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, 25 July 2024

The French Connection - Part One and Two

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Plenty of useful detail and some wonderful photographs - with these two and my copies of Janes and Conways I reckon I have all the informati...
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Monday, 22 July 2024

In the Air and on the Sea

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Carriers, assorted other naval hardware and plenty of aircraft - what’s not to like? The aircraft counters - there are quite a few less than...
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Sunday, 21 July 2024

Grid Based (mostly) Naval Goodness

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The game on the left is next for the ‘punching and sorting’ phase whilst Submarine is now ready for action - I may have to revisit The Cruel...
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Saturday, 20 July 2024

Either End of the Spectrum

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Strategic in the top row, tactical in the bottom. One could make a very good case for a system that sits between the two levels - I like to ...
Wednesday, 10 July 2024

A Naval Wargaming Miscellany*

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*With apologies to Bob Cordery for borrowing part of his blog title! Shown for completeness - volume one and the newly acquired volume two o...
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Monday, 8 July 2024

Of Wind and Water - Revisiting the Age of Sail

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The rule book and supplement that includes rules for using Xebecs and Galleys and a whole host of other stuff besides. I was rather taken wi...
Sunday, 7 July 2024

Boot Sale Bargain - At Last!

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This has got carnage written all over it! Cue the Conan soundtrack album - or maybe not! Despite the erratic nature of the weather recently ...
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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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