the game is such an important one in our hobby's history that I like having it in my collection. My copy even still has the Avalon Hill catalog. Games were $8!
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My first wargame. I had the 3rd edition, lost it when I went off to school. Just ordered a nice copy off Ebay and got...the 2nd edition! Surprise, surprise. Definitely different than the one I remember, most obviously due to the counters.
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I've got the 1st edition, but it's missing a couple of counters.

I acquired a used copy of this game together with a 1959 edition of Risk!) around 1962 from a family whose son had entered the Air Force and was getting rid of games. It was my first AH game, and first introduction to wargaming.
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  • Posted Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:18 pm
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GeekList: Your Thrift Store/Bargain Finds: 19 - 25 March 2012
Board Game: Gettysburg [Average Rating:5.42 Overall Rank:6884]
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.35 Goodwill outlet


boy is this copy in rough shape


bonus find a first for me

there are supposed to be 41 union and 27 confederate chits

there are surprisingly 81 union and 55 confederate chits



soooo I think its complete, rough but complete.
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GeekList: A Look at the Trendsetters
Board Game: Gettysburg [Average Rating:5.42 Overall Rank:6884]
Enrico Viglino
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Linking gameplay to a REAL battle without minis - a whole hobby
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GeekList: Your Thrift Store / Bargain Finds: 30 January - 5 February 2012
Board Game: Gettysburg [Average Rating:5.42 Overall Rank:6884]
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Lot RR: 3 games for $1 @ flgs auction

1964 edition. Complete, but no box at all. Also contained most charts, rulebook, and 75% of the counters for the 1958-1959 edition
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Sounds like you have a nice set of parts there. Perhaps I should check my copy to see if there is something I need that we can trade for?
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From the 58 edition? GM me and we can discuss
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Will do. Thanks.
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GeekList: [POLLS CLOSED] The 2012 The AH Cup - Fourth Qualifying Round
Board Game: Gettysburg [Average Rating:5.42 Overall Rank:6884]
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Poll: The 2012 AH Cup
Fourth Qualifying Round
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222 Gettysburg (1958-76 Editions) - Cirencester Town
42.2% 27
169 Battle of the Bulge (1965) - Hednesford Town
57.8% 37
Voters 64
This poll is now closed.   64 answers
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Closes: Mon Jan 30, 2012 6:00 am
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GeekList: What was your first "hobby game"?
Board Game: Gettysburg [Average Rating:5.42 Overall Rank:6884]
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I remember at age 14 in '69 going into a Miller's department store in Wesleyville, PA. I had $10 and a choice between these two games that I had never seen the like of before. AH's Gettysburg and 1914....hmmmm. I think I made the right choice, if only because it happened in my state. I've been collecting games ever since. I still have the Gettysburg I bought 43 years ago.
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The father of wargames. I have an unpunched copy in my collection. It will never be played but it will never leave my possession,
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mrbeankc wrote:
The father of wargames. I have an unpunched copy in my collection. It will never be played but it will never leave my possession,


Here, Here! I do have an unpunched Chancellorsville, but the worn copy of Gettysburg still means a lot to me. Many good memories of playing it in the lodge cabin during Explorer campouts.
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My first wargame
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GeekList: Your Thrift Store / Bargain Finds: 23 - 29 January 2012
Board Game: Gettysburg [Average Rating:5.42 Overall Rank:6884]
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Lot X: 1 game for $4 @ flgs auction

1961 edition. Very worn copy but it's complete
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Chris Halaska
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this may have been my very first wargame!

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Board Game: Gettysburg [Average Rating:5.42 Overall Rank:6884]
Chris Long
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The last basement recovery was this one. Also free.
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Where's Pete with his good deed picture? Nice job saving these. I was wondering what didn't make the cut...
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Five Star Final wrote:
I was wondering what didn't make the cut...


Old (mostly 70s and 80s) versions of Life, Clue, Stratego, Monopoly, Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit, PayDay, Careers, Battleship, and the Ungame (shudder) plus some more I can't remember.
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GeekList: [POLLS CLOSED] The 2012 The AH Cup - Third Qualifying Round
Board Game: Gettysburg [Average Rating:5.42 Overall Rank:6884]
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Poll: The 2012 AH Cup
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222 Gettysburg (1958-76 Editions) - Cirencester Town
85.9% 79
252 Bureaucracy - Maidstone United
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Voters 92
This poll is now closed.   92 answers
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Closes: Mon Jan 23, 2012 6:00 am
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GeekList: [POLLS CLOSED] The 2012 The AH Cup - Second Qualifying Round
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Poll: The 2012 AH Cup
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222 Gettysburg (1958-76 Editions) - Cirencester Town
62.1% 41
127 Sports Illustrated Baseball - Dover Athletic
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Voters 66
This poll is now closed.   66 answers
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Before wargames, my friends and I had the SI and all-time allstar leagues-The computer printout and color coding were so cool looking. We used to mix and match pairs of teams-one chosen by the 'owner' and one by the opponent-you had to have half your team from each-invariably the Yankees would get paired with the '71 Astros or Phillies and so on

Good times. I still have it, but the die are rubbed to near invisibility (I know there are mock ups and templates on line now).
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Roland Wood
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Hex & Counter
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GeekList: 2012 SPARE PARTS RESOURCE LIST
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Please specify edition ('58, '61, and '64)

Gettysburg (1977 Edition) has its own entry (see below)

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WANT:

I'm looking for all counters from the 1961 hex addition.

The copy that I once bought at the thrift store did not have any counters. I was able to make some so that could play the game but I am a completest and would like to have the originals.

Thanks,
Tim
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Board Game: Gettysburg [Average Rating:5.42 Overall Rank:6884]
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1958 Edition

Top box torn on two corners, bottom box torn on all four corners. Box shows fair amount of ware. Board in fair shape and chits in fair shape.

Blue is missing 5 outposts Inf Divs (I-First & Second, II - First & Second, III - Second, V - Third, XI - Third), Calvary (Custer, Farnsworth), Artillery Reserves (2nd Volunteer), HQ (VI - Sedgwick and XI - Howard)
Red is missing 2 outposts (have 2 unmarked ones), Inf Div (Second - Rodes, Third - Heth), Artillery Bns (Eshleman, McIntosh), Calvary (F. Lee, Hampton, Imboden & Jones)
 
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Board Game: Gettysburg [Average Rating:5.42 Overall Rank:6884]
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Board Game: Gettysburg [Average Rating:5.42 Overall Rank:6884]
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1st edition (White text on grey), with grey coversheet, registration card, catalog + die. Complete + bagged. Cover a bit dirty with an X lightly scratched on it and 3 split corners, Bottom has 2 split corners, But is still maintaining its' integrity.



Shipping only to the 48 contiguous U.S. and I'll cover the cost.
 
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FIRST to use "hidden movement", at least in the 1964 edition that I'm aware of, although a 'Referee' might also have been required to keep track of Units, and unveil 'exposed' kind for the manner in which it were utilized.
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Doesn't Kriegspiel use reffed hidden movement?
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How about Bismarck (1962)?
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U-Boat, 1959.
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Part 7 of the big day I had at Savers which I picked up a lot of great old Wargames.

Missing instructions
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Woo-hoo. My first real board game -- the one I played multiple time and with people outside my family.
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Same as Osirus. I blame this game for my lifelong addiction.
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The first modern historical board wargame (1958).
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My list starts with the 1958 AH Gettysburg

I am not sure what issue my friend's father had, but it was the Squared map and elongated pieced that I learned "serious" wargaming on. We played this game every chance we got - how well - that's another story for nine and ten year olds. But a big step up from Risk and Stratego. Today I have the 1964 version with the hexes, and I still get it out and play it.

Little Round Top
Right after college and my early years of starting a family, wargaming took a back seat to other priorities. Although the urge did not wain I tried to find games I could play solitaire. This little Bookshelf game fit the bill. Although I love many of the monster G-burg games of the late 80's and 90's [which I own] I have never had a chance to play them more than twice.

Gettysburg: The Wheatfield
So it is natural that when this game was published that I bought it. I love the Mechanics, love the idea, love the art work. I am very familiar with this action of the battle. I, myself, have written about the Texas' Brigade/1st Texas Gettysburg action for Master's work and Academic Publication and have played around with my own PnP game similar but much more hex oriented. "Wheatfield" is out right fun!

 
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Last but not least, I found this under the two 3M games for $1.99. I already have a copy, but this one is in better condition (almost perfect, but for one blown corner on the box top), and at the price I couldn't pass it up.
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At that price you should have castrated yourself so as not to contaminated the gene pool if you had passed it up.
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  • Posted Sat Jul 30, 2011 6:12 pm
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chiron.42 wrote:
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We're finding a lot of boxes with ripped corners too. When they get stacked like that at thrift stores, it's bound to happen. My father in law works in a factory that makes paper tape. We're going to ask him to bring home some water soluble paper tape to start fixing these corners. It'll be a nice white color and we'll repair the box from the inside. Hopefully it will look almost new.


I've been having decent luck with right-angle braces, binder clips, glue and Q-Tips/toothpicks.


What you want is no.4 wire and some 2by4.
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  • Posted Sat Jul 30, 2011 8:24 pm
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chiron.42 wrote:
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At that price you should have castrated yourself so as not to contaminated the gene pool if you had passed it up.

I've been having decent luck with right-angle braces, binder clips, glue and Q-Tips/toothpicks.

Ehhhh... huh??
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  • Posted Sat Jul 30, 2011 8:29 pm
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slatersteven wrote:
chiron.42 wrote:
GameFaery wrote:
We're finding a lot of boxes with ripped corners too. When they get stacked like that at thrift stores, it's bound to happen. My father in law works in a factory that makes paper tape. We're going to ask him to bring home some water soluble paper tape to start fixing these corners. It'll be a nice white color and we'll repair the box from the inside. Hopefully it will look almost new.


I've been having decent luck with right-angle braces, binder clips, glue and Q-Tips/toothpicks.


What you want is no.4 wire and some 2by4.

That's pretty old-school. I'd go with 20 feet of 1/8" anodized aircraft cable, a couple of turnbuckles and a handful of fender washers, but that's just me.
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  • Posted Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:55 pm
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GameFaery wrote:
We're finding a lot of boxes with ripped corners too. When they get stacked like that at thrift stores, it's bound to happen. My father in law works in a factory that makes paper tape. We're going to ask him to bring home some water soluble paper tape to start fixing these corners. It'll be a nice white color and we'll repair the box from the inside. Hopefully it will look almost new.


Try this: The Surgery: Board Game Repair Tips
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Avalon Hill 5th edition. Very nice condition. English. I'll be at WBC Monday-Sunday.
 
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Is the 5th edition the one with the square spaces or hex spaces?
 
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  • Posted Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:46 am
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