This man can talk! (Takes one to know one…) Bob Cordery has been on the wargaming scene for a long time, playing games since before Don Featherstone’s original War Games was published in 1962, followed swiftly by US gamer Joseph Morschauser’s How to Play War Games In Miniature the same year. The significance of these two books cannot be underestimated, not least because they immediately delineated the gridded/non-gridded gaming sides of the fence.
This is an interest that has stayed with him ever since, and his wargaming life changed radically in 1980 when he met the celebrated military historian and organiser of large-scale games, Paddy Griffith. This meeting led to the inaugural get-together that has come to be known as COW (the Conference of Wargamers), the formation of Wargame Developments and the launch of its popular newsletter The Nugget. Bob has been up to his neck in organising all these things, in one way or another, ever since.
Bob’s name started to gain traction on the Web when, in 2008, he launched his popular Wargaming Miscellany blog which has grown and grown consistently ever since, now groaning under the weight of more than 4,000 entries! It was through this medium that Bob continued to explore his interest in gridded games of many kinds and found, to his delight, that there were many like-minded gamers urging him to develop these ideas further.
This, in turn, led to Bob taking his first plunge into the world of self-publishing when he produced The Portable Wargame in 2017, which has been followed by a succession of titles, the popularity of which has astonished even him, and more publications are in the pipeline.
So, sit back and enjoy listening to this man, a raconteur par excellence, describe his journey into the less-travelled corners of the hobby, where he has met and mixed with some of the biggest names not only in the world of hobby gaming, but of professional and military wargaming too.
Henry
Bob’s blog, Wargaming Miscellany
The Portable Wargame on Facebook
The short-lived Game of War TV show:
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