History of Wargaming Project

The Project aims to research and publish key works in the development of professional, hobby and educational use of wargaming. It currently includes work from Donald Featherstone, Fletcher Pratt, Peter Perla, Phil Barker,Fred Jane, Charles Grant, Stuart Asquith and Terry Wise...

Tuesday, 19 March 2013

More Pratt material uncovered

Every few months I am lucky enough to get sent another collection of old wargaming material. Today I opened a huge box full of previously ...

Thursday, 14 March 2013

DBA 2.2 and Bruce Quarrie's Napoleonic Wargaming in print

I am pleased to announce the publication of the classic DBA 2.2 rules, with chapters on tactics, their development, applying the to histori...

Sunday, 10 March 2013

The development of games is not always linear

I recently played a new edition of the one of the few board games that is of global importance in the games industry, Monopoly. The actua...

Tuesday, 12 February 2013

WRG 6th edition ancient wargaming rules are back

The WRG rules for ancient wargaming were the first comprehensive set of wargaming rules suitable for national competitions amongst hob...

Sunday, 10 February 2013

German Armed Forces play board games

I met some key people in the German armed forces this week. They use board games for leadership training. They use historical games from wel...

Monday, 28 January 2013

The cost of producing computer wargames

Why do manual military board games still get produced. There are many board games still being produced by makes such as Decision Games...

Thursday, 17 January 2013

Update on Fletcher Pratt Naval Wargame

As a few of you might know I have been hunting down original material on the Fletcher Pratt naval wargame. Over the years, I had enough to ...

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John Curry Editor History of Wargaming Project: https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/john-curry/

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