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".

Sunday, 26 February 2023

The Wargamer’s Strategy of the Indirect Approach

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Gotta love an over the top looking cinematic style rule book! I am absolutely convinced that most wargamers are proficient in the art of b...
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Thursday, 23 February 2023

Developing the Portable Ironclads Wargame

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Ironclads in action during a recent game. Since the publication of the Portable Ironclads Wargame I have been in something of funk regarding...
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Thursday, 16 February 2023

A Smorgasbord of Boardgames….Part 1

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This will a picture heavy post for the simple reason there is an awful lot to show! A collection of boardgames has found its way into my han...
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Tuesday, 14 February 2023

Livin’ For the Weekend….

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An old model adorning the mantelpiece in one of the tea rooms. No one could tell me anything about it but that it had been in the house for ...
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Monday, 6 February 2023

Wargamer’s Block(s)

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The block types as they stand. Those nine on the left with number ten at the head are the traditional horse and musket types - infantry, cav...
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Saturday, 4 February 2023

Busy Doing Nothing….

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WW2 on the Eastern Front - about as far away from 19th century Ironclads as you could get! The back of the box The theatre of war - note the...
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Friday, 27 January 2023

A Battleship Kickstarter

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A wise man once said “How do ya like them apples?” Or as Dr. Oscar Parkes himself said on page 689: “To those of us who remember the rigged ...
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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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