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As teenagers living in Lincoln, England in the 1970s, Richard Halliwell and his school friend Rick Priestley liked to play tabletop miniature wargames. In 1979, while still in school, they decided to create a set of rules for a fantasy miniatures wargame they called Reaper.
BoardGameGeek was founded in January 2000 by Scott Alden and Derk Solko, [6] and marked its 20th anniversary on 20 January 2020. [7]Since 2005, BoardGameGeek hosts an annual board game convention, BGG.CON, that has a focus on playing games, and where winners of the Golden Geek Awards are announced.
In 2000, Priestley designed the 10mm-scale mass combat Fantasy wargame Warmaster. [4] Rick left Games Workshop in 2009, complaining that the corporate culture had grown too focused on sales and no longer cared about innovation in game design. He does consulting work on a freelance basis and is a consultant at River Horse Games. [5]
Miniature wargames are a form of wargaming designed to incorporate miniatures or figurines into play, which was invented at the beginning of the 19th century in Prussia.The miniatures used represent troops or vehicles (such as tanks, chariots, aircraft, ships, etc.).
When the 1975 publication of the popular wargame Tobruk by Avalon Hill resulted in more shallow reviews, Barnard convinced Vasey that they should create a zine dedicated to in-depth, objective and critical reviews of wargames. The result was Perfidious Albion, a small self-published
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