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Jack Radey (born 1947, Chicago, Illinois) is an American military historian and wargame designer. He set up People's War Games. He was a draft resister, and activist in the Vietnam anti-war movement. [1] He became interested in wargames when his school friend, David D. Friedman taught him how to play Tactics II. [2]
Charles Swann Roberts (February 3, 1930 – August 20, 2010, [2] [3] [4] Baltimore, Maryland [5]) was a wargame designer, railroad historian, and businessman.He is renowned as "The Father of Board Wargaming", having created the first commercially successful modern wargame in 1952 (), [6] [7] the first wargaming company in 1954 (Avalon Hill), and designed the first board wargame based upon an ...
A wargame is a strategy game in which two or more players command opposing armed forces in a simulation of an armed conflict. [1] Wargaming may be played for recreation, to train military officers in the art of strategic thinking, or to study the nature of potential conflicts.
The new Simultaneous-Sequential-Play-System (SSPS) allowed for much greater realism without sacrificing playability, and was considered the new "state of the art" for tactical wargames. The first era of tactical wargaming had come to an end. The new state of the art was extended to Avalon Hill's Tobruk in 1976, as well as SPI's Firefight.
Rodger B. MacGowan (born 1948) is an artist, game developer, art director and magazine publisher who has been active in the board wargame industry since the 1970s. MacGowan is a prolific artist of cover art for wargames, and the wargaming magazine he founded, Fire & Movement, won the Charles S. Roberts Award several times while under his editorial control.
Shenandoah, subtitled "A Civil War Game of the Valley Campaigns — 1862 and 1864", is a board wargame published by Battleline Publications in 1975 that simulates two campaigns of the American Civil War: the 1862 Valley Campaign of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, and the 1864 Union offensive drive up the Shenandoah Valley.
Books documenting the history of Toy Soldier. Toy soldiers have been a key part of the growth of the hobby; New wargaming books e.g. The Fletcher Pratt Naval Wargame, or the Innovations in Wargaming series; Some military novels by well-known wargaming authors, such as Donald Featherstone (wargamer) A few military history books
Board wargames were more popular than miniature wargames in the USA, unlike in the UK where miniatures dominated through hobby press and conventions. One reason was that assembling a playset for miniature wargaming was expensive, time-consuming, and required artisanal skill. Another reason was that board wargames could be played by correspondence.