Here we have an extract from a letter sent by Peter Gilder to Wargamers Newsletter printed in issue 91 (October 1969 i believe). The background is the spat that rumbled on for some time between the London and Southampton 'sets' of wargamers (Featherstone vs Tunstill, seconds out...), but the real reason i post this is the insight it gives us into PG's hobby philosophy - his rejection of standardisation is music to the ears of this dyed in the wool individualist....
Thanks to Clive for supplying this scan.
3 comments:
Fascinating stuff - only ever met him once (I was lucky enough to go to the WHC when I was a callow youth), but he impressed the hell out of me with his manner, skill and generosity (tweeking castings with solder for a laugh then giving the finished products away). His best trick? showing me that WRG Ancients wasn't ALL there was to wargaming!
Hear, hear.
PG won the Waterloo cup?? I didn't know he was a champion Greyhound breeder as well!
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