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, 31 May 2016

Jutland: 100 years ago today

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One hundred years ago today the Royal Navy and the German High Seas Fleet met in battle in the grey wastes of the North Sea. By the time...
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Tuesday, 17 May 2016

Jutland: Less Than Two Weeks To Go

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In less than two weeks time it will be the centenery of the Battle of Jutland. A quick trawl of the net reveals that various events etc are ...
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Sunday, 1 May 2016

The Spanish Civil War

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Something a little different but of a lingering personal interest Well, it is a sunny Sunday in May so for me it can mean only one thing - t...
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Thursday, 28 April 2016

Jutland: The Refight

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Next month sees the centenery of the Battle of Jutland. As readers of this blog will no doubt recall I have been wrestling with how best to ...
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Friday, 22 April 2016

Fifty Years Ago

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Over a thousand pages of engrossing and enthralling military history 1966 was a good year. Aside from England winning the World Cup it also ...
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Saturday, 2 April 2016

Command and Colours: The Great War

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The box in all its glory - photo courtesy of Google images. When the Plastic Soldier Company announced that they were going to produ...
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Thursday, 17 March 2016

Command and Colours: Ancients

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The set that launched a thousand expansions (well half a dozen really....) I have dabbled in ancient war games since the early 1980s....
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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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