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Other Stuff => General Wargames and Hobby Discussion => Topic started by: marianas_gamer on September 04, 2013, 06:06:28 AM
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It is being reported on TMP that Don Featherstone passed away yesterday.
http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=318455
A sad day for many of us who were introduced to this hobby through his books, a surprising number at the public library. Rest in Peace.
LB
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I was buying his books before i was properly involved in the hobby. RIP
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Sad, if not entirely unexpected news given a long and successful life. Definitely the first wargames author that I read.
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He will be missed.
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One of the founders has passed. RIP.
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Very sad news.
Tony
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A sad day indeed. I've met him a couple of times; a true gentleman. I still have nearly all of his books.
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Gone, but he won't be forgotten.
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One of the giants alongside HG Wells. Sadly missed but his legacy will be kept alive by us all.
RIP Mr Featherstone. :'(
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A sad loss to the Wargaming community :(
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He was a great "eye candy book from the library" part of my early war game experience but he pretty much was a non-factor in my gaming/miniatures life after the 1980's.
He was foundational. He will be missed by many. He just wasn't a large part directly of my experience. RIP.
Gracias,
Glenn
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It was his books and articles which introduced and inspired me to start Wargaming back in the early 70's. A great role model to my wargaming generation, who will be sadly missed.
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A great man , RIP
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RIP Sir.
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I grew up reading his books borrowed from the local library. Another of the greats pass on-RIP.
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A giant in the hobby. God bless him.
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Rest in peace, we owe you one Don!
What a great fellow, truly remarkable what he did for this community.
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atrue Gentleman,he visited our group in Omaha/Nebraska in the mid ninties telling us of his time int he royal tank corps in WW2.i am glad i got to meet him,lest we forget.....
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Bezzo,
I like your thought.
Mr. Featherstone and Jack Scruby, the two men who gave us the modern hobby. Much more deserving of credit than Wells, though he deserves a nod, of course. And let us not forget that Don's son, also a gamer, predeceased him and he had the sad duty of eulogizing his own son within the hobby press. I'm not sure but I believe he was 95 years old, the father, not the son.
I think what we can best do in his honor is to hold ourselves to a higher standard and introduce others to the hobby. While I never met the man and came late to his books - long after I started in the hobby, I believe he'd find that a fitting memorial.
And thus passes the Captain General of The Old Guard.
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Hi lads
very sad news about Donald Featherstone :(
Looks like are club Wessex Wargames Society club will be honouring the great man by having a trophy done in his name for best game man ship/ round member chap award ...
we have a EGM next week so more will come out then but are club will DO something to honour this great man ..
happy gaming LR
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Bezzo
He was one of are founder members of are club and started it all off 40+ years ago( we have now over 50 members that would not be gaming if it was not for him and people like him ) some of the old guard at the club will miss his :(
Happy gaming all LR
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Like a lot of people, my first introduction to this oddball hobby of ours was with Mr. Featherstone's books in the public library - I believe the first I found was his prehistoric thru medieval (3000BC to 1500AD, I think?) book. Having just checked our online library catalog, I see the only Featherstone book in circulation is "Bowmen of England", which is straight history, not actually a wargaming book.
A life very well lived.
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Sadly, it is a sign of the times that our library consortium has cleaned out all but one Donald Featherstone book - Featherstone's complete wargaming / Donald Featherstone - and if you search Featherstone you get Lisa book,) Charlotte (book,) and Jane (book, 2 DVDs,) and only 1 book for Donald Featherstone. Not all that long a go there were about 7 or more books scattered throughout the consortium's libraries.
:'( :( ::)
Gracias,
Glenn
Edit:
Here is what you get with "war game" which includes Mr. Featherstone.
The complete wargames handbook : how to play, design, and find them / James F. Dunnigan.
by Dunnigan, James F.
1992.
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Featherstone's complete wargaming / Donald Featherstone.
by Featherstone, Donald F.
c1988.
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Beginners' guide to wargaming / Bruce Quarrie.
by Quarrie, Bruce.
1987.
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War games : the secret world of the creators, players, and policy makers rehearsing World War III today / Thomas B. Allen.
by Allen, Thomas B.
c1987.
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The complete wargames handbook : how to play, design, and find them / James F. Dunnigan.
by Dunnigan, James F.
1980.
6.
Lead soldiers and figurines. With foreword by Peter J. Blum. Translated by E. Stanton Russell.
by Baldet, Marcel.
[c1961]
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It's embarrassing to come to the this discussion so late, but that's what I get for not following EVERY forum. :(
While I'd seen a number of his books before, so he didn't introduce the hobby to me, his Naval Wargaming taught me that I really wanted to see campaigns, reasons for what happened.
Alas, as I said on a Yahoo! group:
That IS a shock!
His Naval Wargaming was an inspiration for numerous campaigns written but never
played out when I really didn't have others to push ships across a table with.
If he'd ever done a Space Wargaming book, I'd have made them happen, for
certains.
Every once in awhile, in someone else's writing, you see a mention or
attribution, and begin to understand his impact on the hobby.
Doug