John Hill passes away

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**reds8n**

in case you're unaware of him :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hill_%28game_designer%29

John Hill was an American designer of military wargames, as well as rules for miniature wargaming such as Johnny Reb 3. He was a member of the Wargaming Hall of Fame.

Hill, a native of Indiana, is most known as the designer of the extremely popular Avalon Hill board game Squad Leader in 1977. Hill founded Conflict Games Company in the late 1960s and owned a hobby shop, The Scale, in Lafayette, Indiana, for several years. Among his many titles were Verdun, Kasserine Pass, Overlord, Battle For Stalingrad, Tank Leader, Eastern Front Tank Leader and many others. He also designed Hue, based upon the fighting near the City of Hue in the Vietnam War.

In 1978, Hill was named to the Wargaming Hall of Fame, receiving the Charles S. Roberts Award at the Origins gaming convention in Chester, Pennsylvania, on June 23, 1979.[1] He was honored as a "famous game designer" by being featured as the king of diamonds in Flying Buffalo's 2009 Famous Game Designers Playing Card Deck.[2]

Hill developed what arguably is the most popular rules set ever developed for regimental level American Civil War miniature gaming, the Johnny Reb series (published by Game Designers' Workshop).[citation needed] He was noted for his elaborate 10mm miniature wargaming layouts for Civil War battles at Historical Miniatures Gaming Society conventions such as Historicon, Cold Wars and Fall In!. He founded and owned the Johnny Reb Gaming Company, which published the third version of the Johnny Reb rules.

Hill was a frequent contributor to the Johnny Reb Gaming Society's popular CHARGE! magazine, offering rules interpretations and strategy advice for Johnny Reb players. He lived in New Mexico after spending many years in Virginia and was an analyst for the U.S. military.

Hill died in January 2015.

Wargames Illustrated linked to this old interview with him -- whic is a good few years old now

http://www.c3iopscenter.com/documents/F&M%20Interview%20John%20Hill.pdf?7a42bf

**Necroagogo**

I adored the Tank Leader games when I was younger.

Sad news but a helluva legacy.

**Portugal Jones**

He was a good 'un.

It always a bit sobering to realize how much time has passed in the hobby.

**Tannhauser42**

I don't know if I still have any of his games (used to have Squad Leader and ASL years ago). He will be missed. Today's gamers just don't realize the debt owed to the likes of him and others like him.

**Arschbombe**

I started with Panzer Blitz, but Squad Leader was the game that really got me going in Wargaming. Individual leaders, tanks, 40m hexes. I ate all that stuff up.