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, 31 December 2018

The Weekly Sitrep....Number 9

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Slothology taken to a higher level.... This is the last Sitrep on 2018 and I must confess that writing it has given me much to reflec...
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Monday, 24 December 2018

The Weekly Sitrep....Number 8

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For some reason Christmas always reminds me of Peanuts although I usually have mine in a bowl with a glass of seasonal ale.... The we...
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Sunday, 23 December 2018

Revisiting an Original Idea

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The first version of the block armies. I many ways I think I may have gone slightly too far down the half block route as there are practical...
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Thursday, 20 December 2018

Old Dog, New Tricks - Same Old Story!

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The original version of Volley and Bayonet  Napoleon Returns - one of the two Napoleonic themed supplements available with the o...
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Tuesday, 18 December 2018

Napoleonic Battles in the Grand Manner

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Published in 1974 but now available from John Curry's History of Wargaming project It never ceases to amaze me when the metaph...
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Monday, 17 December 2018

The Weekly Sitrep....Number 7

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For the record I am not using a typewriter! It has been very much a block related week with much progress being made in a number of d...
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Sunday, 16 December 2018

Flags for the Memory

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One of the key areas in respect of using the block armies on a non-grid basis is the question of unit identification and facing. Neither of ...
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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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