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".

Sunday, 23 July 2017

1/600th Thoughts and the Portable Wargame

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Tumbling Dice 1/600th infantry and cavalry with Perry Travel Battle buildings and Renendra plastic bases As well the plans afoot fo...
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Thursday, 13 July 2017

On the Bounding Main....

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From the collection of Chris Hardman. The models are 1/600th scale and were first used for an Armada based game back in 1988. There is ...
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Monday, 10 July 2017

Even Riskier Business....

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Following on from my post of yesterday I thought it would be a good idea just to see how the generic 18th century Risk figures could look an...
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Sunday, 9 July 2017

Risky Business or Needs must and all that....

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Slingshot arrived on Saturday but the book came from our local boot sale. It is Sunday which can mean only one thing in our house -...
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Tuesday, 4 July 2017

Back from Foreign Parts....

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Gotta love a peaceful, empty sandy beach with just the waves and a blue sky for company.... My good lady wife and I have just got b...
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Saturday, 3 June 2017

The End of an Era and The Start of a New One

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Gosh that was a long time ago! Block armies with an early version of Bob Cordery's Portable Wargame It has finally come to pass...
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Sunday, 21 May 2017

Of Charity Shops, Boot Sales and Holidays

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Once again life has gotten in the way of anything gaming related so the posts have been pretty sparse. For a pretty significant event (which...
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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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