Back to the Future...

[Harry Faversham]

I've been cogitating on getting back into WW2 wargaming properly with tanks guns and Infantry. I've got hundreds of the little bleeders kicking about that haven't been used for donkey's years.
I want to get them out and play with them using Charles Grant's 'Battle - Practical Wargaming'. I've still got the perspex templates made in the sixties (and of course, the soldiers!) to revisit our youth in the Tardis.
I think I might have a pop at this as I could happily (I think) play these rules solo while dreaming of how it was in the old days.

[Truscott Trotter]

Aged 11 (1972) I found Charles Grants - Battle in the local library .
It changed my life - for the  better.
40 years later I finally got to buy a second hand copy just cos 😊

[gamer Mac]

I take it you are talking 20mm or 1/72?

[Belisarius]

The Grants , father and son , are always a pleasure to read . I’ve always fancied doing the same using “ The War Game “ rules and the later Companion books .  Loosely based on the 7YW and using the Grand Duchy of Lorraine and the Vereinigte Freire Stadte Armies.  Put the FUN back into Wargames.

[Inkpaduta]

Ah, going old school I see. I love that!

[Harry Faversham]

Talking of skool, that's where I got my copy of the book from. I was 12 in 1970 and was drawn to the book by the artwork. I borrowed it from the skool library, and the problem of how to carry on playing with toy sowjers, as I grew up was solved.
I was so impressed with this revelation that I promptly nicked the book from the library, and the rest, as they say...
is history.

[Harry Faversham]

I take it you are talking 20mm or 1/72?

HO & OO scale woz wot it woz back in my day son!!!



 

[Truscott Trotter]

Yup looking through the little cellophane window and trying to work out what the figures looked.lome before you boight them was half the fun.

[flatpack]

Went to Bournemouth on the south coast of England with my folks EVERY summer holiday thro the 70’s.
Found a brilliant bookshop, and always spent my holiday money on wargaming books as I had just got into playing games with my millions of Airfix ww2 figures.
Bought BATTLE, and the book on skirmish wargaming.

Ironically I went into my barbers the other month, and as I sat there waiting to get the Barnet chopped, I picked up a magazine that was lying there.
It was a meccano magazine from 1969. I asked the barber why it was on the pile to read ?
He is into his scooters and someone said there was an old article in an old meccano mag. He went looking for the issue and found it was only about £10 for the whole years worth.
So he got his scooter article, but inside there were monthly articles that had come straight from the BATTLE book, in the section for war gamers.
Brought the memories flowing back.
 

[Ragnar]

Battle was my first introduction to miniature wargaming, some time in the mid 70's. 

Happy memories.