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, 28 November 2023

The Nelson Touch

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All of these are approaching 50 years old and for sure there is probably more updated material to be found but for all that they are hugely ...
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Saturday, 25 November 2023

Triremes and Salamis

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A box of MDF goodies that will eventually become sixty triremes After what seems like an age my order for sixty triremes has arrived from Wa...
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Wednesday, 22 November 2023

The Portable Ironclads Wargame - Revised and Expanded

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 “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning”. One can usually rely on W...
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Friday, 17 November 2023

More on the Desert

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I had a spare half an hour yesterday so decided to take a closer look at the board game No Retreat: The North African Front. As mentioned pr...
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Thursday, 16 November 2023

Cars, Fighters, Tanks and…. Triremes!?

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609 Squadron for the Spitfires (top) and 242 and 303 for the Hurricanes.  For the Germans we have both ZG and JG 26 It has been a busy few d...
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Sunday, 12 November 2023

Tanks for the Memory

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Available from the Wargames Vault (not sure about printed versions in the UK) and look like a ton of fun! Way back in the days of my youth, ...
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Monday, 6 November 2023

South Pacific, 1914 - Madasahatta Style

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Not for the faint hearted but a great doorstop of a game - carrier battles, air strikes, naval battles - you name it, it’s all there. One of...
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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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