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JLV · 03-10-2018, 01:47 PM

My brother and I were avid wargamers from about 1967 on. We played everything we could get our hands on. My brother accidentally picked up a copy of Empire of the Petal Throne in 1975, thinking it was a sort of fantasy wargame. Needless to say it wasn't, but once we sort of figured it out, we had a lot of fun with it. Shortly thereafter, we acquired a copy of the white box D&D, and played that for a while, but we were always annoyed by the combat system.

In 1977, I picked up a copy of Melee, by the same guy who had done Ogre (which we both enjoyed very much), and showed it to Jim. We had a group of high school friends that played wargames (Avalon Hill, SPI, a few indies), so we tried playing a few games. Everyone agreed this was "IT" as far as man-to-man combat went, and that was all she wrote -- we were off and running.

03-10-2018, 01:47 PM	#6
JLV Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Arizona	Re: The Obligatory “How Did You Get Started in TFT” Thread My brother and I were avid wargamers from about 1967 on. We played everything we could get our hands on. My brother accidentally picked up a copy of Empire of the Petal Throne in 1975, thinking it was a sort of fantasy wargame. Needless to say it wasn't, but once we sort of figured it out, we had a lot of fun with it. Shortly thereafter, we acquired a copy of the white box D&D, and played that for a while, but we were always annoyed by the combat system. In 1977, I picked up a copy of Melee, by the same guy who had done Ogre (which we both enjoyed very much), and showed it to Jim. We had a group of high school friends that played wargames (Avalon Hill, SPI, a few indies), so we tried playing a few games. Everyone agreed this was "IT" as far as man-to-man combat went, and that was all she wrote -- we were off and running.