Extreme gaming!

[Leon]

After reading recently about a wargamer who, due to space constraints, had started basing his figures on magnets and using the fridge door, I wondered, what extremes have you gone to in the pursuit of your hobby?

[nikharwood]

Got a 20' square garage which will *never* have a car in it

Gamed WW2 BKC [using card counters] on a beach in Cornwall a couple summers ago [the beer won  ]

[Leon]

Got a 20' square garage which will *never* have a car in it

Gamed WW2 BKC [using card counters] on a beach in Cornwall a couple summers ago [the beer won  ]

Where did you find an opponent on the beach?!  And did you game the Normandy landings to save on scenery?

[nikharwood]

Ah - you'd be amazed: on those Cornish beaches, you'd think all the pretty laydees would only be interested in surfers...but get out some counters, dice, sculpt the terrain into the sand, crack open a couple of cold ones and watch them flock to you...

If only 

It was actually my brother-in-law - and wives / kids etc were happy in the sea - so we drank the beer & bunged the dice 

[Leon]

Ah - you'd be amazed: on those Cornish beaches, you'd think all the pretty laydees would only be interested in surfers...but get out some counters, dice, sculpt the terrain into the sand, crack open a couple of cold ones and watch them flock to you...

If only 

It was actually my brother-in-law - and wives / kids etc were happy in the sea - so we drank the beer & bunged the dice 

Haha, genius!  If only that happened when I went, I always end up with the little one while she lies there sunbathing.

[nikharwood]

If she's lying there sunbathing, you should cover her back in sand & that could be your ridgeline 

[Leon]

If she's lying there sunbathing, you should cover her back in sand & that could be your ridgeline 

She might not appreciate the interesting tan lines that would result in...   

[nikharwood]

Yep - good point 

[Pruneau]

Hehe, beach gaming, that sounds brilliant.

Dunno if it qualifies as extreme gaming, but we played a lot of chivalry and sorcery back in the early 80s, and just a few weeks ago I helped my wargame buddy and bestest friend of 30 years clean out one of his wargame cabinets.  A pleasant side-effect of this semi-centurial cleaning session was that we stumbled onto the long forgotten box of chivalry and sorcery.  Chucked full of old character sheets, a bunch of ugly plastic mini's from back in the days, and hundreds of pages of scenario's.  Page after page of meticulously hand written content, in blue and red ball point, loaded with hand drawn maps, schematics, hundreds of npc's, descriptions, you name it.

That was such an intense trip down memory lane, we've been sitting there saying little more than 'man...' and 'look at this...' and 'can you believe that...' for well over half an hour.  After that we opened some beers and re-watched 4 hours of Gettysburg on DVD.  twas a perfect evening.

[nikharwood]

Now *that* does sound like a perfect evening Pruneau 

[Martyn]

When I was a kid, it used to be airfix tanks and figures in the garden. trenches in my mother's flower bed. We even did our own version of "Where Eagles Dare" in the rockery. It was always sad to find your favourite figures had gone missing only to find their chewed up remains after Dad had mowed the lawn. Happy days!

[Steve J]

"When I was a kid, it used to be airfix tanks and figures in the garden. trenches in my mother's flower bed. "

We did the same Martyn and spent many happy summers doing this day after day. I clearly remember in the drought of '76 that we killed off our friends lawn due to playing with Action Man in the flower borders.

[17-21l]

Airfix - and long Summer days, cor what would we have done without them? - every main period covered from astranauts to Ancient Britains/Romans to Robin Hood, cowboys to Japs and 8th Army - fond memories.

[dicehead]

Not sure if this counts but a few years ago a friend and I rented a cottage for a weekend away and were told we were absolutely forbidden to bring any games along by our spouses to prevent us staying up all night playing wargames. So my friend was supposed to smuggle along a couple of armies but his wife got wise to it and left the bag at home. In desperation we had a game using a single six sided dice and the only figures we had, the kids lego!

It was brilliant, we made it up as we went along. My cowboys beat his pirates and spacemen in a pitched battle for the salt shaker. It was quite liberating being free of actual rules and being able to say things like "If i can roll a 6 my cowboy shoots your pirates hat off and he has to run off over there and you have to down that drink and talk like a surprised pirate for the next turn" and "How about my pirates spend my turn building a car out of those lego blocks, 5+ to succeed?"

[Last Hussar]

I've used Lego Blocks for Napoleonics.  I have a board game called Road to the Rhine - Aug 44 to Jun 45, two massive maps of NW Europe.  I had it all blutacked to my wall as a student (20 years ago).  I think a panzer division fell behind some books, and may still be in the skirting board