{"id":2404,"date":"2022-01-15T12:38:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T20:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rindis.com\/fox-den\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2022-07-04T14:47:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T21:47:26","slug":"an-introduction-to-wargaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rindis.com\/fox-den\/an-introduction-to-wargaming\/","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction to Wargaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox Den will be publishing a few old Lowrys Hobbies\/Panzerfaust Publications products other than the magazine for a while, hopefully around the 15th of each month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rindis.com\/fox-den\/an-introduction-to-wargaming\/introduction-to-wargaming-small\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2405\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2405 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rindis.com\/fox-den\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Introduction-to-Wargaming-Small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rindis.com\/fox-den\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Introduction-to-Wargaming-Small.jpg 181w, http:\/\/www.rindis.com\/fox-den\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Introduction-to-Wargaming-Small-97x150.jpg 97w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/a>When Don Lowry took over <em>Panzerfaust<\/em> in 1972, he offered a free booklet to all new and returning subscribers. This booklet was a guide to the essentials of board and miniatures wargaming, with listings of prominent publishers and clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Gygax wrote the lead piece for the booklet (reprinted from <em>Lowrys Guidon<\/em> #1 published a few months earlier), and (at my guess) the section on miniatures wargaming as well.<\/p>\n<p>The information in here is decades out of date, and is presented purely as a snapshot of wargaming in the early &#8217;70s. It is also a rare collector&#8217;s item for anyone interested in the period.<\/p>\n<p>Available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wargamevault.com\/product\/383571\/An-Introduction-to-Wargaming?src=FoxDen\">Wargame Vault<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox Den will be publishing a few old Lowrys Hobbies\/Panzerfaust Publications products other than the magazine for a while, hopefully around the 15th of each month. When Don Lowry took over Panzerfaust in 1972, he offered a free booklet to all new and returning subscribers. This booklet was a guide to the essentials of board &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rindis.com\/fox-den\/an-introduction-to-wargaming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Introduction to Wargaming<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[18,19],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","tag-panzerfaust","tag-wargaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rindis.com\/fox-den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rindis.com\/fox-den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rindis.com\/fox-den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rindis.com\/fox-den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rindis.com\/fox-den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rindis.com\/fox-den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502,"href":"http:\/\/www.rindis.com\/fox-den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions\/2502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rindis.com\/fox-den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rindis.com\/fox-den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rindis.com\/fox-den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}