Phil Barker | |
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| Born | Philip C. Barker 5 November 1932 Paignton, Devon |
| Occupation | Writer & game designer |
| Nationality | British |
| Subject | Military History, Wargaming |
| Website | |
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Phil Barker (born 5 November 1932) is one of the major figures in the development of the modern hobby of tabletop wargaming, particularly that of ancient warfare, and is a co-founder of the Wargames Research Group.[1]
In the 1960s he was a methods engineer at British Leyland. However, in the 1970s he took voluntary redundancy to become the first person in the UK to work full-time on wargames writing and rules design.[2] At the time, he was also a keen horseman, a skill which he used to advantage in carrying out experiments in the use of cavalry weapons.[3]