Hi, I’m gamer, and I chose an appropriate name for myself.
I’m just a hopeless game addict, and I was born that way. I remember begging my Mom for quarters to play video games, and I was always looking for arcades and trying to get to my friends’ houses where they had video games. If I do not have an opponent, I enjoy playing both sides of a game. Many games are actually well suited for this, including, yes, A&A.
I just love coming up with strategies, so yes, I am pretty into A&A lately. It’s funny, I didn’t really play it for years and years (I own “classic”) but my old A&A archnemesis from 1993 got me back into it last Thanksgiving. All he did was ask me what I thought about the game between he and his brother, who were playing Revised. I didn’t even know Revised existed at the time. I told them I couldn’t really tell, what with the different map and everything (I had nothing to look at - we were at a family get-together)
You know what happened next, right? My ambitious nephew wanted to play a game against me for old time sake and he managed to find AAR at GTO. I played that for awhile, but jeez you can’t even go to the bathroom or eat away from hte computer for like 5-6 hours because of the timers.
Then I think I stumbled on these boards, and discovered the AA50 game. I ordered it immediately, and boy am I glad I did. I’ve had a couple face-to-face games, but mostly had to play, you guessed it, yours truly.
I haven’t had to play against myself since I discovered the play by forum was actually a very viable option! The AA50 map is beautiful! The only thing that would be better is if Germany was black like in the board game.