Wargaming Recon

Hello Wargaming Recon readers! Jonathan put out a call for bloggers and I answered! I’ve been wargaming for about a decade now and playing RPGs and board games for almost 30. I spent 15 years as a photojournalist and recently went back to college to change careers. I’ve been craving a creative outlet and decided this was the perfect opportunity to revive my neglected blogging hobby.

2019 is almost done and I haven’t blogged since the beginning of the year! I set out in January with a goal of painting 350 28mm figures. Major projects were a WWII Soviet army, Terminator Genisys miniatures, and a mix of zombies including some Nazi zombies for a convention game in my hometown I attend every October.

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Shrewsbury Wargames Society’s best in show 2019 at Alumwell Wargames Show.

Clubs are and have always been a key part of wargaming. In the modern world of Facebook, blogs and even podcasts, the connection between players has never been greater.  With the role of the wargame show changing, and even disappearing for some, the human contact between players is still the usual twenty miles round trip for most to their nearest club or shop. In this context I intend to write a monthly insight into the world of wargaming through the eyes of the Shrewsbury Wargames Society wargames club, based on the Shropshire/Welsh Border.  I will share how the modern world of wargaming has effected and continues to evolve in the age of the internet for the betterment of the hobby.

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