It was the mid 1990s, set up in Bill Bird's basement, Winnipeg ASL member, Blake Ball, Bill Bird, the late Brad Wyatt, and myself played "The Drive for Caen", on a hand drawn and coloured map measuring 108 hexes wide x 120 hexes deep; the map encompassed the Norman villages of Buron, St. Contest, Gruchy, Authie, Cussy, Franquiville, and Le Abbaye des Ardenne;
It also was where a Sherman Firefly VC and a Pz VG Panther dueled it out a 77 hexes (3,080 metres), with Firefly hitting first but unable to penetrate the Panther's hull; and the Panther hitting the very next shot, destroying the Firefly - flaming wreck if I remember correctly.
Life was simple back then - work during the day and play ASL during the night.