The 2021 Judging Panel
PHIL SMITH is the head of Osprey Games. A lifelong military history enthusiast, thanks to early exposure to Asterix the Gaul, Phil carried this interest through his studies and into an editorial career at Osprey Publishing. Since setting up a dedicated gaming division in 2014, he's helped Osprey introduce board games, card games, and roleplaying games alongside traditional wargaming titles...and Phil still doesn't get to play as many games as he'd like!
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RICK PRIESTLEY is best known as the creator of Warhammer 40,000 and other games for Games Workshop from 1982 to 2010. He has since worked with companies like Warlord Games, writing historical, science fiction, and fantasy rules sets including Black Powder, Hail Caesar, and Warlords of Erehwon. Today, he continues to write for magazines but is otherwise retired, leaving more time for painting, playing, and indulging his passion for wargame rules and figures of the 1970s.
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JEREMY PILLIPOW is the creator of Black Magic Craft, a Winnipeg-based YouTube channel dedicated to teaching and sharing the art of building miniature props and terrain for tabletop games. Black Magic Craft has a following of nearly 300,000 subscribers and releases videos weekly. Jeremy is a full-time content creator and proud to serve as an ambassador to a hobby he believes can bring incredible joy to anyone willing to give it a chance.
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DUNCAN RHODES is a world-class miniature painter and started the Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy in 2020. Before starting a membership site and his own channel, he worked for Games Workship as their resident builder and painter, leading hobby tutorials on Warhammer TV and writing for White Dwarf magazine.
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MARK FASTOSO is a multi-Emmy Award winning producer for PBS. Several of his productions, including the documentary film "Jeremiah," are on historical subjects. Mark has been an avid historical tabletop gamer for over forty years and is the author of the World War II rules Fireball Forward.
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KEITH ROCCO is one of the most well-known and widely recognized historical painters in the world today, with works hanging in every major collection of historical art in the United States, including the US Congress, Gettysburg National Military Park, the Pentagon, and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. The American Civil War and the Napoleonic Wars are frequent topics of exploration.
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GUY BOWERS is the editor of Wargames, Soldiers, and Strategy, a bi-monthly magazine focused on historical wargaming. Guy is also a regular host on the WSS Podcast.
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PATREON supporters of Little Wars TV receive a single vote on the panel, making this group of several hundred fans our "eighth judge!" We are lucky to have some of the most engaged, active historical wargaming fans around the world, making them very well-suited to evaluate the content of other members in the hobby community. If you join us on Patreon, you'll have the opportunity to vote on the finalists!
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