A2-Weduesday, September 24, 1960 - North Shore News

PS strictly personal —

by Bob Hunter

The young warriors

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Stopped in at Good Stuff Games on Lonsdale represent anes. armies.
the other day and saw, to my utter astonishment, ‘P?°° Ons, nucicar
that there were no less than 250 different kinds of > _ ae m re . enigse
war games for sale. helicopters, tanks, railways,

trams and munitions fac-

Damn!

months’ solid work preparing

The game finally ready,
the only kid I could find who
was willing to play it with me
was a brooding youth whose

heroes were Attila,

and hid the pieces finally.
Both of us were coming
being in the cold basement
all the time.

Of course, I went on to
become a peacenik and ban-
the-bomber, which just goes
to show that playing war

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the pieces which would be
used. ‘
The task was to build a

once for

I spent the entire winter of
1956-57 constructing my
supergigantic cosmic bat-
Uefield. The only place in
the house where there was
enough room was
basement, and it was cold

covered with a plywood
sheet to provide the basic
theatre of acton — which
systems with a total of 37
different. planets. Each
planct had a separate map.
showing the continents and
oceans and polar caps, down
to such fime detail as the
elevation of the land

MAJOR ENDEAVOR

and poster pamt that wenoi
into the preparation of
basic playing boards. On t
of that came close to three

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The idea was to be able to
turn each planet that you
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capable of resisting attack by you imagine?)
the other empire. We played the galactic
In the end, the rule book war game for months,

came to 58 handwritten neither one of us able to gain

a decisive strategic edge. We
I learned many things that might still be playing, except
cold lonely winter in the our mothers got together

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