A Wargaming Odyssey

This is a long running and continuing journey around a collection of ideas, projects, games, models and a variety of wargaming related themes from my own imagination and from others. As I have been described as having the attention span of a forgetful goldfish you can rest assured the resulting subject matter will be diverse and (usually) entertaining! "He lived in a frenzy of enthusiasm — but nothing lasted for long with him".

Monday, 8 December 2025

The Rules of the Game and 15….

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  The Rules of the Game is a truly wonderful book about how the Royal Navy arrived at where it did in order to fight at Jutland. I have owne...
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Friday, 5 December 2025

Ship Charts and Firing Arcs

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The ‘Mark 2’ version of a ship record chart (actually more like mark 8!). I am a lot happier with this version as it is far ‘leaner’ and use...
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Wednesday, 3 December 2025

Risings and Rebellions 1919 to 1939

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The follow up volume to Small Wars and Skirmishes 1902 to 1918 Definitely some very entertaining looking campaigns to look at and all very P...
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Wednesday, 26 November 2025

WW2 in the Skies

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Taking to the skies over Europe. The base game covers the Battle of Britain whilst the Battle of France and Defending the Reich are covered ...
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Sunday, 16 November 2025

Kickstartering Fighters of the Pacific

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The base game and the two scenario packs Way back in March of this year I posted about my acquisition of a board game called Fighters of the...
Monday, 3 November 2025

Today I Have Been…..

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  An old favourite from back in the day - 1980 to be exact - that I spent many hours grappling with at the club. The grey matter still wince...
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Friday, 31 October 2025

Ship Damage Record Charts

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First draft of a ship damage record chart. I fully intend tidying this up in due course but for now it will suffice. The planned test game d...
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A wargamer since the early 1970s with wide-ranging and mostly unfulfilled interests in many historical (or should that be hysterical?) periods. An eternal optimist, I am always convinced that the next project will be the one....
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