Amusing! Perhaps. But it's more than that. I crave the Peter Gilder 'In the Grand Manner' set-up, like the Gettysburg table in that Edward Woodward film- I covered that meisterwerk a year or so back- which also means a panelled, leather-lined library, pickelhaube and decorative cavalry swords. There's something disturbingly psychological going on. Wasn't Conrad Black a Napoleonic wargamer? In my present setup, a stuffed London house, I'm lucky if I can get away with a skirmish on the dining room table.
I remember that scene from Callan very well. Gilder also provided figures and terrain for a Tyne Tees series called, I think, The Wargame. Charles Wesencraft was also involved in that. I suspect you are right about Conrad Black, I expect he was the Little Corporal.
That was Battleground (1978), introduced by none other than Mr. Woodward himself: still available to watch on blurry YouTube in three or four gripping episodes. Gilder, I think, is in the Gettysburg episode- and it’s the very same table as used in Callan. Do you know the White Horse whisky colour supplement ad., from about 1974? With the Waterloo set up? Looks suspiciously like the work of Gilder, too. The man seems to crop up everywhere.
Ah yes, that's it. Edward Woodward became a keen wargamer for a while. Another actor wargamer was Derek Guyler, think he was a member of the Society of Ancients. Don't remember the White Horse ads but there was one for Weekend chocolates thst featured a glamorous couple fighting a Napoleonic battle. I think she wins and gets the last soft centre...
I’ve seen it! My late father also did a magazine ad for Churchill cigarettes in the very late 50s with a Stadden figure of a British Lancer, which I’ve still got upstairs somewhere. I’ll DM you the White Horse whisky ad- it might amuse you. International Man of Mystery turns wargamer, showing off this Peter Gilder? table to a girl who looks like she should be in Callan…
Excellent article, reminding me of my one and only wargame experience, organized by my military history tutor at Oxford in 1975. We were gaming the Helder landing of 1799. I was the admiral in command of the fleet, and my only notable decision was to order the evacuation of the army after the general had screwed up and failed to secure the beachhead. (The 1799 commanders did a much better job of it - the landing at least but not the rest of the war)
Love this. For closet wargamers with Napoleon fantasies, it's rather reassuring.
Ah, and perhaps give you the confidence to come out to play?!
Amusing! Perhaps. But it's more than that. I crave the Peter Gilder 'In the Grand Manner' set-up, like the Gettysburg table in that Edward Woodward film- I covered that meisterwerk a year or so back- which also means a panelled, leather-lined library, pickelhaube and decorative cavalry swords. There's something disturbingly psychological going on. Wasn't Conrad Black a Napoleonic wargamer? In my present setup, a stuffed London house, I'm lucky if I can get away with a skirmish on the dining room table.
I remember that scene from Callan very well. Gilder also provided figures and terrain for a Tyne Tees series called, I think, The Wargame. Charles Wesencraft was also involved in that. I suspect you are right about Conrad Black, I expect he was the Little Corporal.
That was Battleground (1978), introduced by none other than Mr. Woodward himself: still available to watch on blurry YouTube in three or four gripping episodes. Gilder, I think, is in the Gettysburg episode- and it’s the very same table as used in Callan. Do you know the White Horse whisky colour supplement ad., from about 1974? With the Waterloo set up? Looks suspiciously like the work of Gilder, too. The man seems to crop up everywhere.
Ah yes, that's it. Edward Woodward became a keen wargamer for a while. Another actor wargamer was Derek Guyler, think he was a member of the Society of Ancients. Don't remember the White Horse ads but there was one for Weekend chocolates thst featured a glamorous couple fighting a Napoleonic battle. I think she wins and gets the last soft centre...
I’ve seen it! My late father also did a magazine ad for Churchill cigarettes in the very late 50s with a Stadden figure of a British Lancer, which I’ve still got upstairs somewhere. I’ll DM you the White Horse whisky ad- it might amuse you. International Man of Mystery turns wargamer, showing off this Peter Gilder? table to a girl who looks like she should be in Callan…
Excellent article, reminding me of my one and only wargame experience, organized by my military history tutor at Oxford in 1975. We were gaming the Helder landing of 1799. I was the admiral in command of the fleet, and my only notable decision was to order the evacuation of the army after the general had screwed up and failed to secure the beachhead. (The 1799 commanders did a much better job of it - the landing at least but not the rest of the war)
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