Pony Wars.

Peter Gilder introduced Pony Wars into the Wargames Holiday Centre basically as a bit of light relief from the heavy going of large Napoleonic battles. It was a brilliant success. Basing the rules on [or plagarising depending on your point of view] ' B Company Aint Coming Back' by the talented Ian Beck the games enjoyed a lot of popularity before Peter Gilder sold the armies as he was wont to do.He replaced the western theme with the equally excellent Sudan period. I thought it would be nice to view some of the original western figures again

Lets Fight Leipzig Part Two.

 Ive managed to download the second part of the article Peter wrote for Miniature Wargames. Like a lot of articles Gilder wrote he kept the thing brief. I sometimes wonder if he just got bored of such things and once he had fought the battle he just wanted to be onto his next project.Still there is a order of battle albeit based upon a very high man to figure ratio. It still would have looked very impressive and I would dearly love to have had a crack at the weekend.

Miniature Wargames Number Four.

 Peter Gilder was well known for his terrain and love of Napoleonic refights. In Miniature Wargames Four he was to provide details of his most ambitious refight... The Battle of Leipzig.

 When I first read this article I was simply blown away by the size of the game and all in 28mm!

 Of course the images of units from the refight drove me to paint faster, better and basically follow the Gilder ideals. It was only later I finally realised that I had neither the money, time or resources to stage these types of games. But it did provide loads of ideas about how to wargame in the grand manner.

Miniature Wargames. Number One.

 Miniature Wargames when it hit the shops in 1983 was a revelation for wargamers.After the collapse of the Battle magazine there was literally no media outlet for the growing hobby. Other people had tried to get wargames magazines off the ground but all had failed very quickly.

 Peter Gilder was instrumental in the birth of the first quality wargames magazine providing beautiful photographs of wargaming figures, naturally Gilder's and also giving wargamers decent articles to read and enthuse over.Peter Gilder press-ganged a poor librarian called Duncan Macfarlane to become the editor simply because he was a wargamer and knew about writing? The rest is history.
 In the first issue there was a review of Gilder's original Wargames Centre which apart from being a great advertisement for his business was also the first nationwide mention that Gilder had left Hinchliffe models and set up his own figure company.