Showing posts with label Blocks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blocks. Show all posts
Saturday, 8 January 2022

Unexpectedly Catching Up

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The assembled bases. The larger of the two is 3” by 1 1/2” whilst the smaller is 1 1/2” square. Note the raised triangle along the leading e...
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Sunday, 29 August 2021

Block Changes or Why Didn’t I Think of This Before?

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The three examples (best viewed ‘blown up’). The one on the right shows the constituent parts. The small triangle fits along the top edge (t...
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Monday, 16 August 2021

Blocks and Bases

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The initial design - note the facing triangle, the strip for a name label and the frame for a dice for recording strength points. Note the ...
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Tuesday, 27 July 2021

On the Starting Block

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  Preliminary ideas for troop type tokens with a few more to add. Very much a first draft (and with number five needing a little trimming!) ...
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Sunday, 25 July 2021

Back to Block

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One of the blocks I use - 29mm x 21mm x 12mm or half a Works style ‘not quite a Jenga block’.   I have taken a good look over my block army ...
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Saturday, 17 July 2021

We will, we will Block you….

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  Army Blue from the block collection with the direct types shown to good effect on the inside of the lid. A curious thing has occurred over...
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Tuesday, 16 March 2021

Taking Stock of the Blocks

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One of the seven colours of block army I made showing all the current troop types available - the other colours being red, blue, green, ligh...
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Friday, 6 December 2019

A Block for One's Own Back

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A generic infantry block Some 'top down' infantry A lorry - typically this would be for motorised infantry or logistics...
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Thursday, 24 January 2019

You Win Some, Zulus Some....

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OK so the lyrics were adapted for the film and the singalong never happened but what the hell, this never fails to inspire me! ...
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Tuesday, 22 January 2019

WW2 Blocks, Hexes and Squares

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A WW2 game fought using an early version of the rules that would eventually appear as the Portable Wargame. Germans attacking US troops...
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Sunday, 20 January 2019

The Block On Effect

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So much for me scaling back the blog posts due to readying my book proposal! Well at least this post is relevant to the book and so scrapes ...
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Thursday, 3 January 2019

Army Level Napoleonic Considerations

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Another map of Waterloo showing the topography in a little more detail. Note the areas of higher ground missing from the previous map. ...
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Wednesday, 2 January 2019

Finally facing my Waterloo....

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Even after nearly 50 years of reading about it, watching it and gaming it using figures, cardboard counters and blocks the Battle of ...
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Tuesday, 1 January 2019

Big Ideas and Small Steps

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First of all, a very happy new year to one and all! Ours was a quiet one spent listening to a classic 70s/80s soul/jazz and funk playlist on...
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Sunday, 23 December 2018

Revisiting an Original Idea

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The first version of the block armies. I many ways I think I may have gone slightly too far down the half block route as there are practical...
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Thursday, 20 December 2018

Old Dog, New Tricks - Same Old Story!

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The original version of Volley and Bayonet  Napoleon Returns - one of the two Napoleonic themed supplements available with the o...
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Tuesday, 18 December 2018

Napoleonic Battles in the Grand Manner

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Published in 1974 but now available from John Curry's History of Wargaming project It never ceases to amaze me when the metaph...
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Sunday, 16 December 2018

Flags for the Memory

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One of the key areas in respect of using the block armies on a non-grid basis is the question of unit identification and facing. Neither of ...
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Friday, 14 December 2018

My Terrain of Thought

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One of the objectives that I set out to achieve whilst using my block armies is that the resultant games should look as close to a 'trad...
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