ABOUT

Who We Are
Steven MacLauchlan is the owner and founder of WWPD. Steven has always enjoyed audio recording and miniature gaming, and in early 2010 combined the hobbies into the News From the Front Podcast. Steven's first adventures in gaming came in the form of RPGS, particularly White Wolf's storyteller system and Dungeons and Dragons. He briefly played Warhammer 40k, before jumping into Flames of War where he's comfortably been ever since.


Steven is married with one daughter, and works as a Data Management Consultant. He spent time in his youth touring in several mildly successful bands, though rarely finds time for music anymore.
Steven graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a B.A. in Computer Science.
Steven [at] wwpd [dot] net

“Dirty” Jon Baber is a co-host of the WWPD: News from the Front podcast and editor of the WWPD blog. Jon got his start in gaming with the venerable Dungeons & Dragons game and quickly moved on to counter-based war games, such as Afrika Korps, The Third World War and Light Division. Jon started miniature gaming with Blood Bowl, Warhammer and Warhammer: 40,000 and has since moved to mostly Flames of War.

Jon is active in the World War 2 re-enactor community with the 29th Infantry Division Living History Group, where he lectures in 1940s culture. Jon is also a specialist in World War 2 US Army Signal Corp operations and provides educational displays for both re-enactors and the public.

Jon graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, where he received a B.A. in History in 1995.
Jon [at] wwpd [dot] net

Luke Melia  started wargaming when he was 11 years old with 2nd edition Dungeons and Dragons. He has played just about everything from play by mail strategy, Warhammer, napoleonics, board games and ancients. Married and the father of two sons - Alexander and Jack - Luke, is active in many after school sports events as well as cub scouts. After his modeling and dancing career suddenly ended due to an unforeseen stage accident, Luke rejoined the workforce and began playing wargames again after a five year hiatus when he indulged in a variety of online multiplayer games.
He is an avid Flames of War player and his two favorite forces to field are the American and Soviet armies. Luke is affectionately known for his love of Stuarts and Tank Destroyers as well as his loathing of painting. Luke also provides the introduction to News from the Front as well as all marketing and WWPD sponsored events. Promoting the wargaming hobby is a 'uge part of the love of gaming for Luke.
Luke [at] wwpd [dot] net

Christopher Hecht is WWPD's online community manager, and leader of the 1st WWPD Panzer Division in World of tanks.  Chris has been participating in tabletop gaming since the second edition of Warhammer 40k.  Now he enjoys competitive FoW, but still retains his prized original first release Necron Army.
Chris comes to WWPD with over a 15 years of online gaming and clan management experience.  He has managed competitive clans in games such as Counter Strike, the Battlefield series, WoW, Call of Duty, and several others.  He now heads up the World of Tanks clan and other potential online gaming groups for WWPD.
In addition to running the online gaming community for WWPD, Chris creates a YouTube series for World of Tanks (youtube.com/Darqueling) as well as other games.
Chris lives and works in the suburbs of Baltimore where in his spare time he enjoys DJing events in addition to his WWPD duties.
Chris studied Communications (TV, Radio, and Film) at LaSalle University in Philadelphia and later earned his BS in Computer Science and Business (Marketing and Management) from Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY.

ChristopherH [at] wwpd [dot] net

Arran Slee-Smith is a Web Designer by trade and a professional coffee addict.  Arran has been a crucial member of the WWPD crew in re-branding the site and a few of the WWPD side projects. He started war gaming when he was introduced to Warhammer 40k in 1999, though rarely got to play the game.  He mostly enjoys assembling and painting the models. Arran was introduced to Flames of War when briefly working in a War-game store where he picked up a box of British Paratroopers, and hasn’t looked back.

His favourite aspects of the hobby are painting, sculpting models and making terrain, but of course he does enjoy the odd game of Flames of War.

Arran [at] madidol [dot] com




Other WWPD Contributors

Name	Rank	Serial Number
Joe "Mezz" Messerle	Sergeant, Podcast Contributor, N00b Extraordinaire	Joe [at] wwpd [dot] net
Brian Fuller	PFC, Podcast Contributor, Blogger	Brian [at] wwpd [dot] net
Pete Ellis	Private, Blogger	Pete [at] wwpd [dot] net
Chris Miller	Private, Tournament Locator, Player Finder	Chris [at] wwpd [dot] net
Max Messina	Private, Book Reviews	Max [at] wwpd [dot] net
Tom de Mayo	Private, Articles	Thomas [dot] deMayo [at] gmail [dot]com

Contact us at WWPDPodCast [at] gmail [dot] com