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".

Monday, 31 October 2022

25 x 5mm Cardboard Squares

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Mad, bad and dangerous to know - the C.S.S. Mississippi under construction. The C.S.S. Mississippi features twenty gun ports which for my mo...
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Sunday, 30 October 2022

The Build Goes Ever On and On….

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C.S.S. Mississippi under construction.  An artist’s impression of what she may have looked like when completed - note the fearsome looking b...
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Tuesday, 25 October 2022

Getting Even Closer….

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One of the recent new additions to the Union fleet - a ‘double ender’gunboat. Lots more progress with the Portable Ironclads Wargame! I had ...
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Sunday, 23 October 2022

Getting Closer….

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C.S.S. Virginia in action against a Union frigate….I will say no more…. Things have been moving along rather nicely albeit perhaps not in th...
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Wednesday, 19 October 2022

More on Napoleon’s War: The Hundred Days

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The second game in the series that includes the Russians and the Austrians along with more French. The rules are an evolution from those in ...
Tuesday, 18 October 2022

Back to Waterloo

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Worthington’s Games take on the Waterloo campaign of 1815 The rear of the bo which should give you a flavour of what is to come The 1815 Wat...
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Monday, 17 October 2022

Another 2 Down….14 To Go!

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The pair of ‘double enders’ - for identification purposes I have placed the flags in different places! A better view showing the overall con...
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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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