Rumours

[Hman]

Edward Woodward - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po1pVjSOW2Q

Peter Cushing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGag8Qllgnw

[Panzer21]

Incidentally, who on earth is Christine McVie? I tend not to watch British news these days - far too depressing.

Fleetwood Mac

Neil

[Panzer21]

Edward Woodward was a warmer and actually got a war-game into a scene on one of his programmes.
Mark Urban is a BBC presenter and military historian but I don't know if he war-games.
John

That's one of wargames worst kept secrets. If true, the rumour is his alias is "Eclaireur" of British Grenadier fame.
It's who I was hinting at; as it's a rumour I can neither confirm nor deny....... ☺

Interestingly, while Callan (fictional character) was a wargamer, I'm not sure Edward Woodward ever was......
He portrayed one in Callan and this led to him fronting the Tyne Tees "Battleground" series; Peter Gilder being a common denominator here, making the terrain (and the figures for Callan) in both.
He is rumoured to have bought the figures and terrain from Callan and I know from Rod Langton he wanted to buy some of his ship displays but he may have been simply a collector rather than playing with them.....
Neil

[Sean Clark]

She was in Fleetwood Mac.

Henry Cavill, of Superman and the Witcher fame is well known for his love of Warhammer 40k and has visited Warhammer World at least twice this year. He has been happy tonhave pictures taken with staff and gamers.

I've often thought Mark Urban must be Elcairuer, author of British Grenadier. Might be wrong though.

Edward Woodward of course hosted Battleground in the 70's for Tyne Tees TV. I think all episodes are on YouTube. Very old fashioned now of course using huge 'bounce sticks' and measuring tapes. No grids in sight 

[Leman (Andy)]

Well we all had to start somewhere. However, on my very first wargame board before even discovering Don Featherstone, I had papier mache terrain marked off in squares with rules in my head; that would be 1965. In 1966 I discovered youth club, another "real" wargamer, Don Featherstone's work and sand tables.