I played Avalon Hill, SPI, Victory Games, and related wargames from the 5th grade on. Still do, from time to time. My boys are now into Heroscape and Talisman.
I was also an early D&D adopter (1974) and had played Chainmail, D&D's forerunner, since 1972. I still have my armies of painted figures. For a while, I played just about every role playing game published by TSR (and a couple of others -- Gamma World, Top Secret, Boot Hill, Traveller, and Villians and Vigilantes). I still run an AD&D campaign for my boys and some of their friends. My very first train layout was constructed on my miniatures gaming table.
Even today, I use my model making skills to construct playscapes for my son's 25mm (HO) WWII toy soldiers, and have designed a "mission card" system of operating my model railroad, where you pick a serues of cards which tells you which loco and rolling stock to use and what to do with them (cargos and destinations).
Connecticut Valley Railroad A Branch of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." -- Henry Ford
mononguy63Also very much enjoyed playing the Avalon Hill war games, like Squad Leader & Third Reich.
CTValleyRRBoot Hill,
Did anyone play "Space 1889"? I didn't hear about it until it had been removed from the shelves. I never found enough of the pieces to put together how to play.
I was an orignal play-tester for Larry Bond with Harpoon way back at Gen-Con in Lake Geneva in the 70's. He still remains a good friend. Saw him this summer at Historicon. Lots of good memories.
Had a 4x8 table in my bedroom for a train set, but as it was all old Hornby and then Tyco it soon died and we started using the table for HO scale wargames using matchbox and airfix tanks. That then evolved to System 7 napoleonics, D&D and a plethora of AH, Strategy & Tactics and Star Fleet Battles campaigns that a group of 8-10 of us played pretty well each weekend. Returned to MR via N scale and haven't seen any of the the guys for ages (probobably 10 years) now. Still play some computer games and prefer strategic games like Europa Universalis, and some Sim City and Railroad Tycoon .
IRONROOSTERI have also played the Might and Magic series
As in Heroes of Might and Magic? HOMM3 is my all time favorite computer game, and I still play it often.
cahrnIRONROOSTERI have also played the Might and Magic series As in Heroes of Might and Magic? HOMM3 is my all time favorite computer game, and I still play it often.
Both, although the role playing M&M series seems to have ceased. The HOMM series is my favorite conquer the world strategy game. Enjoyable without getting bogged down in details.
Enjoy
Paul
Fazby Played at GenCon
Ah the memories.....
I was huge into AD&D in high school and college. I was the DM and created my own world with maps, religions, city maps, politics, oganizations, the works. It was great fun! I also played GURPS -- we modified it for our brand of fantasy and also played some futuristic settings. Twilight 2000 was another one. Here is an unusual one -- Dr. No. That was a lot of fun. It has been a looooooong time since I played any role playing games, but I think I'll see if I still have my old D&D stuff still up in the attic. A little trip into the past could be fun.....
Modeling the Motor City
I've really only played board games (Monopoly, Hotels, Risk, Life, etc.) for fun with family and friends. Electronic games (Nintendo, N64, Gamecube, Wii, Sega Genesis), on the other hand, are another story. When I get into one of those, I can play it almost constantly if I have the time.
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cahrnbut does anyone else here have a background in miniature games
Guilty. Looks like we have a lot of company.
DM since 1977. I still have an original 3 vol D&D boxed book set and a LOT of dice. I occasionally use the dice in my classroom to select questions or students. Some have never even seen a D20 .
I think gaming teaches us to think creatively (or die). "A giant pizza falls onto Ron's head. He is suffocating." (No one rescued him. He was a bit of a jerk.)
Karl
The mind is like a parachute. It works better when it's open. www.stremy.net
In one tournement at Platteville WI, a buddy and I fielded 16 companies of mechs (192mechs) 9 companies of supporting armor and artillary and he even scratch built a Union and a Leapord class Dropship just so that they could be on the floor. We started at 7:30 am we finished at 9:00pm that night there were 15 functioning mechs/vehicles left on the board. The Union was grounded and the Leapord couldn't take off because someone had dropped a megascrapper in front of it (An Atlas was slugging it out with a Marauder II in the basement when the Marauder touched off the AC/20 mags and critted the Engine...it cascaded from there to the Hydrogen storage tanks for the Spaceport. One of the observing engineers (Platteville is an engineering campus) came back about 20 minutes later (we were still in the same turn) and wanted to know if we would include the probable results of the meltdown. The other GM and I asked what they were and a 400 story megascrapper came crashing down across the city. 22 mechs and 15 vehicles died because of an AC/20 ammo explosion.
Aside from being a die hard Battletech gamer, we also played Seekrieg. I could field a Free French task force, the IJN (yes all of it) and the Kriegsmarine (yes all of it) at 1:2400 scale.
Railroading games, 1840, Empire Builder, EuroRails, Railroad Tycoon I,II,III
Other RPG's, Gamma World, Star Frontiers, AD&D 1st edition, Shadowrun II & III, Earth Dawn, Star Wars.
Not to mention the computer games, but there were/are enough of those, plus the Xbox.
Table top. Supremecy with all of the expansions. "I launch a Nuke in the air...."
Since I got married I have made a conscience effort not to game. My wife, my kids, my family, my cats, my railroad, in that order. Do I miss it. Occasionally, but not much. Will I play battletech with the kids? When they are older.