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The Golden Years
Monday, May 19th, 2008For me at least, the golden years of board wargaming were from 1979, the year I first discovered board wargames and probably 1991 when the bottom fell out of the board game market.
I believe the writing was on the wall for the hobby with the advent of Dungeons and Dragons in the late seventies and […]
The Uninitiated Part Deux
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008I cannot understand the mentality of those people, “the uninitiated”, who can’t see past the perception that we wargamers are a bunch of nerdy no mates who are called Norman and still live with their mother. I mean what is the issue here? Why can’t they please accept that we are just ordinary people who […]
A question of over complexity
Friday, November 9th, 2007Back in the early eighties I bought the first of the Squad Leader series and was enthralled. It was such a change from what I had played before and I loved the small unit actions that made you feel that you were a part of what the infantry man had to contend with in battle. […]