Before there was SUBSIM, there was.....
 

Jim, August, AVG, why does this look so familiar?




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDex1x8AFhk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stbxQxGz1UM
(I bet she is a riot to be with! Wears a Napoleonic uniform!)

Two of my old favorite board games.

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There are IRL groups who do these things.

Build and sail model boats
group where member makes tin soldiers and create famous battle.

So Internet hasn't removed this social needs.

Markus

Those two videos bring back so many great memories Jason :up:

I no longer have my r/c boats or submarine now and the train set and Scalextric are long gone but I do have my Napoleonic Russian Army stored somewhere up in the loft.

Risk and Stratego.

I have spend many hours playing both of those games. Panzer Blitz and it's successor Panzer Leader were other favorites of mine.

I have a Risk from when they were wooden blocks!
I also have The Lord of The Rings version not to mention other versions!
In all? I think I have like 5 or 6 different versions at last count.
My Buds and I still play several times a year.

I also wrote a Tandy CoCo version WAY back!

I never got into war gaming miniatures. Like the video shows it was a lot of time, work and money to put together a decent sized formation. I did try my hand at dioramas and to me that is the best way to display a model but they need a glass case to keep from becoming dusty. It's almost impossible to clean even the more simple ones without breaking something each time.

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean....my current diecast aircraft collection is all sited within glass doored cabinets.

And who keeps that glass clean may I ask?
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TBH honest Jeff, I do....Ann won't enter the man cave :)

You HAVE to tell me how you mange that!
:doh:
Nancy Lady will NOT allow me such a place in the house!
I had to rent a place for my GT project stuff and she has the key codes to that!
:o

The closest I got to miniatures wargaming was painting (or trying to) elves and orcs for D&D. I never saw the appeal of assembling models and painting them, but I've little to no artistic capability. I can't draw a straight line without a ruler and have very little ability to draw, sketch, or paint without it looking like crap.

Even in SH3/4/5, my ability to accurately use the map tools is diminished since I can't snap-to or give it directional commands like in a CAD program.

I also never saw the appeal of mass wargame battles where players are using tape measures for distance measurements.

What is it about those types of wargames that appeals to you?

Yeah, I didn't meet Nancy Lady for that long a period but I taught her and she learnt well :)

A board game I had as a kid and enjoyed was an American Heritage by Milton Bradley game titled Broadside and it was based on the naval actions of the War of 1812; there was a good sized board with a grid system and a set of blue (US) and red (UK) ships with removable masts that were used to navigate along the grid lines; the object was to position your ship, in alternating moves, in such a manner as to 'fire' a broadside at the your opponent, causing them to lose a mast; each fleet had ten ships, ranging from full-masted men-of-war to single masted schooners; you played until one of the fleets was fully dis-masted; one of the interesting strategic aspects is it allowed for maneuvers like 'crossing the T' allowing you to fire a broadside at your opponent while crossing their bow, costing them a mast and costing you nothing and the presence of shore batteries that could also dis-mast you if you wandered to close to land ; I used to play that game for hours with a neighbor kid back in the early '60s...



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https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1508/broadside




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