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".

Friday, 17 December 2021

Last Post for 2021

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“Let’s hope its a good one, without any fear…”  I realise it is probably a little on the early side but as I have rather a lot on over the n...
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Thursday, 9 December 2021

"Der Tag"

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S.M.S. Kaiser of the German High Seas Fleet during World War 1  As a very brief follow up to my previous post - with, as ever many thanks fo...
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Monday, 6 December 2021

'You're a kite dancing in a hurricane....'

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The blog post title was, ahem, borrowed from the film SPECTRE. I have yet to see No Time to Die but will probably binge watch the Daniel Cra...
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Wednesday, 1 December 2021

Marcus Aurelius, Omar Khayyam and a New Beginning

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Two of my favourite non military books - highly recommended for resetting one’s perspective on life As we stare down the barrel of the fast ...
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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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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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