Reading Techno's 1200+ post I realised I'd dived right in to the Forum without saying hi, so I thought I'd rectify that.
I'm a few days off my 60th birthday and played my first wargame (as opposed to battle games with matchstick cannon and marbles) in 1965 using Airfix 1:600 ships in my back garden with the Fletcher Pratt rules from Don Featherstone's "Naval Wargames". I have graduated from solely naval to covering land, sea, air and space!
Bizarrely, as my eyesight and hand-eye coordination deteriorate I find myself drawn to smaller and smaller figures with 10mm now being the largest figures I do.
These days I do more board gaming than figure gaming (six of us on a Tuesday and four on a Friday most weeks) but I'm planning on getting back in to more tabletop stuff too. First up, WW2 Germans and Russians from Pendraken for use with BKC II.
As to the avatar ... well I do tend to rabbit :-[
Greetings Ithoriel.
Your story and mine seem parallel. My first Wargame was from the Featherstone book "War Games" and I refought the "Action on the St James road", probably 1968-69. I got divorced a few years ago and have been replacing my 15mm and 20mm with 10mm for the last year or so even though the hand is shaky and the eye dim.
Welcome to the mad house. I'm glad to see that you have your own flavour of insanity to contribute.
Hi Ithoriel, welcome to the Forum!
8)
Welcome!
i'm having germans versus russians in BKCII too! If all goes well the russkies should be done tonight (except for the sturmovik, who only just arrived in the post today)
Looking forward to seeing yours ;)
Welcome on board and post some pics of the game if you have time :).
Happy Birthday in advance 'I'....And a very warm welcome.
As fsn says......Welcome to the madhouse ! ;D
Cheers - Phil.
Welcome sire,
It helps to leave your sanity at the... Oh, I see you already have. I'm sure you'll settle in well here, pull up a toadstool and relax.
Welcome Ithoriel
Quote from: Ithoriel on 08 July 2013, 03:26:19 PM
First up, WW2 Germans and Russians from Pendraken for use with BKC II.
Excellent choice. 8)
I grew up once. Didn't like it so jacked it in as a bad job.
A belated hello to you, Ithoriel
Quote from: fsn on 08 July 2013, 06:45:09 PM
I grew up once. Didn't like it so jacked it in as a bad job.
I never got that far. I learnt from the grown ups that it wasn't much fun so I stuck at childhood - works for me! :P
Welcome from me too, Ithoriel. I find that after sixty it's possible to revert to childhood and no-one takes much notice. 8-} 8-} 8-}
In my late thirties I was described by a colleague as the oldest 14 year old in the country......Haven't changed much since then...except getting more and more cynical as the days go by ! :)
Cheers - Phil
So your now a fifteen year old then Techno?
Quote from: mad lemmey on 09 July 2013, 09:55:33 AM
So your now a fifteen year old then Techno?
Nearly ! :P ;D
Cheers - Phil.
Hi Ithorial,
kev
Bizarrely, as my eyesight and hand-eye coordination deteriorate I find myself drawn to smaller and smaller figures with 10mm now being the largest figures I do.
Ithorial
Welcome to the Forum. You are not alone in this. At 65 this same affliction has hit me. It's called 'Pendrakenitis'. You see'em, you want 'em, you buy 'em and life has no meaning unless you paint the lovely little things!! 8-} 8-}
Is there a doctor in the house? :D :D
Chad
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Is there a doctor in the house? :D :D
Might I recommend SV33 or WW4?
Hi Ithoriel
Welcome to the "gang". I was 60 in January, and after the initial shock, you soon set used to it and just get on with it.
Yes 10mm rule OK with us oldies, but what it'll be like when I get REALLY old like Chad I shudder to think ;D
Best Wishes DaveL
Old age is all in the mind - and the knees, possibly. :'(
I am currently only 58, but I so resemble all the characteristics described so far. Eyesight, knees, origins of interest in Wargaming (good old Don, changed my life!), gradually converting entirely to the smaller scales. oh, and in case I didn't mention it, I retired 12 days ago :D :D :D
Mollinary
Congratulations, Andrew. You'll never regret it. :)
Enjoy it, that man !!
Cheers - Phil.
Got NO sympathy with Mollinary. It's 5 years 1 week and 1 day til I retire! Not that I'm counting of course!!!!!!!
DaveL
Quote from: DaveL on 11 July 2013, 05:43:22 PM
Got NO sympathy with Mollinary. It's 5 years 1 week and 1 day til I retire! Not that I'm counting of course!!!!!!!
DaveL
Dave,
Only one thousand eight hundred and thirty four days to go then! :D :D Many thanks for the lack of sympathy - the actual retirement makes up for all the ailments. Oh, did I say that you only have 1,834 days to go to experience the same joy? :-\. Oh yes, I actually did. - memory, eh! ] ;) ;)
Mollinary
Despite being aged and fatigued by long years of labour, I cannot see the time when I can retire. I shall probably have to keep working until I reach the ever increasing pension age, and then probably have to work for years beyond that. I shall not bore you all with the sad story of how my selfless nobility left me in solitude and penury at a time when most men were looking to ease in the arms of their family.
I can however, eke out a few pennies to devote to Pendraken every now and again, as long as I forgo holidays and entertaining, food and new clothes. :-S As I say, the only comfort I have in my advanced, empty years, is the small packages from Pendraken that occasionally plop onto my carpet, along with adverts for foreign trips I can't afford, increases in utility bills and bloody PPI flyers.
:-< This is a very dark time for me, cut off from what used to be my family, due to no fault of my own, and too embarrassed to show my face out of my own front door. I dream of little things, small joys that would mean so much to me. Little tiny metal things that would light up my wretched existence. Centurion shaped comforts that would alleviate my daily, enduring misery. :'(
We'll keep your spirits up fsn !
You're certainly capable of lifting ours !
Cheers - Phil
Thank you.
I try to keep going.
Thanks Mollinary. If it wasn't for Pendraken figures and wargaming, I'd probably have slit my wrists after your "helpful" reply !!!!!!! ;D
DaveL
Dave,
It's all an illusion actually, I was back at work yesterday on a temporary part time contract! :-\ :-[
Mollinary
A belated welcome, Ithoriel :-h
What a bunch of kids! Just grow up ...
No, shan't! :P
Quote from: fsn on 11 July 2013, 07:16:35 PM
I can however, eke out a few pennies to devote to Pendraken every now and again, as long as I forgo holidays and entertaining, food and new clothes.
FSN
I do think you are exagerating here - Your a wargamer - why do you need new clothes ? A 1960's cardi and a pair of Courdroy trousers and your all set ;D
Welcolme I
Quote from: fsn on 08 July 2013, 06:45:09 PM
I grew up once. Didn't like it so jacked it in as a bad job.
I got a card two years ago from my two step daughters saying "Happy 5th Birthday" So I obviously have not grown up, and have no intention of doing so.
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 23 July 2013, 08:13:37 PM
I do think you are exagerating here - Your a wargamer - why do you need new clothes ? A 1960's cardi and a pair of Courdroy trousers and your all set ;D
The only new clothes I get are the Batman t-shirts my daughter buys me.
QuoteReading Techno's 1200+ post I realised I'd dived right in to the Forum without saying hi, so I thought I'd rectify that.
I'm a few days off my 60th birthday and played my first wargame (as opposed to battle games with matchstick cannon and marbles) in 1965 using Airfix 1:600 ships in my back garden with the Fletcher Pratt rules from Don Featherstone's "Naval Wargames". I have graduated from solely naval to covering land, sea, air and space!
Bizarrely, as my eyesight and hand-eye coordination deteriorate I find myself drawn to smaller and smaller figures with 10mm now being the largest figures I do.
These days I do more board gaming than figure gaming (six of us on a Tuesday and four on a Friday most weeks) but I'm planning on getting back in to more tabletop stuff too. First up, WW2 Germans and Russians from Pendraken for use with BKC II.
As to the avatar ... well I do tend to rabbit Embarrassed
OMG, FINALLY..... its happened, I`m not the oldest one here any more (does the happy dance). A warm Welcome to the madhouse , sir. :D
By the way, what board games do you play?
You're nowhere near the oldest here, Six, at least, physically (mentally, I'm not so sure) :-\
QuoteYou're nowhere near the oldest here, Six, at least, physically (mentally, I'm not so sure) Undecided
=O *dribbles onto my bib*