Reddog Wrote:That sure brings back great memories reading the posts from Mike and Pip. Mike you had mentioned the game "War At Sea", was that the one with the real large map with Midway positioned somewhere near the middle? That was a great game playing head-to-head with another wargame fanatic but trying to keep all the board pieces undisturbed during the week.
My continued trip down "memory lane"... :cool:
Red Dog reminds me of another funny (fond?) experience I had with wargames. It was back in my college days and I was playing a buddy of mine a SPI game on one of those infamous paper mapboards. Remember how the folded map creases always seemed to overlay an important map objective and you could never get your counter stack to sit correctly? :chin: Anyway, it was a hot day and we had the board set-up on a desk near an open window. My roommate opened our dorm door and a wonderful cross breeze begain blowing through the stuffy room. This "wonderful" breeze also got up under the paper mapboard and lifted it up. For several seconds, the mapboard with counters hovered a few inches off the desk surface - like a magic flying carpet!
Then the counters shifted and slid, causing our entire campaign to be unceremoniously dumped into a confused heap back on the desk!
This incident necessitated a halt to our hostilities... so we called a truce and ordered pizza!
Funny stuff!
Regards, Mike / "A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." - George S. Patton /
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