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25/06/2019 at 05:40 #116912Michael MorrisParticipant
Back in the early 1970s I was a geeky 12/13 year old into astronomy, music, football and airfix kits (girls came a bit later).
One day I was looking through the shelves of my local library and found a book on wargaming which included some chapters on using 1:72 scale WW2 airfix kits for war gaming (it may have been the whole book, I can’t remember). For a couple of years I was hooked.
I’m now trying to find out which book it may have been. I remember that wargaming involved using clear template homemade plastics templates to lay over the scenery help work out the fall of shot.
Any ideas as to what this book may have been gratefully received.
25/06/2019 at 06:51 #116915MartinRParticipantCharles Grants “Battle” used templates for artillery, mortar and machinegun fire, along with Airfix figures. The vehicles were Roco though. A wargaming classic nonetheless.
"Mistakes in the initial deployment cannot be rectified" - Helmuth von Moltke
25/06/2019 at 07:16 #116916EtrangerParticipantEither Featherstone or Grant would be my guess too. John Curry’s History Of Wargaming project has lots of illustrations from old books and may prompt a memory http://www.wargaming.co/
25/06/2019 at 07:51 #116917Les HammondParticipantBruce Quarrie’s WW2 Wargaming was my first set of rules. It used blast radii for HE fire but as far as I know didn’t suggest the use of clear templates.
Operation Warboard (my next set) did, along with a design for an elongated fire arc thingammy for MG fire.6mm France 1940
http://les1940.blogspot.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/386297688467965/25/06/2019 at 11:38 #116929Russell PhillipsParticipant25/06/2019 at 11:58 #116937Not Connard SageParticipanthttp://tantobieinternettattler.blogspot.com/2017/05/battle-practical-wargaming-by-charles.html
First rules I owned too, and I still have them. 🙂
Obvious contrarian and passive aggressive old prat, who is taken far too seriously by some and not seriously enough by others.
25/06/2019 at 12:21 #116950Michael MorrisParticipantThanks, it is definitely Battle.
25/06/2019 at 15:50 #116966Michael MorrisParticipantJust found out that the book is basically a series of articles published in Meccano Magazine. All these articles are now available for free download. 😀
What is even better is that some very kind person has downloaded all the articles and amalgamated them all into two PDF files for free download. 😀😀😀😀
https://freewargamesrules.fandom.com/wiki/Battle
Result!
25/06/2019 at 16:45 #116969Harry FavershamBlockedGot the book back in the day, the great man himself signed it, at a wargaming event. All the players wore jackets, shirts and ties…
us kids were well impressed!
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
25/06/2019 at 17:08 #116970Hafen von SchlockenbergParticipantWe still wear shirts at the cons I attend — the alternative doesn’t bear thinking about!
I’m assuming trousers of some description were also in evidence?
25/06/2019 at 17:21 #116971Alan HamiltonParticipantThe book may be Terry Wise’s “Introduction to Battle Gaming”
25/06/2019 at 18:45 #116972jeffersParticipantNote the parts of other articles in the PDFs: a review of Intro to Battle Gaming, a lady assembling Dinky spitfires and behind the scenes at Captain Scarlet. Those were the days!
*Note I turned 53 today so am more nostalgic than usual.
More nonsense on my blog: http://battle77.blogspot.com/
25/06/2019 at 21:22 #116979Hafen von SchlockenbergParticipantWell, Happy Birthday, you young whippersnapper, you!
Mine’s tomorrow — not saying which one.
TBH, I think we’d both live longer if we started forgetting about them. OK when you’re 12, but when the candles start to outnumber the guests at the party. . .
26/06/2019 at 07:18 #116981MartinRParticipantI also still have a copy of Battle. Somewhat stupidly I sold my original one in 1980 when I was shirt I shelf space, then spent some tim later on trying to source a replacement. But yes, someone has PDFd the entire Meccano series including all the optional rules (so infantry can now march even slower!)
"Mistakes in the initial deployment cannot be rectified" - Helmuth von Moltke
26/06/2019 at 08:08 #116983hammurabi70ParticipantWe still wear shirts at the cons I attend — the alternative doesn’t bear thinking about! I’m assuming trousers of some description were also in evidence?
Kilts! There was a time when T-shirts and jeans were not ubiquitous.
www.olivercromwell.org; www.battlefieldstrust.com
6mm wargames group: [email protected]; 2mm wargames group: [email protected]26/06/2019 at 15:42 #117003jeffersParticipantYou too, Hafen! I stopped enjoying birthdays at about 14 when people began to give me clothes as presents because it was ‘grown up’…
I donated my copy to the local hospice shop and it was snapped up within days. Goes to show it still has shelf appeal!
More nonsense on my blog: http://battle77.blogspot.com/
27/06/2019 at 00:34 #117019Hafen von SchlockenbergParticipantUgh — clothes. Don’t talk to me about clothes.
Now a nice kilt would have gone down well — but it never happened.
10/07/2019 at 04:05 #117736Truscott TrotterParticipantI have a copy I would be willing to part with
10/07/2019 at 09:38 #117751MikeKeymaster -
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