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, 1 September 2020

By Dawn’s Early Light....The North Sea, 1914....Game Number 57, Part 1

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Battle cruisers opening fire The following game is dedicated to the memory of Alan Cook who recently lost his long battle against il...
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Monday, 31 August 2020

The road goes ever on and on....

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50p for the very smart hardback title and 20p for the travel edition of Othello - with 15mm squares you may think it is a little on the...
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Thursday, 27 August 2020

WW2 Japanese for Burma

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Japanese Type 97 Tank Chi-Ha. I remember building the Airfix kit of this many, many years ago Well this is a post that I would not ...
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Tuesday, 25 August 2020

An 18th Century Interlude

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The 2019 revised edition of the book first published in 1964 tells the story of the son of an Irishman fleeing to Catholic Europe and r...
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Sunday, 23 August 2020

Even More on Eric’s Napoleonic Collection

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It is not Napoleonic but it does have a bearing on this post I have to say that sorting out this portion of Eric’s overall collection...
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Wednesday, 19 August 2020

More on Eric’s Napoleonic Collection

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A mystery unit that after investigation turned out to be French Garde D’Honneur. In my Napoleonic set up there are 2 or 3 units worth p...
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Monday, 17 August 2020

Thoughts on WW1 Afloat

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Elements of the Royal Navy.... ....and their High Seas Fleet opposition - and a couple of stray Frenchmen! I seem t...
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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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