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Who here has ever played Avalon Hill board games...? Warning: This'll be bumped.
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Apr 10, 2024, 6:48 PM
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Most are historical military engagements, though some are just theoretical. They, at one time, were used at the military academies.
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Re: Who here has ever played Avalon Hill board games...? Warning: This'll be bumped.
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Apr 10, 2024, 7:45 PM
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Axis and allies. I've got a few of the versions.
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Re: Who here has ever played Avalon Hill board games...? Warning: This'll be bumped.
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Apr 10, 2024, 9:48 PM
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A buddy of mine had some old war game (this was an actual board with a map and plastic pieces) with the random factor in the tactical maneuvers being via a dice roll.
I don’t remember the name of the war game company.
I played a Battle of Kursk war game, many years ago (before 1990).. I chose the Russians; my buddy had gone to military school and had actually been taught some basics of armored forces strategies and tactics.
I got creamed.
Whadidyou play?
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Had the original one... "Tactics", which was a Christmas gift in the late '60s.
Apr 10, 2024, 10:07 PM
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It had a square-grid board and basically was close infantry/armored 'tactics'. I traded it for "Tactics II" a few years later because of the upgrade to hexagonal-grid and expanded unit pieces. At the time, I didn't consider the novelty of first editions. Oh well.
There were numerous games... "Midway", "Anzio", "D-Day", "Stalingrad", "Waterloo",etc... MY favorite was "Blitzkrieg" which was a mimic of the European Theatre of WW II or at least that was my impression... It had the full compliment of various type units, though the naval and air wasn't up to standards. All were alternating-play with marked units on square playing pieces which could be stacked depending on unit type and strength.
I've always thought that making those types of games 'live action' digitally would have been a good sell.
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France 1941***
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Apr 10, 2024, 10:20 PM
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Don't remember that one.***
Apr 10, 2024, 10:56 PM
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Thanks for the link... Didn't realize "Tactics" was from the early '60s...***
Apr 11, 2024, 11:57 AM
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No but dominate at Stratego****
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My brother-in-law and nephews were playing a Civil War board game a while
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Apr 12, 2024, 2:08 PM
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back (several years ago) and one of the Confederate characters that they came across was one of our great grandparents who was a Col in the CSA. They thought that was pretty cool coming across a family member in a game like that!
On a related and bummer note - we had lots of memorabilia from him. He was shot during one battle - through and through. My grandmother and her family had the vest he was wearing when he was shot, with the bullet hole in each side. At some point, they had a house fire and his uniform stuff were some of the things that were destroyed. We had some civil war muskets that one of my brothers had, but his house was broken into decades ago and those were among the weapons stolen (he was a hunter and firearms collector, so he had a lot). All we have left is the saber that he used during the war. Another one of my brothers still has that above his fireplace. Sucks that we lost so much great history over the years.
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