![]() On a personal note, John was my friend of many years. He completed additional books in the series for Osprey that have not yet been published. Most recently John designed Across A Deadly Field, a set of big-battle Civil War rules, for Osprey. His Civil War miniatures rules Johnny Reb were considered so significant that even Fire & Movement magazine, which primarily covered boardgames, published a major article on the JR system. Squad Leader was originally intended to be a set of miniatures rules, but the publisher, Avalon Hill, asked him to convert it to a cardboard-counters boardgame design. His many boardgame designs include Jerusalem (1975), Battle for Hue (1973), Battle for Stalingrad (1980) and Tank Leader (19), but John was always a miniatures gamer at heart, and anyone who ever got to play a game on his magnificent game table considered themselves lucky. He was inducted into The Game Manufacturers Association’s Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design Hall of Fame in 1978 Squad Leader was inducted into the HoF in 2004. John Hill, best known for designing the groundbreaking board wargame Squad Leader, passed away on January 12. If there is a heaven just for game designers, it has a new archangel. In Memoriam – John Hill, 1945-2015, Designer of ‘Squad Leader’ By Gerald D.
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