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".

Tuesday, 29 January 2019

The Weekly Sitrep....Number 13

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A few things to report this week starting with the big news that my planned book has passed the first hurdle with the publisher. Essentially...
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Sunday, 27 January 2019

Cruel Seas in the Pacific and the Doldrums

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I was aware of the whole ‘JFK and PT 109 saga’ but not the fine detail as my interest in the naval war in the Pacific has previously been li...
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Thursday, 24 January 2019

You Win Some, Zulus Some....

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OK so the lyrics were adapted for the film and the singalong never happened but what the hell, this never fails to inspire me! ...
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Tuesday, 22 January 2019

WW2 Blocks, Hexes and Squares

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A WW2 game fought using an early version of the rules that would eventually appear as the Portable Wargame. Germans attacking US troops...
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The Weekly Sitrep....Number 12

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Apologies for the delay with  this post - I had started drafting it Monday (my usual time) - but a couple of work issues intervened. ...
Sunday, 20 January 2019

The Block On Effect

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So much for me scaling back the blog posts due to readying my book proposal! Well at least this post is relevant to the book and so scrapes ...
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Wednesday, 16 January 2019

The Portable Napoleonic Wargame and the American Civil War

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Here at last and available in multiple formats as per Bob Cordery's excellent blog I arrived home from work last night to a most ...
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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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