"Pics from old Battle Magazine" Topic

Hi

Found a bunch of pics I had taken from Battle Mags which might be of nostalgic interest

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Great pictures and a great magazine. Some of the Battleground episodes are on y tube.

link gettysburg from Chris Gilder

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Nice find. And get a haircut, ya bunch of hippies!

Wonderful.

Lovely

A visit to SELWG and you can still see these reprobates.

Not so much hair as there was then, hehe.

Carry on, chaps.

That's great. Thanks

Battle magazine is how I discovered Wargaming. I was 12

Great pictures, and a reminder of how good magazines used to be (and you could leave your doors unlocked and get into the pictures for a jam jar, etc.)

Peter Gilder, Charles Grant, Stuart Asquith, yes – but can we identify any more?

I loved those magazines. I still have my copy of Miniature Wargames number 30 which was the first issue of this magazine that I purchased. Sadly I no longer have my Battle magazines. The Hyborian campaign articles were inspirational.

Gentlemen gaming in the Good Old Days.

Ye Gods! Back when Wargaming was a spectator sport. Thanks Steiner.

Im amazed how many people were in suits and ties. Thanks for the look see, Steiner.

Notice how much slimmer the average person was, regardless of age. Of course these were Britons, but I've noticed the same thing about period pics from the States as well. Somebody's fattening us up for some reason…

Is that Blackadder!?

I still have my pile of Battle magazines, those photos are very familiar!

Eumelus, I suspect it's the rise of the service industry rather than heavy industry/manufacturing.

I've always thought the most interesting photos from shows/conventions are the ones of the people and venue rather than endless photos of games and these make that even more relevant giving a fascinating glimpse into wargaming's past.

Great find – must have a root through my piles of junk to see if I've still got any mags this old. I have lots of Don Featherstone's Wargamers Newsletter but there's not many photos in them…😊

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I was intrigued by the picture of the elderly gent next to a caption saying Special Ancient Wargaming Issue! Not sure if it meant there were articles about ancient wargamers in that issue or articles about wargames in the ancient period. Perhaps it was a bit of both. Also is that Jimmy Hill about to roll a dice when playing a hex-based game?

Ezza

Ezza, the elderly gent is I believe the great Charles Grant, great early wargamer and prolific author….as is his son!!

I have a lot of these magazines in my wargames room…must get them out and have a read!

Hi ezza

That is Charles Grant author of several classic wargame books.
His WW2 set Battle! was one of first wargame books i owned/read

I thought it was Clement Freud not Jimmy ‘the chin' Hill :-)

I think Saltflats1929 that is Blackadder teaching a young Keaunu Reeves the art of wargaming ;-)

Indeed – Charles Grant had a regular column in Battle, ah….those rhomphaia debates ! Sweet memories

Those tashes are immense!

Looking at those magazines I wounder if this was the Magazine that showed how to do Napolionic battles with 1/14 inch screws as infantry. I had may happy hours doing so in my youth.

Yep, I know most of those – and these were just the colour pics. Inside, my favourite article was the Napoleonic campaign that ran for a few issues. Inspiring stuff.