Flagship - The Independent Magazine for Gamers

Wow! I had no idea Flagship was still around, so I was very pleasantly surprised to surf my way here after an idle search on Wikipedia for PBM gaming.

I remember reading the magazine probably around 20 years back, when I was into PBM games in quite a big way. The magazine was printed by the company my Dad worked for and so he bought a few back issues home for me to look at, knowing my penchant for D&D, wargames and the like. I subscribed for a number of years after that, and it was always an event to get the new edition in the post.

I drifted away from PBMing as I moved on in my teen years but it's nice to see that the magazine is still in existence. I had rather assumed that it had faded away after Nick Palmer was elected to Parliament.

A quick flick through some of the early back issues on here brought back a LOT of memories.....

welcome back do you still play any or are you just a lurker as the name suggests?

The name derives from another forum (long story....) and has stuck as a forum handle generally rather than my current PBM playing status but, no, I haven't PBM-ed since the late 80s.

I'm struggling to remember some of the games I used to play - the ones I do recall are Casus Belli (a very simply game that initially got me into PBM), Spiral Arm, It's a Crime!, Monster Island, a game modelled on the mob in 1930s USA whose name I can't remember and a sci-fi plane-to-place combat game called Dogfight. There are a few others whose names are lost in the mist of time now....