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If you are an active or an active wargamer and you want to be listed here, please send me information about yourself.  Click here for the template and send me an email.

Wargame stores in Singapore

Unfortunately, a wargames store does not exist in Singapore. Absolute Comics at Bugis Junction carries a wargames title or two sometimes, however, it is mainly a retailer of toys and comics. Paradigm Infinitium at Orchard Road carries a few GMT Games titles and Strategy & Tactics. Borders at Wheelock Place also carries Strategy & Tactics.

The History of the Wargaming Community in Singapore

Wargaming made its way to Singapore when a number of people here read about them in the news, magazines and other sources and ordered them from aboard in the seventies. There was a community of wargamers since the seventies and some of these wargamers are still active.


In the early eighties, wargaming thrived in Singapore with lawyers, civil servants, engineers and others, essentially a professional crowd. In terms of the young there were students in elite schools like the Anglo-Chinese School and Raffles Institution.


The wargaming community was at its peak in the late eighties. Leisurecraft, a now defunct store, was the main retailer for wargames then and the centre for wargames. Robinson’s and Metro were the two other sources of wargames. 


There was also the SAFRA Wargames Club that had organised interschool competitions for Squad Leader. The SAFRA Wargames Club, which was based at Bukit Merah, thrived then but was affected by the eventual decline of wargaming. Then, came the end in the mid-nineties.


The advent of cheap computers and the rising popularity of RPGs and collectible card games put paid to newcomers to wargaming and the decline of the community started. 


Today, the community consists of a handful of players. The directory is created to assist wargamers in locating other wargamers for a game.

Introduction

The directory of wargamers in Singapore is a list of players of wargames. In a nutshell, wargames are defined here as historical and modern simulations of conflict. The wargames represented here will include the following types:

1. Hexagon grid wargames
2. Point-to-point wargames
3. Area-based wargames
4. Miniatures
5. Other specialised wargames utilising a different grid system

The wargames will include ‘Squad Leader’, ‘Breakout! Normandy’, ‘Attack Sub!’, ‘Up Front!’, ‘The Devil’s Horseman’, ‘Prussia’s Glory’, ‘Victory in the Pacific’, ‘The Jewish War’, ‘West Wall Quad’, ‘East Front’, ‘Thirty Years War Quad’, ‘Hammer of the Scots’ and many more.

This directory is of a specialised nature and will only include wargamers who play games of the types in the abovementioned list. This directory will not include players of computer games, fantasy/SF games, lite family games about war (Axis & Allies, Eagle Games products, Risk), German games as there are many avenues for those other games.

Singapore Wargames Directory

Dear everyone,

Welcome to the Singapore Wargames Directory, at least, a new incarnation of it. My account and password for the previous one have gone missing despite extensive records. I have decided on a friendlier medium. Thus, this new one.

Here, we hope to keep a directory of information on people who play wargames in Singapore, it is hoped that this information will assist you, dear reader, in locating wargamers and perhaps even foster the almost forgotten of wargaming here. We also hope to update things about wargaming in the local directory.

I will update and create everything a step at a time. Thank you for reading and for your patience.