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".

Friday, 29 June 2018

The Importance of Being Earnest

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  Oscar Wilde's famous Victorian satire     I am feeling rough. A thick head, sore throat, streaming nose and nagging cough h...
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Wednesday, 27 June 2018

Gridded Naval Wargames and the ACW

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  The latest offering from the pen of the indefatigable Bob Cordery….     ….with the contents contained therein.     It...
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Tuesday, 26 June 2018

Return to the North West Frontier via Corfu

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  35th Sikhs in action during the 1897 uprising  You may recall that before we went away I listed the books that I was going to re...
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Monday, 25 June 2018

The Return of the Native

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Kalispera! I have just returned from a rather nice two week sojourn to the Ionian island of Corfu with Laurel. It was a fantastic break and ...
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Sunday, 10 June 2018

500K + Views, 3 Books and 1 Holiday

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It’s that time again. Laurel and I are away from tomorrow for a couple of weeks to the island of Corfu. The plan is to enjoy the sun, some g...
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Thursday, 7 June 2018

Solo: A Wargames Story

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  From the pen of late Donald Featherstone....   ….and Stuart Asquith.   This is a new one on me but may be useful. At pr...
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Monday, 4 June 2018

The North West Frontier Revisited

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The latest addition to the library and a period I have long had a hankering to tackle - ever since I saw Kenneth More in the film North W...
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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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