THE ICE MAN THAWS

What have I missed? Hi guys, sorry I am a bit late; I just popped out briefly. I have been away from figure gaming for exactly 40 years. In 1982, I was a member of the Colchester Wargames Club. Then, that whole “life” thing happened, leaving me “cryogenically frozen”, Han Solo-style, if you like. Except in Colchester, rather than Cloud City. Last year, in 2022, I joined the Malmö Figure Gaming Club. One minute I am bring the average age of the club down, the next I have caused it to skyrocket. Yes, I know, shame on me. I absolutely get it. I do not really know how it happened.

Tim Foxley

Let me (very briefly) introduce myself. For over forty years I have been a military history enthusiast, thirty years a (very amateur) punk rock guitarist, twenty years a British government intelligence analyst and ten years a freelance political/military analyst. I am primarily a 6mm WW2 solo gamer and mainly interested in achieving a historically plausible narrative to a game, rather than any unseemly “winning or losing” against an actual opponent. I cut my teeth on Avalon Hill and SPI in the late 1970s, embracing figure and board wargaming until a superior solution to Fog of War emerged in the 1990s: computer wargames. ’Course, in my day it was all Donald Featherstone and Peter Gilder round here. And Gavin Lyall. Does anyone remember his book on WW2 gaming, or did I…

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