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, 30 March 2025

DTPIW: Once More Unto the Breach....And all that!

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Not exactly the forces that will be action soon but there are similarities. The Mobile Bay Confederate ships the CSS Tennessee leading follo...
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Thursday, 27 March 2025

Command and Colours: Medieval(?)

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The modest selection of titles I own covering much of the material from the base game - note the hardback version of the venerable Armies of...
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Sunday, 23 March 2025

DTPIW: A Big Chunk of Progress

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Oh no - not another firing arc diagram! It has been a busy but rewarding day working on Developing the Portable Ironclads Wargame. The final...
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Thursday, 20 March 2025

More on Fighters of the Pacific

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Looking forward to giving this a spin - there is a solo system included - and am thinking about how best to ‘elevate’ the aircraft counters....
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Saturday, 15 March 2025

A Mixed Bag of Goodies

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Ancient galleys of all shapes and sizes at war over some five centuries.  The back of the box With the last flurry of activity in relation t...
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Thursday, 13 March 2025

The Second Day of Hampton Roads

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Yesterday evening saw Messrs Fox and Huband once again taking command of a selection of ships for a ‘based upon’ Hampton Roads - the second ...
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Wednesday, 12 March 2025

Duel of the Ironclads - Hampton Roads

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USS Minnesota (top), USS Monitor (centre) and the CSS Virginia (bottom) prepare to do battle once again. This evening I shall be running a P...
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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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