Wargaming Cover Art of Rodger B. MacGowan
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Recently (actually, circa January 2005) a list was started up to acknowledge game illustrators. When I went to add Rodger B. MacGowan to that list, it was pretty hard to choose just one picture to represent his work.
Hence this list - a gallery of MacGowan's non-GMT wargame cover art from the past 30+ years. If you see your favorite MacGowan cover here, let us know why you think it is his best!
Please help improve this list -- if I left out one of your favorite covers or if you submit an improved image, let me know and I will add it to the list.
For a summary listing MacGowan's entire body of wargaming artwork, see my List Comment below or his BGG database entry.
UPDATED FEB 2010: Added many improved images and missing games!
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The Wargamer #26, 3W, 1983.
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The Wargamer #29, 3W, 1984.
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The Wargamer #32, 3W, 1984.
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The Wargamer #39, 3W, 1985.
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The Wargamer #40, 3W, 1985.
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The Wargamer #41, 3W, 1985.
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The Wargamer #45, 3W, 1985.
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The Wargamer #47, 3W, 1985.
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The Wargamer #48, 3W, 1985.
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3W, 1986.
This soldier was previously depicted on the cover of GDW's Burma - see above.
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3W, 1984.
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3W, 1983.
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3W, 1983.
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3W, 1983.
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Strategy and Tactics #117, 3W, 1988.
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3W, 1984.
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3W, 1995.
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3W, 1992.
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3W, 1986.
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Task Force Games, 1981.
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L2 Design Group, 2003.
Wow - sort of like The Russian Campaign cover on steroids!
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Hobby Japan.
We'll wrap up with a series of covers for Hobby Japan games - thanks to BGG user Gangrel, there are more of these covers available on BGG than I had expected!
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Hobby Japan.
Later used for Struggle for Stalingrad, Wargamer #47. See above.
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Hobby Japan, 1983.
Later used for Eastwall. See above.
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Hobby Japan, 1984.
Japanese edition of the Aces High system. This art was also used for Red Baron, Wargamer #48. See above.
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http://www.gmtgames.com/gmt0bts.htm#r.macgowan(Original link dead, archive link: http://mytinyurl.net/d62e6c)GMT: MacGowan has done the cover art for all but a handful of the GMT Games, and counter art for the vast majority of their games.
Avalon Hill: Advanced Squad Leader, Anzio, Battle of the Bulge, Civilization, Crescendo of Doom, Cross of Iron, Flattop, Fortress Europa, Frederick the Great, Fury in the West, G.I.: Anvil of Victory, Guns of August, The Longest Day, Midway Campaign (computer), PanzerArmee Afrika, PanzerGruppe Guderian, PanzerKrieg, The Russian Campaign, Sinai Front (unpublished), Squad Leader, Storm Over Arnhem, Struggle of Nations, TAC (computer), Up Front
Hobby Japan, Ltd.: Air War, Assault, Assault on Leningrad, Basic 3 - Bulge, Leningrad & Chinese Farm, Battle for Stalingrad, Bitter End, Blue Max, Carrier Strike (computer), Case White, Decision at Kasserine, The Fall of France, Fire in the East, Frederick the Great, Iron Bottom Sound, Malaya/Burma, Mediterranean Campaign, Narvik, Norway 1940, Operation Market Garden, Red Army, Road to the Rhine, Sniper!, Their Finest Hour, To the Far Seas, Western Desert/Near East
Yaquinto Publications, Inc.: Apache, Armor, Beachhead, Civil War, (unpublished) '88', Fall of South Vietnam, The French Foreign Legion, Mythology, Panzer, Swashbuckler, World War III (unpublished)
3W Game Company: Army of the Potomac, Army of the Tennessee, Dark Crusade, Hellfire Pass, Kirovograd, Lawrence of Arabia, Modern Naval Battles (card design), Modern Naval Battles II (card design), Modern Naval Battles III (card design), O'Connor's Offensive, Rommel at Bay, Scratch One Flattop!, Tarawa, The War to End Wars
Wargamer Magazine: Clash of Empires (AD-map), Custer's Luck, Duel in the Desert (AD-map), Fallen Eagle (AD-map), Fight on the Beaches, Lodz, Napoleon at Lutzen, Okinawa (AD-map), Race to the Meuse, Red Baron, Struggle for Stalingrad
Strategy & Tactics Magazine: The Far Seas (map art), Fortress Stalingrad (map art), Horse Soldiers (AD-map), Kanev (AD-map), Manchu (AD-map), Nicaragua (AD-map), North German Plain, Patton Goes to War (AD-map), Pegasus Bridge (map art)
Game Designers' Workshop: Battle of Midway, Burma, Citadel, Coral Sea, Desert Victory (unpublished), 1815: The Waterloo Campaign, The Fall of France, Fire & Steel, Manassas, Mayday, Operation Crusader, Pearl Harbor, Red Army, Red Star/White Eagle, Suez '73, Verdun, White Death
Simulations Canada: Assault on Tobruk, Dark Stars, Divine Wind, IJN, I Will Fight No More Forever, Inchon, Jihad!, Kriegsmarine, Le Grand Empire, Torpedo, Warring States
Peoples War Games: Black Sea Black Death, Cossacks Are Coming, Kanev, Korsun Pocket
Quarterdeck Games: Incredible Victory, Norway, 1940 (counter art), Rommel's War, Royal Navy
Australian Design Group: Days of Decision, World in Flames
Operational Studies Group: PanzerKrieg, Rommel & Tunisia, Napoleon at Bay (counter art), 1806: Rossbach Avenged (counter art)
Moments in History: IronBottom Sound II, East Wall, White Ensign/Rising Sun
Various: Carriers at War (SSG computer), Drive on Frankfurt (PacRim-Counterattack, AD-map), Heroes of Olympus (TFG), PanzerPranks (Chaosium), Samurai Sunset (XTR-Command)
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If we are talking "boxcover art " as in "art" tracing photos and pics isnt a great claim to fame.....theres some absolute classics out there and one that springs to mind is the cover of 3Ws Rorkes drift..now that painting is art....I have looked at that..and it is a massive painting one of the biggest Ive ever seen ..for many many hours thats wargame cover art at its best....
BUT Hey great list !!!!
It is defintely the box cover that always attracts me to look in the 1st place...wether I buy was up to the contents but Id always look at the catch the eye covered games before a plain envelope for example...
But in todays world we have the geek website to give us all the info and comments so art isnt a drawcard anywhere near as much as say the 80ts when I bought a heap of games from stores ....
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In an attempt to begin to record the history behind my artwork and graphics in the hobby since the 1970's I have designed the first wing of my on-line RBM Art Gallery – more to come.
The "Avalon Hill Wing" can be viewed at my "C3i Magazine" website under "RBM Art Gallery" –
www.c3iopscenter.com
http://www.c3iopscenter.com/Gallery.htm
Just click on the images to ENLARGE them.
Please let me know what you think of the art gallery and let me know what else you would like me to add to the gallery.
All the Best,
Rodger
Rodger B. MacGowan
Publisher & Editor, C3i Magazine
Vice President & Art Director, GMT Games LLC
Founder of Fire & Movement and C3i Magazine