An Interesting Book From 1957 About Early Wargaming.

[Roebeast45]

I just posted some images from Making and Collecting Military Miniatures, a book from 1957. If you're interested in the history of modern wargaming and miniature modeling you should check it out.

http://roebeast.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-beginnings-of-modern-wargaming.html

[warlord frod]

An oldie but goodie I have had in my gaming library for a long time   

[DeafNala]

Bob Bard's book was an inspiration to moi when I first started this madness. He also had a monthly home grown magazine that I subscribed to for a few years. GREAT STUFF!

[Cultist of Sooty]

"Interest is added to the game by using figures in natural action poses. Marching figures are exchanged for those in fighting positions when troops move into action; dead and wounded figures replace those shot in action."

Nobody tells Games Workshop about this. Nobody! Right?

[Vermis]

  You took the words right out of my mouth, Sooty.

Interesting book. Ta for the info!

[Trooper]

Just checked Amazon who appear to be selling a pirated copy of this book with a plain blue cover for $30.00 or so. Thanks for posting the cover picture, I shall keep my eyes open for a copy of the original version. It looks like a cracking little book.

[Roebeast45]

The Amazon seller "watermillbooksuk" has a copy if you can find a way of getting it from Amazon UK. I'm not sure how Amazon works overseas.

[Archie]

Nobody tells Games Workshop about this. Nobody! Right?

What a scary thought!