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Posted by: GodEmperor
« on: May 29, 2013, 02:42:22 PM »

Week. 

And i absolutely love this game because im a huge fan of Starfire ( books ) and Honor Harrington.  ;)
Aurora became my favourite space 4x game , kicking Space Empires 5 out of the Throne :)
Posted by: Ted B Schuler II
« on: May 24, 2013, 10:15:35 PM »

Breaking my lurking to reply to this :
 Wargaming in general fascinated me seriously when I ran into it at a gaming Con in Baltimore as a kindergartner circa 1973-4.  I used my 15mm Roman and Egyptian figures to make up games from then on.  Strafire I was fortunate enough to run into while still in junior high in the early 80's.
Posted by: Hawkeye
« on: April 29, 2013, 10:35:14 AM »

Quote from: Kof on April 28, 2013, 03:18:03 AM
@Hawkeye

I recommend you get Forged Alliance (the standalone expansion for Sup Com - you can get it for a tenner) and check out the online community at Forged Alliance Forever. It's brilliant. I don't usually do RTS - deep strategy is my thing, but FAF is different.

Thanks for the suggestion, but the original game is _still_ shrink-wrapped on the shelf LOL. I just don´t have the time to play somehting else between Aurora, WITP-AE and the occational EVE burst.

Edit: Oh, and I have recently (couple of months ago) started to get into Starfire (the board game that lead to Aurora), so there is even _less_ time available for anything else now.
Posted by: waresky
« on: April 29, 2013, 08:30:05 AM »

Traveller : 1978

2300 AD : 198x +

1st Starfire

and 1st Starfire Assistant.

and Aurora Ver. 2,x +

Posted by: Kof
« on: April 28, 2013, 03:18:03 AM »

@Hawkeye

I recommend you get Forged Alliance (the standalone expansion for Sup Com - you can get it for a tenner) and check out the online community at Forged Alliance Forever. It's brilliant. I don't usually do RTS - deep strategy is my thing, but FAF is different.
Posted by: Charlie Beeler
« on: April 15, 2013, 07:45:46 AM »

Well if we're talking about when we started wargaming...for me that would be around 1975 when SPI published Spartan.  If chess or checkers that would be some time in the 60's with my dad.  ;D  I know I'm certainly not the oldest on the forum, so there are plenty that should have started even earlier than me.

Games published by Steve Cole.. that would be SFB around 1985 with my brother and first edition Starfire around 87 in my gaming group.

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Whichever moderator sees this first....this entertaining topic probably belongs in chat not suggestions.
Posted by: ZimRathbone
« on: April 14, 2013, 09:41:48 PM »

Quote
Quote from: ExChairman on 07 February 2012, 21:43:17
Ohh God, I am getting old...
Remember buying Starfire in late 1979 or early 1980, loved the game from the beginning and crossed over to Star Fleet Battles at the same time...
Not sure with SA but its a couple of years ago or more...
By the way been a member in my wargames club for the last 33 years now, OK the club was without a regular place a couple of years but still playing at members places... Anyone that beats that record


I still have my original Starfire ziplock games.  Bought em around 79 at the Legionnaire Games in Honolulu.


Dunno about beating it, but around the same vintage (except I encountered SFB first then Starfire courtesy of Hugh T & Other Hugh).

Was playing SA in '97 or '98 I think - certainly before I moved to Oz.  I remember the Rigellians first Warp Point assault.
Posted by: Arwyn
« on: February 07, 2012, 11:44:05 AM »

Quote from: ExChairman on February 07, 2012, 04:43:17 AM
Ohh God, I am getting old... :o
Remember buying Starfire in late 1979 or early 1980, loved the game from the beginning and crossed over to Star Fleet Battles at the same time...
Not sure with SA but its a couple of years ago or more...
By the way been a member in my wargames club for the last 33 years now, OK the club was without a regular place a couple of years but still playing at members places... Anyone that beats that record ;)

I still have my original Starfire ziplock games. :) Bought em around 79 at the Legionnaire Games in Honolulu.
Posted by: ExChairman
« on: February 07, 2012, 04:43:17 AM »

Ohh God, I am getting old... :o
Remember buying Starfire in late 1979 or early 1980, loved the game from the beginning and crossed over to Star Fleet Battles at the same time...
Not sure with SA but its a couple of years ago or more...
By the way been a member in my wargames club for the last 33 years now, OK the club was without a regular place a couple of years but still playing at members places... Anyone that beats that record ;)
Posted by: sloanjh
« on: January 28, 2012, 10:16:34 AM »

Quote from: Steve Walmsley on January 27, 2012, 11:18:59 AM
All the way back to when it started (and SA too)...


LOL.  I think I dropped in at SA 4x or 5x....

John
Posted by: Arwyn
« on: January 27, 2012, 11:57:58 AM »

Been with it since the start, and before that with Starfire Assistant. :)
Posted by: Steve Walmsley
« on: January 27, 2012, 11:18:59 AM »

All the way back to when it started (and SA too)...
Posted by: Trent
« on: January 24, 2012, 12:55:32 PM »

I started last week XD. 

Really great game with a lot of possibility.  Not easy at all, but not really difficult, you just need a little patience (ok, more than a little  ;D) make the tutorials, read some usefull topics and ask for some things you don't understand, and you can beat the game ( if we consider that having a big empire in the galaxie mean beating the game ^^).

I'm lovin it ^^.
Posted by: Atlantia
« on: January 24, 2012, 11:26:59 AM »

I just started back in September or October. This ranks among the top three of my favourite games! Keep up the awesome work, Steve! (And you too, Erik!)
Posted by: Erik L
« on: January 23, 2012, 03:06:42 PM »

I started back when there were no forums and Steve was still on the Starfire list.

As for Starfire, I started playing that in the late 80's.