Fondly remembering a teenage scenario

[Norm]

I have blogged a revisit of a scenario I played as a teenager, back in the days when wargaming was less sophisticated, but no less pleasurable for that.

It may be a backwards glance with rose tinted glasses, but good fun anyway.

LINK http://battlefieldswarriors.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/remembering-old-wargame.html

[getagrip]

Love this.  Reminds me of my own pathetic early attempts at wargaming.  Different genre (fantasy) but no less basic and no less fun.

Brilliant Norm

[Leman]

1969, OS map of Anglesey as the basis of a campaign, two Airfix armies - Union and Confederate, London Wargames Section (?) ACW rules, and two sixteen year olds having a whale of a time. Imagine the hotly contested, but little known, ACW battle of Llangefni.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Like it!
I remember doing 6mm campaigns run on a made up map, not much fighting but lots of political and sneakybeakies!

Also remember girlfriends... Hmm...

[Steve J]

Hmmm, reminds me of Airfix games with friends in the '70s with minimal terrain, tactics etc but buckets of enthusiasm .

[Subedai]

All of the above are just as relevant today.

#SteveJ, with you on that one.

I don't know about you lot but I have been wargaming -properly with rules n stuff- since 1970,stops typing for a moment while he takes shoes and socks off to count past ten, and I am enjoying the hobby just as much today as I did back then -45 years ago when I was 14- although using the analogy of a carrier wave, I have my highs and can't-be-ar*ed times, I still love the hobby and when I go to wherever it is I end up I will still love the hobby.

[getagrip]

It's weird, but a common theme seems to be a lack of terrain (all the hard saved pocket money spent on figures no doubt).

I can vividly remember drooling over the masses of terrain "older" gamers seemed to have 

Anyone feel the same?

[fsn]

Remember these? (the trees not the figures)

[Westmarcher]

Yes (to the terrain comment).

With me it was Airfix ACW using Don Featherstone rules and books as hills. One was the the yellow pages, appropriately(?) dubbed Telegraph Hill.  

[getagrip]

Oh dear Lord yes; we even used my toy wooden bricks (I'd had when I was 3) I'd found in the loft 

[Leman]

My terrain was very Don Featherstone inspired: dinky toy rubber buildings (an English village in 1860s North America), Bellona gun emplacements, model railway plastic snap together trees and plasticene covered balsa for hills, all laid out on a full size table tennis table.

[getagrip]

My terrain was very Don Featherstone inspired: dinky toy rubber buildings (an English village in 1860s North America), Bellona gun emplacements, model railway plastic snap together trees and plasticene covered balsa for hills, all laid out on a full size table tennis table.

And, this is the really sad bit, as good and as sophisticated as your terrain gets; it will never be as good as then

[xccam]

My first experience with wargaming was nowhere near as impressive as some of the stories told by you guys. 2004, year 7 after school in a history classroom playing warhammer 40k on some tables pushed together with books as hills and no other terrain.

With such little terrain anyone not playing a shooty army was pretty much obliterated.


Now I'm at university slowly painting up figures for a napoleonics army for whom I have no opposing army myself, and I know nobody to oppose it. I have no terrain. One day though... The army will see battle!

[Ithoriel]

No terrain at all in my first several dozen wargames ... because they were played on the back lawn, using Fletcher Pratt's naval wargames rules from Don Featherstones Naval Wargames book and starring Airfix 1:600 ships. Rather an unhistorical number of Bismarks as I recall

[fsn]

Now I'm at university slowly painting up figures for a napoleonics army for whom I have no opposing army myself, and I know nobody to oppose it. I have no terrain. One day though... The army will see battle!

Proud of you sir! Brings a tear to this crabby old eye.