This is the first real wargame that I ever played. I first saw it in a toy store or department store when I was visiting my aunt in Houston in maybe 1975 or 1976.
I asked and got it for Christmas that year. I was super-excited about it, but I quickly got frustrated with the rules because they were so different from the Milton-Bradley games that I was used to, the "roll the dice and move your mice" types of games like Life and Monopoly.
I stuck with it though and soon I was playing it with all the rules. I used to day-dream about the strategies and movement of the units while I delivered newspapers.
I only played it twice against an opponent. One in a play-by-mail game, where you used stock quotes to represent dice rolls. Another was against a good friend of mine, Frank, who I beat soundly; though it was a pretty unfair match since he barely knew the rules and I knew them intimately.
I'm starting to play it again in 2026 (50 years later), solo for now, using the VASSAL game engine.
More to come.