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".

Monday, 20 November 2017

Jutland Part 2: 2 steps forward and 3 back...

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  One wonders how history would have played out had a certain Commander Jellicoe not escaped from the sinking H.M.S. Victoria  Y...
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Sunday, 19 November 2017

Jutland Part 1: The Blooding of the Guns

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The damage record sheets from Avalon Hill’s Jutland I  mentioned in my last post that I have moved on from trying to adapt the tactical rule...
Friday, 17 November 2017

Naval Relativity

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  A rather atmospheric painting of the Battle of Jutland  The 1/2400th scale collection is moving along nicely so barring any unfo...
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Thursday, 16 November 2017

Squire Haggard of Haggard Hall R.I.P.

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   Squire Haggard (on the right) in action - no doubt concocting another money making scheme whilst consuming industrial quantities ...
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Wednesday, 15 November 2017

Revisiting Avalon Hill's Jutland

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  A piece of gaming history  You may recall that I am a huge fan of the Avalon Hill 'board-game without a board' of Jutlan...
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Monday, 13 November 2017

Updating my Naval

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  S.M.S. Scharnhorst sporting her tropical paint scheme  It has been a pretty good weekend all said and done. Aside from the inevi...
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Wednesday, 8 November 2017

Visually Motivating the Wargamer

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  Tom Hanks in 'What's that coming over the hill - is it a monster?' mode from Saving Private Ryan.  The reasons that ...
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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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