Yarkshire Gamers Reet Big Wargames Podcast

• Episode 80 - John Savage - Participation Games

  Welcome to the show and today my guest is another Yorkshire resident Mr John Savage. John is well known on the show and Lardy Day circuit for putting on high quality, fun participation games and we spend the final section of the show talking about those games and getting some tips for putting them on ourselves. Before that there is all the usual mayhem of a "normal" episode. John has been seen doing some Big Game Napoleonics recently so we use the Big Game section of the show to discuss that and also add a new meaning to the phrase "Full Leipzig" The next episode could be anything ! But the main thing is there will be one and it will be free !  Until next time Sithee Regards Ken The Yarkshire Gamer

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• Episode 79 - Live from T'Other Partizan

  A change in Programming Schedule as the difficult birthing of the Wargames Time Machine episode continues. I took the opportunity to take a ginormous microphone down to that there Newark and the T'Other Partizan show where I spoke to the organisers and a variety of people including former guests and potential new ones, here is the full running order Running Order Live at T'Other Partizan  Side 1 1. On Ilkley Moor bar t'at (Band of the Coldstream Guards) 2. Intro with Yarkshire Gamer 3. Trix and Laurence (Partizan Organisers) 4. Andy Johnson (Episode 64) 5. Roger Castle 6. Chris Flowers (Episode 32) 7. Martin Gane (Episode 53) Side 2 1. James Morris 2. Big Lee and Ray (Episode 72) 3. Simon Miller (Episode 22) 4. Joe Bilton (Episode 58) 5. Barry Hilton Side 3 1. Kevin Dallimore 2. Tim Whitworth 3. Mark Backhouse 4. Rich Clarke (Episode 50) and the Brews Boys 5. Steve Shann (Episode 40) 6. Pete Berry (Episode 44) 7. Glen from Warbases Side 4 1. Paul Eaglestone - Empress Miniatures 2. Dave Thomas 3. Paul EWM (Episode 43) 4. Leon from Pendraken 5. Outro Yarkshire Gamer 6. Last of the Summer Wine (edit) Something a bit different, hope you enjoy it, please like subscribe and leave a comment where you can thank you. Hopefully back soon with the Time Machine finally working ! Regards Ken  The Yarkshire Gamer 

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• Episode 78 - Mark Strachan - New Zealand 1866

  Hi everyone, welcome once again to Yarkshire Gamers Reet Big Wargames Podcast. Today sees a continuation of our round the world trip with a visit to New Zealand and my guest Mark Strachan. Marks Blog 1866 and all that has been a popular stop off point for many wargamers over the years, it covers many things but specialises in the Franco Prussian War and other similar wars around that time. https://stracmark.blogspot.com/ We look at Marks personal hobby as well as his time working in the wargames industry and the hobby in general in New Zealand. Hope you enjoy it. Episode 79 will be a new show format for Yarkshire Gamer as I take you all back in time to 1983 and the first ever edition of Miniature Wargames. I've got some great guests and an item from the magazine (kindly donated by its current owner) which I hope to raise a few quid for the Bradford Burns Unit by auctioning it off. So until next time, Sithee Regards Ken The Yarkshire Gamer

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• Episode 77 - Charlie Wesencraft - A Tribute

  Earlier this year one of the early Wargaming Pioneers Charlie Wesencraft passed away at the age of 97.  I thought it would be a fitting tribute to get some of my former guests together and have them tell Charlies story and there memories of him.  In between the various interview sections I read passages from his first book, written in 1974, Practical Wargaming. See if you can spot any phrases from those readings that still resonate today. Charlies first book can still be obtained via amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Charlie-Wesencrafts-Practical-Wargaming-Wesencraft-ebook/dp/B01H2UK96U?ie=UTF8&tag=mh0a9-21&hvadid=&hvpos=&hvexid={aceid}&hvnetw=o&hvrand=&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_7dy1f5hemb_e Here is a link to Robbie Roddis' piece on his blog about Charlie https://independentwargamesgroup.blogspot.com/2025/04/charlie-wesencraft-author-wargamer-and.html And here is the piece about Pete Berry from Baccus6mm and his tribute to Charlie which has a link to the Blenheim Project https://www.baccus6mm.com/news/28-06-2025/CharlesFWesencraft/ Thanks for listening and as always, please like subscribe and comment wherever you get this podcast to help the listenership grow. My next guest will hopefully be Mark Strachan from New Zealand who runs the 1866 and all that blog, so I best get the Yarkshire Airline Pidgeon fed up for the trip. Regards Ken The Yarkshire Gamer

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• Episode 76 - A Question of Brews

  Hello everyone and here's something for the weekend ! This is the hangover from Episode 74 when in the Brews in the Binyard Episode where we talked rubbish for that long we didn't get chance to cover the listener questions ! So here they are. We spend an hour catching up as one or two things have happened between this episode and the last brews and then its into the questions. As always for the professionally offended, this is a very loose form Podcast which contains the odd (and even) naughty word, I even mention edible knickers a couple of times (no, I don't know where it came from either) so if its not your ting skip on by and wait for the next episode. Speaking of which I am putting together a Tribute Episode to the recently departed Charlie Wesencraft whose book Practical Wargaming was an introduction to the hobby for many of us. If you would like to include an audio tribute (minute of so long) to Charlie, send it to me at [email protected]  Until next time Sithee Regards Ken The Yarkshire Gamer

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