Old Question - New Group

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My older brother, Mike (General Lee Ensayne), and I first started wargames with Avalon Hill's Gettysburgh. I remember the two of us wishing there were a way to play it and have all the pieces move automatically. Same thing with Strat-o-Matic Hockey. We actually played the entire 1977-78 season and kept stats. What idiots. I think we finished in just under 10 years. The Islanders won, those b*stards.

In the mid-nineties or so we discovered a PBEM game about the US Civil War from Sierra games. It was pretty good, but would mysteriously bomb and corrupt the games. Sierra's support was typically bad, so we gave up.

Then, near one Christmas in the late 90's we found Talonsoft's East Front II. Just East Front II, wasn't even the whole series (that came later). We started playing each scenario in order. My brother, as always, kept stats. We found a couple of friends to join in, then found warfareHQ.com (now gamesquad.com) and started playing others. I was known over there as Gnrl Confusion, since that site had a limitation on username characters. We added WF and RS and are still working on playing all the stock scenarios. Not sure why anymore, but since we started, well...

When the owner of Gamesquad stopped giving CS much support, we found the Blitz. Mike doesn't come around much, but you might still bump into him in the odd tournament.

That's pretty much it.

Dave