>>40299302
>Did He Drop Any Loot : The Thread

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>>40299302
First up a copy of a Dune board game

>>40299330
Avalon Hill's game from 1979, but that's the '84 cover. Not a bad game, goes for a fair bit on ebay.

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>>40299330
It appears complete and looks pretty cool actually. I just don't know who I'd play against.

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Next up...

Lets look inside

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>>40299371

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>>40299404
Oh man, this 1981 catalog sure is sweet. and older than 90% of /tg/

It also came with huge maps in great condition. Not sure what to use it for currently.

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>>40299451
The other maps

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Up next, what do I spy? An old Traveller box

>>40299507
Oh yay, the Deluxe Ed, I have that one.

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>>40299521
I dunno if its complete, I'll post 2 pics. First set of books.

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>>40299544
second books and other stuff

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Next up, some books to break this up.

Autoduel Champions is uncut with the counters inside, the other books are in great condition except Thieves Guild 6 has some scribbling on the front

>>40299564
>>40299544
The map, Introductory Adventure and Books 0,1,2 and 3 all came in the box, the rest is a bonus

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Hah!

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Bunch of Osprey books. Good for historical unit painting if you're into civil war.

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Hmmm

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>>40299715
Appears to be unpunched too.

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>>40299451
Man, I miss big maps boxed up with RPG's that you could just plonk down for a city chase scene, work out factions running an area, figure out how long it takes to get from A-B and a nicely detailed world for ideas you can bounce around in your skull before putting an adventure together.
Modern RPG manufacturers are cheap, lazy cunts

>>40299750
All of this stuff seems to be in near-mint condition, it's remarkable. So far you're got a couple of hundred dollars worth of goodies here.

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>>40299750
the folded map is fucking huge

>>40299302
Rest in Peace Venerable Grognard.

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Holy shit, I'm totally hanging this on my wall

>>40299938
/tg/ has ruined me. I can't take anything with quest at the end seriously now.

>>40299938
Any actual Elfquest RPG books in there? That shit is rare.

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>>40299944
I hear you. Some are okay, some are bad wish fulfillment bs

More books btw

>>40299775
This is only the tip of the iceberg. I have 8 huge hefty bags worth of vintage boardgames and rpg shit. Its unfucking believable. This is why you should have an estate planner before you toss everything. If they put it on ebay they would've gotten some money.

>>40299974
Good that it's in safe hands again
What you've posted so far adds up to several hundred at least
Excellent sampling of late 70s/early 80s materials

>>40299974
Thats what you get for throwing out dead peoples stuff without having a look at it first.
10 bucks says the guy comes back as a ghost to whine at them.

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>>40299960
I guess we'll see. Going through it as we speak. I wanted to share with /tg/ because I've never had anything like this happen to me. I should go to the casino.

>>40300012
Harpoon shit? Now I'm getting jellymad.

>>40300012
>Harpoon
Bitching.

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OH MY. THE MAPS ARE IN MINT FUCKING CONDITION. Getting excited the more I dig

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>>40300043
I think I'm the first person to ever open these up. Must've sat on his shelf for 30 years.

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>>40300043
>My Greyhawk maps look like they've been chewed on
>>40299974
>My Cyberpunk 2020 books are missing and I don't know where they are

>cries internally

>>40300064
>guy collected superb set of RPG/wargame materials
>never got to play a single one

You are bound by sacred tradition to honour the memory of this fallen grog and SCAN THIS SHIT.

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The second map

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A bag inside a bag? Its fucking heavy.

You are a really lucky man, you know that? Especially since you recognized the worth of that guy's stuff when his family didn't.

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>>40300145
And its loaded, and I mean LOADED with Epic 40k. This bag must weigh at least 10 pounds.

>>40300188
oh man, fuck you in the nicest possible way

>>40300188
Holy fucking jackpot

>>40300188
Jesus Christ OP, you hit the fucking jackpot. You stumbled on an oil well of nerd shit. I'm jelly as fuck.

>>40300188
Ah jesus christ you were lucky before but now you're a real lucky bastard. Any other heavy bags indicating miniatures?

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>>40300188
Fucking nice.

>>40300188
This image gave me a boner, no joke

>>40300188
Go by a lottery ticket.

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>>40300223
That was all just the first bag. I had to borrow a van to toss it all in the back. They're industrial sized trash bags. I'll be going through it for days.

Starting bag two, more books.

>>40299938
That middle elf is sexually confusing the shit out of me. Goddamn it, 80s.

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>>40300188
That's a fucking mother lode!

>>40300261
well at least I can say I have all those
this guy loved his cyberpunk that's for sure

They seriously threw all this shit in the fucking trash instead of giving it to a local charity? Shit, at the very least they could have given it to fucking goodwill, even if they'd turn around and try and sell some of it at stupid prices.

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>>40300278
It sure looks like it. The books never end. I wonder if these have been lost to the ages and I should scam them all for /tg/

whoever passed had impeccable taste

elfquest aside

>>40300310
At least anon rescued it and will love it

>>40300310
That's what our hobby is to our families - trash. I'm sure my parents would do the same if I got hit by a car tomorrow or something.

>>40300322
>I wonder if these have been lost to the ages and I should scam them all for /tg/
Actually anon all of those Cyberpunk 2020 books are easy to find as PDFs, as are several of the other ones you've posted. The real score so far are the Thieves Guild, Space Frontier and Harpoon stuff.

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>>40300310
His family was very wealthy. Guy was 60 years old and weighed no joke 600 pounds and hadn't worked since the early 90s after making millions in the stock market. All he did apparently was sit on his ass eating, collecting gaming shit, and playing MMOs for the last 2 decades.

Also, this android on the cover it making me aroused. I blame years of being on /tg/

Seeing all this unopened, unpainted stuff, I feel kinda bad for the guy.

>>40300310
Retards, man.

A lot of people don't realize old hobby shit is worth fat stacks if it's kept in good condition. Others don't care or imagine "nerd stuff" is intrinsically worthless.

If OP got permission to snag this shit he should send them some kind of thank you gift, given the boon he's received.

If he swiped it I don't care, you throw away valuables you don't get to complain when someone takes it.

>>40300108
following this

>>40300361
He lived the comfy life

>>40300310
Would you keep someone's old magazines? That's probably what they thought of the rulebooks, especially since they're obviously old. The miniatures at worst might have just seemed like broken toys, and at best they might have realized that they were old and assumed people probably didn't play that game anymore.

In before Anon finds the guy's collection of rockin' 80s porn that the family mistook for more nerd shit.

By the way, Anon, did you know this guy or his family? You must have at least known he was a greybeard if you knew that his trash would be full of /tg/ swag.

>>40300358
Maybe your family. My uncle played D&D back when he was a kid, my ma always thought it was a good hobby and most of my friends and relatives have either joined in on it or know how much it's a part of my life and how much money is behind it, if nothing else.

>>40300361
>Also, this android on the cover it making me aroused. I blame years of being on /tg/

I believe it was done by Hajime Sorayama who's done robot pinup art for years

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A moment of silence for the fallen grognard

Also OP you must honor his memory, run one of every game he left you or else the grognard's curse will be upon ye!

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>>40300390
>You must have at least known he was a greybeard if you knew that his trash would be full of /tg/ swag.

Nope. He lived down the street from me and in all the years I've lived here I can count on 1 hand the number of times I saw him. At 600 or so pounds and his advanced age he must've had one hell of a Con score to live to be in his 60s. He was pretty much a prisoner in his home.

They actually asked my mother if she wanted any stuff they were throwing out and this was all out at the curb and in trash cans. I hope I didn't leave anything behind.

Here's a James Bond spygame and some Forgotten Realms maps.

>>40300452
>my ma always thought it was a good hobby
Oh sure, mine did too. She would always say "at least he's not doing drugs".

>>40300388
My grandfather died and left me a bunch of old hunting and vintage gun magazines and manuals for rifles. I didn't have a fucking clue if it was worth anything to anyone.

So I looked it up. I made a bit over a grand after I sold it all. Most of it was bought by just one guy.

>>40300358
A statement like yours appers to 100% in threads like this.
But it is simply wrong. What do you expect your family to do with your hobby stuff? Keep it in your room, sealing it for eternity and letting it collect dust?
Do you think they put it into your coffin besides you?
How can you know that they threw away everything. Maybe they kept one or two things with high sentimental value.. something sealed and unpainted stuff certainly has not to them.

If you want to be save, have an inventory list with prices of all that stuff and tell your parents to sell it and not to throw it away should that case ever occur.

>>40300452
I remember someone's wife complaining about us spending saturday's playing.
I put it to her, we could be down the pub pissing away our money, watching sportsball, getting in fights, fucking drunken sluts and catching chlamydia

She's kind of cool with RPG's now

>>40300368
Yeah, he had no friends at all

just like myself ;_;

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>>40300525
BURY ME WITH MY WARBAND.

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An entire bag of badly painted epic stuff, looks to be Chaos/Imp infantry with an Ork Gargant tossed in for good measure. Spent a few minutes untangling shit since it was just tossed together.

Grognard stuff is oft of no value. The Goodwill is the good point where samaritans will and would be to do good.

>>40300565
>>40300188
Huh. These are probably of great interest to some people on this board.

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More books

>>40300649
this dude loved him some spy shit.

>>40299330
>>40299349
>>40299354
Dude! That game is super hard to find nowadays, you're really lucky if you have a complete set, even the 1984 version.

>>40300571

Found a box of SM Sniper Scouts there for 50¢.

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Does anybody want/need any of the spy/cyberpunk stuff? Anyone body here actually play it? I'd send it to fa/tg/uys for the cost of media mail + a few bucks for gas and a padded envelope to send it in.

Also, next bag has THIS

>>40300735
DIBS ON STAR TREK

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>>40299302
This thread is depressing as fuck. This grognard died alone with no one to play with

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>>40300770
The life of a Venerable Grognard is a harsh and unrewarding one. May his legacy live on in the annals of /tg/

>>40300549
My Dynasty will follow me to the tomb, so that when i Arise, my army shall arise with me

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>>40300770
It has been, apparently long ago. I found ancient character sheets in various handwriting.

Check out this hero of the realms

>>40300188

Who the fuck just throws out like 50k of miniatures. Any battlefleet?

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>>40300800
>Park the Ranger
truly this man was quite the wit

>>40300800
>Lo thee, venerable warrior! Tell us your name, so we may hold it up for eternity!
>>Its park

>>40300525

I'd expect them to have it appraised like non poor retards

>>40300800
>Park Ranger
heh

>>40300549

Interesting question popped into my head because of Anon here (but not enough to warrant a thread.)

If you die, what army would you want buried with you, while others go to your (hypothetical) children?

>>40300735
No sale on that copy of Dune?

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>>40300819
>6 bags to go

Oh hey Star Trek appears punched so he might have played it, even though everything else looks new and unused.

or maybe the counters came that way

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>>40300800
>park

>>40300800

who else here regularly rolls up 2e characters on lined paper like this? [though this looks like it could be 1e?]

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>>40300800
> Park Ranger

>>40300878
I would only be buried with a single figure, the most heroic unit in my main army.

>>40300878

Necron's in my tomb, Nids to the kids. Hopefully one day they read up enough 40k lore to understand what I'm implying.

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>>40300878
On my death my family will naturally commission a painting of me as an Iron Warrior Warsmith and my children will feud over my models that weren't taken to the grave.

>>40300907

So marneus calgar. I'd bring my huge black templars force since it'll be good to have a crusading army in the afterlife.

>>40300898
Think the last time I did was sometime around 2003...

>>40300878

I don't do wargaming, and don't have many minis, but I would naturally have all my tabletop stuff put into several preserved anti-rot chests, and buried with me in a multi-room underground tomb, with a vague map airdropped into a randomly chosen nearby bar town.

my tomb will be guarded by robotically animated human skeletons. there may or may not be traps.

>>40300912

You're not dead, only sleeping for 60 million year and they are the locust scouring life from existence?

>>40300945

No, no, no Anon.

Necrons being the best hope for stopping the Nid invasion therefore now that the Necrons are dead they can go forth and conquer.

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>>40300819
On the 50k part, I doubt its close to that. Maybe 5k after all said and done.

What kind of family does that? Apparently ones where they can afford not to have a single working person in the household and can visit Europe for a month every summer.


More of the Stark Trek box

>>40300800
>Park the ranger
I wish I had the good fortune of having play a game with him.

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>>40300800
Can we see the rest of these character sheets? If they really are all different handwriting, I might be picking out a narrative for this poor guy.

He played, then something happened and he could never find a group again. After striking it rich, he continued to buy games that he never played, books that he rarely read, just to fill the void that his estranged party left.

>>40300800

>Rope of Climbing

tell me he had a sandwich of eating somewhere in there.

>This thread

This grognard's parents must have been like "Look at all this worthless nerd garbage. Into the dumpster!". Having all this wind up at the bottom of a landfill would have been a crime against humanity.

Hell, even apart from the entertainment value it has for turbonerds, they could have still sold it for a sizable chunk of change.

>>40300735
I would love to buy the GURPS Cyberpunk book off of you, as I am going to be running a campaign for that soon.

Email me at obesecatlord@cock.li if you want.

>>40300995
http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Rope_of_Climbing

Its a real item

>>40301032
apparently this guy was rich, so his family probably has no financial worries. so why bother with some old books?

>>40301066
to be fair, the sandwich of eating would beat the hell out of something as generic as "ring of sustenance"

>>40300995

>Sword of stabbing
>Horse of riding
>Cloak of rain protection
>Bow of arrow shooting
>Pants of decency
>Shovel of dirt movement
>Towel of drying
>Water of thirst quenching
>Slingshot of rock flinging

I could go on. I could. But I won't.

On the one hand this is sad beyond words. On the other hand this is like a time capsule or opening some lost King Fa/tg/uys tomb.

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>>40301032
>Having all this wind up at the bottom of a landfill would have been a crime against humanity.

200 years from now, bold adventurers will fight black orcs for greyhawk maps in mint condition

>>40300881
Sorry, I missed that. Is it a good game? Fun to play? Should I be taking it to my LGS looking for old guys willing to play for nostalgia?

People want ridiculous amounts for it on ebay, I figure I should play it at least once or twice in honor of the dead guy.

>go to local estate auction
>get outbid on massive collection well-preserved ancient tabletop stuff
>Person who ended up winning it is some yuppie prick who bought it for his "nerdy" daughter
>Watch from where I parked as his not-seriously-even-interested teenage daughter fucks around on her phone as her dad throws the boxes into the back of his pickup, not even bothering to lower the hatch and slide them in.
>Could practically hear shit breaking five cars away.

>>40301131
If you enjoy the Dune universe and games with heavy strategy and player negotiation, it's amazing. It's long and has a steep learning curve, but it's rewarding. If you've heard of Diplomacy, Dune is in the same class with more theme and more rules.

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>>40301131
It also often gets played at conventions. There's a group in Memphis that plays every year at MidSouthCon.

>>40301032
>Parents
>60 Year Old

>>40301169
That's people with money to burn for you. It's impossible for them to attribute any real value to anything.

>An ancient grognard dies.

Heart disease or diabetes?

>>40301234
Ambushed by Hobgoblins

>>40301234
Eaten by a grue.

>>40301234
>60 years old
>600 pounds
Maybe both!

>>40301228
I'd say Dubai is the ultimate example of that. Unimaginable amounts of money to spend, but they have absolutely zero taste.

I mean come on, who would ever think a car covered completely in gold would look good? And surprise, the end result doesn't!

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>pulled these of of this bag

>>40301228
What really got me was him just tossing the boxes into his truck. Like they were full of old running shoes or crushed soda cans or some shit. I can't even understand the mindset of someone like this. I'm not a broke motherfucker, either, I do make a decent enough living for myself. Why the fuck would you be something nice and well-kept and then immediately start tossing it around like "who gives a shit lol."

I stopped bidding because there was other shit I wanted to bid on and the price had gotten stupid. So it's even more appalling to me that he'd pay more than the shit would even be worth just to box it all up and hurl it into his truck bed like a bag of leaves.

>>40301263
I'm sure there are lots and lots of people who would accuse this guy of the exact same thing.

>>40301263
That's what happens when barbarians get rich.

>>40300188
MUH DICK IS A MOX LOTUS!

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More stuff from the endless bags of goodness.

The top 2 games have definitely seen some playing time. Bottom left is stuff for the James bond game.

>>40301123
WE'VE HIT A RICH GARBAGE SEAM!

I love Judge Dredd.

>>40300735
My group is pretty into good old fashioned cyberpunk. It would be a real treat if you could send something interesting my way.
DamnableYouths@gmail.com

>>40300986
oh boy the old FASA star trek game where your starship 'character sheet' is like 4 pages worth of trackers

>>40301234
Rolled Nat One on a fort save, after a string of Nat 20s

>>40301169
Deep in Hades, even the souls of the eternally damned can hear the fury of my rustling. This is a rustling of the infinite. A rustling that cannot be unrustled. There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for the magnitude of this rustling.

Not sure why but this reminds me of a story. I was on a date with this one girl, like our third date, walking around downtown. Some guy was selling a bunch of D&D shit out the trunk of his car for not much money because he had joined the air force and was leaving soon, couldn't hang onto it all. Anyway I stopped to look and the chick was like "Who the fuck would spend this much on books and toys?" And the guy explained what they cost brand new, what they cost used, and how he was passing em on at not even a third of the typical used prices. She tugged on me like "Come on let's go this stuff is stupid."

I wasn't having it though. I chose the P&P. Bought a shit ton of books. After she was jokingly like "I'm seriously reconsidering whether or not I should even date such a huge NERD."

So I dumped her. And spent like 5 years single.

>>40301066

I know its real, its just the name that gets me.

>>40301453
You did the right thing anon.

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>>40301291

Under-rated post of the decade.

>>40301453
They don't seem worth it anon.

>>40301453
You made the right choice.

>>40301478
The tabletop or the women? Cuz I'm happily married now. But if I hadn't met this current lady I seriously doubt I'd even be dating someone today.

Should I go out to the van and get more bags /tg/?

>>40301504
fukken obviously. there's 47 posters watching

>>40301453
>So I dumped her. And spent like 5 years single.
Good thinking.

>>40301501
The woman of course, glad to hear you're happy.

>>40301504
100% yes. You're a historian.

>>40301453

Eh, you could have done worse. If you stayed with her and said, "lol deal with it" she probably would have accepted the whole thing after a month.

>>40301504
FUCK YEA!

>>40301504
Yes.
There must be more battlefleet gothic stuff to go with those corsairs.

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>>40301453

>>40301504
Yes please, this is way better than any unboxing

>>40301504
Of course. What a question. Get all!

>>40301537
She would have been shopping for new dick that night.

>>40301504
GO RETARD, GET MORE. GET THE TRASH. MINE FOR GOLD. MY ASSHOLE IS CLENCHED SO HARD I COULD SHIT A FUCKING DIAMOND.

>>40301453
oh fuck me now that is a story and a half. Well done mate, you made the right decision.

>>40301537
Yeah, maybe. Nowadays that girl is a huge stoner and goes to raves and posts selfies like five times a day, talking about PLUR and shit while also being one of the most petty and judgmental people I know. She wasn't like that all back then, so who knows how things would've turned out.

But I'm glad I picked the tabletop. Cuz I met some seriously cool dudes and made some awesome friends that introduced me to lots of cool shit. And up to that point I didn't really care about anything. I didn't really have a passion. All my hobbies I just kind of did because my parents started me in em as a child and my friends did them.

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>>40301453
Well done!

>>40301594
her womanly instincts were about to kick in, good job you dropped her when you did friend :^)

Is anyone else finding OP's story hard to believe?

I refuse to believe somebody was stupid enough to just throw all this shit away. Nobody who lived with an old neckbeard faggot couldn't have been that oblivious to not notice how much money he spent on all this shit and just decided to just throw it all out.

And why throw it all out anyway? No remembrance shrine? Who is this edgy?

>>40301453
Whenever some used Nerd as an insult, I think that they are ape-like levels of dumb.

I can see you using a negative trait associeted with being a nerd to insult someone. Like "You are such a nerd, you should go out more". Where the core issue is the person being a shut in. But when people simply say "You are such a nerd" as if that was, inherently bad, I just think to myself that they'll start beating fists on their chests and peeing on things to mark territory. Even girls.

>>40299302
Thanks OP for sharing the pictures. I'm glad you rescued that stuff. Somewhere there's a entire group of old grognards looking down and smiling that you rescued those items. Even if you don't game with them and sell some, at least they didn't needless get destroyed. (And yeah, I'm old enough that I remember when all of that stuff was 'new'. Been gaming and collecting since the mid to late 70's.)

>>40301627
apparently some old bitch of a wife who probably hated it all along anyway.

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>>40301453
you did good anon

>>40299319
Hauntingly accurate, but also
>Ninja'd loot, the thread

>>40301627
you don't know how vindictive family can get

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Next bag.

This guy FUCKING LOVED board games. And Cyberpunk. And games workshop, although I've found no GW books or Codexes.

>>40301648
This. Or, if no wife is there, some ignorant uncle or some other far away relatives just cleaning out the house.

>>40299451
Only a few months older than I am, and thieve's world was one of the greatest low magic settings ever.

>>40301627
It happens. Not so often just dumping it in the trash, though. But if you go to thrift shops you can always tell when someone died recently. I got a bunch of tabletop shit from a thrift shop, and a huge chunk of it had the name Gregory written in the cover in the same handwriting. A few character sheets and notes and stuff, too.

But yeah. I understand giving away the shit to a thrift store or charity joint. Not so much bagging it and dumping it.

>>40300878
Bury me with my army of Egyptian skeletons. Fuck yeah, pharaoh for eternity.

>>40301664
Go get all of the bags. GO GO GO!!!

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EVERYONE! GET IN HERE!

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>>40301627
>Dudes wife said with a 600 pound man for 2 decades
>Kids had 0 interest
>Was wealthy

His family probably couldn't wait to get rid of him and collect the money. His son at least was an asshole in high school that always had the best clothes and a car at 16. Probably hated him watching him go from a fairly normal guy to someone they needed a forklift to get to the hospital

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>>40301744
What a sad story. Also that Scotland Yard game was cool when I was a wee lad

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nice thread
have you found any other record sheets or character art, OP?

things like this are amazing to find

>>40301664
>Someone on ebay wants $125 for that Yaquinto Swashbuckler game

>>40300108
second

>>40301664
>pirateer
lol

>>40300525
my parents got me into grognardology when I was young, and my father still collects games

I doubt he'd want any of the stuff I've got (not rare or interesting enough) but at least he'd know what to do with it.

>>40301744
Welp, that was surprisingly depressing.

What did he do for a living?

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>>40300878
>If you die, what army would you want buried with you, while others go to your (hypothetical) children?
Closest 'children' relatives are inheriting my military service medals.
But I'd like to think my fellow grognards will load up my car with my corpse surrounded by necromunda mini's, high elves and character sheets. Then set it on fire and roll it down a hill for a resulting, explosive send off.

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Just have to leave this here, OP. Ya done good.

>>40301291
They'd be wrong.

>>40300878
>If you die, what army would you want buried with you, while others go to your (hypothetical) children?
My flesh will be used to bind my collected gaming notes, while my bones will be shaped into a set of dice.

>>40301830
I have left explicit, and probably illegal, instructions to have my skeleton cleaned, polished, and preserved in a lich's robe and propped upright in my DM's chair.

>>40301744
no wonder he went so deep in his hobbies then

I would too if I were in his situation

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>>40301792
Apparently he worked in the computer industry in the 70s and 80s and made a fucking fortune and got out before the 90s bubble burst.

Also the Swashbuckling game looks cool but apparently the rules are missing
Truly a man of good fortune.

>>40301638
Really? Because I think about when I was a kid and "nerd" was decidedly insulting, and not some fucking chic bullshit, you little cunt.

>>40301453
You did right anon. If she wasn't able to accept your interests, 'nerdy' or otherwise, you'd probably be miserable right now. Even my ex wasn't crazy about traditional games, but she accepted that I liked them and didn't give me shit for it.

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>you will never play board games with an ancient grognard
>too young to relate

Damn good stuff OP

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>>40300800
20 years early.

I always pop back into /tg/ at the best times. Good haul, OP.

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This one is really dusty. Must've sat on top of his stack of games for a decade or two

>>40301107
Sounds like kingdom of loathing.

>>40302030
doesn't exactly scream PLAY ME does it

>>40299451
That catalog was released 12 years before I was born and I'm old enough to drink.

>>40301926
Oh so he probably was one of those Microsoft Millionaires then. That makes me wonder how many others decided to use their money to live in decadent grognardary.

>>40301627
About a year ago, I moved across the country. In doing so, I packed literally every single thing i could fit into my economy hatchback SUV, and then swore to my parents that I would return to collect everything that I hadn't taken with me on this journey "soon".

When i arrived at my new home and finished unpacking what few boxes of belongings i had brought with me (including almost none of my gaming books, because space vs. necessities), I phoned my parents and let them know i was finally getting settled in.

>"That's good to hear your father and I have been cleaning out your room."
"What? I Promised I'd come back for those things."
>"Oh, you don't need all this garbage Anon. Do you know how many tiny men you had? Those weren't doing anything but gathering dust, so your father's dealing with them. Oh! and you left your copy of "who moved my cheese", so i'll mail that to you."

It's been a year, I haven't been back... I am legitimately afraid of the amount of damage my family did to my game collection in "cleaning up" my old room.

>>40302064
>Oh! and you left your copy of "who moved my cheese", so i'll mail that to you.

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>>40302030
>look up golf game
wow, that game is from 1966. No wonder its so dirty.

OH HEY LOOK WHAT I JUST PULLED OUT

>>40302030
Send it to Spoony, It looks like it belongs in the black hole.

>>40301627
I used to work for an estate sale / household liquidation company back in highschool. This situation isn't exactly uncommon (though this loot definitely is).
I was able to pick up the redbox in decent condition (free) while I was with the company.

>>40301504
Anon I am here, I have coffee and time to listen to stories and watch your images. You have brought together /tg/ for a large story telling session. One of the best threads in a long time. Of course you should continue.

>>40302064
Some people shouldn't have children if they have literally zero interest or acceptance for their hobbies.

>>40302064
Lets swear a blood oath to be brothers and go back to deal with this.

Do you wish to be Eric, or Lyle?

An amazing haul OP. Good on you for saving it from the landfill.

>>40302073
She did. It's a self-help book she got for me. I can't begin to tell you how little I need it, but how much i know it would hurt her if i threw it away.

>>40302121
I know the book, I just thought that was hilarious.

>>40301268
Holy fuck dude.
Nice find.

>>40302064
And every day you spent too afraid to go back and stop them, another book was tossed. Another figurine dumped.

>>40302121
>how much i know it would hurt her if i threw it away
he already hurt you, not it is time for payback

>>40299371
HOLY SHIT! THIEVES WORLD!

>>40300525
Viking funeral.

Sure as fuck not letting any of you scavengers get it!

>>40301169
This is the kind of girl I wanna break her mind and rebuild her into a personal
cocksleeve

>>40302108
>Eric or Lyle?
>What does Anon mea-
>Oh.
>OOOHHHHhhhhh....
No, No no no no no.
Bad taste anon. I actually love my parents. I can deal with this, no matter how bad it is. I'll have to go back... well, fairly soon, but It will be resolved peacefully.

I know i'm weird, but i actually have a good relationship with my folks.

>>40301874
And here I just wanted my body encased in clear plastic and then vertically sliced in half to be used as a set of giant book ends for shelves full of gaming stuff. What was I thinking...

>>40302167
Nuh-uh. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind, Anon. I'm above seeking vengeance for perceived slights.

I don't KNOW how bad it is... i just WORRY. For all I know, Dad took one of his spare hard cases used for carrying firearms and put my loose minis in there... maybe they just put them all in the basement. I haven't got the heart to ask.

Anyway: I have to go back there sometime this summer anyway...

>>40301108
yeah...i don't want this to be my future.

what is the point of having all this stuff but no group to play it with?

>>40302102
Remember when shaped rubber bands were a fad?
Yeah. Imagine how many kids went ballistic when daddy used one to hold a newspaper together or something.
It's kinda inevitable, at some point when you have kids, your kids will be into a thing you don't understand.

>>40302074
I have heard of this. I think this one has a race of Amoeba people you can play as. Other than that, I dont know much about it.
Might be valuable.

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>>40302074
Sorry for the delay.

Box contents. Unpunched. Also 2s10s in the box and a white crayon?

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>>40301453
You have chosen correctly sir

>>40300324
What's wrong with Elfquest? I've heard good things about the comic.

>>40302193
Why? It's the retarded dads fault

>>40302307
>a white crayon?
For filling in the dice, anon. You'd rub the white crayon over them and it will fill in the numbers, helping them stand out more. That's seriously oldschool TSR.

>>40302253
Someone needs to draw this...
>Explorers plumbing the depths of a incan temple.
>They rolls aside a great sealed round door
>In the gloom beyond, on a throne, sits a corpse: it's voluminous fat now mummified. the corpse is surrounded by RPGs, board games and 40k paraphernalia.
"This is the lost tomb of King Fa/tg/uy, Neckbeardiest of the grognardns."

>>40302332
Because breaking her mind and turning her into your willing slave/cocksleeve is hot?

>>40301957
This is true. And people often associate comic books and other stuff with cheap ass 4 color comics they remember basically being gaudy shit paper when they were kids. And it almost was in some cases.

-then-.

Now some of it is potentially worth more than the car people are taking it to the dump in. (condition and title dependent. I remember talking to a guy who had all the original conan books and comics, and some other stuff, and his brother threw them away. I believe this was comfortably into the 10k mark at least? And this had occurred in the 80's or 90's, so the relative amount was more.)

Although ironically there would be some value in this stuff getting buried at the bottom of a landfill because a lot of it might manage to last a really long time. It would benefit future generations of archaeologists and stuff. Just not you know, anyone now.

People just don't realize that things change, and even if comics were still all cheap, other people value some comics. It's a lack of imagination or empathy combined with ignorance and bias. They are unwilling or able to imagine that someone else would place value on the object.

>>40302307
>White crayon
To fill in the numbers on the dice anon. they weren't painted then like they are now.

>>40302354
And a morally horrible /d/ worthy torture? Even just killing her would be better

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>>40302337
You learn something new every day

DUDE FUCKING LOVED BOARD GAMES

>>40300064
Nigga, did he have the other half? That shit is worthless without it.

>>40302318

I have like 6 of the old hardcolored books that i'm gonna have to leave behind when I move.

Is there any interest in volumes 1-7 skipping 2?

>>40302399
>DUDE FUCKING LOVED BOARD GAMES
YOU DON'T SAY!

>>40301664
Here is to hoping they cremated his ass with them the magnificent basterd

>>40302404
see
>>40300109

>>40302318
The art is pretty ugly and never improves.

Yesterday, he probably posted on /tg/.

Tomorrow, it could be me.

>>40302280
>your kids will be into a thing you don't understand.

Its no problem not to understand why a kid likes something.
It becomes a problem if i don't accept that fact. Or even throw away stuff i think is garbage but others value without asking them first

Is there a way to leave my gaming goodies to 4chan?

I don't want my idiot family throwing away my stuff.

>>40302318
Ugly art, retarded story.

A woman (not meant as offense here) draw her shlick-fantasy into a comic book.

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Sigh

Pickett's Charge is yet another unpunched game in his collection. Probably had it for 30 years and never played it once.

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>>40302467
Tomorrow it could be any of us anon

>>40302493
We could set up some sort of website with a lottery, the earlier you join the lower your number and the more likely you would be to get things you could check boxes of what you are into, so you don't get minis if you don't want. We could make a small fee or something to keep it up.

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I post only to honor this mans passing.
May he go to cleaner tabletops, where all the players have shown, and have brought all the snacks.

>>40301967
More like:
>I'm 25 and what is this shit?!

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>>40301453

>>40302561
>have ignorant son
>have hateful wife
>have no friends

>only joy is ordering hobby related stuff and unboxing it and then look at it while it sits in the shelfs

i can almost see myself there ;_;

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Combots is actually pretty cool. Its got some very oldschool metal minis inside you apparently assemble and configure into death dealing machines.

>>40302064
>It's been a year, I haven't been back... I

No Anon the appropriate response was to go back RIGHT THEN.

>>40302624
Anon, I have RPGs I've never played and fully painted armies for games I've never played.

>feels bad man

>your husband is super into a hobby
>ignore it and (probably) belittle it as stupid
>throw it all out when he dies
what sort of logic

>>40302631
And further research reveals...

Combots is a boardgame that FASA produced and published prior to BattleTech. The tagline read "The Ultimate Weapon Is No Longer A Dream". In a very broad sense it could be regarded as a precursor to BattleTech.

Cool.

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RIP Grognard.
At least his stuff was saved from the landfill.

>>40302667
>In a very broad sense it could be regarded as a precursor to BattleTech.
I have to go and do a thing now

>>40302280
Yeah, except that those are literally a fad subject. They were popular for a year (or was it two?) and then ceased to exist. And you could get a bag of 50 for about $3.

This would be more akin to throwing out someone's music or movie collection without pause, or chucking your kid's sketches on a whim. It's really common when you get one person (ie. parents) who have no artistic appreciation, and another (ie. child) who does. My mother may loathe tabletop gaming in all of it's forms (divorced my dad over 40k), and she always passive aggressively insults my interest in it, she still recognizes my interest the hobby. Several of my friends have lost tons of their stuff because their parents thought it was 'taking space'.

>>40302596
And coasters. Don't forget coasters.

>>40302651
I bet her hobby was shopping. I want more women in the hobby, but not the ones that are just here because it is the "in" thing to do. More girls with actual hobbies and interests would make the world a better place.

>>40299330

Isn't that one worth $600?

>>40302651
Not all marriages are happy. He made a lot of money in early computers. Single nerds with a lot of money can attract a certain kind of gold digger.

Anyway, thanks for the thread OP. Its super melancholy, but at least its not going into a landfill.

>>40302711
Fuck coasters.

>>40302757
Let's not say things we'll regret Anon...

>>40302757
>my childish habit of putting glasses wherever I want overrides your $500 table!'

fucking manchildren

I know you guys are all ready to be mopey and shit, but this guy was 900 pounds, didn't play the games he bought, and did nothing except MMOs until he died horribly and preventably. He was probably That Guy the way only rich fuck That Guys can be.

>>40302757
May you be cursed with group member who have the same attitude towards coasters as you do.

>>40302587

That seems like a fairly good idea, but you'd have to have some serious trust from anons around the /tg/ to start. If someone like Esh-esh, Golden Neckbeard or Scripty were to start some kind of /tg/ "pay a dollar, have a chance of winning a game/ minis/ whatever" lottery, I'd throw money at them, no doubt. But sending money to random anons is... eh.

>>40300108

3rd. Do it for the honor of the old gamer guy!

>>40302801
He was still "one of us". Besides were all That Guy to someone.

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Final salutes to the jolly pink giant!
ATTENTION!
PRE-SENT ARMS!

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While going through this stuff and reading posts, I'm reminded that my friend's huge basement (where our group plays every week and stores our stuff) absolutely hates the hobby and sometimes gets annoyed when we're there. They're older too, so its not like she's chomping at the bit to go to bars or clubs or anything on weekends.

I mean, he's at home, he's not out drinking, she knows he's not cheating etc. pauses the game for a few minutes if she needs something, we've helped her with stuff around the house. You just can't please some people.


Apparently Swashbuckler is complete. I had to read the handy HOW TO STORE ALBUM GAMES chart in this Adventurer one and realized it was tucked inside.

I don't know how I feel about what would happen to my stuff after I'm gone. On one hand, just throwing it away would kill me twice. But the idea of having it get sold to someone else...rulebooks and stuff that's fine, but my miniatures are something I put a lot into. The idea of the Caliban Green being scraped off and painted over with another chapter's colors tears at me.

>>40302801
Or his was a lonely soul isolated by his age, body and family playing games that were accessible but ultimately unsatisfying as his true interest lay in getting round a table with cardboard and comrades. I feel sad for him Anon and you can't make me hate him.

>>40302847
>The basement hates the hobby.
You're friends house may be possessed anon.

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>>40302757
Indeed. I use a little plate instead.

>>40299688
>American Civil War
Why is everyone so interested in that damn war? Barely anyone died, and it wasn't exactly that historically important compared to the Franco-Prussian war. Don't get me wrong, if it happened nowadays it'd be fucking huge- but America was not a major player then, while France and Prussia were. And the F-P war contributed to a couple of other rather famous wars...

>>40302847
Some people just hate the idea of other people having fun and not being 100% serious all the time. I wonder what your friend's wife does for fun other than criticise other people.

>>40302828
Very true we all have our own views on how games should be played and we tend to label people with other views as that guy, for instance I generally run games with difficult encounters and don't mess with the dice at all and have been called out as that GM for both being trying to kill the players and not giving the bosses enough challenge depending on where the dice fall some people might also call me that GM for not fudging the dice to make things more balanced, but I like the idea that sometimes you overachieve and things go very well or you mess up and things go poorly.

>>40302908
Because a lot of people live in America.

>>40302801
>this guy was 900 pounds, didn't play the games he bought, and did nothing except MMOs until he died horribly and preventably.

That's what makes it sadder, anon. He made a fortune in technology and then declined into isolation, estrangement from his family, and health disorders that turned into a vicious cycle. But he still held onto his imagination as his solace, and that what his family threw onto the tree lawn until OP claimed it.

>>40302901
That thumbnail makes them all look bare chested.

>>40302908
>barely anyone died.
anon..

>>40302908
Mostly the aesthetic, I imagine, as well as the lasting cultural impact it has in some areas. It's something to romanticize, like our own War of the Roses.

>>40302908
Actually the American Civil War is very important to world history. It decided what would be the cultural driving force of America. Look at the year immediately following it and the results of said years. America was a sleeping industrial giant but the Age of Reconstruction as well as the age of American Imperialism woke that up and led America to becoming the World Hegemon it is today.

>>40300878
Bury me with my Orks. Then when I rise from my slumber, a green tide will flow in my wake.

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>>40302908
America has very little history to take from (in the grand scheme of things) so all the minor stuff is significant. It also impacted most US families in some way.
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>>40302801
Apparently some of them have been played (well used too) but 75% appear unpunched.

Bags are getting sparser, some of them only have a few games and a bunch of unrelated junk

>>40302908
>>American Civil War
>Why is everyone so interested in that damn war? Barely anyone died, and it wasn't exactly that historically important compared to the Franco-Prussian war

Because it set the stage for major changes in the way war was fought. Germany actually sent over a number of observers and learned quite a bit from that conflict. It was reflected in the way their troops fought in World War I.

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>>40299938
Sorry.

>>40302964
I'm from yorkshire and I don't know a single person who gives a monkeys about the war of the roses. I think it's more about the USA being such a young country with not much hard history.

>>40302886
Sorry, meant to put Friend's wife in there somewhere.

If the house was possessed we'd know by now. We do know his mangy old dog has a penchant for chewing on old lead figures if left out though.

Hail, oh Grognard.
Gone to the lands beyond Greyhawk.
May his table be always full and his 20's natural!

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>>40303010
Good show.

>>40300361
>living the life

>>40302856
Having dumped like 40 metal marines from ebay in non-acetone nail cleaner for the night makes me feel guilty now.
They were badly painted (pretty good for 2nd Edition stuff though), but it looked like the person put alot of effort into them.

>>40302994
Well, all things considered it looks like you still managed to salvage more than a few treasures.

>>40302908
>Barely anyone died
ur a tard

>>40302908
>Why is everyone so interested in that damn war?

Largest battle in the history of the Western Hemisphere happened during it at Gettysburg.

It decided the fate of a country that would go on to dominate the 20th century.

You should play CP2020 OP. It's fun 80s cheesy hairmetal Cyberpunk.

>>40302908
>>American Civil War
>>Barely anyone died
>>between 625,000 and 850,000 people died

The American Civil War is hugely important to the history of a the United States. Its effects are still being felt.

>>40302908
Only people in america care. Nobody else. In germany, it is barely even mentioned in history class.

>>40303010
O I am laffin

>>40303018
There's no accounting for taste. My father is from Manchester and is obsessed with it.

>>40303090
>Germans
>conveniently omitting certain bits of history

Sounds about right.

>>40303002
This as well. The American Civil war and its aftermath is surprisingly a very important to World History.

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>>40302908
>There are people on /pol/ right now that think the Civil War is still going on

>>40302801

And he got to live his life the way he wanted to and I bet was very happy about it aside from not having others like him near to play with.

>>40302952
>>40303073
>>40303086
>He thinks 625,000-850,000, or under three percent of the population, is a lot of deaths
Confirmed for American. Fuck, the English Civil War (which didn't kill many people at all unless you were Irish) killed more, comparatively.

>>40299938
What a great comic series

no seriously guys Elf Quest makes up some of the best Graphics Novels I've ever read.

>>40303010
Topest of keks. Into the Elf Folder you go.

>>40303010
>Sorry
Don't lie, Anon.

Fuckin' saved

>>40303113
There usually is only 1-2 hours of history class per week. 75% of the school books are filled with ww2 and related stuff.
The remaining time has to be filled with relevant things like egypt - greeks - romans - middle ages etc

>>40303138
All I've read of it is that Cerebus crossover but I have to say the art looks questionable.

Looks like we've reached the cap and thread dying.

I still have more bags in the van. Wat do?

>>40303102
Nobody cares about the damn WotR, anon.
>>40303186
What, not the fucking 30 Years War?
>>40303197
Post another thread?

>>40303133
This.

The losses are a joke. Check out how many people died during real wars.

>>40303197
The thread will last for hours yet.

>>40303197
Keep going

>>40303197
New thread, obviously.

Or get in the fucking bag

>>40303133
It killed the most Americans. No seriously, I don't think America has lost that many soldiers in a war since.

In some ways it was like WW1 was for Europe. While WW1 was still more distant for America, the Civil War took place on US soil. Regiments were mowed down in the hundreds, since new weapons were still being used with old tactics. It was really bloody and brutal and close to home.

>>40303197

Post more stuff there are people that aren't here about history class.

>>40303197
Make a new thread, of course.