The Loose Association of Wargamers

Book One - Charge. The best book ever written. And it still smells great.
Book Two - 1815: The Armies at Waterloo, Ugo Pericoli. A truly awesome book.
Book Three - Weapons & Warfare 1618 - 1648, Eduard Wagner. Wonderful illustrations.

Ooooh do not know that one.

Etranger wrote: ↑Thu Apr 09, 2020 12:05 am Leaving aside the usual suspects listed above, of which I have a far smattering; Gavin Lyall's Operation Warboard would be on my list.

Yeah, I thought about that one, and it was seen as something of a game-changer at the time, but for me, Battle had as much content. Roco Minitanks and Airfix figs? Top quality stuff.

Jeremy wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 10:16 am Wasn’t it live action history for you at the time John?

Probably cropped up in the Current Affairs lessons. Mind you, ours was still in Latin......

As most of you know I'm far from home for the foreseeable and I grabbed a few books before I left my house the other week. I'll have quite a few days where I have nothing to do but eat my 1 free meal (if the cafe is open) and read, the wifi is useless during the day so my ipad only provides comfort at night.

A Gentlemans War - Howard Whitehouse
Ancient Battles for Wargamers - Charles Grant
Ancient and Medieval Wargames rules - Neil Thomas
Lion Rampant - Dan Mersey
DbA V2
Roman Legionary vs Carthaginian Warrior - Osprey
Border Reivers - Osprey
Saxon, Viking and Norman - Osprey
A recent copy of WSS
The copy of Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane that goes with me everywhere in my bug out bag in case I need a book. Read the first page about 20 times in the last 2 years.

What I regret not grabbing:
19th Cen European Wargaming - Neil Thomas
Warhammer Ancient Battles (I didnt as it was too big)
A couple more unread magazines
A couple of solo minigames

Book 4 - Donald Featherstone - War Game Campaigns.

I have to have one of DF books in my 10 but which one. He wrote so many books that it is hard to choose one. I have settled on War Game Campaigns as it's the one I read more times than his others and was probably instrumental in getting me to want to play so many different periods.

I always rather liked it that the list he called the literature of Wargaming which appeared regularly in Wargamer’s Newsletter held only books by him. And I always wondered about that comma - instead of meaning the newsletter for a Wargamer or all Wargamers did it mean the newsletter produced by the Wargamer - i.e. him. A great man though whatever.

Book One - Charge. The best book ever written. And it still smells great.
Book Two - 1815: The Armies at Waterloo, Ugo Pericoli. A truly awesome book.
Book Three - Weapons & Warfare 1618 - 1648, Eduard Wagner. Wonderful illustrations.
Book Four - Introduction to Battle Gaming, Terry Wise. Almost my first wargame book.

Best cover illustration. Historex you reckon?

Could have been airfix, the horse is a bit too substantial for Historex.