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Location: Wessex
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Name: Jimbo aka Felix (as in Felix's Gaming Pages) aka James
Age: 895 (therefore can be classed as Old git!)
Location: South West UK
Games (Miniatures):
Currently
Epic40K,Warhammer 40K, Warmaster, Flintloque, Darkest Africa.
Games (Boardgames):
Talisman (best fantasy boardgame ever); Space Hulk (excellent ALIENSesque game)
Games (Role-playing):
I still have an interest in Space 1889, but haven't played for years... once was involved in a major AD&D campaign, which I played more like Monty Python then serious fantasy.... I also GM'd a very interesting Warhammer Fantasy RolePlay campaign. With the re-release of WFRP I am tempted to get back into it...
Armies Collected (Miniatures):
Again these are current armies (I have a wealth of miniatures hanging about).
Epic 40K/Epic Armageddon:?
Orks - this is my major and favourite force for Epic, I just find it an amusing army to fight with and I like the fact the rules reflect this. I am currently building a Feral Ork Army and an Ork Airfield Defence Force.
Imperial Guard - I do like tanks and the miniatures are the best of the lot.
Space Marine - well when you get all those plastic miniatures in the box, you have to do something with them, find them a little too shooty for me.
Eldar - I have some in a box awaiting painting.
Warmaster
Orcs and Goblins - they are really nice miniatures.
Warhammer 40k
Orks - Virtually done now, but they were going to be a snow based force complete with ski troops and snomobiles....? kinda decided to paint them as is.
Flintloque
Orcs and Goblins (see a theme here?)
Warhammer
Dwarf (well I have eight figures painted...)
General Info (Profession):
I am a Director of an Online Learning Consortium of FE Colleges in the South West - hence I spend way too much time online!
General Info (Gaming Background):?
? I started gaming back in 1982 or thereabouts (I am excluding the stuff I use to do with 1/32nd scale plastic matchbox infantry and Britains guns which fired matchsticks (Little Wars anyone) when I was about eight) so in 1982 I started to play 25mm Napolenics - had some interesting Prussian Highlanders at this point.
? After a few years of that I did some 1/300th World War Two microarmour (British force) and the one time my Cromwells decided to drive through a river (and sank) still haunts me to this day....
? One day my gaming group had just bought a new game, called Warhammer, and tried it and it seemed fun... I originally bought a Dwarf army, but eventually switched to Orcs, building up a nice little army complete with lots of Goblins, lesser Goblins and the odd Pygmy or three.
? Bought Rogue Trader (Warhammer 40K First Edition) when it came out, and had an Ork force and some Space Marines.
? During that time bought loads of other games (esp boardgames such as Block Mania, Mighty Empires and so on...).
? In the early 1990s I didn't buy Adeptus Titanicus as I didn't like the idea of large robot games, but did buy Space Marine, hated the rule, but loved the miniatures, so I used a slimmed down version of Dirtside instead.?
? It was about this time that I decided I didn't like the way GW were heading and started to ignore them (except the odd game of Man o War) and got into more types of gaming including 15mm Operation Sealion and Moderns, Flintloque, and putting on the odd display game here and there.
? In 1992 I helped to form the SFSFW (Society of Fantasy and Science Fiction Wargamers) and two years later edited there journal, however I am no longer involved in that anymore. At the time I put on developed and ran a range of participation games at various shows across the country, and my personal favourite was a Star Trek variation of Full Thrust.
? The Star Trek variation of Full Thrust was one of the most popular participation games of all time and won numerous best of show awards, as a result of that I formed a small gaming company to sell the system alongside the main Full Thrust rules. I also started to sell other rules as well, Felix Enterprises was born. It died in 1999 due to that fact it stopped making money...
? I didn't buy Epic40K when it came out, but mt mate Simon did so and said it was a good system.... I did buy it (with a load of miniatures) in the half price sale they had in February (98 I think) and bought more stuff when a local games shop closed down - since then it has been my favourite and most played game.
? I bought Warmaster when it came out and still have to have a game.... but I like the system.
? I have just bought Warhammer 40K and are painting up an Ork force, as my mate Simon bought me some minis for my birthday...?
? I have a large collection of games (RPG, board and miniatures) but am slowly getting rid of most of it via eBay (which pays for new stuff? ) This includes/included 1/200th stuff, 20mm, Star Wars, Star Trek, 25mm Napoleonics, Moderns, Near Future, Urban conflict, etc, etc...
? I've had a few articles published in commerical magazines... some of them are now on my website, this is not a definitive list, can't remember them all!
Arena Watch - Autoduel Quarterly - now available online
http://www.sjgames.com/car-wars/...arena.html
Otaire de Vigneur was published in Miniature Wargames
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/art32.html
as was The Battle for Lower Turnstool
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/art33.html
I also had a fun "historical" article called It fell off the Back of a Lorry which gave background and rules to a scenario where the Russian Mafia steal a T-92 MBT in the depths of Russia and the local police need to retrieve it... found the manuscript the other day, so will at some point post it to the website.
In Practical Wargamer (now defunct) I had a few articles published including
Sharke's Abbey - The Battle of Elgin Abbey a flintloque article
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/art30.html
and
The Battle for Casa Tumoor
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/art29.html
this one had a lot of my photographs published in it.
I also had published in Practical Wargamer
Klingons on the Starboard Bow - The Star Trek Full Thrust Story
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/art10.html
Wessex - The Second English Civil War was my first article published in issue #43 of Wargames Illustrated, and as I was never paid for that article
I never wrote for that magazine again
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/art27.html
? I have also had quite a few articles published in fan magazines and society journals, I also edited a fantasy and SF journal for two years as well as publishing my own fan magazine for a few issues.
? As yet I have not had anything published by Games Workshop, though I was a playtester for them at one point...
? My website, http://www.ifelix.co.uk has been around since 1998 and was originally designed to sell my rules, but at the time it was impossible to sell them to the USA (no PayPal then). I also wanted people to visit and hence the miniatures gallery was placed on the site to attract visitors and I still feel it is one of the best on the web.
As you can probably guess I like taking photographs, and I feel I ain't too bad at it....?
Films and TV
I loved Babylon 5 and am a great fan of Star Trek (but I am not a trekkie/trekker/obsessive saddo). Star Wars (the 1977 version, which I queued to see at the cinema) is my favourite film of all time, though When Harry Met Sally and Field of Dreams are up there too. Currently enjoying Enterprise, Jack and Bobby and Smallville on the box and looking forward to Star Wars III.
Books
Harry Turtledove is my favourite current author, but do like Louis de Bernieres and others.
IT
I see IT as a tool but as part of my job I need to use and evaluate a lot of IT kit. Very much a Mac convert/fanatic.
Web Sites
http://www.ifelix.co.uk
The Felix's Gaming Pages Blog
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