First Board war Game

[GibbyG]

AH France 1940

Did people really like Starship Troopers?  I just remember the non-bug guy building a killer stack and just obliterating the bugs as soon as they popped up.  Of course we could have been playing it wrong :)

[BanzaiCat]

Starship Troopers was one of my first games. I remember my dad and one of his officer buddies playing it a lot. The game is great because its scenarios follow the book. That's one of my favorite books, though.

[ArizonaTank]

AH Luftwaffe, followed shortly by AH Third Reich

[Arctic Blast]

Pretty sure it was the combo Red Storm Rising and Hunt For Red October spread across both sides of a ping pong table.  :)

[BanzaiCat]

Combo of both? How did that work?

A friend of mine had HFRO (if you mean the TSR version, right?) back in the day and I remember we gave it a try a few times. Never did try RSR. If they're the TSR games, I do have A Line in the Sand, which I think is the same combat system.

[Arctic Blast]

Combo of both? How did that work?

A friend of mine had HFRO (if you mean the TSR version, right?) back in the day and I remember we gave it a try a few times. Never did try RSR. If they're the TSR games, I do have A Line in the Sand, which I think is the same combat system.

Yep, both were TSR. The two could somewhat integrate. Basically, american reinforcements in RSR were affected by how intact convoys were when arriving in Europe from the States. You could also swap squadrons of like aircraft between the two games. There may have been more than that, but it has been a while.  :)

I also had A Line in the Sand. Loved the diplomatic pouch stuff, and we really got into the fiery speeches full of rhetoric. Shit, I might still have all of this at my parents place. I should go take a look.

[Barthheart]

Yeah A Line in the Sand is a great game. We had a full 7 player game that lasted about 14 hours. The diplo pouch was stuffed with in character gold. Didn't hurt we were drinking beer the whole time. O0
We're gong to try and get another game going this Jan. at the annual winter meet up.

[BanzaiCat]

Yeah A Line in the Sand is a great game. We had a full 7 player game that lasted about 14 hours. The diplo pouch was stuffed with in character gold. Didn't hurt we were drinking beer the whole time. O0
We're gong to try and get another game going this Jan. at the annual winter meet up.

Nice.  O0

I had a similar experience, though we only played with five. The diplo pouch was more often than not jokes and insults, but highly entertaining nevertheless. The only thing I remember from the game is the Iraq player conquered Diego Garcia. THAT was quite a pisser for the U.S. player. ;D

[Nefaro]

My first actual Hex map & counter wargame was VG's Vietnam 1965-1975.


Go big or go home, I guess.   :nerd:


I'm not as old as some of you gomers.  Was only 10 or 11 years old, maximum, when I bought it with money I accumulated doing summer work.

Took a lot of time, running through the game to finger it out.  But I eventually got a handle on it. 

Had been gorging on D&D rules for a year or two beforehand, among others things, and turned out I kinda enjoyed the challenge of learning such game rules & theory.  Even at that age.  Was lucky to occasionally be around a few older kids who had gotten into all of the above, which piqued my interest.

[JudgeDredd]

Combo of both? How did that work?

A friend of mine had HFRO (if you mean the TSR version, right?) back in the day and I remember we gave it a try a few times. Never did try RSR. If they're the TSR games, I do have A Line in the Sand, which I think is the same combat system.

Yep, both were TSR. The two could somewhat integrate. Basically, american reinforcements in RSR were affected by how intact convoys were when arriving in Europe from the States. You could also swap squadrons of like aircraft between the two games. There may have been more than that, but it has been a while.  :)

I also had A Line in the Sand. Loved the diplomatic pouch stuff, and we really got into the fiery speeches full of rhetoric. Shit, I might still have all of this at my parents place. I should go take a look.

If I don't have all of them, I have a couple of them. But I'm pretty sure I've got Red Storm Rising, The Hunt for Red October and A Line in the Sand in the loft.

[mirth]

Crap. Still kicking myself for getting rid of RSR and Hunt for Red October.

[Arctic Blast]

Well hot damn, they ARE still over at the folks place!  :D

[mirth]

^you lucky basturd

[Cyrano]

HFRO has specific rules for integrating with RSR.  Seems like it was built that way which is suggestive of how awesome some of those fellows were burrowed deep in the belly of TSR.

I BROUGHT LITS to Origins with the vague notion of getting a group game going, but, yeah, Origins happened.

[bayonetbrant]

I BROUGHT LITS to Origins with the vague notion of getting a group game going, but, yeah, Origins happened.

you should've known better