Are you a Grognard?

[mcrow]

Grognard?

Yes, I am.

I have played ancients, modern, fantasy, sci-fi, WWII and many other war games.

As a side note:

I don't count prepainted mini games or main stream board games (Risk,Diplomacy, A&A and the like) toward gaining your Grognard stripes.

I like both RPGs and Minis War Games , but it seems wrong to me to mix the two (D&D).

 

[Ron]

I'm definitely a grognard. Although I've never played miniatures (even in RPGs) and started with the Molday's basic D&D box, my first love always was board wargames. I have a few of them myself and, although I still play them from time to time, I wish I could do it more.

 

[Greylock]

I started with Squad Leader, Panzer Leader, Diplomacy, and Feudal. The railroad tycoon thing, too. Formed a club for playing those at my high school. Ran some mini-conventions. After the second year or so the kids started asking for DnD tables at those cons. Hell NO I said. DnDers were the worst sort.

Then my best friend conned me into a game. Been playing DnD ever since.

Guess that makes me a grognard.

hth

 

[billd91]

Am I a grognard? Hey, them Advanced Squad Leader chits ain't arranged so neatly into those Plano boxes for show! I just don't get to play very often.

 

[RFisher]

No, I am not a grognard.

My dad & I would play Avalon Hill games: Kingmaker, Starship Troopers, Magic Realm. We had Star Fleet Battles too.

But I never played miniatures on a sand table.

(Although I have regularly played a couple of skirmish wargames disguised as role playing games. (^_~))

 

[Hedgehog]

I started with Squad Leader, Panzer Leader, Diplomacy, and Feudal. The railroad tycoon thing, too.

Oh my...I almost forgot about Feudal. My friends and I came up with a version we called simply "dice Feudal". We played with 10 siders and rather than use the chess-like rules for landing on a piece to eliminate it, we used opposed rolls to see who won. We had a list of situational modifiers (e.g. cavalry charging pikemen from the front, +2 to the pikers). We ended up combining 2 or 3 games for massive battles.

Hours and hours of fun. We turned it into a poor-man's historical miniatures game

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

I don't really consider myself a grognard, though technically I might possibly be called one depending on how many/how much tabletop wargames and board games with gajillions of cardboard counters you think you have to have played to qualify. I have played one or two games that grognards are known to play, but only for short periods or even one-shots. E.g., I never bought any micro-armor but I helped design and build the terrain for a table and played very badly a few times. I might have kept up with it if my friends hadn't gotten bored with it. Played some War of the Ring. Of course there was always Risk, Diplomacy, Supremacy, Fortress America and Axis & Allies and the like but those kind of board games I don't think make you a Grognard. Still, as time advances the cutoff for what makes you "Old Guard" or Grognard must similarly advance, yes? So maybe I do really qualify. I've been playing D&D since 1977 so at least in terms of RPG's that must make me a grognard.

 

[Mark]

Since my earlier posting in this thread I have had the opportunities to try out both Star Fleet Battles (Thanks, Hedgehog!) and 7 Ages. In STB, my Fed ship acquitted itself quite well in a free-for-all by trouncing a Romulan ship while the Klingons, and two other races kept one another occupied. I only had the chance to play through the first of seven ages but it seemed like a fun game, much like the original civilization board game, but requiring a lot more aggression.

 

[jokamachi]

I recreated aerial, sea, and land battles with whatever armymen/models that were available to me as a kid. My brother and I had all kinds of crazy rules for the completion of such battles, so yeah, I think I qualify.

I also bought the D&D basic set when it came out.

 

[The Shaman]

Okay, fellow grognards, who's played Crossfire? Any good?