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What are you reading?
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Musket & Pike Battle Ser…
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command and colors ancie…
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B-29 Superfortress Playe…
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Avalanche Press Naval Ga…
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Profile Information
- Your introduction to consim gaming:
- Battle Cry! (Milton Bradley - 1960)
- Your favorite game(s):
- GBOH, Command & Colors Ancients, Great War at Sea, Musket and Pike Series, Wings of War, Down in Flames
- What game(s) are you currently playing (solitaire, FTF, PBEM, etc.) or wish to play next?
- Playing Combat Mission, Uncommon Valor, Vietnam Squad Battles, Renaissance & Operational Art of War III PBEM.
- What game(s) have you played recently?
- See my blog on this page.
- In general, how much time do you spend gaming?
- About 10-12 hours a month FTF. About 12-16 hours a month PBEM.
- How big is your game collection?
- Probably 100 plus or minus. I occasionally sell off titles that I haven't played much.
- Your local game club(s) and/or where you reside (let's network!)
- Elgin Area Gamers League (EAGLEs). They play a lot of Euros, etc. but there are wargamers who show up as well.
- About Me
- Born in Iowa & attended Catholic schools. Played many of the Milton Bradley war games. Received "Stalingrad" (AH) as a Christmas present as age 12. In college (University of Iowa) discovered Panzerblitz & Luftwaffe. After college I moved to Des Moines and took up public accounting. There I met the first actual "wargamers" Some of those guys I still play games with to this day.
The 70's and '80's in Des Moines were my "golden age" of wargaming. I was single, shared a house with a fellow wargamer for much of the time so we played lots of games. SPI & Avalon Hill in the '70s, Victory Games, GDW, Battleline in the '80s. We went to GenCon in Milwaukee most years. Big games of World in Flames, multi-player Flat-Top, War in the Pacific, Air Force/Dauntless, etc.
In the 90's my company moved me first to Minnesota and then to the Chicago area. I also got married to my wonderful wife who graciously allows me to carry on with my gaming hobby. I made wargaming friends in both locations and usually was able to continue FTF gaming on a weekly (or so) basis. These were the years of GMT Games (GBOH and DIF) and Avalanche (GWAS) for me. In 1999 my life changed again when my son was born. Right now he is more interested in Star Wars and learning to play the guitar than his old man's war games, but there is hope for him in the future.
In the 2000's I started to gravitate to more "lite" fare: some Euro games, Memoir '44, C&C Ancients, Twilight Struggle & other CDGs, etc. Maybe getting older means I don't have the stamina for the hard-core grognard stuff, maybe it's just a trend in the industry. I'm always up for some SPQR though!
- Personal Interests (favorite activities, movies, shows, books, music, etc.)
- Movies: "Apocolypse Now", "300", "Elizabeth -The Golden Age", "Watchmen", "Inglorious Basterds"
Books: "Guns of August", "Bomber Command" by Max Hastings.
Music: The Rolling Stones.
Activities: Biking on the Illinois Prairie Trail. Monstercon
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Games I'm Playing 2010
Keeping a record on games played in 2010.
Posted on January 5, 2010 at 7:32pm — 18 Comments
Games I'm Playing 2009
January - Our second play of Warriors of God. We played the 100 Years War scenario. We were over halfway through it when we realized that we had the leader movement rules all wrong! Leaders can only cross a single border from a singe area each action impulse! We had been moving anybody and evrybody each impulse. Needless to say, we stopped the current game and will re-start next week. Also our first play of Lion in Winter (last week) was all wrong. How embarrassing for a cou… Continue
Posted on January 4, 2009 at 6:55pm — 29 Comments
Games I'm Playing in 2008
January & February - Red Star Rising: Intereresting and different approach to The Great Patriotic War.
March - Montrose Triumphs (TCS) : Fun little DTP battle game, like 30 Years War Quad, sort of.
March - Holy Roman Empire: Also fun. Struggling with the rules. Want to try this four-player.
March - My annual trip to Cedar Rapids to play a long weekend of games with one of my old gaming buddy. We played Manouver (GMT), C&C Ancients, Twilight Struggle. Luftwaffe 2007, Tide of Iron &… Continue
March - Montrose Triumphs (TCS) : Fun little DTP battle game, like 30 Years War Quad, sort of.
March - Holy Roman Empire: Also fun. Struggling with the rules. Want to try this four-player.
March - My annual trip to Cedar Rapids to play a long weekend of games with one of my old gaming buddy. We played Manouver (GMT), C&C Ancients, Twilight Struggle. Luftwaffe 2007, Tide of Iron &… Continue
Posted on November 9, 2008 at 8:32pm — 12 Comments
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