Well you can find my bio on the English Civil War blog I do (here ….)
As a teenager I played a lot of WWII using Airfix plastics and the Charles Grant and WRG books, but there was always something not quite right. When I met WD people through the Society of Ancients Conference, and then, in the early 90’s, moved to Northamptonshire, it became much clearer. Chris Kemp‘s Not Quite Mechanised, and more recently Tim Gow‘s Megablitz … tanks fixed on bases and some history gone into the game design. Operational level games as well as just tactical. Something more fluid than blast circles, protractors and armour charts. To that may be added zonal tactical games like PBI, a whole host of squared/cards based games that I have played with members of WD at the Conference of Wargamers, and clever thinking like Arty Conliffe‘s Crossfire. Some key features that made 20th Century wargames into something more than just tanks plonked onto a model railway display.
Hopefully this blog will give me a chance to explain some of those issues (like why is the 2oth century game transformed by fixing the vehicles on bases rather than pretending that they look realistic sitting on the miniature terrain?), or address some of those annoying prejudices (why do rules writers think German kit was intrinsically better, or that the 6 million self-loading rifles the Russians issued to their soldiers from 1938 onwards are a myth?) – but mostly it’ll be about figures, vehicles and games – about showing some respect to the history and trying to get it right.
is this the phil steele i went to brighton poly with???
Sorry – wrong Phil
Hi, I came across your site and wasn’t able to get an email address to contact you. Would you please consider adding a link to my website on your page. Please email me back and we’ll talk about it.
Thanks!
Joel Houston
Joel .. I only carry links that are relevant to the topics and games I cover (NQM, PBI, Megablitz, AK47. RTTRD etc). You haven’t indicated what your website is or how it is relevant ….
Maybe it is
Phil
Interested in more about how you made the parachute markers. I found a little bit but not much.
hi I have what I think is a soviet artillery die cast toy gun and am looking at selling it but would lik to know some more information about it first. it is similar to some I have seen on your page but not the same. would you consider looking at some photos of it and giving me a bit of information?
Hi!
I’m very happy i founded this site of yours, im modelling a map with some army troops with the scale of 28mm (+/-). I would love to make it look realistic by adding vagatation, only i dont know where to find those (ive founded some to buy but way to expensive) and how to apply them on the map (ive a map that is laminated, so i cant place trees from model kind cuz then i need to make wholes in my map which i dont want to)
do you have any advice about where you bought your military pieces, vegetation and any suggestions about how to add those to my board game? i want to play axis and allies but want to make it look more realistic
Thanks in advance!
With kind regards,
Anass Ichiche