Thanks, i really enjoy your games and I spend a bit of time how I could play and use them the best way for me. I’ve seen some great ideas from others but they were mostly how if my artistic talent so to speak. I was very happy with what i came up with
@@privatewill68 I tend to play them straight in the book having stuck the counters to card. I’d love to be able to offer a spiral bound book but Amazon publishing don’t offer it. I know a lot of people cut the pages out (or buy the download version from Wargame Vault) and take them to a printer to have them spiral bound. Cheers.
I would love to see a play through of the first learning mission (sub combat). I love the way the game broke up the main combat types within the first four missions. Just harder to find those who like games like this nowadays, and it’s why I have mainly switched to solo wargames
Thank you for watching and yes it’s more difficult now to find people interested in these type of games. I also mostly play by myself now. Some games are more difficult to setup for video because my space is very limited
I never heard of the game until I found it laying in a outside dumpster. Complete and all. Box everything. I still have ot sitting in my closet. I have to say it was a gold find. But I do not often look in dumpsters though.
I still have this game too, But mine has a dice for the anti tank guns and my tanks are either dark grey or tan, but both sides are the same models. The German types, just like your tan ones. I can not recall the tank shaped cardboard things you showed....probably they were just straight. But as this game is still in my parental home I can not check it right now. This version I own was bought in The Netherlands.
I had this game with the dice and had the green and tan panthers too. A lot of the contents was different as well. The box illustration was also different, I think mine was an older version. I bought in in the mid 1970s when I was in my early 20s. It was very addictive and my friends and me would play it for hours!
Wow. "Tank Battle"... my FIRST "wargame". I got it for Dec 6 (a Christmas holiday in Germany... my mom is German) in 1975 I think. That dark evening in a distant time and place, I was sitting at the dinner table and the doorbell rang. My mom said, "Oh! That must be Nicolaus! Go see at the door!" I ran to the door and swung it wide open as the snow in the doorway blew in. At my feet were 4 board games. One of them was Tank Battle. Another was "Carrier Strike". And another was "Lost Gold". I THINK the last one was Uncle Wiggly. Before I closed the door, I shouted into the wintery night: "Thank you Nicolaus!" Of course, it had been my dad coming home a bit early from work who hopped back in his car and zipped off after the delivery. Thanks papa. Miss you.
Yes Times are very different than they use to be. I was born in the late 60’s and grew up in the 70’s, things were just simpler back in those days, not just for kids but everyone I think
Thanks for posting, my game had a dice for the antitank guns, 5 sides with a single black dot which were for a miss, and one side with a single red dot to show the anti tank gun had destroyed your tank.
@@grahamlloyd7157 really? I never knew about such version. I always believed that it was just the spinner. That is very interesting, I would really like to own such a copy
@@privatewill68 Mine has a dice as well. The tanks in my game are both the German versions either in dark grey or in tan. And I do not recall the tank shaped cardboard things...they probably were just straight things. I still have this game in very good condition but I can not check the shape of these cardboard things as the game is still at my parental home. My version was bought in The Netherlands.
The precursor to "World of Tanks".... When I went through basic, at Fort Knox (circa1998) I saw a few of these games laying about in the barracks. Pretty cool. Thanks for explaining it.
@@ijsbeermeneer9952 thank you for watching. No unfortunately this game is long out of print. But you can find good ones for sale on the Internet that still look pretty good
thanks for watching. Yes it would have been a very different world, quite possibly the two different Americas would have kept fighting each other over and over as alliances and treaties would have pull them into different wars. It can be a bit scary to think just how different the world would have been
Do you know the channel KilroyWasHere? He just did a good video on Worthington's new Gettysburg game which I have played the day One scenario. Very excellent in my opinion.
@@charleslatora5750 my favourite games usually are in the time frame 1600-1899. Yes more than 70% of my games are ACW it’s my favourite historical subject. I also enjoy squad level games from WWII and Cold War naval warfare ganes
@@charleslatora5750 thanks that is very nice. I started this for fun and to also showcase certain games that are not mention very often. I am an old gamer and I have very few new games
@@lonestarbug thank you for the comment, very appreciated. I do have the bad habit of speaking softly by nature. Been trying to train myself to speak louder. The breathing that one is a bit more tricky. Yes I do have a breathing problem. I won’t bother you with the detail but I am trying to work on that. I also made of few mistakes which made me nervous and that did not help my breathing. I will be working on improving these with more practice. Thank you for the feedback and for watching.
