THE WARGAMERS ANNUAL

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It’s the festive season again so it must be about time for another Wargamer’s Annual from Charles S Grant.

This edition has the usual excellent selection of articles (over a dozen) and include the following: The Making of a Tabletop Mysore Army; The Search for

Eldorado; Simple Combat (by Alan Tidmarsh who has written on the subject in this very magazine); Neither Biting nor Chariot (a piece on WWII landings); The SevenYears

War: A Trial by Combat (where Angus Konstram discusses the benefits and advantages of differing rule systems that his group tried out for the period); Hodge’s

Scout (a French Indian Wars solo game system); and Gettysburg in the Gazebo

(playing a big ACW in the garden following the covid situation).

There was a fine piece on Famous Cavalry

Regiments with the British in the Sudan with lots of nice pictures and – with even more excellent snaps of a master painter

– a piece on the armies of Darrel Hindley showing off some fine Late Romans and others.

The other sections include an article featuring the best game at Partizan this year: the fort and models by Graham Hilditch which, of course, can be viewed luxuriously in this very magazine (with information on how he built and painted it all).

Finally there’s a good piece on a American Revolutionary War game The Battle of

Freeman’s Farm; an article with game mechanics of a superb looking Napoleonic battle Avatar Peninsular and some Napoleonic illustrations by the late Bob Marrion which – all on their own – would make much of the volume worth while: they are excellent. A good read for any gamer: recommended.