Author Topic: Gary Grigsby.. 41 years of wargaming  (Read 515 times)

Offline Fencer51

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Gary Grigsby.. 41 years of wargaming
« on: December 04, 2020, 11:27:27 AM »
Matrix games has their annual holiday sale on now, and I just bought two of Grigsby's games.  It got me remembering playing War in Russia on my Apple 2 back in 1987ish.  So I checked and it turns out as I thought this guy has got alot of my money over the past 40 years.  Worth every penny too..  I bolded the ones I am sure I got, but I remember alot of the box covers of the others too!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Grigsby to see the box covers.  Dang I miss Reforger and Mech Brigade.

Guadalcanal Campaign (1982)
Bomb Alley (1982)
North Atlantic '86 (1983)
Carrier Force (1983)
Objective: Kursk (1984)
War in Russia (1984)
Reforger '88 (1984)
Kampfgruppe (1985)
Mech Brigade (1985)

USAAF (1985)
Battlegroup (1986)
Warship (1986)
War in the South Pacific (1987)
Battle Cruiser (1987)
Panzer Strike! (1988)
Typhoon of Steel (1988)
Overrun! (1989)
Second Front: Germany Turns East (1990)
Western Front (1991)
Carrier Strike (1992)
Gary Grigsby's Pacific War (1992)
Gary Grigsby's War in Russia (1993)
Steel Panthers (1995)
Steel Panthers II: Modern Battles (1996)
Steel Panthers III: Brigade Command: 1939-1999 (1997)
Battle of Britain (1999)
TalonSoft's 12 O'Clock High: Bombing the Reich (1999)
Uncommon Valor: Campaign for the South Pacific (2002)
War in the Pacific: The Struggle Against Japan 1941-1945 (2004/2009AE)
Gary Grigsby's World at War (2005)
Gary Grigsby's World at War A World Divided (2006)
Gary Grigsby's War Between the States (2008)
Gary Grigsby's War in the East (2010)
Gary Grigsby's War in the West (2014)
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Offline RotBaron

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Re: Gary Grigsby.. 41 years of wargaming
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2020, 02:50:58 PM »
Gary Grigsby's War Between the States 2008

How would you compare this to other Civil War genre games?

I played Ultimate General Civil War for awhile last year - off of Steam
     Deck is always pretty well stacked against the Rebs on hard
They're casting their bait over there, see?