Quote from: Hertsblue on 11 March 2011, 06:26:24 PM
I'm sorry, Kassad, Bruce Quarrie is no longer with us. He passed on in 2004 from lung cancer. There's quite a good piece on him in Wikipedia and the Osprey site if you're interested.

It's very sad new for me. He is in a better place now.

Quote from: clibinarium on 09 March 2011, 01:44:53 AM
I grew up in a small town in the eighties and early nineties, and pre internet I was only vaguely aware that there was something called wargaming. Nobody around me did it, and the TV gave me the impression that the odd millionaire might have a table full of figures. Wargaming as a game (rather than just display and dioramas) was caught only as a glipse of a repeat one summer of an old show, "Modeller's World" (?) presented by a guy who seemed like he could have been James Robertson Justice's affable brother (Bob someone?) Anyway it had a short section on an AWI game, and for me the rest of the world fell away for five minutes. That would be it for years.

One day in the tiny town library I found "The Wargame" and even though it already seemed ancient, I was mesmerised. So that was my introduction in print. At a guess I was about 15.

I remember watching Model World in the seventies.  It was presented by Bob Symes who is a bit of a character to say the least. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Symes

another fantastically inspirational book was Curt Johnson's Battles of the American Revolution - although not a wargaming book it was full of magnificent Peter Gilder AWI eye candy. This was another one i had on semi-permanent loan from the library and started my AWI itch thats never gone away (there are creams available for it nowadays), Here's a pic from it i found on the interweb....

Lulu have many of these classics available as licensed re-prints. I picked up a copy of Donald Featherstone's "Naval war Gaming" recently.

Dave Turner

I started off on Featherstone and Grant too. They must have wrecked more potential real gamers than Games Workshop!

Quote from: FierceKitty on 12 June 2011, 09:50:38 AM
They must have wrecked more potential real gamers than Games Workshop!

Bit harsh - dont forget Tunstill, or a certain ex-commando as well......and as for a certain gentleman from Birmingham with a perchant for Orange tee shirts...



IanS

Can't comment; I'm a South African, so not privy to all the inside dope.

Well Mr Barker is still with us, so I have to be carful....

IanS

For me too, my first impressions as a kid were very much steered by what was available at my local library at the time.

My introduction to wargame books were Terrance Wise`s "Introduction to Battle Gaming"  Donald Featherstone`s "Skirmish Wargaming" and "Solo Wargaming" and finally Gavin Lyall`s "Operation Warboard". "Battle" magazine also had a huge influence on me.

'Battle' magazine or 'Battle Action Comic' Later merged with 'Victor' 

The spirit of Battle magazine live on in Battlegames magazine (if you havent read it yet then do so - best wargaming mag out there!)

Battle Comic unfortunately sadly lives no more. Johnny Red, Panzer G Man, Charlie's War - some of the greatest comic strip action ever!

Donald Featherstone's 'Wargames Through the Ages'.  The local library had all four volumes and, as a nipper, I read all of them.  I hadn't even heard of the Franco Prussian war until these books.

Greetings

I think my early books were Airfix guides (played WW2 with 1/72 figures quite a bit), Featherstone's 'Advanced Wargames' (read but was bemused by) and Skirmish Wargames (liked this), Charles Grant's 'Battle' as well as Shire Wargaming publications on wargaming and on the ECW.   I've still got them all plus some classics picked up much more recently such as The Wargame and Charge.   I also played quite a lot of WRG Infantry Action (strictly not a book I know) with 1/32 Airfix figures in the garden with wooden bricks for buildings and defences. 

Regards

Edward