MEMBERS

Paul Robinson

Year started Wargaming - 1979
Started at Reigate Club - 1990
Major events – American National Champion 1995, 2nd Roll Call Medieval 2003 etc. etc.
Favourite armies – Warring States Ch’in, Ottoman Turk and Patrician Roman
Latest project – finalising extra figures for Late Roman Army
BHGS list checker,
Doubles partner = Graham Briggs,
First army ever used Late Roman,
First WRG rules used – 6th Edition, but can remember unfriendly Huns from 5th. (editor's note - it was actually 4th edition)

Has every Osprey book on Ancient and Medieval subjects so far published

Graham Briggs

Started Wargaming in 1972
Started at Reigate Club - 1998
Major events – Preston SoA Doubles 2000 – last (but we sold lots of macaroons for the local WI)
Favourite armies – Akkadian, Navarrese,
Latest project – 25MM 1288AD Holy Roman Empire
Doubles partner = Paul Robinson (you, know, the small loud one with a beard that has to apologise a lot),
First army ever used Achaemenid Persian,
First WRG rules used – 4th Edition, started on Featherstone/Tony Bath rules.

Ian McNeil (JD)

Started Wargaming in late 70s
Started at Reigate Club – Founder Member
Major events – too numerous to mention
Favourite armies – Patrician Roman, Ottoman Turk and Dailami
Latest project – probably a Beja or Christian Nubian army
Doubles partner = John Buckley
First army ever used : Seleucid
First WRG rules used – 7th Edition

Simon Hall

Started Wargaming in late 70s
Started at Reigate Club – Mid 90s
Major events – too numerous to mention, current National Champion
Favourite armies – Ancient British and Samurai
Doubles partner = Terry Shaw

Terry Shaw

Started Wargaming a long time ago
Started at Reigate Club – Mid 90s
Major events – too numerous to mention, current World Champion
Favourite armies – Medieval Sicilian and Mongol
Doubles partner = Simon Hall

Dave Madigan

Year started Wargaming – 1974ish
Started at Reigate Club - 2001
Favourite Armies - Later Hungarian, Ottoman Turk, Seleukid, Sassanid, Later Hoplite Greek, E Samurai, Maori, New Kingdon Egyptian, Kushan and Feudal Spanish
First WRG rules used - WRG 2nd ed Ancients and Gush 2nd ed. Renaissance.

Started using homegrown WW2 and Napoleonic rules in a mate’s chicken shed in Nelson New Zealand. Also fond of 7YW period but rarely get the chance to get my armies on table.

 
Richard Ayres

Year started Wargaming – 2003
Started at Reigate Club - 2003
Favourite Armies - Ottoman Turk

Richard's presence as a club member has extended the range of ability and experience at the club immeasurably.

Julian Vyner

Year started Wargaming – 1968
Started at Reigate Club - 2001
Favourite Armies – Hsiung Nu is recent favourite but also Patrician Roman.  Can do many Chinese variants

Organised the first National Student Wargames Convention in 1978, held at Sussex.

Johannes (Hans) Kroonenburg

First started approx 1975 in Perth WA  (That's Western Australia for the uneducated!)
Started at Reigate Club - 2003
Favourite Armies - Ottoma Turkn and currently collecting Chinese, Babylonian/Assyrian  Carolingians and Tamils

Also into WWII  (Land, sea & Air), WWI Air, and various Space Warfare

Nik Gaukroger

Year started wargaming – 1979
Started at Reigate Club – 1999
Major events – 1st at Roll Call 2004
Favourite armies – Late Imperial Roman, Beja, Dynastic Bedouin
Latest project – Wars of the Roses Lancastrian armyy
BHGS List Checker
Doubles Partner – Pete Reilly (not a club member)
First army ever used – ECW Royalist, first ancient army Late Imperial Roman
First WRG rules used – 2nd edition Renaissance, 5th edition ancients

Editor of Slingshot, the SoA magazine.