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".

Thursday, 21 December 2017

As the year winds down....

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  One of those Osprey hardback compilations. This was produced in conjunction with the opening of the new AWI museum at Yorktown. Be wa...
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Saturday, 16 December 2017

Eric Knowles R.I.P.

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It is with great sadness, tinged with a certain degree of regret, that I have to report the death of Eric Knowles at the respectable age of ...
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Wednesday, 13 December 2017

A Chip off the Old Block

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A long time ago in a man cave far, far away....   One of my ongoing projects is making use of my block armies. These have been us...
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Monday, 11 December 2017

Where we are and why we are there....

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  The latest offering from the indefatigable Bob Cordery  After the previous bout of Jutland related posts I figured it would be a...
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Friday, 8 December 2017

Jutland Part 12: Necessity is the mother of invention

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    The newer version of the Jutland rangefinder - the folded pink and white card on the left. You had one for each side.  The p...
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Thursday, 7 December 2017

Jutland Part 11: Postscript - "More drama, less accounting"

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  Avalon Hill's Jutland in all its glory - and not a play sheet in sight!  It was a strange evening last night when I eventual...
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Wednesday, 6 December 2017

Jutland Part 10: Endgame

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   S.M.S. Seydlitz - battered, bloodied but unbowed, limping home after Jutland. She would spend some time in dock being repaired bu...
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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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