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".

Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Hidden Units and Fanatical Warriors

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Way back in July of this year I fought the first action in the Roghan Valley campaign - my fictional take on the North West Frontier - for w...
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Monday, 17 December 2012

Waltzing Matilda, Beersheba, 1917....Game Number 28

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The charge of the Australian Light Horse at Beersheba I mentioned Beersheba in my last post and as is usual with such a throwaway com...
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Sunday, 16 December 2012

The (Ottoman) Empire Strikes Back

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The beginning of the end - note the cavalry attacking the entrenched Turks on the left. In turn 3 of my recent block game the Greek...
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Saturday, 15 December 2012

Greek Delight, Turkish Tragedy, October 1912....Game Number 27

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Evzones in campaign dress during the Balkan War This blog post came about as a result of the generosity of Mr Fox. Every so often he ...
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Friday, 14 December 2012

Operation Seeadler....Part 3

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He always runs while other men walk.... Yesterday evening saw me sending to the two commanders the rules governing sailing orders and...
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Thursday, 13 December 2012

What have the following items got in common?

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Two sets of Zvezda 20mm plastic German and Russian infantry of WW2, a pair of (roughly 1/72nd scale plastic Tiger tanks (motorised!), a...
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Taking to the High Seas with Model Ships

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Essential reading for the naval wargamer A comment on one of my recent posts from Steve's Wargame Stuff went something along the ...
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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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