Why Fire and Fury? - this game is not about the American Civil War
Well, we wrote the Fire and Fury Civil War rules!. For the moment,
we are selling only our World War 2 game, but we hope to change that some time in 2002. We plan to come out with new products
for the ACW period in the future, and one of the topics on the forum is devoted to the ACW period.
The company:
Fire and Fury games is a loose consortium of wargamers and designers who enjoy both playing and
designing miniature wargames. Our previous efforts include one of the most popular sets of American Civil War
rules "Fire and Fury". When we feel that commercially available rules are not satisfactory,
our immediate reaction is to develop our own! Our previous efforts were published and distributed
by others, but we felt that the time was right to undertake these tasks on our own, both for the
obvious financial reason and also because we feel that we can give better support to our products
if we have more control over them.
The principal members of the group are:
Greg Lyle - The originator of the Battlefront:WWII. Greg is an enthusiastic wargamer who retired
as a LTC from the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps. Greg was also extensively involved with the original Fire and Fury.
Rich Hasenauer - Rich developed Fire And Fury, and turned Greg's original concept for an armor game
into a finished product.
Charles Sharp - Charles knows about as much about the Soviet forces in WWII as anyone you are likely to encounter
Jim Baker - who has enthusiastically pushed the publication of the rules as a hobbyist. You
can blame him for the format of the website (he is still learning).
Mark Hayes helped Rich extensively with the text editing and rules content
Dave Choat-game developer, playtester, and the walking gauntlet for wacky rule ideas,
Dave also contributed his considerable graphic design skills to the project.
We are regular attendees of HMGS East events where
we are often found running Battlefront:WWII or Fire and Fury games.
Some of the Team Clockwise from the upper left: Mark Hayes, Mike Pierce (friend and playtester), Rich Hasenauer, Greg Lyle