The Ouargistan Gaming Group

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The Ouargistan Gaming Group
and Miscellaneous Minor Major-Generalia

The Ouargistan Gaming Group, circa 1991, around Max's gaming table. From left to right, Steve B. (aka Nokokepepsi Khan), Max Carr (aka Gen. Bindon Mudd, "Pennsylvania" Gordon, Beezil the bandit), Alan Welch (aka Col. Reginald Bunthorne, Col. Malcolm Arbuthnot Carruthers, Commodore Harvey Plimsoll-Lyne, Pasha Ali n'Welaj), Charles Christy (aka Capt. Henry Oliphant, USN Land Dreadnaught Miskatonic), David Helber (aka Maj. Gen. Tremorden Rederring KCB, Gen. Friedrich von Himmelstupper, The Mad Mullah, hillchief Regnad Kcin.)
Occasional associates (not shown): Bill Grand (aka Gen. Leopold Zinktrumpet), Howard Barasch, Gerry Mann, Willard Dennis, Judy Prueitt (Mystical Queen of the Dervish).

Steve operates My Site Works Right, an online website-inspection service.
Max is a computer-support technician for a national airline.
Alan is advertising manager for a university stores group and owner of Zeitgeist Communications, a web design, graphics and marketing studio in Durham, North Carolina.
Charles is a support technician for a positively enormous computer manufacturer.
David is a former graphic designer for Mobil Oil's research subsidiary. He is currently semi-retired, doing occasional freelance graphics.

In the 1980's, Steve, Max, Charles, and David worked together at Heritage Models (later Heritage USA--no connection with Jim and Tammy's theme park), a producer of numerous lines of gaming and hobby miniatures, accessories and boardgames. At Heritage, Max headed the sculpture department, Steve sculpted and designed production systems, Charles managed the retail store, and David sculpted and was art director for printed materials. In addition, Max wrote "Warlord," (a fast-play rules-set for medieval miniatures) and David designed "Dungeon Floors," an accessory tile system for fantasy RPGs. Alan joined the group in about 1990, and helped rekindle enthusiasm in colonial campaigning.

Since Alan and Charles moved out of state a few years ago, the remainder of the group has gamed only infrequently.
Maj. Gen. Tremorden Rederring's Colonial-era Wargames Page is a tribute to the Ouargistan group and some great times.

READ ABOUT the Gaming Philosophy and Style of the Group (with amusing anecdotes)

The Major General's Family Album

The Memsahib, Mrs Tremorden Rederring, the Major General's Lady

The Distaff Side of the Rederring Family The Major General's Sisters, his Cousins, and his Aunts

Celine, The Major General's Goddaughter, of whom he is justifiably proud

The Countess Markievwicz, notorious officer of the Irish rebellion and rumored paramour of the Major General after the death of Mrs. Tremorden Rederring

Brilliant but erratic Cousin Harry, with his invention for restoring romance to modern warfare

The Major General's Great-Niece Zenobia, who inherited Cousin Harry's mechanical aptitude

The Major General's Mother, Margaretha Norton Rederring (in dark blouse) and his five older sisters, on a fondly-remembered hunting vacation to the American plains. It is believed that young Tremorden himself operated the camera.

Mrs.Letitia Browne, the Major General's housekeeper in his last years, ready to do her bit, should Mr. Hitler prove so foolish as to try her

The Major General's Song, said to have been inspired by none other.

Why We Fight - This photo was found folded in the Major General's sun-helmet after his death, and he is believed to have carried it thus throughout his Ouargistan service career.

The Himmelstupper/Welaj Theory - To the end of his days, the Major General held to a theory that his old opponents, General Friedrich von Himmelstupper, commander of Der Ouargistanouslandertruppenkriegslegion, and Pasha Ali n'Welaj, potentate of All the Doukh, were twins, separated at birth. He believed them to be the sons of Col. Manfred von Himmelstupper and one of the concubines of the old Pasha at Tinduk, for whom Col. Manfred was a Prussian military advisor in the 1840's. Some claim to see a slight resemblance between the two leaders in a pair of photographs from the Major General's estate, and though the theory had some currency among the British military establishment of the 1890s, most modern historians believe, with Gen. (later Lord) Bindon Mudd, that "the old boy had a bit of a bee in his bonnet on the subject."

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