Blast from the past - old boardgame

Started by Aksu, 18 November 2015, 05:49:32 PM

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Aksu

Found this in my bookshelf, lucky me as I have started painting LoA and WSS era figures. I received this game when I subscribed to the Wargamer back in early 80s. Those were the days... Painting plastic Airfix figures, Bruce Quarrie rules and stacks of AH, SPI and WWW games.

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Aksu

NeilCFord

Nice!

I have a copy of Aces High somewhere, a game I have very fond memories of. Started my interest in WW1 aerial games. Magazine games have an awful lot to answer for.

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mollinary

And I have a copy of "Frederick the Great: The Campaigns of the Soldier-King, 1756-1763" published by AH in 1982. Apart from the solecism in the title it is a great game, beautifully thought out, and the perfect campaign system to base your battles on. In fact I have a friend who is keen to get a copy to enable us to campaign by correspondence, and then battle in person!

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paulr

Quote from: mollinary on 18 November 2015, 06:17:13 PM
... "Frederick the Great: The Campaigns of the Soldier-King, 1756-1763" ... Apart from the solecism in the title it is a great game...

:-/ :-/ :-[

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Nosher

My favourite is Blue Max. Still better than Wings of War
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Fenton

Love Blue Max. A friend did a beautiful conversion if it for WW2
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Fenton

I presume everyone has heard of Vassal for online boardgaming
http://www.vassalengine.org
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Aksu

Quote from: Nosher on 18 November 2015, 06:39:21 PM
My favourite is Blue Max. Still better than Wings of War
We used Canvas Eagles (i.e. Blue Max) to game out 1915-1918 in "real time" years ago using 1/72 planes. A couple of games a month I think over four years. More info, some pics and statistics at http://www.the-ancients.com/gemigabok/canvas-eagles-1915-1918/

Nosher

Many a night whiled away at the Wargames Club in the cellar of the OR's Mess in Detmold with a Yellow Handbag and good friends playing Blue Max.

Machine Gun and Screaming Aviation Engine noises were mandatory :)
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mollinary

Quote from: paulr on 18 November 2015, 06:24:28 PM
:-/ :-/ :-[

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Sorry, used this term rather loosely to mean an embarrassing error!  :-[  :-[  Perhaps a solecism of my own?  The Soldier King is the description usually applied to Frederick's father, Frederick William 1st, not to Frederick 2nd himself.

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Ithoriel

Ace of Aces was my first WW1 air game



Then Sopwith



Then on to tabletop gaming with 1:144th scale aircraft and rules by, iirc, Iain Holt and Jim Duncan at SESWC.

Sadly I have no pics of the latter. If there are any pics of those games I was involved in, chances are mine was the plane going down in flames :)
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paulr

Quote from: mollinary on 18 November 2015, 08:34:48 PM
Sorry, used this term rather loosely to mean an embarrassing error!  :-[  :-[  Perhaps a solecism of my own?  The Soldier King is the description usually applied to Frederick's father, Frederick William 1st, not to Frederick 2nd himself.

Mollinary

That makes more sense now & I've learnt something as well :) :D
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Quote from: Ithoriel on 18 November 2015, 08:39:41 PM

Then on to tabletop gaming with 1:144th scale aircraft and rules by, iirc, Iain Holt and Jim Duncan at SESWC.

Sadly I have no pics of the latter. If there are any pics of those games I was involved in, chances are mine was the plane going down in flames :)


Probably the best set of rules I have ever written, unfortunately I let Iain and Bill write bits of them so they are not truly mine. I am the only person with hard copies of them though.

I still have all the aircraft including Iains, some worse for wear. I think Bill took all his away to Ireland when he went.

We last played a few games of this just before Iain died so that would 2012 or so.

I will probably blog about them one day.

Here's a reminder.

http://jim-duncan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/world-war-one-in-air.html





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Ithoriel

I seem to remember a couple of games where I was in a blue Roland C-II two-seater running for the board edge with shattered struts, damaged ailerons and a dead rear-gunner. Not sure if that was at the club or at home. I had a copy of the rules and pin board sheets for the half-dozen planes I had so could have been either.

Great set of rules Jim, glad to hear they're still in use all these years on.

I remember you and Iain working on a set of 6mm WW2 rules that worked really well and which we played at SESWC too.

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