Yesterday was the 30 year anniversary of the world cup final now remembered more for the three tenors concert?
Back in 1990 being a keen football fan I watched England fail again – the gascoigne era with missed penalties skyed over the bar as I recall.
I don’t seem to remember the three tenors although as I paint my wargames figures to classic fm they are now heard quite often and are easy on the ear.
Yet all was not wasted back in 1990 as during the matches I decided to map my imaginary world. At the time I had just acquired Tony Baths “setting up a wargames campaign” published by wargames research group (wrg). I had run a solo campaign and enjoyed it so much that I decided to expand the small A4 map of hexes.
The end result was lots of football viewing and a very large map of the imaginary world mapped in hexes.
Each hex was colour coded to reflect the categories suggested in Tony Baths book. And I since then it has had quite a few uses although never of itself. I always just made a copy of the part that was being campaigned. So I guess it was my master map.
The important thing was it anchored one view of my imaginary world and it still forms a key part of it 30 years on.
In this world of perfect computer generated images there is something reassuring about its roughness.
The Wargaming Erratic 