Richard Naylor comes to the show determined to be honest, not only about his wargaming life, but also, very bravely, about his own health and that of his wife, who is bipolar.
Unlike many of my guests, Richard’s entry into the hobby was not via Donald Featherstone and Charles Grant, but instead, after a period of making models (especially ship models), he discovered fantasy, sci-fi and roleplay games like Warhammer Fantasy Battles, 40K and Epic, though more recently he has plunged wholeheartedly into historical, and even ancient imagi-nation gaming.
Emerging thankfully unaffected by years of playing DBM and digesting Barkerese, the desire to field armies of horse archers led him to discover Warhammer Ancients Battles – and to play his games in 6mm with individual casualty removal! An impressive proof of the affordability of wargaming if you really want to join in without much of an investment.
I was delighted that Augustus to Aurelian, a marvellous ruleset penned by Dr Phil Hendry came up in the discussion, which triggered memories of this worthy gentleman being one of the first people to experiment with the then-new Army Painter dips on historical miniatures – a technique that I subsequently adopted myself.
Richard is a big fan of the TooFatLardies and Mark Backhouse’s Strength and Honour, which he again plays in 6mm. He also has a love of WWII Eastern Front gaming, which led him to collect an entire Russian tank regiment at 1:1 in 1/300!
Finally, Richard has teamed up with fri ends Richard Humble and Roger Travis-Evans to form 3R’s Wargaming, who are hoping to run a few small games days and see where that takes them. Keep an ye on Richard’s Twitter account for more information in due course.
A man with a huge collection, who has played games across most periods and scales, both against live opponents and solo, Richard’s story provides an interesting journey to accompany a decent painting session so get out your brushes and enjoy!
Henry
P.S. We suffered some technical issues when we started recording, so you’ll notice a considerable improvement in the sound quality at Richard’s end from around 9 minutes onwards. It also happens that he lives close to a railway line – eliminating the sound of occasional passing trains is beyond even my podcasting skills!
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