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, 29 August 2019

My ACW Collection - The Foundations

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A Kurz and Allison print of the Battle of Franklin, 1864 First of all the biggest news surrounding this project. The balance of my Sp...
Wednesday, 28 August 2019

Preparing the Ground (and the Water)

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At long last I have a copy (again)! Having said that, Worthington Games are soon to be releasing their Hold the Line ACW game using blo...
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Tuesday, 27 August 2019

The Weekly Sitrep....Number 43

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 I remember the TV series of Michael Wood's book and I have been in search of a hardback version for ages. The paperback is of a su...
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Friday, 23 August 2019

Counting on Belisarius to begin with....

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Hard to believe that this book was added to my library some seven years ago! Way back in the dim and distance days of 2012 I de...
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Wednesday, 21 August 2019

The Weekly Sitrep....Number 42

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A Russian machine gun in action. I always liked the Airfix version of this. Slightly later this week due to a couple of domestic com...
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Monday, 19 August 2019

Some Mystery Figures....Part 1

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The two figures on the left are obviously dismounted dragoons - there are around two dozen of the chap at the top and a dozen of the f...
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Friday, 16 August 2019

An 18th Century Interlude

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The Worthington Games/PSC version of Hold the Line and not that by Toto or Maximus Decimus Meridius.... Now that I am coming to th...
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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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