Gary Gygax 1974 battle report plus Mike Monard interview...

Panzerfaust Magazine No.64, released around May / June 1974... great little mag with some wonderful articles. Started by Don Greenwood in 1967... it became Campaign magazine (not to be confused with Campaigns Magazine) at some point in 1976 having changed hands a few years earlier. Lots more info on the magazines' history over here on TacticalWargamer. I've scanned the whole issue as a PDF but I'm waiting on my accomplice in arms to crop it as I don't have a PDF editing license... where there's a will etc.

The participants in this game read like a gathering of the greats... Gary and Ernie Gygax, Rob Kuntz and Mike Monard. A nice introduction and a very readable storyline... fun times were had I think. Played using the TSR 'Wild West' campaign rules... I assume they mean the Boot Hill booklet?

Hopefully the scans are high enough resolution to read and / or download to read.

I also discovered a most wonderful little BBC World Service interview with Mike Monard chatting about the D&D...

Listen to it and / or download it below;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04p9329

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Fantasy Wargaming a la Tolkien by Gary Gygax

From Panzerfaust magazine, September /October 1973. I hope you can make out the text. Gary Gygax was then the 'Miniature Warfare Editor'. Interestingly he makes no reference to any line of miniatures so I assume he was avoiding the Miniature Figurines (Minifigs) ME range as that was released in 1972. I wonder if he had not heard of it at the time which baffles me. Was there a reference to any range in his Chainmail rules? Mine are in storage for the time being......

I added the front and rear pages plus the contents as a taster. A good article on the magazine is over on The Tactical Wargamer.

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