[ronson]

Hell I can remember that like yesterday , it was the Panzer Blitz by AH. Fantastic game played with little cardboard counters on a map made up of I think, 3 pieces, all the counters had pictures of the Tank or whatever on them.
I started playing it with a pal on Sunday afternoons (in those days the pubs used to shut at 2pm) when I was 16. We would play all afternoon until it was time to go dancing in the evening, sometimes even then getting so carried away and leaving some poor girl a 'Wargame Widow' for 1/2 hour .

Happy Memories

[slems]

squad leader in 1980 and all the series advanced squad leader...

the best wargame ever seen (tactical), still alive and with regular publishing and add-on until now !!!!
a game with a 25 years of life existence and not dead yet ! (more than 25, first publishing in 1978 or 1979, don't remember)

would CC do the same ????????????

[Ernie_M]

Silent Servce {1989)

A very good game for it's day

[Bordic]

Fort Apocalypse (the white helicopter flying underground!)
Beach Head
Raid over Moscow...

All on C64!

[Peter Gunn]

Desert Strike
on the super nintendo
classic shooter

[mooxe]

Actually I think Defender of the Crown was really my 1st wargame.

[Tikkas]

MMMHHH

My first ever PC strat game must have been V for Victory, Vignaluka;
Strange that no one has mentioned this game, it was a map with squares and units to be placed on top eachother.

Great game.

Of course I have the whole CC series and my first H2H was CC5 of course

[poli]

My first Wargame.. hmm er well Ill start the counting by the first 386 game i played H2H (over a serial port i believe) called Retaliator .
Basicallya jet fighter simulation.

The next H2H game i played was called Command HQ , a global war for the whole planet including Spy satalites and Nukes,which was great!

Then Of course CC3!

[mopa]

In order

Chess
stragetgo
Risk
Diplomacy
Squadleader
Bismark (many more after that... many more)

Then on computer

First war game????

Nucular B1 Bomber (TRash 80? AtarI?)
Hunt for Red october
SOme tank game ( i had a xt 386 at the time)

[pzjager]

The fantastic Panzer General

[Ranman38]

tactics II boardgame

On computer: Close Combat I

[Hayduke_C4]

I consider Romance of the Three Kingdoms (I think version 3) my first wargame, back on the Sega Genesis, circa 1990. That game was so innovative, I think it would still be a great game today.

My first computer wargame Close Combat I the day it was released (I worked at a computer store and plucked the first copy out of the box)

Panzer General was a completely amazing game, and my first strategic level wargame. I tried to take it to the next level with East Front II, but found controlling all the minutia quite dull.

Hearts of Iron was a great game, but after playing it for a couple months I kept thinking of what it lacked. HOI needed a more complex economic/political aspect. Developers could have learned some things from Romance of the Three Kingdoms!

[Atilla]

My first wargame...must have been some flight sim on the Atari.

The first real wargame...V for Victory, Gold Juno Sword...

[platoon_michael]

Atari
Yea I had Tank and the old biplane game(cant remember the name now)

[SG_Igor]

"Nether Earth"... that`s the name of my first computer (Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K) played strategy game. It was some kind of futuristic war between giant robots. First you had to assemble them, choosing armor, weapons, engine etc, then send to battle. Then came "Tobruk" (no need to describe it, right?). Year - 1985, I think

[JohnDee]

i played my first ever wargame on the second day after i got my Amiga, i had a whole bunch of disks with it but after discovering that one game called Cannon Fodder i didnt even bother to check what games were on the other disks. thats how good it was imo. played this game for hours and hours.
http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/game/60

another game I remember from the good ol' days is ''North and South'' from infrogames. man did i love this game.
http://www.bestoldgames.net/eng/old-games/north-and-south.php

[Kommander Barbarossa]

Risk was the first wargame I played. But for PC, the first was either Close Combat 3 or Red Alert.

[squadleader_id]

Squadleader of course...back in the early '80s .

[Polemarchos]

c-64:
Patriot (1988) + combat iraq (1991) + plus the most unethical and bad game ever made: holocaust manager (i think 1988)

amiga: all i ever got into my hands

pc:
shooter: Wolfenstein 3d (i had to throw up once , after playing until epilepsy kicked in)

strategy: same as panzerjäger.... Panzer General I

[US_NIXON]

CloseCombat 1 on a 4x86 PC running windows 4.1