{"id":322,"date":"2016-06-20T09:54:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T13:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/?page_id=322"},"modified":"2016-06-20T10:11:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T14:11:00","slug":"board-wargames","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/interests\/board-wargames\/","title":{"rendered":"Board Wargames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought my first board wargame (from here on just wargame) by accident and was immediately fascinated.<\/p>\n<p>I grew up in a small town in southern Massachusetts and bought a copy of the original Avalon Hill Starship Troopers game (based on the Heinlein book) at our local main street department store, Baker&#8217;s. I have no idea why they had one copy of this game on the shelves of their basement toy department, but I read the rules and played solo games again and again as I could not fine anyone in town who was interested.<\/p>\n<p>Once I went away to Andover I found a community of RPG and wargame enthusiasts and discovered a world of complex games using little cardboard counters and hex gridded boards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought my first board wargame (from here on just wargame) by accident and was immediately fascinated. I grew up in a small town in southern Massachusetts and bought a copy of the original Avalon Hill Starship Troopers game (based on the Heinlein book) at our local main street department store, Baker&#8217;s. I have no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/interests\/board-wargames\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Board Wargames<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":310,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-322","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7EWhb-5c","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322\/revisions\/323"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}