Warning Order Issue 61

[Steve J]

The latest issue of the ever excellent Warning Order magazine is now available to download:

https://www.wfhgs.com/wrngorder.html

[Glorfindel]

Thanks Steve.   Always a great read (and covers such a wide variety of subjects).   Might be useful during a quiet moment in the Christmas hols.


Phil

[T13A]

Many thanks Steve.

Cheers Paul

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Likewise - ta la

[steve_holmes_11]

Really interesting final article talking about extremely old rules gaining a new breath of life.

I'm fascinated by the speculation that retirees have dug their gaming stuff out of the attic, and picked up where they left off 20 years ago.

[John Cook]

Really interesting final article talking about extremely old rules gaining a new breath of life.

I'm fascinated by the speculation that retirees have dug their gaming stuff out of the attic, and picked up where they left off 20 years ago.

Not speculation if I am anything to go by.  I stopped wargaming in around 1993 and although I maintained an interest didn't take it up again until I retired in 2009. 

[d_Guy]

Thanks as always Steve

[steve_holmes_11]

Not speculation if I am anything to go by.  I stopped wargaming in around 1993 and although I maintained an interest didn't take it up again until I retired in 2009. 

Are you still playing the same rules as in 1993, or have you delved into the newer rulesets?

I'm interested to know to see whether you fit the precise profile in the article.

[d_Guy]

Really interesting final article talking about extremely old rules gaining a new breath of life.

I'm fascinated by the speculation that retirees have dug their gaming stuff out of the attic, and picked up where they left off 20 years ago.

Similar to John. Quit about the same time and restarted at retirement in 2012.
One difference, the 25/28's and the 20's are packed up and I started over in 10mm.

[John Cook]

Are you still playing the same rules as in 1993, or have you delved into the newer rulesets?
I'm interested to know to see whether you fit the precise profile in the article.

No problem.  Yes, the same rules as in 1993, more or less.  I retired from the army in that year and started a new career, which coincided with moving house, my son starting secondary school and necessitated a daily commute into London, so I had other imperatives, which were the principal cause for the interruption. 
At that time I was wargaming in two periods, Napoleonic with 15mm which I adopted around 1970 with the original Miniature Figurines strips after I became fed up with the scale-creep of 20mm via 25mm to 28mm going on 30mm. 
I also had a sizeable ACW Army in 10mm with 10 High figures which I'd started using around 1985, again because I was fed up with scale creep, this time of 15mm figures.
As for rules, you'll probably be disappointed as I was already using computer moderated rules in 1993.  Prior to that I'd used WRG Horse and Musket 1685-1845 for Napoleonics and Johnny Reb for ACW.  When I started out wargaming in the 1960s I used the rules in Donald Featherstone's book and then wrote my own.  But, by 1993 I'd been using DOS based programs for five or six years.  Follow the Eagle, produced by the late Dave Watkins, for Napoleonics and Clinton Reilly's Computer Strategies Rally Once More for the ACW.   
After I retired in 2009 I found the time, and inclination, to take up wargaming again, though I had never lost interest entirely.  These days I use Computer Strategies for every period, including naval games. They are Windows based now of course and include naval, and where appropriate air modules, and a solo capability.  They have come a long way since the days of DOS and the 5¼ Floppy Disk and are now in the seventh iteration of their Windows version.