Simplicity ain't so bad!

[Freightshaker]

It's not WW2 but Tactics II would be the simplest. Otherwise, The Russian Campaign, what a classic. Oh, and D-day from the Smithsonian collection.

[Whiterook]

Wasn't Tactics and Tactics II Avalon Hill games? Sounds familiar, but I'm too lazy tonight to Google it

[PatBC]

Originally Posted by Whiterook

Wasn't Tactics and Tactics II Avalon Hill games? Sounds familiar, but I'm too lazy tonight to Google it

Yes the Original wargames

[Tom Houlihan]

I played Tactics once. Then I bought Squad Leader back in 77(?). Talk about a learning curve!!

[PatBC]

Originally Posted by Tom Houlihan

I played Tactics once. Then I bought Squad Leader back in 77(?). Talk about a learning curve!!

[Jim O]

Showin' yer age again Houlihan...

[Tom Houlihan]

Originally Posted by Jim O

Showin' yer age again Houlihan...

No problem, I still ain't the oldest one here!!

[PatBC]

I had never seen Wargames until 78.

My first time playing Wargames was a game of the Russian Campaign while visiting a cousin that summer. After he beat me soundly I was hooked. We rushed to store after supper to see what other games there was. I walked out with AH 3rd Reich (and a blue box with D&D in it but that is different story). We taught each other the game, beating each other repeatedly over the next few weeks.

[Whiterook]

Hmmmm, if I have to be honest, the first wargame I ever played (an honest to goodness wargame) was about 1985. Someone I worked for brought in Avalon Hill's Panzer Blitz to work, which wwe played every day at lunch, and I was hooked. I went out to a hobby store near Boston and picked up Panzer Blitz and Panzer Leader not long after, and bought a few of that workmate's cast offs. I was off and running!