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, 28 November 2021

The Portable Market Garden Wargame

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  Two titles from my Operation Market Garden library. The Martin Middlebrook title focuses on the  British Airborne part of the campaign “Th...
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Monday, 22 November 2021

“Utrinque Paratus” - Ready for Anything

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  The Wings of Pegasus - the emblem of the British Airborne Forces I arrived home from work tonight to the news that Laurel’s brother (and m...
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Sunday, 21 November 2021

Today I have been….

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  Next steps will be cutting out the flagstaffs, drilling some holes, modelling the pilot houses and then putting it altogether prior to pai...
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Thursday, 18 November 2021

A Pleasant Way to Spend an Evening

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 H.M.S. Dragon - Mr Manley will know why! Yesterday evening I had the pleasure of meeting up for a couple of beers and pizza with David Manl...
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Sunday, 14 November 2021

Salute 2021 - One Wargamer’s View

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 ….And so it was that on the 13th day of November, the year of our Lord 2021 that David ventured out unto the promised land of the Excel cen...
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Tuesday, 9 November 2021

The Road Goes Ever On and On....

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Budge, the Norwich Cathedral cat relaxing on one of the underfloor heating air vents. "  Budge, Budge, fur brown like fudge, Cathedral ...
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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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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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