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".

Sunday, 31 October 2021

The Joy of Genealogy

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The San Josef in Spanish service  I have posted previously about my grandfather and his service in the Royal Navy from 1919 to 1945 some tim...
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Saturday, 30 October 2021

The Enduring Appeal of the Napoleonic Big Battle

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  A ‘big battle’ set of rules for, well, big battles…. There is something of the operatic epic about many of the battles of the Napoleonic w...
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Monday, 25 October 2021

An ACW Refresher

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C.S.S. Virginia doing that ‘ironclad battering a wooden warship’ thing  It is hard to believe that it was just over a year ago that I put up...
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Sunday, 17 October 2021

Vicksburg is the Key

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 A very good overview of the campaign and siege of Vicksburg Now that one of our domestic situations has relented slightly - at least tempor...
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Saturday, 16 October 2021

That Was the Week that Was….

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 It has been a trying and stressful week but with a cautiously optimistic outcome. On Monday I took Laurel to Queens hospital in Romford for...
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Monday, 11 October 2021

A Definite Kind of Progress

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Cockleshell heroes indeed and one that I am looking to reading and getting some inspiration from  First of all and once again, a very big th...
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Thursday, 7 October 2021

Events Have Moved on....

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Rather more quickly than anticipated! Laurel (aka SWMBO) will be having the first of potentially three surgical procedures next week. We are...
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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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