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".

Friday, 31 January 2025

Ironclads and Biplanes

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It contains a role playing element but can be used as a straight up game of WW1 aerial combat The back of the box Blimey - January 31st alre...
Monday, 27 January 2025

Of Ben Hur and Spartacus (with a nod to Gladiator…..)

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The box art The contents - the rules for both games are in one booklet. A close up of the gladiator figures - identical to the AH version as...
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Tuesday, 21 January 2025

An Age of Sail Mystery

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Something that piqued my curiosity - cheap and cheerful age of sail wargame of indeterminate origin, circa 1982. This folds in four with the...
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Continuing Flights of Fancy

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The Avalon Hill ‘Smithsonian’ board game Mustangs - the successor to Air Force/Dauntless and the Expansion Kit, all designed by S Craig Tayl...
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Thursday, 16 January 2025

Thoughts on Wind and Water

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As well as being a magazine cover this image was also used on the box lid of the Battleline version of Wooden Ships and Iron Men.  I have be...
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Monday, 13 January 2025

A Disc that Slipped (the mind, that is!)

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A Disc that had slipped from my mind…. No, I haven’t injured myself - I am instead referring to a CD I purchased way back in 2010! The CD is...
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Sunday, 12 January 2025

WW1 Naval - Micro Fleet style

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A boardgame without a board - a tactical game with more weight than Avalon Hill’s Jutland  The components - play sheets, move/damage record ...
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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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