Kjell Lövström Born in 1953 in Sweden. I
first came into contact with wargames through a review of a wargame in the magazine Soldat
och Teknik (roughly: Soldiers and Technology) around 1970. My first
wargame was Tank! from SPI. I joined a wargame club that
was more or less run by the proprietor of the shop where I bought my games. Later I joined
another wargame club and was for a number of years member of the council in both clubs.
The first club held regular playing meetings every week, the second distributed a club
magazine. Both clubs are now gone, victims of social cuts and computer games.
So now I play on the computer. I first came into
contact with ADC1, I have always liked editors. It was not quite up to the standards I
craved but said that ADC2 was in the pipeline. When ADC2 arrived I directly grabbed
it. I soon found that making sets was more fun than playing them. When I have finished one
set my sights are set on a new set. However I have a couple of sets which I would like to
play, so if you are interested of playing any of them, drop me a line. My homesite is www.algonet.se/~rakatosh the gamesite is
written in English.
|
 |
 |
John
Moser I was born in 1966, and grew up in suburban Pittsburgh. My first wargame was Squad Leader, which I played in junior high with my neighbor, Jeff. We didn't have the patience to learn all the rules, so we just made up a lot of stuff as we went along. I didn't get into serious gaming until my first year of college, when I finally got sick of Dungeons and Dragons. Ever since then I've been collecting games, and actually playing one every now and again. Believe it or not, I've never actually played a game using ADC2.... In my real life I'm a college professor, currently at the University of Georgia, but I'll be moving to Ashland University in Ohio late this summer. I completed my Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1995. I teach history, specializing in the United States during the interwar period, but I dabble in a lot of subjects. At Ashland I'll be teaching courses in Modern Europe and Western Civ. I've published one book--_Twisting the Lion's Tail: American Anglophobia between the World Wars_ (New York University Press, 1999)--and I have a second coming out this fall, dealing with the presidencies of Hoover, FDR and Truman. I'm now working on a biography of John T. Flynn, a prominent journalist of the 1930s. I've been married since 1994, my wife's name is Monica. We have no children, but we do have one spoiled fat cat named Barney. For more information on me, visit my website: http://members.home.net/jmoser9/ personal.html. Gamesets designed: Army of the Heartland, Campaigns of Robert E. Lee, Machiavelli, Pax Britannica, and War for the Union. |
| James Burnett
I began playing wargames when I was in junior high school (Lord, was it that long ago?), starting with the heyday of Avalon Hill (Anzio, Blitzkrieg, France 1940, Luftwaffe, and the list just went on and on . . . .). In college, I discovered SPI and its monster games. I hauled all those games around with me when I was in the Army and after that, but never had the time or space to play them until I found ADC2. Now, my wife and daughter let me alone in front of my computer; they know where to find me when there’s a bug that needs killing, and I don’t disturb them with my comments as they watch Lifetime (a/k/a the Women in Crisis Network). In other-than-gaming life, I was an infantry officer in the Army, now an attorney and a science fiction writer. We live near Houston with three Greyhounds, one mutt, three cats, two koi, and a turtle (the koi and turtle residing outdoors). For more on this chaos I laughingly refer to as my life, visit Highlander’s World. |
 |
 |
Gerald Schwartz
I retired from the information technology business after 33 years in 1997. I started as a computer programmer in 1964 and was Manger of Computer Services for NB Power, one of Canada’s two nuclear energy companies, when I retired. In between I worked on every aspect of IT, including Internet technologies. After retirement I moved back to my hometown Winnipeg, Manitoba, commonly referred to as Winterpeg. Here I live with my wife and our dog Sada in the old city. I don’t mind the cold weather as it gives me plenty of opportunity to sit inside and play wargames. I was introduced to wargaming in 1967 when I bought Avalon Hill’s Midway game. I collected a lot of the wargames published between then and 1987. Because I was too busy with work and family, I never got to play the games much until after I retired. I discovered ADC2 and have been gaming on-line ever since. Despite the hundreds of titles that I have, I still like to play the original Avalon Hill games like 1776, Anzio, and The Russian Campaign best. Because these games are no longer available, I wanted to make the originals available again using ADC2 and that is why I got into making game sets for them with scanned maps and including the original rules, charts, and table. I also like doing other games using satellite imagery as the basis for terrain and including my own editions of the rules, like GDW’s The Great Patriotic War. I expect to do many more game sets since I like doing that as much as playing the games. |
