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, 26 April 2022

Evolving a Naval Wargame

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A typical pre-dreadnought battleship circa. 1900 The same ship repainted overall grey I believe that I have now gone about as far as I can g...
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Sunday, 24 April 2022

Action along the Yazoo….July 16th, 1862….Game Number 71

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  U.S.S. Tyler, U.S.S. Queen of the West and the U.S.S. Carondelet about to do battle with the C.S.S. Arkansas Aside from the historical bas...
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Saturday, 23 April 2022

Guns, Rams and the C.S.S. Arkansas (Again!)

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The combatants in the last adventure of the C.S.S. Arkansas. The only Union ship in the above picture that will feature in the next action i...
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Tuesday, 19 April 2022

Thoughts on Forts, Boards and Rules

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Fort Yuwatus (pronounced Yew-WAT-us) in all its glory. Rumour has it the fort was named after a local Native American called Yuwatus who wor...
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Monday, 18 April 2022

“No Sailor but a Fool fights a Fortress!”, August 25th, 1864….Game Number 70….Part 2

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First of all I hope you all had a very nice Easter break and that the chocolate was in manageable quantities! Battle is joined…. With the sm...
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Saturday, 16 April 2022

“No Sailor but a Fool fights a Fortress!”, August 25th, 1864….Game Number 70….Part 1

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The Battle of Mobile Bay - note the sinking Union monitor the U.S.S. Tecumseh - sunk by a torpedo (a mine in the parlance of the day).  Now ...
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Wednesday, 13 April 2022

The Fast Play 3 x 3 Portable Rubik’s Cube

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I had one of these ‘back in the day’ but never solved it, not even by peeling the stickers off and rearranging them BUT, from the shape of t...
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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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