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".

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Thoughts on The Portable Ironclads Wargame

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Then and now - a book of two halves. Could it have been written as one? It would have been more compact but probably less digestible! The Po...
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Monday, 30 June 2025

WW1 Aerial Card Game

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Quick and easy to play and with an alternate (and to be fair, more ‘wargamery’) set of rules available on BoardGameGeek. There are twenty ai...
Saturday, 28 June 2025

Backfilling the Portable Wargame

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At long last! Despite being an avid fan of the Portable Wargame series I am embarrassed to say that I have somewhat remiss in engaging with ...
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Friday, 27 June 2025

Armies in Africa

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I am absolutely delighted to have landed a copy of this at long last - even with a sticker mark slap bang in the centre of the cover! Just b...
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Thursday, 26 June 2025

I have been to….Andalusia!

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Laurel and I have just gotten back from a two week holiday in Andalusia, about an hour inland from Malaga. We stayed in the same place (even...
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Friday, 20 June 2025

DTPIW: The American Civil War - Available Now!

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  The front and back cover At long last (and about eighteen months later than I expected), Developing the Portable Ironclads Wargame: The Am...
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Thursday, 5 June 2025

More on Mike’s Models Colonials

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The great figure rebase for the recently acquired Mike’s Models 15mm Colonial collection has resumed once again. I had a little break from i...
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David Crook
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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