Question Number of active players - Page 4

DRG · #1 July 8th, 2019, 05:24 PM

Looks like Nebraska with a few more trees ( corn--corn--corn--corn--corn........ repeat)......Ever gone back to look around ?

Suhiir · #2 July 9th, 2019, 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by DRG

Looks like Nebraska with a few more trees ( corn--corn--corn--corn--corn........ repeat)......Ever gone back to look around ?

Last time I dropped by was in 1981.
And the only noticeable change was the calender's said "1981".

(My father passed in 1975, my siblings were too young to run the farm so my mother sold it.)

Corn, oats, wheat, soybeans. A few head of cattle for our own milk and meat, a few hogs for the same, and the inevitable chickens.

luigim · #3 July 9th, 2019, 05:08 PM

I play 2-3 hours a month

In the past much more

Wdll · #4 July 10th, 2019, 04:54 AM

Ok, since I guess this is a thing now.
I was born in the 70s as a 70 year old man at least mentally getting younger by the year.
First strategy/wargame I had was UMS. Universal Military Simulator, on the Atari ST, playing it at high resolution on my monochrome SM124 monitor.
I was hooked with the whole strategy gaming part. Technically I was hooked before then, when I first watched the movie Wargames and dreamed of having a game like Global Thermonuclear War. Without a computer at first, all I could get to play was Missile Command lol.

lukerduker123 · #5 July 24th, 2019, 01:40 AM

Ain't much for me to state, since I lurk more than post here. I was born in Louisiana, dad died, and I moved to Texas where I got a real big itch for WWII after binging some game called "Secret Weapons over Normandy". Over time this turned into me digging into it, then getting real into it, then getting real into the tactics of it. I played games like Men of War and the like, but I wanted some big, grand-scale battle game. On some forum I went on someone posted a link to this and, well, I've been around since 2011 so I think it's had some sorta' impact!

I tend to play ten hours a month, designing maps that I ultimately scrap because I have extremely high standards for myself. College and work also drag me down, however I hope to finally release a proper scenario or two sometime this year. Maybe before I'm 24. :V

jivemi · #6 September 25th, 2019, 04:02 AM

What I can't understand is why people keep playing venerable yet antiquated wargames like Advanced Squad Leader or Panzer in which players must make all calculations, determinations, cross-references etc. themselves when Camo Workshop's computerized version is available. Ease and speed of play are infinitely enhanced while choice of units, scanarios, maps, campaigns and so forth are beyond compare.

As an example here's a fellow playing an old SL scenario--Guards Counter-Attack--that he's using to demonstrate ASL. Note that it takes him nearly two hours to play HALF a turn! Also note that it's got over 27,500 views. Go figure...

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

Suhiir · #7 September 25th, 2019, 03:14 PM

I remember that scenario!

Been years since I opened my ASL box, still have it tho.

jivemi · #8 September 25th, 2019, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Suhiir

I remember that scenario!

Been years since I opened my ASL box, still have it tho.

That's heartwarming, but would you ever consider playing it again? Especially given that a five-turn company-sized action could take half a dozen hours (or more) to play solitaire.

Suhiir · #9 September 25th, 2019, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by jivemi

That's heartwarming, but would you ever consider playing it again? Especially given that a five-turn company-sized action could take half a dozen hours (or more) to play solitaire.

Solitaire, no.
But vs another player I'd give it a go.

A good friend and I usually spend Saturday afternoons and into the night playing various board war games. Everything from ancient Rome to Star Wars.

My personal favorite is a Vietnam game we've created ourselves that deals with the North Vietnamese political/PR war vs the American conventional one. VERY interesting when one side has different goals then the other.

zovs66 · #10 September 25th, 2019, 10:29 PM

I retired from playing ASL in 2014, it’s a community and human thing that keeps ASLers playing. ASL is still the best board game out there and its the other fellow across the table that makes it work. I love SPWW2 and SPMBT but the AI’s is not as fun to win or lose to than it is verses Bob, Chuck, Tom, Mike, Brian, Joe, Andy, Dan, Hans, Tony, Keith, or Scott. It’s the game and the folks that play ASL.