Games played at School Wargames clubs in the late 70s
David Seddon
United Kingdom
Congleton
Cheshire
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You may have played these at a school or other club in the late 70s, or maybe you played some others that could be added to the list.
My school was in Southport, near Liverpool, UK. We met several times a week, first in a science lab (dodge the built in bunsen burners) and then in an ordinary classroom.
As well as these games, a lot of miniatures got played (mainly 300th scale tanks and 1/3000th scale ships) with various rules. We also played a game called en-guarde (not the one on the list). This was set in medieval times and you got to be anything from a peasant to a prince at the start. You went around gaining strength and skills through duels and such like. Eventually, if you were clever, even an artisan could take on a knight. In a duel, you had to do things like stab, lunge and parry, and these were crossed indexed for a result (sort of advanced Paper, scissors, stone)...great fun! All from a little rule book, a piece of paper and dice.
Happy memories! Go ahead and add yours.
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David Seddon
United Kingdom
Congleton
Cheshire
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This Quad got played a great deal. Many of the gamers in the club would play it from time to time.
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David Seddon
United Kingdom
Congleton
Cheshire
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This one was my favourite. I must have played it scores of times. With lunch-time being short, it was usually a battlecruiser skirmish. A very unusual wargame - no hexes or board, and it plays just like simplified miniatures.
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David Seddon
United Kingdom
Congleton
Cheshire
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Loads of people played this. I had one or two goes at it and thought it was ok, but it was never a favourite for me. The balloon-busting is fun, though.
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Board Game: Midway
[Average Rating:6.52 Overall Rank:1390]
David Seddon
United Kingdom
Congleton
Cheshire
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What can you say? A classic and not too difficult to play over two lunch-times, if you record the positions of the pieces in-between.
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David Seddon
United Kingdom
Congleton
Cheshire
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A really good game and not too hard to play over a few days.
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David Seddon
United Kingdom
Congleton
Cheshire
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No-one played this at my school, but a friend says that they played it a lot at his and he has recently introduced me to it. Boy, was I was missing a lot! This is a great game. Easy and fun, and I like the card mechanism.
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David Seddon
United Kingdom
Congleton
Cheshire
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A really good one, that I didn't play too often, but saw a lot of others playing it.
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David Seddon
United Kingdom
Congleton
Cheshire
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Ah, one of the PRESTAGS series. I played this a few times, but I don't remember much apart from the fact that it was good and that there were some elephants that didn't behave, which got the whole room laughing. I recently acquired this for myself.
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David Seddon
United Kingdom
Congleton
Cheshire
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This is not too bad to play quickly.
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Board Game: Sinai
[Average Rating:6.03 Overall Rank:3789]
David Seddon
United Kingdom
Congleton
Cheshire
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Lots of folks played this too. I played it once in a while.
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David Seddon
United Kingdom
Congleton
Cheshire
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Another that got a lot of plays. I think there was a whole group of folks who played this and not much else.
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David Seddon
United Kingdom
Congleton
Cheshire
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I brought this in a few times. The beauty of it is that you can fight small battles over a a lunch-time quite easily.
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I've never seen a flying hogfish. I saw one gliding once, but never flying, not actually flying.
United Kingdom
Tyne & Wear
Tyne & Wear
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Wow, the first game I ever played, albeit in the early 80's. A group of us used to get together every lunchtime at our school in Durham (UK). One of the art teachers was a keen game player and had enough of a collection to keep us all going until we convinced our parents to buy us some games.
Of course, after that I got a copy of Traveller and ran RPG sessions for a while, but Kingmaker was my #1.
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Robert Wesley
Nepal
Aberdeen
Washington
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I didn't get to play THIS, but I did observe some Students playing IT in the Library one time, around late 1975.
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Iain K
United States
Arvada
Colorado
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Might have been the first board wargame I ever played. The amazing thing . . . I checked it out of my local library.
Just seeing the game board in this photo brings back memories . .
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Matthew Frederick
United States
Phoenix
Arizona
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This is just about the only one we played. Time and time again.
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Derek H
South Africa
Durban
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For us, this was *the* game that took up all our lunchtimes. I remember making little square plastic boards with the "grid" version of the provinces on them, along with little plastic markers stuck on with "Prestik", so you'd have the whole game in your pocket for instant discussion. Helped pass many an otherwise boring lesson!
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Andrew Wright
United States
North Andover
Massachusetts
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This game and Terrible Swift Sword represented the zenith of our multi-player efforts during high school. I am not sure the French ever won, but it was a very rewarding experience. In college, we graduated to Napoleon at Leipzig for those three day marathons.
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Bill Wood
United States
Eden
North Carolina
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Favorite lunch time wargame at Bayside High School in Va Beach. Could play it at the cafeteria table, and we did!
However, its not quite late 70s it was 1981 and 1982.
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Board Game: Ogre
[Average Rating:6.87 Overall Rank:586]
James Hamilton
United Kingdom
Stockport
Cheshire
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A game I played a lot at school. Not that many times at the wargames club as I generally played miniatures (WWII 1/72nd scale and Napoleonics) but I got in lots of games of this in study periods
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Lawrence Hung
Hong-Kong
Wan Chai
Hong Kong
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The original game is so fun and pure. Just race the car and shoot! We were so simple back in those days.
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I did manage to get in some "gamings" of this particular one, while it also involved my very first 'distaste' OF "cheating" on my opponent's part as well! Afterwards, I insisted upon "recorded" MOVES-(in 'PEN-ink' no less, as there wasn't "erasible" kinds at the time), or else I'd stick with NON-"hidden" movement types for "gamings" with "the CHEATER"! HE t`weren't so "lucky" after this either, ha HA!
Avon Lake
Ohio
Congleton
Cheshire
Seastrike is cool. My friend has built some extra ships too - aircraft carriers etc. What did you build? I am very interested in that because we've talked about adding some more ships for the next time we play. You should scan some and add them to the images for the game here.
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