I just wanted to drop in and say hello to fellow wargamers. I am sure after 10 years of absence, few may know or remember me. I worked for over 10 years with Matrix (SPWAW and others), SSI, Battlefront, Talonsoft, Pegasus, and HP (Tiller) designing some 1200 scenarios and campaigns plus leading on various occasions in playtesting and design. It was a glorious experience but now it is your turn. Enjoy gaming! The pleasures of life are becoming less and less even with all the advances so live to fight...and WIN!
Wild Bill Wilder (The lovely lady is my sweet wife Robin, who supports my gaming efforts 100% In fact she encourages it!).
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Good to see you back, Bill. Welcome!!
Welcome to Grogheads, Bill! It's an honor to have you amongst us. And how fortunate you are to have a wife who encourages your gaming :)
we're not worthy! we're not worthy! we're not worthy!
Greetz Bill! :D
Whoa! Hey, Wild Bill! I worked with Matrix, too, in the mid-2000s. Welcome back to the fold.
Awesome! Welcome, Bill. I dread to think how many hours I spent playing the old SP games. Brings back happy memories.
Some days it's just great to be a Wargamer, like today. Getting to share to same post-space as Col. Wild Bill, a true pioneer and legend in Wargaming. If the Col. is going to be checking-out my posts, then I had better straighten them up. I wouldn't want the Colonel's boot in my backside. I used to always go to your game reviews first anywhere I saw them and loved the many great scenarios you designed for so many of the games I've played. Especially enjoyed the ones for the original Combat Mission. My favorite was Wittman at Villers-Bocage, a version of which is available at the BFC forum for CMBN. Anyway, welcome to Grogs and what's your secret for still looking so good? Your the one in back right? Sorry... I said I would straighten up. ::) Hope you'll post here regularly and would love to hear your opinions on current wargaming in general.
Hi Bill,
I just wanted to say thank you. Steel Panthers III & SP World at War were my first introductions to PC wargaming. I really enjoyed the Campaigns in SP World at War - tons of fun!
Welcome.
Welcome Bill to our little corner of the Wargaming world! O0
I played most of your scenarios and campaigns in SP WaW. Al great fun and a great challenge. :)
Quote from: bayonetbrant on February 20, 2015, 04:43:16 PM
we're not worthy! we're not worthy! we're not worthy!
Greetz Bill! :D
+1 O0
i remembered the name right from the beginning
Greetings Wild Bill from another longtime fan!
Good to see you here! :)
Happy to have you, Bill. Better late than never!
Hey, Wild Bill! Great to see you found us!
Welcome!
Welcome Wild Bill! Great to have you posting here.
I'll echo what others have said and thank you for your work on some truly great games that have provided me with countless hours of enjoyment and served as gateway into many related hobbies.
You and Robin look like a very happy couple. Congrats!
WOW! So this is where you have all been doing your thing! What an impressive site. More impressive is the quality of gamers here. I'm greatly pleased to "see" some familiar faces.
For an old warhorse like me, this is very, very special. I'm a little more lenient so no airs here. We are just comrades in arms, enjoying and recreating history. Let me say that I'm here for you in whatever capacity I can be of service.
Quite a number of you worked so hard to make things easier for me. There are over 1,200 scenarios from seven different gaming systems that I put together over the years, floating around somewhere. Villers Bocage I remember well. I struggled long and hard with that little beauty. I loved fighting it after it was done.
The two real monsters were TET and Desert Storm for Talonsoft. Designing scenarios that covered the entire Tet offensive, or the entire war in Kuwait and Iraq were mind boggling for me. Then there were the MEGA CAMPAIGNS for Matrix, Screaming Eagles being the best of them all.
As you all know, the tactical aspect has always appealed to me the most. The pain of losing one tank, or one squad is so much more personal. One becomes a part of the battle and feels victory and sometimes defeat.
See, you can tell I'm getting old. I reminisce too much. THEY WERE GLORY DAYS for me and many of you had such a part in it. Thank you with all my heart!
We do yell at young people to get off our lawns and to get a haircut, so we're not all perfect unfortunately. ;D
Thank you, Bill! You are Grog Royalty and it's an honor to have you among us :)
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on February 24, 2015, 09:12:47 PM
We do yell at young people to get off our lawns and to get a haircut, so we're not all perfect unfortunately. ;D
I feel like I'm going to have to start wearing pants now :P
you could go back to wearing a kilt. at least, what you referred to as a kilt; pretty sure Star just liked you better in drag.
Despite what Star might claim, an Argyle Speedo is not a kilt.
I vote we have a special "Wild Bill" Grogs section here. And then torment the shit out of all the other sites about it. O0
Welcome Bill, I remember that name from dos era games. It's very nice to have you here.
Welcome to Grogheads, Wild Bill!
(Man, I feel like I'm going to have start actually behaving myself now... :knuppel2: )
Quote from: Martok on February 25, 2015, 09:55:51 AM
Welcome to Grogheads, Wild Bill!
(Man, I feel like I'm going to have start actually behaving myself now... :knuppel2: )
Dude, you're the good one in the group.
^ Yikes. If so, then we're in real trouble. :o
Well, well, well. I see everyone is as insane as ever...that's cool. One thing about gamers, we are tight on gaming, but we know how to have fun with each other. And in this crazy fear-ridden world, some joking and laughing are indeed in order.
Guess what, I did a board game variant of ASL board game (anyone remember it...still play it?) on what I call Enduring Freedom 2, Operation Payback. It is a series of engagements assuming that the US, Kurds and Iraqi trained troops decide to take on Isis and Al Qaeda. A three fold thrust from northern Syria, against Fallujah in the south and near Mosul (with the Kurdish Freedom fighters). I design my own counters and I'll see if I can put up a few here. How I wish I had some testers for these scenarios (5 of them). Thoughts?
This is a good way to vent some of the frustration many of us feel with the apathetic, sympathetic the Obama administration views Isis and terrorism in general...and I'll say it.."Radical Terrorists"...There, I said it! And I meant it!
Tell it like it is Colonel. Radical Terrorists that need more job opportunities. :2funny: Who would really prefer to work at Starbucks or Burger Caliphate but just can't. Because you can't run a fryer while wearing a bomb belt. :P Great counters by the way.
Good point, Slash! They are already employed. The killing and looting they've done in the last few years is the kind of salary they enjoy. Why work at a menial job when you can just lop off someone's head and take what is his?
There is one answer for this kind of brutality and I know you know what it is...God give us some leaders who can stand strong instead of bow down!
Amen Colonel. Along with a few good grunts who can shoot straight.
Oh yeah! One way or the other, that kind of day is coming. I can't see Isis saying, "well, I guess we had better stop this. People might shoot at us." To the contrary,they want us to shoot at them. They are challenging us to do so. They keep baiting us to react. I just hope the right reaction does not come on the heels of some hellish act on their part.
^+1 Agreed, my thoughts exactly.
Quote from: Wild Bill Wilder on February 25, 2015, 02:09:20 PM
Guess what, I did a board game variant of ASL board game (anyone remember it...still play it?) on what I call Enduring Freedom 2, Operation Payback. It is a series of engagements assuming that the US, Kurds and Iraqi trained troops decide to take on Isis and Al Qaeda. A three fold thrust from northern Syria, against Fallujah in the south and near Mosul (with the Kurdish Freedom fighters). I design my own counters and I'll see if I can put up a few here. How I wish I had some testers for these scenarios (5 of them). Thoughts?
Call me a bum because I usually only hang out in the "boardgaming" section and so have just now seen this -
Firstly, I hope that you're still checking in here Bill, and welcome. What a privilege to have you amongst us here!
Secondly, on this request for playtesters....yes, avid ASL player here and this variant of yours is something that is of great interest to me. I'll see if I can contact you offsite here to see what it is that you need; be it a VASSAL module or graphic work or just playing the scenarios. I'd be all over this!
Again, welcome!
Man, I somehow missed this too so I guess it's a belated welcome Wild Bill.