Charles Vasey

and has done wargame rules translations. Vasey, in 2006, reports: "I was born in 1952 in Edinburgh, the first son of an English veterinary surgeon and a Scots nurse. My father's family are from Yorkshire and one branch made a bundle of money in the 1860s as coal masters and bought a village in which a slice of my family still live (Appleton-le-Street, near Malton in North Yorkshire). My mother's family were dirt poor Scots trawlermen and miners. I am the eldest of five, father of two, uncle to thirteen, and great-uncle to another three (last time I visited). I'm married to a Pole from Warsaw. I was educated at a Quaker boarding-school and the local grammar-school. I dropped out after school, but bored by this read law externally from London, taking the prize in 1979. I then went to London and took Chartered Accountancy articles, qualifying in 1982. I did a fellowship thesis to the Institute of Taxation in (I think) 1993. I worked for Binder Hamlyn to 1984, KPMG to 1992 and myself thereafter. I specialise in the financial director role for small companies and acting as a consiglieri. Apart from the gaming, my hobbies are clay-pigeon shooting, and France and the French. Hobbywise, I started out in figures in the sixties under the influence of the Blessed Donald Featherstone. I still collect figures (mostly plastic), though my painting skills have declined since the days when I painted for Garrison figures. I started in boardgames with 1914 (Avalon Hill) and reviewing for SWORD & LANCE in the Seventies. I started my magazine Perfidious Albion back then, and our house style of frank reviews led to trouble with a number of companies and individuals over the years. We published gamers in early PAs (instructions to assemble them), and I've designed a few games for publication by others. My topics of interest usually centre on my historical reading. I had thought I could draw a line through 1900 and point to my interests being before that, but it is simply not true. There is so much of interest that I have few no-go areas, though air warfare is probably the closest. I prefer games to last no longer than four hours and to have a chaotic nature based on historical analysis."