Battle: Practical Wargaming
Battle: Practical Wargaming
was written by Charles Grant. The Grant was a leading
proponent of miniatures wargaming and helped popularize the
hobby through his writing. Scottish by birth, he served in the
Royal Air Force in the Second World War, and later in the
Special Branch of Scotland Yard. He passed away in May 1979,
survived by son Charles S. Grant who is also a leading figure
in the wargaming field.
The elder Grant published a number of books on miniatures
gaming, listed below, and contributed to Military Modelling
and Battle magazines as well as part-time editor of
Slingshot: the Journal of the Society of Ancients.
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Battle: Practical
Wargaming (Model and Allied Publications, 1970)
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The War Game (A. & C.
Black, 1971)
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The Ancient War Game
(A. & C. Black, 1974), ISBN 0-7136-1448-X.
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Napoleonic Wargaming
(Model and Allied Publications, 1974)
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Ancient Battles for
Wargamers (Model and Allied Publications, 1977) ISBN
0-85242-553-8
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Wargame Tactics (Cassell,
1979) ISBN 0-304-30470-0
Battle provides a
detailed introduction to the field of miniatures wargaming,
and in particularly the depiction of modern tactical combat.
The book refers to miniature gaming as "the Battlegame" and
the author makes no reference to the hobby of board wargaming.
However, in a step by step, chapter by chapter method, he lays
out the process of defining a rules set for recreating Second
World War land combat at the tactical level, with chapters on
such things as infantry organization, morale, artillery,
armour and anti-tank guns and how to depict them in a table
top setting. |

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