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, 29 November 2017

Portable Wargame Thoughts

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  Hammerin' Iron by Peter Pig in action. Note the 'free hex' system in use. For a fuller account of action take a look at T...
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Tuesday, 28 November 2017

Jutland Part 7: "More slaughter, more misery"

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  S.M.S. Goeben sporting the Turkish flag  The playtest I am planning on running over the course of next weekend is fairly low key...
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Jutland: Intermission

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   At this point there should perhaps be some dreamy music whilst the popcorn, drinks on sticks and numerous other comestibles are ...
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Monday, 27 November 2017

Jutland Part 6: Firing and Damage

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  H.M.S. Lion about to enter the fray  In the original game of Jutland firing was handled very simply. Essentially you measured th...
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Friday, 24 November 2017

Jutland Part 5: The Devil is in the Detail

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  S.M.S. Von Der Tann - the first of the German battle cruisers. This superb looking model is by GHQ in 1/2400th scale from the collect...
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Wednesday, 22 November 2017

Jutland Part 4: The Reason Why

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  The last dreadnoughts of the Imperial German Navy built during the Great War - the two ships of the Bayern class  I think that o...
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Tuesday, 21 November 2017

Jutland Part 3: Setting the record straight

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    The famous Otranto barrage designed to keep the Austrians honest and scene of a number of tactically interesting actions involvi...
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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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