S. Craig Taylor

until his Air Force father was called up for the Korean War. As his father was in the military, he attended 11 different schools in 12 years. Taylor started in the hobby in 1956 playing with miniatures and moved on to other wargames two years later. Around 1964, he returned exclusively to miniature wargames until he was contacted by Steve Peek in the spring of 1973 while he was living in Georgia about printing Wooden Ships & Iron Men as a board game. Taylor helped Steve Peek run the small game company Battleline until it was sold to Avalon Hill. In 1979, Robert Yaquinto hired the two of them to create games for his new game company Yaquinto. In January 1984, when the popularity of board games was falling, Taylor started working for Avalon Hill. Abridged List of Notable Games 1974 Wooden Ships & Iron Men 1976 Air Force 1977 Machiavelli (with James B. Wood) 1977 Flat Top 1979 Naval War (with Neil Zimmerer) 1980 Swashbuckler: A Game of Swordplay and Derring-do (with T. O'Neill) 1984 Firepower 2004 Sergeants: On the Eastern Front S. Craig Taylor, Jr.: A Celebration of his Life... and a Farewell S. Craig Taylor fan microbadge: