When and where was your first game?

[don_riggins]

hey strangers, my first a&a huh? well unlike yall that didnt know much about the specifics of ww2, ive studied it for about gaa 7 yrs i guess it makes now, almost 8. but when i was 12 i already knew bits and pieces like who the powers were, why each country was fighting and a brief description of the leaders.

passing by a gaming store i saw a&a and was intrigued bc i had studied war for about 2 yrs then and wanted to get it. but i looked down at the price tag and if i remember right it was 50$. so u know how thats like a zillion dollars to a 12 yr old so i scraped and scrounged finally making enough money and bought it. i didnt fully understand the rules at the time but thats ok, i realized i didnt have anyone to play w/ so it collected dust for a yr. :D

then one day passing by i got a&a for the comp finally. so i brought it home and installed it and the first time i played as germany. got raped sooo badly it wasnt even funny. :( i held out for like 10 turns building solid infantry but yeah i died and japan almost took over the us and russia. us had this thing about where they never defended home :wink:

but yeah now im 19 and know more about ww2 then yall know about ur own families and good at a&a:D, hope so after studying it for 10 yrs almost :wink:

[TG Moses VI]

Seems like you started out of the computer? Were you able to introduce A&A to any of your other friends?

Well I didn’t starting studying WWII (in depth) until at least 8th grade. Before then I was much more interested with modern warfare with tactics and weaponry. To me, WWII was some antique war that was wayyyy over hyped. When my parents took me to Pearl Harbor when I was 12, I had paid no attention whatsoever to any monuments like the USS Arizona. Looks like I could never be so completely wrong in my life.

[dezrtfish]

@don_riggins:

well unlike yall that didnt know much about the specifics of ww2, ive studied it for about gaa 7 yrs i guess it makes now, almost 8. but when i was 12 i already knew bits and pieces like who the powers were, why each country was fighting and a brief description of the leaders. …

…but yeah now im 19 and know more about ww2 then yall know about ur own families and good at a&a:D, hope so after studying it for 10 yrs almost :wink:

I had those Ideas when you were still having nap time in pre-school. ;)

My first game of A&A was 16 years ago. I’ve studied WWII quite a bit since then. :) Like I said it was a long long time ago.

[don_riggins]

nah the name got me :lol: ive always been asocial so never had any friends and the people i ‘talked to’ they liked chess so i got into that really hard and got really good but they never wanted to learn a&a. one of the best high schoolers in the state :D

yeah ww2 was one of the pivotal wars in human evolution whether people admit it or not, showed us how low people can stoop to get what they want.
good example is the beer hall peutsch of 1932 if i remember right, somewhere around there. ww2 really is a fascinating subject to study, i pref it to the new junk :D im old school :P

but hey i had a fun preschool :wink: :wink: yeah just bc uve had more yrs under the belt doesnt mean nothing :) i could take ya at ww2 8)

[TG Moses VI]

I dunno. :roll: The only problem is that history isn’t like math or science or english. History comes with experience. I know people who are smarter (SAT’s blah blah blah…) than me age wise, but when it comes to history, it’s easy to outrace them. Remember, there’s straight hard facts (ie who was president in so-and-so, what happen in so-and-so) and the little, more subtle facts (why did Hitler’s chauffer drive backwards, famous WW2 weapons). And the little known facts take time to learn – years. Unless you study WW2 day and night, it’s hard to catch up to 10+ years.

[Chris]

Beer Hall Putsch was in 1923, friend! But maybe that’s what you meant to type…1932, 1923 —a dangerous mistake to make :o

[don_riggins]

yeah thoughht i put that :o was like half asleep at the time anyways so the simple fact i said it was in the 20th century is a miracle beyond itself :P

[dezrtfish]

I realy don’t want to argue somthing as silly as who knows more about what. From what you write we actualy sound some what similar, even though your still a pup ;) I prefer my own company but this is exactly the reason I could never get better at chess, I could never find any one to play.

On of the reasons I come to this site is for the WWII discussions. When a group of people start to discuss a topic that all have studied and are interested in there is always something to learn. I am fairly certain I will never know everything about war but it is fun to try:)

It is apperent that you have just read or heard something about the Beer Hall Putsch and are dieing to enlighten us all so why don’t you go over to the general discution forum and do so?

[TG Moses VI]

Yeah, it’s impossible to know everything at war. Take A&A. Thirty years later, it’s still being discussed and new strategies are being made to “perfect” their technique. That’s what makes your very first game so important – it’s a long term investment

[Guest]

^_^ i agree from the lil pup :wink:

[bangalore]

My first game was with a “young men’s group” kind of a Boy Scouts thing we had at church. We studied teamwork and general strategy and stuff. The “Scoutmaster” brought A&A once and we had a blast! He made a compilation of classical war music and brought it too. (“Mars” “Imperial Death March” and others.) That really gets you going you ought to try it! I was hooked.

[TG Moses VI]

Ha, haven’t seen you for awhile. :wink:

Teaching tactical war history at church!? Isn’t this like forbidden or something?

[bangalore]

I forgot my password and was running around on the keyboard like a chicken with it’s head cut off until I decided to check that email thing that you get when you first start your account. :oops: Anyway, I’m back.

It is not your typical church, and besides, it wasn’t actually during church… I guess it does sound strange, we had fun though! :D

[dezrtfish]

I belive military topics are quite popular in some religons, the mormons for one. At least that is what I understand.

[TG Moses VI]

Nah, I was just teasing about the the church stuff. It’s just that most religions are like, “fighting is wrong!” :wink:

Anyways Bang, great ta have ya back. :roll:

[bangalore]

It really ticks me off when Christians say that war is wrong. I agree that many wars are wrong, started for stupid reasons by stupid people, but there does come a time when “right” must be upheld against the “wrong”. A lot of times it comes down to a moral decision, and if the Church was doing it’s job we wouldn’t take a whole lot of time deciding!

[TG Moses VI]

Ha, it just depends what religion is more “right” to make moral decisions. However, there are sometimes war is inevitable and can’t just sit around and condone what is going on.

[EmuGod]

@bangalore:

It really ticks me off when Christians say that war is wrong. I agree that many wars are wrong, started for stupid reasons by stupid people, but there does come a time when “right” must be upheld against the “wrong”. A lot of times it comes down to a moral decision, and if the Church was doing it’s job we wouldn’t take a whole lot of time deciding!

The Roman Catholic Church is a very hypocritical body. It claims that war is wrong and that killing is wrong yet it let millions of Jews die in Hitler’s gas chambers and in history it always supported the attacks on Jews. The Church is very hyproctritical and very corrupt. A good book for anyone who wants to know about The Roman Catholic Church during World War 2 is Hitler’s Pope.

Another interesting history topic is Jewish history. It’s very long and very sad, but very interesting too.

Now I will talk about my first game of Axis and Allies. It happened a few months ago, actually. It was when I was studying World War 2 in school that my friend burned me a copy of the game and I’ve been playing since. I had seen it and learned about how it worked before but I didnt actually play it for myself until I got the game. I played as Japan first and didnt do too well. Once Germany fell, I was quickly defeated, but it was a good game. In a few days I began to do much better at it and in my frist game as Great Britain, I won. That was on hard mode. Since then I’ve been working to improve my strategies.

[TG Moses VI]

Well the issue on the Pope during WWII (what was his name again?) is still hotly debated even today. Some people say the Pope did all he could without raising Hitler’s wrath.

Oh, so you’re still a rookie, eh? It’s intresting to see people new to the game and how they react to it.

PS: Burning games is wrong! :evil: Go restore your dignity by buying the board game! That’s what all the good A&A player have. :roll:

[3rdOct.Tom_Paris]

Grew up in a small town called Cotulla, Texas and two guys one an elder at my church and the other a English Teacher played this board game and I always wanted to know what took so damn long. So asked to join and of course at that age I didnt even really appreciate the game… now I love the classic battle. Played online for a year or so and now im back. Once someone answer my post about how to fix game… hehe

Lee

btw the two men were Bill Cotulla and Michael Beyers