"7 Years War" Topic

I'm not talking about playing by email. I'm talking about wasting stamps, by gum!

I started out in wargaming with Avalon Hill boardgames back in the late 60s.
I subscribed to The General to find opponents.
So I played
Afrika Korps
Waterloo
Stalingrad
DDay
My favorite was Battle of the Bulge.
The CRT changed from a D6 to what was basically a D10 that depended on the daily newspaper (!) stock market results.

I also played Diplomacy for a few years.

I also played the Diplomacy variant Slobbovia. It was designed to be impossible to win! All accumulations of enough supply centers that reached critical mass simply blowed up real good.
It was basically a strategic level RPG, depending on press releases.

The poll is basically asking what games you played by mail.
"I never played by mail" is of course a valid answer."

Looking for French, Austrian, and a Hanoverian, and Hessian in 15mm. Currently using FreiKorps which are nice enough but I was wondering what alternatives are available. Prefer US distributors though. No offense to our British friends but I dislike converting pounds to dollars

Did strategic direction by mail in map and pins games, but my only experience with board games over distance was by telephone--and yes, we trusted each other with die rolls. The fun part came when we found out our editions of D-Day had slightly different maps.

Yes Webwar, Hyperboria, and Diplomacy but not any of the other AH games.

Africa Korps, Waterloo, Stalingrad and Anzio.

Yes, played a long campaign via mail with my first gaming buddy who went back home after college. A Dark Ages campaign with Elastolin Vikings and Normans, loads of fun.

I have never played a game by actual mail. I played Diplomacy by email once. It was both more and less fun than face-to-face. I played Traveller by email once, too. It was way less fun than face-to-face.

Yes, I played "Blue Max" and "Ironclads" games by mail with a good friend of mine back before e-mail was invented by Al Gore.

Chess and Diplomacy – though years ago with my father when he was on a different continent – before email

Did some campaign stuff by mail many years ago.

Diplomacy, Stalingrad, D Day, Blitzkrieg, Bulge.

I tried to get up some guys to do Diplomacy by mail once. No one was very interested. Imangine!

No

A "friend" always got people to turn on me in face to face Diplomacy by telling them that I played by mail.
It worked.

I played Europa by mail by in the late 80s

I played Diplomacy by mail for several years, in games moderated by Allan Calhamer himself. I remember a pleasant afternoon's chat one day when he visited my apartment in Tampa.

I also tried some of the Avalon Hill games like Afrika Korps, but never got too many turns completed before they bogged down.

Rick

Miniature wargames by mail ? Yes, as player, and yes as Umpire as well.

Also D&D by post.

Loved getting the letters.

For 4-5 years in the early 90's I created a series of play-by-mail games that I ran for 4-5 of my gaming friends who had scattered across the country. It was a lot of fun, but a lot of work. I remember having to color-in the maps using colored pencils to show who controlled which sections.

Fight in the Skies was famous for PBM games in the 70's and 80's now they play on line
I also played Hyborean Age and Star Trek by mail and was not happy with either

Yup. Ran a couple of games of Diplomacy by mail in the late 80's.

ASL took awhile to play and you had to trust your opponent to not look. I played a couple of games and really enjoyed it.

Apologies if this story has been told here before but Dad and Brigadier Peter Young carried on an extensive Napoleonic campaign via postcards with battle maps in the very early 1960's. They would respond to each other's move and also comment on troops when space allowed. This went on for several months until one day a United States Postal inspector showed up at our house to question Dad. When Dad saw that his explanations of miniature wargames was getting nowhere, he took the guy up into our attic, where there just happened to be a Napoleonic game set up on the 5' x 10' table. Dad and his guest remained there for several hours, moving troops until the inspector had to reluctantly leave.

Dad and "Pete" (as he told Dad to call him) had several laughs about this as they continued their campaign via postcard. I don't think Brigadier Young ever had to deal with the postal authorities…..

Yes, did Afrika Corps and D-Day as PBM plus one game of Diplomacy.

Got involved in the first PBM of Drang Nach Osten back in the 80's like jefritrout above. Only managed to get three movees in before life and an assignment to AbuDhabi stopped that dead.

It was a strange way of gaming relying upon the postman and two week deadlines.

Nope – just email

I have in the past but the other players would always quit, usually the moment they thought they had lost. Several because they had fights with their spouses over leaving the maps set up.

A few times, long ago

Yes , last century.

Gettysburg '64

Just email and even that was slower then I like.

Yes, but only once, in the late 70s. I played a game of Air Force (Battleline) against a fellow in Michigan. We played a Battle of Britain scenario (I was the Hun). Things did not go well for the valiant Few.

We also used the stock market sales data for die rolls and made contact through the General.

Played by Email – an Ancients campaign over the good old DBM-List

I never did- I'm too young.

However my dad did.

Splunge.

Tell me again what this has to do with the Seven Years War or is this the bug?