What Kind of Gamer Am I?
I've been playing wargames since the early 70's ... 71? I worked my way through many of the early Avalon Hill and SPI designs in my youth. In the 80s I gravitated toward operational games from GDW and SPI. In the latter 90s and early 2000s I began playing numerous "theater wide" WW2 games online using ADC2, Cyberboard and eventually Vassal. Since then, I have increasingly been more drawn toward games from the gunpowder and ancient periods of warfare and history. Well over a decade ago I started playing face to face again, something not too easy in Denver Colorado. I find myself gravitating toward the earlier designs again. First this was in search of games that can be played in a single sitting, also, I have found that many of these older games still play very well. In fact, I increasingly prefer them even over most games of the twenty-first century. So much can be done well if done simply. I have always been fond of magazine games too. Their blemishes, incomplete...