Roll those dice gently - it's my first time.

[Orcs]

My names Mark and I am a Wargames Adict (possibly should be Wargames Slapper)

It was approximately 1974 and  I was 10.  I Had read Peter Youngs Book "Charge or how to play Wargames".

I used Airfix 20mm Plastic Napolenics supported by ACW figures.  I then typed the rules out on My Dads Typwriter and made a Roundshot bounce stick from a peice of beading  and a Canister template from green gardening wire twisted together.  I still have the typed rules and the bounce stick.

My main opponent was a boy from school called Edward Antoniak.  We stupidly  fell out over a ww2 game, no idea what happened to him.

Then it was "Battles with Model tanks" by Featherstone and Heroiics and Ros Microtanks from the wargames shop "New Model Army" in East Ham.

My Mum thought that when I got interested in girls I would stop playing with Toy soldiers.  But quite a few girlfriends and one ex-wife, and a long term partner later the toy soldiers are still there.

Oh confesion is good for the soul.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Airfix when about nine, Warhammer at 11, then introduced to real wargames aged 13 by The Shrewsbury Wargames Society, managed a few 'reak' wargames before DBA came out, then it was ancients, Nam and WWII!

[fsn]

Airfix WWII. Refought the "Action on the St James Road" from Donald Featherstone's "War Games" when I was 11 or 12.

I had plastic Centurions for Shermans, and M48's for Panthers. The table was and old table tennis table, the roads were chalked on.

The figures were the old Airfix "Infantry Combat Group" and the first German infantry, the one with the sPzB 41.

So long ago.