The Review Team
Germy
Germy has been playing wargames since Warhammer 2nd Edition (1984). A Sci-Fi and Fantasy fan for over 30 years his involvement in wargaming has included running miniature manufacturers websites, miniature sculpting and webmaster for Germy.co.uk (a free hobby site since 2001). Germy is also a member of the Maidstone Wargame Society.
Germy's own website
Adster
The Adster is a veteran wargamer and role player of some thirty plus years. A member of the Essex Home Guard (more like a lead-addicts support group than a wargames club) who meet up regularly to moan about young people and occasionally play games with toy soldiers. There is almost no historical period, scale or genre that hasn’t caught his attention for a time, as the many neglected boxes of figures stacked in his loft will confirm.
TwoGunBob
TwoGunBob is a wargamer with some twenty years or so of experience dealing primarily in sci-fi, post nuke, horror, and fantasy genres with an occasional dabbling into historicals. Usually suffering from Miniatures Attention Deficit Disorder, he tends to accumulate rules sets he will never get to playing and miniatures to match as he tends to have to paint all the miniatures for whatever latest game he's subjecting his fellow wargamers to due to his forever shifting passion for a game or period that they'd be fools to invest in whatever madness he's formulating until he's completely finished a project.
Nik Harwood
Nik has been wargaming since 1980 [aged 10] - his first armies were Zulus & British, painted for a school project. His interests expanded with the discovery of D&D and microtanks and after a significant period as a GW-addict, he rekindled his love of historical gaming in 1999, discovered 10mm, and focused on the variations of the Warmaster 'engine'. This led to his love of Blitzkrieg Commander and and an on-going involvement with Specialist Military Publishing, in playtesting of Cold War Commander, Future War Commander and BKCII; Nik's miniatures are featured extensively in those rulebooks. Nik has completed painting work for individuals and manufacturers and continues an involvement with Pendraken.
Nik's own website
Gary Mitchell
'Veteran wargamer and author' Gary Mitchell has been a keen historian and gamer since childhood. As well as teaching the subject at a Bournemouth secondary school he currently contributes to top international journals 'Miniature Wargames' (for whom he writes the monthly sci-fi / fantasy review column 'Dark Horizons'); 'Battlegames' , 'Wargames Illustrated' , and for 'Ragnorak', the journal of The Society Of Fantasy And Science Fiction Wargamers. These days Gary is most infamous in gaming circles for his role-play-wargame 'Space Vixens From Mars', and for his radiocomedy work.
Gary's own website
Phil Richards
Phil has been playing with toy soldiers since the early 80s (earlier still if digging trenches for Action Man in his dad’s vegetable patch is included). He started with D&D before moving into proper tabletop gaming as a member of the Maidstone Wargames Society. Like most wargamers he has dabbled with many periods over time but has mostly focused on WWI, WWII, Romans and Arab / Israeli wars. Quite often his enthusiasm for a new period drops off as soon the figures have been purchased. He has a bit of a fetish for Sherman tanks and has recently been called a “nerd” by Germy.
Tony Francis
Bio coming soon.
Wyatt the Odd
Bio coming soon.
Jo
Bio coming soon.
Ben
Bio coming soon.
Iain Hicken
Iain Hicken has been a gamer/roleplay on and off for around 15 years. Initially exposed to the hobby at school through a chance encounter with a Games Workshop annual, he has expanded his interests over the years to include historicals. Many of you may know Iain from his other guise, the owner/operator of 'The Hobbybox' for around 5 years. Although work committments last year meant that Iain had to stop running Hobbybox, this has meant that he has more time to devote to actually doing the hobby, instead of simply selling it. Iain has been a member of Swindon And District (SAD) wargames club for many years, playing both tabletop games and boardgames. Iain's main ambitions now are to finish renovating his house and finally complete at least one army! When not wargaming Iain can frequently be found wearing an array of strange costumes as a member of an amateur dramatics group.
Rudi Geudens
Bio coming soon.
WillieB
WillieB considers himself one of the luckiest wargamers in
the world, because some 30 years ago he met a beautiful girl
who actually liked to paint miniature figures. So he married
here there and then and hasn't regretted it for a second.
Every now and then she frowns when she notices his ever growing
lead mountain, but then realises that there's no cure, sighs
and picks up her brush again.
Although he claims to only have interests in just a few historical
periods like the French Indian Wars, the Spanish Civil War
and Late Romans, most of his friends just nod and smile benevolently
when they hear this.
According to one of them it's a matter of gradation. You can
be extremely interested , highly interested, very much or
somewhat interested and so down the scale to 'couldn't be
bothered' WillieB is still looking for figures to fit in that
latter category, but hasn't succeeded yet. Which perhaps might
explain the massive SF fleets seen on his workbench recently.
Or the Samurais. Or the Colonials. Wargamers will understand.
In all probability to stop him from doing more harm, and
to be able to keep a close watch on him, he was made president
of the Tin Soldiers of Antwerp war game club 16 years ago.
Together with a handful of other addicts, he runs the yearly
Crisis wargame event in Antwerp, the success of which has
alas proven to have a very detrimental effect on his condition.
Recently retired and thus with even more time on his hands, his friends and family fear the worst.
John C
Bio coming soon.
