Board Game Geekiness
Gasp, just discovered BoardGame Geek!
In particular, I was looking for information about a game called Conquest that I played once with my cousins in the early 70s. I found it, and also all sorts of interesting links like DIY, Customized or Homemade Games (golly, I used have copies of Subbuteo) and what looks like a cool games company in the Netherlands called Cwali.
I remember a lot of GDW games I used to own as well, including Belter, Battle for Moscow (now "public domain/freeware" so you can download PDF and other files and make a copy!) and Citadel:the battle of Dien Bien Phu (the only game I can think of where units had an infinite movement allowance along roads).
Think I'll have a "hunt and peck" session at this site.
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Golly, those were the days. I remember playing play-by-mail games, both Diplomacy and Flying Buffalo stuff; of getting Strategy & Tactics by S.P.I., and Conflict Magazine by Simulations Design Corporation; and all those Avalon Hill games I had. I still a complete collection of Games & Puzzles (anyone else remember Hexagonal Chess?). Of course I sold most of them when I left Perth. Just didn't have the room to store them, and just didn't mix in wargaming circles any more.