A short history of NZ wargaming clubs - from Alastair Mundell, 3 August 2025

The link is to Alastair Mundell’s short history of New Zealand wargaming clubs - a nostalgic read https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15Sn86ZK7q/?mibextid=wwXIfr

My own introduction to wargaming was a bit stop and start. I saw the Wellington Wargaming Section, as I think it was then, display at the central library in 1972 but I was a shy 10 year old and, although fascinated, did not talk to anyone. In 1979, through a school friend, I rediscovered what was by then the Wellington Warlords at St Luke’s church hall, Wadestown.

The pic is of the first two wargaming authors I read. “War Games” was the second wargaming book I read. The first was Brigadier Young’s “Charge!”

https://www.facebook.com/groups/824840264342234/posts/2999124096913829/ 

John Dods

BTW in 1979 there was still one member of the Wellington Wargames Section, the late great Morgan Hopkin, he refused to join the Wellington Warlords but continued to pay his Section subs to the Warlords treasurer who dutifully passed took care of it as the Section no longer had a bank account.