I was wondering then you buy your WW2 games did they make you stop and think I would like to do some reading on this? For example the Silent Hunter series for me has got me hooked in to reading books on the Atlantic and the Pacific.

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I remember playing Medal of Honour frontline got me interested in WW2!

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It's normally the other way around for me. I read a book and then buy a game about it.

I was reading 'Das Boot' and got Silent Hunter 3. I was reading 'Ceaser' and got Rome Total War etc

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games definitely got me interested! but the very first thing was a movie.
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Scott

It was watching Combat starring Vic Morrow and Ricky Jason that got me interested in World War II. The show forced me to study German in order to understand what was being said. This led me to the TSR magazine Strategy and Tactics, to table war games, then to my first WWII computer game Storm Across Europe.

So far I´ve only wanted to solve the problem with winning Barbarossa and I managed to do that in Panzer general I and II and III...well, I tried a couple of times with different tactics, must admit!

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It seems most of the guys active in this thread are computer gamers and haven't heard about the late Strategy and Tactics mag which folded more than 20 years ago (or should I say more than two decades ago?)?
hehehe Out of curiousity which would actually sound younger?

That mag had a lot of trivia, history articles and analysis and included a new wargame per issue. Personal favorite is their Libya issue, which had a game that presupposed a US invasion of Libya using one Marine Division, a mech div, an armored div, the 5th Special Forces Group, two or three US carries, and two airborne divisions against the Libyans.

Variations would be the existence of a USSR unit within the Libyan Army, active Egyptian intervention on US side, participation or not of UK, existence of Libyan nuclear weapons.

It came out just after US Tomcats splashed some Libyan Migs in the Gulf of Sidra.

It became a favorite because my friends and I at that time were able to use the game as a tool when discussing our what if's during that tense period in the Reagan era. That game also made me appreciate the North African campaign of World War II, too because despite the advance of technology, the control of water sources is STILL a paramount issue in the desert.