I've always had a thing about German armor of WWII, I used to have many models and diorama's when I was young sadly over the years they got lost in moves or broken but I still have a 1:16 scale remote control tiger that fires little yellow plastic projectiles and a little die cast metal panther and King tiger on my desk by the computer to inspire me as I play.
I was a avid player of Axis and Allies and Avalon hills, Rise and decline of third Reich and also Gettysburg and a few other counter and chip games but I never really got into Panzer blitz, Squad Leader, or ASL for some reason but was doing a lot of ADD at time.
My first computer was a ZX spectrum in the 1980's and played RT Smiths games of Battle of the Bulge, Arnhem and Vulcan.
Got my first pc in the mid 1990's and dabbled with quite a few games mostly the first panzer general and the computer version of third Reich both of which I played to death many times over.
Then when PGII was just about to come out 1997 I saw an advert for a game called East Front, I had messed around with JT bulge and civil war games a few years before but hadn't quite clicked with them for some reason but this game looked and felt different so I took and chance, got it and was hooked, it has a lot to answer for as I have been playing it's successors ever since.
Like most I started against the AI but after a year or so it started to wain and lose it's luster but in 2000 I joined the frontline pbem club when it started and was hooked afresh and have been playing ever since sadly the frontline club has now gone although I think a few of the old crew are on here. (I went under the name von Helsing and did the handing out of the uniforms and medals for a while you can still see my old uniform page here:
http://www.vampire-bat.co.uk/panzer/uniform/lt108.htm ).
I also did some pages about German division deployments that are still knocking about on the web :
http://www.vampire-bat.co.uk/panzer/Panz...isions.htm
I joined the Blitz club in 2008 after being invited by my good friend and long term sparing partner on the frontline Boisforas.
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