Never make you hobby your job was the wise advice of my late dad. I think we all get periods when the rest of life gets in the way of hobbies but this is probably what keeps this time fresh. This reply keeps wanting to turn into a blog article by itself …īack to a holiday afternoon of “Flocking and Basing” afresh more of my old Peter Laing figures onto single figure stands. I’d be interested to hear what you think /like /miss when you take a trip back to the early Featherstone 1960s rules. I keep resetting to my “War Games” Groundhog Day somewhere between 1962 and the early Airfix 1970s. I began actively solo gaming as an older child in the late 70s, so am technically a 70s / 80s convert but one whose gaming roots remain stuck in the early 60s with what was available in the library. Interesting thought – I wonder what the Eighties and Nineties converts and indeed the games system Noughties and the Teenies joiners will reminisce about? Well we can just look back through what survives in the blogosphere if anything. Good to see him still involved, still enthusiastic and commenting on Bob Cordery’s blog this week. Stuart Asquith’s short books were /are always interesting and well worth rereading.
DON FEATHERSTONE ARCHIVE
Having recently read the online archive scanned copy of Little Wars I am repeatedly impressed by how much H G Wells influenced early Featherstone, FE Perry etc.
DON FEATHERSTONE FREE
If I ever register another blog when I run out of my free 3GB photo space it will probably be called Wargames Butterfly / Flutterby if not already taken.(I checked Mike Hobbs from the Meeples and Miniatures podcast team took thus title ages ago …) It also suits my “Wargames Butterfly” or “Wargames Flutterby” nature of flitting between periods and scales, between vintage nostalgia metals / plastics versus pound store plastic tat, too much to stick to one system like Bolt Action or the like, even if I understood it. It suits my available time and attention span. I think what I really enjoy / understand is the short sharp low level platoon / skirmish slugging match with an interesting background narrative (that could become a campaign if I put in some effort). In some ways I don’t have the choice, my brain is just not “technical” or mathematical enough, so I cannot get my head round modern games systems, card systems, D&D and to be fair could never understand most of the family card games either. This huge variety of rules obviously has pitfalls at club and tournament level but “this is our house, this is our rules” as the well known strategist and philosopher Miley Cyrus observes in We Can’t Stop (another good retro cover version on YouTube by Postmodern Jukebox!) I wonder what Don would have made of websites and blogs if they had happened earlier in his career? Compared to the reprograthic slog of printing and posting out Wargamers Newsletter / Digest … But not made out of bronze – Made out of lead graveyard scrap melted down toy soldiers? Carved out of sand, coloured with distemper? Or modelled out of a pile of His books? I think to be fair he would rather have his Memorial as the tournament / cup which exists and thousands of happy gamers worldwide.
There should in an ideal world also be a large statue of Donald Featherstone (in shirt and tie of course). Maybe a statue of a large Airfix figure should be erected somewhere – but which figure? That would take ages or be impossible to agree. Without cheap Airfix, and Donald Featherstone, maybe many people would never have begun wargaming. I think everyone, as Donald Featherstone says in his early works, develops their own rules and playing style to suit their temperament, influenced by the times they are in and what’s in the bookshop / modelshop. Glad you enjoyed Stuart Asquith’s Comfortable Wargaming article as much as I did. Posted by Mark, Man of TIN blog, October 2016. Delightful!Īs Asquith concludes, “If you want to shell out around £30 for a set of rules, then feel free, but you know, you really don’t have to – don’t worry about phases or factors, go back to simple enjoyment.” Well worth downloading and like the article, back to basics, simple stuff. It’s his Hook’s Farm / Little Wars style adaptation of Donald Featherstone’s 1963 Horse and Musket rules, adapted and made freely available with Featherstone’s permission. It has the wonderful article title of Comfortable Wargaming (now there’s a book I would buy if it had a title like that!):
DON FEATHERSTONE DOWNLOAD
I noticed today a reference to these 1963 simple rules in Stuart Asquith’s interesting article in Lone Warrior’s free download articles. Recently I uploaded a set of early 1963 Donald Featherstone rules from his 1963 book Tackle Model Soldiers This Way that several WW2 gamers were interested in.
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