Battle magazine: Fantasy wargaming in the 70s

lenihan

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Recently found a cache of 1970s wargames magazines, and have scanned in some articles and reviews you might find interesting.

Trigger alert: if you are traumatised by fashions of the 1970s, or by beards, please do not click this link.

http://wheretheseapoursout.blogspot.co. ... rough.html

Anybody know anything more about Battle magazine? Or about any of the games or ranges of figures described therein?
 
Oh how I remember the issue with an introduction to Fantasy Gaming, think I was about 11 at the time!
I so wanted the polystyrene dungeon shown!
Battle magazine was later merged with Military Modelling.
Those black and white ads bring back so many memories...of wish lists and no money!!
 
Yeah! It's great stuff, more old 1970s magazines for me to track down. Although before my time in terms of gaming, the era has a lot of appeal to me.

I believe Thane Tostig was the first fantasy wargaming rules set to be published (not counting D&D/Chainmail). Barry Minton who wrote and sculpted the range went on to do the cutlery for the Skeksis in the Dark Crystal, amongst other things. David Wood has some images of the rules and a fair few of the minis on his blog. http://deartonyblair.blogspot.co.uk/201 ... minot.html
 
I have some of other old Wargames Magazines, like Wargames Illustrated and Miniatures Wargames, also some Wargamers newsletters from the time this was a photocopied mag send out by Donald Featherstone.
Of the featured models I own some of the Mignot ones.
The mentioned Garrison and Ball ones quite often appear at ebay, also the Minifigs ones.
 
Ah, what is affectionately known as the Sweater-Dad era. Steve Jackson's short editorial piece seems right on point—with fantasy, the wargaming hobby really exploded in size (and really became an industry that historical gaming cannot hold a candle to). Not that industrialization is the point, but fantasy gaming really let tabletop games reach a much wider audience.
 
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