It’s late October and I thought the right time to provide an update and
y whereabouts. I just realised my last post is from May this year, some of you
may wonder if I’m still life (which I am, as you can see). The truth is that I
followed my own advice from late last year of “doing it as and when” and not
getting worried of setting targets or goals to publish in the blog.
So what I’ve been up to? Well, I can say that it’s been of a back to the
future of sorts year: very little playing with minis and a lot with tabletop wargames.
Fist a ittle bit of context and history Unlike many of the anglo-saxon wargamers,
my first steps in the hobby were not with little toy soldiers or the Donald
Featherson’s book (totally unknown in Spain the 70s) but with boxed wargames in
the very early 80s.
Given my interest for history and particularly 2nd World War
history, my late father found like the perfect Xmas gift for me in December
1980 in the form of wargame: Panzerblitz (followd soon after by the sister game
Panzerleader). It was like a revelation from heaven and the start of my long
standing interest in the hobby. I played with my brother and collected close to
30 Avalon Hill and Victory Games products.
In the mid 80s I was cofounder of Club Dragón in Madrid and my interests
started to widen towards the games with minis, initially fantasy games (WFB)
and very soon historical games in the Ancient and 2nd World War
period.
Gradually I abandoned tabletop wargamers and haven’t literally again
played a single game since AH went through the financial drain in the late 90s and
was sold to Hasbro.
This has completely reversed this year. I coincided with a very active small
group of wargamers that gather every Friday afternoon. Coincidentally, we have moved
the office of my company from the suburbs to new premises centrally located and
10 minutes walking from the club in late January… so all stars aligned.
