Tango01 | 19 Oct 2018 11:57 a.m. PST |
In my case … history and TV books as a child …. and as an adult …. history and tv books …. Amicalement Armand |
14Bore | 19 Oct 2018 12:04 p.m. PST |
Always a history buff and played war board games but miniatures started with D&D, some months later say a massive Napoleonic wargame and that was the start. |
JimSelzer | 19 Oct 2018 12:08 p.m. PST |
1st bought Tactics II from local pharmacy and then a friend came by with this cool new game where you played guys like the characters from the Lord of the Rings(D&D) 43 years later here I am on TMP |
Vigilant | 19 Oct 2018 1:11 p.m. PST |
Always interested in history and model making from my dad. Wargaming came from there using Airfix figures. Really got organised when I went to university in the late 70s and got into D&D and Traveller. |
Legion 4 | 19 Oct 2018 1:23 p.m. PST |
I like to play with toys and roll dice … |
PJ ONeill | 19 Oct 2018 1:56 p.m. PST |
I was a board-gamer until I saw Johnny Reb I, then I started with miniatures. |
Timmo uk | 19 Oct 2018 2:04 p.m. PST |
Films primarily, that got me into model making and a friend at school introduced me to wargaming. That gave a purpose to the model making and that was it I was hooked. |
chasseur | 19 Oct 2018 2:11 p.m. PST |
That's an interesting question. I have always had an interest in military history though I've never had an interest in serving in the military (of course the two don't have to walk hand-in-hand). While in junior high in the 70s, I visited an elementary school teacher that I knew and found out that he played SPI games. I sat in on a session and though I didn't fully understand what was going on, I was hooked. He gave me several of his SPI magazine games that he didn't want and I cut my teeth on games like Kampfpanzer and RAID. Then I moved onto Avalon Hill games. Ah, the days when they were available in the local toy store. In high school, I went through a period when I didn't play on moral grounds. I read Brazen Chariots and that rekindled my interest in gaming and so I bought AH's Tobruk. That led to playing MBT. In fact, it was the small section in the MBT rule book that discussed playing the game using GHQ miniatures and GeoHex terrain that moved me from board games to miniatures. My first miniature game was Napoleon's Battles using Adler 6mm miniatures. I was such a neophyte that I painted an entire regiment of French lancers with pink coats because I didn't realize that only the trumpeter had reversed colors! LOL For many years, I played just microarmor and 6mm Nappies, until the LOTR game came out from GW. From there the dam burst and now I play almost all genres. I know this was much more information than was asked for, but the topic just got me thinking about something that I had never really thought about. |
ZULUPAUL | 19 Oct 2018 2:20 p.m. PST |
Long intertest in history, played some AH boardgames & as a kid had Airfix ho/oo scale figure that I played with. |
FusilierDan | 19 Oct 2018 2:54 p.m. PST |
Played with toy soldiers as a child, enjoyed history, bought Charge from Edward Hamilton, things just kept moving along. Sixty years later I'm answering a question I've been asked for decades on a typewriter attached to a TV screen connecting to others via some radio wave or something. |
JimSelzer | 19 Oct 2018 3:00 p.m. PST |
Airfix , Avalon Hill and Dungeons & Dragons are probably the gateway drugs for 90% of us |
Dn Jackson | 19 Oct 2018 3:42 p.m. PST |
My father's love of Civil War history is what got me interested. Found some Heritage zouaves at a hobby store and went from there. |
Weddier | 19 Oct 2018 4:11 p.m. PST |
I have always been a history buff, and I saw an article on wargaming in the Chicago Tribune Sunday magazine. I realized that wargaming had much of the same craft appeal of model railroading, which I was interested in, but took up much less space. Well, it did back then, but not so much today. |
Wolfhag | 19 Oct 2018 5:48 p.m. PST |
I wanted to learn tactics and strategy to take over a small South American country and make myself dictator. Wolfhag |
robert piepenbrink | 19 Oct 2018 6:11 p.m. PST |
Why the incredibly high pay, the chance to be on network television, and all the cheerleaders, of course. |
Oberlindes Sol LIC | 19 Oct 2018 7:25 p.m. PST |
Well, all the cool kids were doing it, obviously. |
Ragbones | 19 Oct 2018 7:45 p.m. PST |
I grew up around a lot of veterans of WWII and Korea. It sparked an interest in military history. Played with Marx playsets, then Airfix HO figures, than discovered AH and SPI board games and Der Kriegspeilers figures. My mother related a story that when I was in the 2nd grade I got in trouble for reading Walter Lord's, "Day of Infamy," about Pearl Harbor, instead of the 2nd grade primer featuring Dick and Jane and Spot. The teacher said I was going to grow up "a little Hitler." Mom said she straightened the teacher out ‘right quick.' |
Rudysnelson | 19 Oct 2018 8:41 p.m. PST |
I have always enjoyed the study of military science and history. |
Patrick R | 20 Oct 2018 6:53 a.m. PST |
My mom buying a Matchbox Spitfire kit for me. It was a magical thing. That and the Airfix gun emplacement followed a few years later by the ESCI battlefield sets that packed several kits together with a vac-formed battlefield. Once I became aware that people also played battles with their figures I was bound to go down that avenue. The local model shop ended up having Avalon Hill, Minifigs and RPG's. |
Wackmole9 | 20 Oct 2018 9:45 a.m. PST |
Having fun with my toy soldiers. |
Tango01 | 20 Oct 2018 11:23 a.m. PST |
Many thanks!. Amicalement Armand
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Frederick | 21 Oct 2018 9:27 a.m. PST |
Love history, love modeling, love gaming A trifecta Plus my dad bought me toy soldiers when I was a kid |
Tango01 | 21 Oct 2018 2:59 p.m. PST |
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goragrad | 21 Oct 2018 5:49 p.m. PST |
Toy soldiers for the win… One of the first toys I remember was a blue aircraft carrier from when I was about 4. My younger (363 days) brother had the red one. Soft plastic about a foot long with planes and the bridge superstructure with pegs that plugged into hole in the flight deck. The flight deck also had peg to hod it to the hull. Then there was the Fort Apache playset. And various toy soldiers acquired over the years. Neighbor had AH's Gettysburg and that was the intro to boardgames. Then college and a roommate with 1/1200 ships and Seapower as well as various S&T games. Of course all the while, from 3rd Grade at least, I had been reading history – particularly military history. |
ancientsgamer | 21 Oct 2018 6:42 p.m. PST |
History and loving toy soldiers first. Found out about relationship to Prussian royalty and having a Prussian artillery officer in my ancestry too. Then I saw Heritage 15mm figures at The Bunker in Copperas Cove when I was ten years old. Also bought Empire II hot off the presses. |
COL Scott ret | 21 Oct 2018 8:27 p.m. PST |
I wasn't allowed to play with toy soldiers or guns as a child, parents thought it would make me become a warrior (the 60's what can I say). When I was recovering from a dog attack my dad brought me home three boxes of Airfix Waterloo- I still use some of them when I organize games for youth. From there I found both Avalon Hill and CS Grant, eventually others as well. Btw my dad and myself were both history buffs so historicals were a natural. |
jefritrout | 23 Oct 2018 6:47 a.m. PST |
My dad read the Sports Illustrated article about Charlie Sweet. He then wrote to Mr. Sweet to inquire about wargaming. Since we were living in California at the time, he suggested that he travel down to Visalia to see Jack Scruby. As a five year old wandering into Scruby's Quonset hut, my breath was taken away by the table of soldiers on display. I received my first miniature that day. |
Aethelflaeda was framed | 23 Oct 2018 8:16 a.m. PST |
To play games with my dad. He had plenty of AH wargames. Miniatures came out of D&D later but WS&IM, Jutland and Bismarck were essentially mini games and became such. I even adapted Alexander as a mini game. |
etotheipi | 24 Oct 2018 5:52 a.m. PST |
Because I like wargaming? Though I have noticed that I did pick up on participating at the part of my career as an engineer when I stopped physically making stuff. Maybe I just gotta make stuff. That also coordinated with the phase of my life when I had the ability to keep ridiculously large amounts of stuff. |
wargamingUSA | 24 Oct 2018 9:38 a.m. PST |
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Jeffers | 25 Oct 2018 10:05 a.m. PST |
Timpo, Britains, Airfix, Victor, Battle, Warlord, Commando and Battle for Wargamers. A sort of evolution, all happily encouraged by my Dad. And war films! |
UshCha | 25 Oct 2018 10:53 a.m. PST |
From an early age read war comics and history. Featherstone's War games was key in getting even more keen. Have played with Screws for Napoleonic infantry and was fine. As I grew up the desire to play and understand more of what I read drives me ever on. Modeling does not drive me, its the game and the appreciation of the very basic drivers of battle that fascinate me. |
95th Division | 25 Oct 2018 12:11 p.m. PST |
I've always liked history, especially military history. Played with toy soldiers as a kid, transitioned to Avalon Hill board games in college and then discovered miniatures later on – have been hooked ever since. |