Donald Featherstone

Uh, I know you had Tom License on recently talking about hi- his theory about Harold's army sailing to the Battle of Hastings, and I thought, "I just want to make sure I'm still as up to date on this as I can be," because there's quite a few books out there, a lot of...

And, again, within war gaming a lot of the ideas within war gaming date back to the 1960s, the classic age of Donald Featherstone.

And yeah, I just wanted to check that what I had was as accurate as it could be and plumb Ryan for additional details of people who may have been involved in the events at the time rather than fabricating things to fill the gaps.

I mean, ultimately, you know, I, I, I write, uh, I write war games and I like to run games, but it's great if you can learn something about history while you're doing that.

We then discovered publications from the grandfathers of our hobby.

Terry Wise, Introduction to Battle Gaming, Charles Grant, Napoleonic Wargaming, Bruce Quarry, Napoleon's Campaigns in Miniature, and of course, various books from Donald Featherstone.

And I'm pleased to say these publications still grace my bookshelves today.

I've always been a horse and musket fan, mainly Napoleonics, but also American Civil War.