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[Big Ivan]

Blitzers

Cut my teeth on Panzerblitz and Jutland back in 1970. Use to setup my Jutland games on the pool table in the basement but found that the scale as provided with the game was not realistic so I made the turn and range template as suggested in the game to real scale and graduated to the basement floor! Blasted the hell out of the High Seas Fleet and Grand Fleet many many times!!

AS for Panzerblitz it was the soul silouette of the Mk-IV that caught my eye and I was hooked since then. Read the rules and played a couple of scenarios against myself. I then told a buddy of mine in Cleveland, OH about the game and he said, lets try it. He was on cloud 9 after our first encounter and we played every scenario in the game at least 8 times I think!! Then much to our chagrin in early '74 I think, PanzerLeader came out!

You thought it was the second coming of the Lord Almighty!! We use to stay up all night playing that game. Eventually we added a couple of friends and 20+ sets of PanzerLeader maps and counters and even interchanged the counters and maps from Panzerblitz for these monumental macrogames on divisional and corps level over months that would quite frankly rip the heart out of any ordinary man! This was circa 1975/76!
From there garduated to SL and ASL which are excellent in their own rite but still a cumbersome board game with counters and house cats that knock them over. Bummer!

But in '98 or '99 EF by Talonsoft on the computer came out and I never looked back to board wargames. "all the fun on an electronic box, quick, convienent and compact at my fingertips, awesome! Truely awesome!!

God help me I do love Wargaming! I do love it so!

Ivan the Big:smoke2::smoke: