Glyn Williams
Wargamer and founder/chairperson of the Penarth & District Wargames Society, long-time organiser of the Crusade wargaming show in Penarth, Wales, and designer of the Fire & Bronze wargame via Bad Goblin Games.
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Sep 29, 2026
Guy BowersHOST
You've mentioned your background, but how about, what's your war game? What's your favourite periods? What scales? What rules?
Glyn WilliamsGUEST
How did I get into war gaming? It's very much, as a young kid at junior school, I used to play a lot of chess and build and paint the obligatory FX models.
Glyn WilliamsGUEST
A few years later, Comp, I found some like-minded individuals, and this invariably led to the two hobbies merging into a very basic form of wargaming.
Glyn WilliamsGUEST
As with many of us from my era, this started with playing games on the living room floor with a couple of friends, an A4 handwritten set of rules, and a couple of boxes of AFX ACW figures, where a six on a D6 was a hit.
Glyn WilliamsGUEST
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.
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Guy BowersHOST
What organisation, how much work is involved running something like Crusade? At the time of our first show,