Papottes sous BGG

Rob Markham, designer of the month sur BGG, parle à ses fans :
http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1031677/bgg-wargame-designer-of-the-month-robert-markham

Pour ceux qui ne connaîtraient pas ce grand monsieur du wargame :

Citation :

This month's Board Game Geek Wargame Designer of the Month is Rob Markham.

Mr. Markham has been an enthusiastic wargamer since his grandmother bought him AH’s D-Day at age 10. He has designed over 100 published games, including Napoleon at the Berezina, Go Tell the Spartans, and Campaigns of King David. His latest design is Saratoga from Turning Point games.

Mr. Markham's designs and articles have been finalists over 20 times for various awards, and his Raid on St. Nazaire won a Charles Roberts Award as did his article on Berezina in Against the Odds. His games have been published by Avalon Hill, 3W, GMT, Avalanche Press, Clash of Arms, LPS, Turning Point, One Small Step, XTR, Pacific Rim, and his own company, Markham Designs.

He has been teaching history at Danbury, CT High School for 37 years. As an educator, he is very proud of the fact that his simulations have been used in high schools and universities across the country. He has run numerous workshops on the use of simulations in the classroom modeled after his own Military History class that has been in place in Danbury High School for a decade.

Entre autre reconnu pour sa série médiévale sans nom ( 48 batailles à ce jour, sans compter les suites plus ou moins heureuses ), considérée par beaucoup comme ce qui se fait encore de mieux aujourd'hui sur la période. Rob, tu réédites quand ?

Ce mois-ci, un autre auteur que j'aime beaucoup pour son approche historique du wargame, P. Sabin !
http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1330665/bgg-wargame-designer-month-philip-sabin

Citation :

Mr. Sabin has been a wargamer for over 40 years, and became Professor of Strategic Studies at King's College London's War Studies Department. Over the past 20 years, he has published several board games on ancient warfare through the Society of Ancients. In 2007, his book 'Lost Battles' was published, reconstructing three dozen different ancient battles using a common rules system. A deluxe board game edition was published by Fifth Column Games in 2011. In 2012, his book 'Simulating War' was published, containing eight different simple wargames which he has used in his military history classes. One of these (Hell's Gate) was published in a deluxe edition by Victory Point Games in 2013, and VPG has just published a second game from the book (Angels One Five).

Besides using wargames to help his BA students to understand conflict dynamics, since 2003 Mr. Sabin has been teaching a very innovative MA option module in which students design their own simple board games of past conflicts of their choice. Many of these are available for free download (Google 'Sabin consim'). He also writes regularly for 'Battles' magazine, and works closely with defense wargamers in the UK and overseas.

Ce mois-ci le designer invité est N. Rident, l'auteur de Liberty Roads

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1449490/bgg-wargame-designer-month-nicolas-rident

Une étude intéressante sur la popularité des wargames d'après les stats de BGG :
https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/198680/welcome-gaga-zone-wargames-high-fanboy-bases-and-l