200,000 Page Views and Counting....

I must confess to being slightly embarrassed by this. I have just passed the 200,000 page views marks since July 2009 when A Wargaming Odyssey first hit the internet. I say embarrassed because since starting work my posts have been both brief and infrequent. I have lurched over the line almost by default rather than by virtue of any stunning writing.

For all that I am, as ever, hugely grateful and appreciative of all those that take the time to pop by and read my various misadventures - your continued support and comments have certainly been an enormous help to me in many ways.

I would like to leave you with one thought though; a thought that first appeared way back in 1974 and has only just appeared to me courtesy of the Aegean articles that Bob Cordery very kindly sent me. Ron Miles was the author of this article in Wargamer's Newsletter and he observed the following:

"I am a confirmed modernist in spite of the virtual impossibility of representing even a World War II brigade action because movement and range scales are too formidable. But first-class wargames based on smaller organisations are possible, fought to rules that need be no more complicated than those of the Ancient period. After all, in trying to legislate for every conceivable action and situation modernists are only following the general trend which has been forced on rule writers, and Convention organisers, because the "barrack-room lawyers" twist rules to suit their own case. I would urge wargamers to get back to simple standards of scale, movement, time and basics, backed by common sense and the willingness to see the other fellows point of view. Arguments should be settled  by an umpire, decided by the throw of a dice or better still, by amicable negotiation."

It certainly made me think.

Here is to the next 200,000 - with many thanks.