This is Williton Gamers ‘Rogues Gallery’! A place where visitors can see who we are and what our interests are.D
Dave
I’ve 4 kids and love little men, I’ve got loads and loads and always need more I think I’ve got an addiction!
My other interests are Xbox games and woodwork – I like to make stuff to use on the battlefield.
My kids also play Chain of command. I don’t let them win, they need to earn that lol.
I’m also a martial arts instructor and have played loads of other games but none is as good as playing CoC!
Projects in the pipeline 1/72 modern and getting a hair cut!
Ivan
Probably like a lot of people with an interest in war-games my first encounter with war-games was playing with HO/OO and 1/32nd scale Airfix figures as a kid back in the ’70’s and making up our own simple rules as we went along.
Eventually this progressed on to proper rules sets when I was introduced to a friend of my fathers who played Bruce Quarries ‘Napoleonic Campaigns in Miniature’.
I can remember vividly looking with fascination at his collection of painted 15mm British figures with their individual regimental facings. These were of a far better quality than my childish attempts at painting my French Imperial Guard! However they did spur me on to paint a better figure and get more involved in the hobby.
Slowly, my interests began to widen, mostly through the local model shop who stocked Dixon’s 25mm Samurai. This coincided with seeing ‘Shogun’ on the telly and I was hooked on all things Japanese. Over the next couple of years I gradually increased my collection as much as my weekly paper-round money would allow.
The model shop also gave me my first introduction to role playing games through a book called ‘Dicing with Dragons’. I loved that book. Unfortunately there wasn’t a gaming club that I knew of in my home town and it wasn’t until a few years later when I had joined the Royal Air Force that I was introduced to a wargaming club.
The War-games club at RAF Gutersloh was one of the best clubs I’ve belonged to over the last 30 odd years. The club had a wide range of interests from role playing games such as AD&D and Twighlight 2000 to miniature rules sets from Napoleonics and Warhammer to 1/300th scale Micro Modern.
All of the above mentioned games systems would keep me busy for the next three years where I would spend a fair bit of time travelling around Germany playing AD&D at friends houses and Napoleonics and Micro Modern at competitions including the World Championships in Paris!
Unfortunately over the next 30 years my attendance at war-games clubs was a bit more sporadic and it wasn’t until I moved down to Somerset (UK) a couple of years ago that I had the opportunity to set up a new club. And although it is a fairly modest affair the club is growing slowly and expanding in interest and the games being played.
Tied closely to interests of the club, my own include:
- World War 2 – 28mm ‘Bolt Action’ and ‘Chain of Command’.
- Fantasy – 28mm ‘Warlords of Erehwon’
- Dark Ages – 28mm ‘Saga’
- Napoleonics – 28mm ‘Sharp Practice’
- Dungeons & Dragons – 5th Edition
Projects in the pipeline:
- Campaign system for CoC
- Detailed rules for mortars in Chain of Command
- 8th Army for Bolt Action & Chain of Command
- US Airborne for Bolt Action & Chain of Command
- Anglo Saxon warband for Saga
- Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition campaign
- Kill Team
Rory
I’ve been wargaming for over 20 years, having started at school playing Warhammer 40k way back in the 2ndedition. I then moved onto historical games mainly playing Ancients in 25mm scale using WRG 6thedition rules and 20mm WWII using Rapid Fire. During my teenage years I played a lot of RPGs such as dungeons and dragons, mainly playing as Dungeon Master for a small group of friends based in the quiet Exmoor village of Porlock.
During my late teens and early twenties wargaming took a bit of a back seat as I embarked on a career at sea as a merchant Navy Officer eventually working full time as a third officer of Princess Cruises.
With the arrival of kids, I moved to shore based employment, working for a few years for HM Coastguard before settling at the UK Hydrographic Office. Working a traditional 9 to 5 job allowed me to get back into wargaming by allowing me to commit more time to clubs and the hobby.
Currently I play a wide range of periods, rules and scales. I have also written and published a few of my own rule sets available on Wargamevault.com.
- 28mm WWII – Using Chain of Command and Bolt Action Rules
- 20mm Modern – Using my own rules Fireteam:Modern
- 1/3000 Modern Naval – Using my own rules Naval Command
- 1/3000 WWII Naval – Using Victory at Sea or my own rules Battleship Command
- 1/300 Cold War gone Hot – Using various systems such as Cold War Commander, Team Yankee or my own rules Armoured Strike.
- 15mm Ancients – Using DBA
I also run my own website mainly dedicated to my own rule writing and development. http://rorycrabb.wordpress.com
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