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".

Thursday, 29 September 2022

Thoughts about the Land of the Rising Sun

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I know, I know - the Test of Honour rules were not part of the birthday haul but I couldn’t resist it! The two boxed sets of figures and The...
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Wednesday, 28 September 2022

The Birthday Haul

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So, aside from the Bombay Sapphire, Cobra beers, fruit pastilles and chocolate brazils the serious stuff includes a box of Samurai cavalry a...
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KAPOW!! 1,000,000 and 62

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Well blow me down! 1,000,000 page views (bots notwithstanding….) and nearly (at 10:33 last night I was 60 views away from the million but it...
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Tuesday, 27 September 2022

Strike of the Eagle - The Polish Soviet War 1919 - 1920

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Rather dramatic looking box art! Close up of a game in progress The back of the box What about that for a map! I am a sucker for a bargain -...
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Monday, 26 September 2022

ACW Naval Endgame….Part 4

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Eleven of the eighteen. The original ‘double enders’ are top left whilst the improved version are the two in the centre of the bottom row. T...
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Sunday, 25 September 2022

ACW Naval Endgame….Part 3

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Union wooden steam frigate versus casemate ironclad - for the former this is unlikely to end well…. I spent some time yesterday sorting out ...
Saturday, 24 September 2022

At Last!

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An original edition still with the counter sheet and without all the scribbles over every scenario! This copy was originally purchased in th...
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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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