{{short description|New Zealand board game designer}} {{Infobox person |name = Phil Yates |image = |image_size = |caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = |birth_place = |spouse = |residence = |other_names = |known_for = Wargames |education = |employer = Battlefront Miniatures |occupation = Game designer |home_town = |website = }}
'''Phil Yates''' is a New Zealand game designer who has worked primarily on board games.
Yates is known as the designer of ''Flames of War'', a World War II tabletop miniatures wargame.<ref name="HG" /><ref name="WI352"/><ref name="NZAA"/>
==Career== Phil Yates began playing wargames in the early 1970s and began designing games in the mid-1980s.<ref name="HG">{{Cite book | contribution=Fire and Fury | title=Hobby Games: The 100 Best | last=Yates | first=Phil | authorlink= | editor-last=Lowder | editor-first=James | editor-link=James Lowder | publisher=Green Ronin Publishing | year=2007 | pages=110–112 | isbn=978-1-932442-96-0}}</ref> Yates is the lead games designer for the New Zealand company Battlefront Miniatures, for whom he designed the ''Flames of War'' miniatures game.<ref name="HG"/> Yates posted the ''Flames of War'' rules online as a free download, and Battlefront published physical rulebooks as well.<ref name="NZAA">{{cite news |last=Puschmann |first=Karl |date=Autumn 2019 |title=It's a Small World |url=https://www.aa.co.nz/membership/aa-directions/features/kiwi-flyers/its-a-small-world/ |magazine=AA Directions |publisher=New Zealand Automobile Association |accessdate=2023-11-02 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102083059/https://www.aa.co.nz/membership/aa-directions/features/kiwi-flyers/its-a-small-world/ |archivedate=2023-11-02 }}</ref> Yates has written or co-authored many Intelligence Handbooks and Battle and Campaign books for ''Flames of War''.<ref name="HG"/> His designs include ''Flames of War: Open Fire!'' (2012),<ref>{{cite news |last=S |first=Antonios |date=2014-01-08 |title=Review of Flames of War: Open Fire! |url=https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/16/16045.phtml |website=RPGnet |accessdate=2023-11-02 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102082647/https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/16/16045.phtml |archivedate=2023-11-02 }}</ref> ''Flames of War: Tour of Duty'' (2013),<ref>{{cite magazine |date=April 2013 |title=Third Tour |url=https://www.fanen.com/magazine/p--1_428_-1_39586/katalog/2941872321/wargames-illustrated--306.html |magazine=Wargames Illustrated |via=Fantasy En'Counter |issue=306 |accessdate=2023-11-02 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102083246/https://www.fanen.com/magazine/p--1_428_-1_39586/katalog/2941872321/wargames-illustrated--306.html |archivedate=2023-11-02 }}</ref> and a fourth edition of the ''Flames of War'' game in 2017.<ref name="WI352">{{cite news |date=February 2017 |title=Flames of War, 4th edition |url=https://www.fanen.com/magazine/p--1_428_-1_47395/katalog/4126543762/wargames-illustrated--352.html |magazine=Wargames Illustrated |via=Fantasy En'Counter |issue=352 |accessdate=2023-11-02 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102084709/https://www.fanen.com/magazine/p--1_428_-1_47395/katalog/4126543762/wargames-illustrated--352.html |archivedate=2023-11-02 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=March 2017 |title=Theme: Never Say Never |url=https://www.fanen.com/magazine/p--1_428_-1_47872/katalog/885955555/wargames-illustrated--353.html |magazine=Wargames Illustrated |via=Fantasy En'Counter |accessdate=2023-11-02 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102084712/https://www.fanen.com/magazine/p--1_428_-1_47872/katalog/885955555/wargames-illustrated--353.html |archivedate=2023-11-02 }}</ref>
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