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, 22 February 2022

The Portable 3 x 3 Conquest Wargame

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An ancient and battered copy of the game Conquest. The back of the box showing the components. This is very much a ‘seems like a potentially...
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Monday, 21 February 2022

One Million Years B.C., Tusk and the Palaeo Diet

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What can I say? I saw this at the cinema as a dinosaur obsessed young boy but now as a adult I can better appreciate the historical accuracy...
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Thursday, 17 February 2022

Boardgames, Keyboards and Hospitals

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Guess what I shall be reading later then? Boardgames Yesterday saw the arrival of my previously mentioned copy of Combat Commander: Europe p...
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Monday, 14 February 2022

Birthdays, Anniversaries and Hospital Visits

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No, not an attempted break in - my son and daughter conversing with their mum courtesy of a hospital window visit - note the intervening fol...
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Sunday, 13 February 2022

Combat Commander: Europe

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  The contents of the box. The game comes with 12 scenarios but I am reliably informed that there is the facility for generating your own an...
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Wednesday, 9 February 2022

The Russo Turkish War in the Black Sea

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One of my favourite wargame books. The only rules I have used extensively from this book are for the Great War but it is chock full of great...
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Tuesday, 8 February 2022

Black Sea Turkish Ironclads….Part 3

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The first of the Turkish ironclads. I have a couple of Russian armed merchant cruisers currently under construction by way of some oppositio...
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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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