Games that changed your life? Sure, there is one!

[Nightbomber]

I wonder what would be your answer...

https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/2...64#item6910464

[flash]

Pretty much the same as that Andy !

[Guntruck]

Other than Wings of War/Glory, Leading Edge ‘Aliens’ game. Scaled it up to 1/35 scale, made some 3D scenery and won best participation game at Salute and a couple of other shows.

[Nightbomber]

Other than Wings of War/Glory, Leading Edge ‘Aliens’ game. Scaled it up to 1/35 scale, made some 3D scenery and won best participation game at Salute and a couple of other shows.

Any photos available, Steve?

[Jager]

I'll have to go with you, Andrzej. While I've played a lot of games, and had good friends as a result, nothing is like the change I had here.

Karl

[Hedeby]

Nicely put Andy... for me two massive life changers.. D&D in my younger days gave me the friends I still have and game with now even though we are all now parents (and grandparents), the second is our very own Wings of War, ever since meeting Rob and Chris at Triples some seven years ago my life has changed for the better, so many new friends all over Europe and stretching all the way across the Atlantic. It’s been brilliant... long may it continue

[BobP]

When I was in Okinawa the big game was D&D but I never played. There was another group of us that did Rune Quest. The board game we played was AH's Air Force and the other was System 7. When we got off our Mid shift and went on break it would be a 2 day gaming session. Lots of fun and memories.

[OldGuy59]

Andy,
I've added to your comment on BGG. Yup. WoG and its spin-offs have changed my life. Certainly motivated me to journey far more miles than any other thing, except the Military, and perhaps my family.

[Naharaht]

I would have to say chess first because of the time I spent playing the game, studying it and running chess clubs.

[Teaticket]

I've added to Andy's BGG comment. This is definitely a life changer for me. I have quite a few games/systems that are a big part of my gaming life that have brought in new friends but none to the extent Wings has.

[Guntruck]

Any photos available, Steve?

Sorry Andrzej, I haven’t got any pics of the game, it was over 20 years ago. However, I might have pics after next year’s Salute show - we are doing it all over again with Prodos figures and the original Leading Edge rules (or Gale Force 9 rules when they come out shortly, if we like the look of them).

[Flying Helmut]

AD&D, then "Wings"

[gully_raker]

Although Warhammer 40K was the first wargame I ever played, I never got involved with the 40K community to the extent I have with WINGS.
40K came about due to my pre teen grandchildren playing it at a Police Boys Club & getting me to paint some of their figures.
When one of our Games Club members brought along Wings models I was hooked as I had been a keen reader of WW1 Aero history for many, many years.

[Angiolillo]

Thanks so much for all your remembrances, and thanks a lot to Andrzej for starting that! As you see, frindship and community are what really gives value to that little game, and as I often say its your merit.

By the way, it changed my life too! Before it, there were at least WRG Ancient Battles (WRG), Napoleon at Waterloo (SPI) and Dungeons & Dragons. Without them there would have been no Wings of War/Glory.

[Boreas]

I used to have a bunch of friends with whom I played wargames & RPGs - we played a myriad of cool games.
The 3 that stick in my mind the most are: Traveller & Arduin Grimoire - both RPGs... & a WW1 aircraft wargame,
which I can't remember the name of. We used 1/72 model planes mounted on wire, attached to a dowel rod.
The dowel had altitudes marked. We had to write our moves & then out came the rulers & turn circles.
Such a FUN game - I LOVED it as a 15 year old... So much so that I now have about 30 unmade WW1 aircraft
that I've bought in the years since - meaning to build them all & put them in a display case. (Probably a project
too far...)

[Biggles downunder]

Ariel games Kingmaker and then Avalon Hill’s Red Baron started my table top gaming but a chance purchase of Wings of War Famous Aces just blew my mind away! I still have the original box on my shelf right alongside my (large) collection of miniatures.

[Flying Officer Kyte]

Not so much a game but a book. "Napoleonic Wargaming" by the late Charles Grant. This was the first time I had come across Wargaming with rules. It was the pivotal point in my life with regard to my choice of hobbies. Probably almost the last time I ever played a game of chess.

Rob.

[Baxter]

For me it was Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator I. Through talking and meeting people playing that game, I became a world traveller with an interest in all aviation related things. Board games came much later.

[Mike George]

Going way back it was MB "Dogfight"

[Marechallannes]

Hero Quest & Space Quest - those two games were the basement of my boardgame love.

MB Shogun and MB Axis & Allies made me a strategic boardgamer and the foundation of my gaming group in early 2008.

Wings of War that brought me to this great community changed my life definitely.

[KhakiWings]

For me Risk and D and D miniatures.

[flash]

Spacehulk was a big influence on me & my son as it got us gaming together and eventually got him into gaming with his mates - we all still play today if we can get the time together.

[Dawn Patrol]

Went on to work as a designer/producer/artist (sometimes all three) on Bard’s Tale III, Wasteland, Star Trek 25th Anniversary and Judgment Rites, Battle Chess, and Heroes of Might & Magic I and II (plus many more). All because the original D&D rules (I still have the first edition set shown - that’s the real thing in all its beat up glory) were so incomplete I came up with my own system that I could show at a job interview with Interplay.

[Hedeby]

Wow don’t think I have ever seen such a historic set of the D&D rules... a real collectors item

[Dan-Sam]

Wings are definitely the winner - it forced me to step out of my usual social bubble to another one, quite impressive and more adult one. Especially out Central European group changed my mind about Germans, Poles and Serbs
When I'm thinking about evacuation due to fire in my flat, the thing that makes me crazy is I have more bags with WoG then hands...

And don't forget: it is always necessarry to have a good wingman

[Nightbomber]

Wings are definitely the winner - it forced me to step out of my usual social bubble to another one, quite impressive and more adult one. Especially out Central European group changed my mind about Germans, Poles and Serbs
When I'm thinking about evacuation due to fire in my flat, the thing that makes me crazy is I have more bags with WoG then hands...

And don't forget: it is always necessarry to have a good wingman

[milcoll73]

for actual life changing games id have to choose 3. dungeons and dragons because it introduced me to games more sophisticated then monopoly. battletech, because its the game that got me into games other then roll playing in a big way. and, of course wings of glory because its basically been my obsession for the last 6 years.

[Stumptonian]

For me I would have to start with the ACW rules that got into wargaming - a slippery slope that started 51 years ago this summer.
Played a lot of different games over the years, some more than others (including WW II, first with 1/72 and then microarmour both using homemade rules)
Quite a few packaged games from Avalon Hill (especially Squad Leader series and Richtofen's War) and the Milton-Bradley Axis & Allies / Shogun / Fortress America / Conquest of the Empire ​which were all good 'beer and pretzels' games as long as you had the full complement of players.
< I take that last one back. Conquest of the Empire never really worked >

But Wings of Glory has usurped everything else over the last 4 years (5 if you count when I was just buying and not playing anything)
The camaraderie of this site is second-to-none.

I hope to actually meet some of you someday.

[Nightbomber]

For me I would have to start with the ACW rules that got into wargaming - a slippery slope that started 51 years ago this summer.
Played a lot of different games over the years, some more than others (including WW II, first with 1/72 and then microarmour both using homemade rules)
Quite a few packaged games from Avalon Hill (especially Squad Leader series and Richtofen's War) and the Milton-Bradley Axis & Allies / Shogun / Fortress America / Conquest of the Empire ​which were all good 'beer and pretzels' games as long as you had the full complement of players.
< I take that last one back. Conquest of the Empire never really worked >

But Wings of Glory has usurped everything else over the last 4 years (5 if you count when I was just buying and not playing anything)
The camaraderie of this site is second-to-none.

I hope to actually meet some of you someday.

Although in this part of the world that kind of hobby became popular much later than in America, it seems we went down the same lane (of games). My first boardgames in the 80-ies were Talisman and Panzer Leader (in college times). The latter my buddy and me played "to death", so to say.

[Jager]

Although in this part of the world that kind of hobby became popular much later than in America, it seems we went down the same lane (of games). My first boardgames in the 80-ies were Talisman and Panzer Leader (in college times). The latter my buddy and me played "to death", so to say.

Yes! Division-level Panzer Leader. What better way to avoid college studies ( as I well knew )
Karl

[Dawn Patrol]

Yes! Division-level Panzer Leader. What better way to avoid college studies ( as I well knew )
Karl

Well, then all you Panzer Leader fans will be glad to know I taught Panzer Leader co-designer, Nick Smith, how to play Wings and Sails of Glory.

I shot him down, he sunk me.

[Hedeby]

Ooh nice anecdote there Bruce