Your first cardboard wargame?

[beast013]

1972 Afrika Korps. Quickly followed by Stalingrad, D-Day, Waterloo, and Midway. My first tactical games were Panzerblitz and Sniper.

[Diocletian]

My first cardboard wargame was Avalon Hill's Caesar's Legions. I followed it up quickly with Avalon Hill's WW2 game Tobruk.

[Dean_P]

The first wargames I remember playing were with my brother when I was about 12 - Ogre/GEV and Star Fleet Battles. I didn't own either of them, but he got me a game called "Black Hole", which I never could quite figure out. Then there was a long hiatus until I started up again about 5 years ago. EFD and Airborne were my first purchases, along with LnL:Band of Heroes.

[J6A]

Way back when, the 1st game I owned was Afrika Korps (AH). I had played Tactics II before that, though.

[awdougherty]

I honestly can't remember what my first cardboard wargame was. I (maybe shamefully so) cut my teeth on a friend's copy of Axis and Allies. My desire to get beyond that game got me into the hex and counter stuff, but I can't remember what the first purchase was.

[vince hughes]

I (maybe shamefully so) cut my teeth on a friend's copy of Axis and Allies.

If you are going to include that, then my first ones have to be Campaign and Batlle of Little Big Horn (by Waddingtons) and Risk + Colditz (by Parker Games).

[Matt W]

Oh no, that means Battle Cry (ACW), Hit the Beach (WW II Pacific) and Broadside (1812) were my first...

[Hugmenot]

I started playing miniatures with my father when I was 4, circa 1969, but moved on to board games in 1977 or 1978 when he switched to another hobby.

My first war game was one of Napoleon at Waterloo, Ogre, Panzer Leader, or maybe one of the Strategy & Tactics offerings...

[PaperTiger]

My first cardboard wargame was Avalon Hill's "Luftwaffe." My brother and sister-in-law got it for me for Christmas 1976. I still have it, though haven't played it for decades.

[plloyd1010]

Mine was Midway '64. I still have it.