Project Manager James talked to Mark Latham about Legends of the Old West in Wargames Illustrated 403 – here we have some WiPrime-exclusive extras for your enjoyment – some additional interview bits that we just couldn’t fit into the magazine. On the figures: Wargames Illustrated: Do you still have all your Old West figures? Mark Latham: Oh yeah, I’ve got about five-figure cases in the loft absolutely full of Old West figures. I have scenery too. I did the scenery guides from the book. Wi: Oh I loved those bits, that was stuff that really drew me in, along with the converting. Was it Graham Davey’s posse that had the lasso conversion? ML: Yeah that was genius. He was my editor at the time so was sitting next to me in the office and just knocked out this guy in a lunch hour. You don’t generally see historical models converted to that level - that was quite different in itself. On Mark’s own hobby time: Wi: Are you still interested in Games Workshop’s stuff? ML: I’m interested in a lot of the models but don’t currently play the games. I picked up Shadespire recently but that’s about it. The main thing for me is that I specialise in skirmish and board games. I don’t have the time to paint armies. Also, and this sounds daft because I’m a game designer, I’m more a painter and modeller than a gamer. Often the last thing you want to do when you’ve been designing games all day is back in gaming but I love painting models and it helps me switch off. That means I refuse to play a game if I don’t have a painted force and I’ll never ever paint something like a 4,000 point army again. Wi: What games do you tend to play then? ML: Because I do so many skirmish games as a designer, I don’t actually tend to play them much. I read them to keep abreast of the latest developments but the things I play are board games, a lot of board games! Over the last few years, I’ve put a lot of time into Arkham Horror Third Edition which is really good, Nemesis is one I’ve been trying to work out how to transfer into a free-form skirmish setting. I’m going to crack it! There are ‘proper’ board games too like Brass with strategic resource management. Letters From Whitechapel is a classic - no miniatures, let’s just play with some Meeples and cards. On the different worlds of gaming: Wi: You’ve seen the GW fantasy and sci-fi side of things, historical gaming, and loads in between. Do you think there are vast differences in the
