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".

Saturday, 31 May 2025

“Great Service You Get…..

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A great box full of boardgame covering the conquest of Granada  The back of the box - the production quality is off the scale with this. Not...
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Friday, 30 May 2025

Developing the Portable Ironclads Wargame - Update

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C.S.S. Manassas ‘cruising for a bruising’ as they say in certain parts Three 1s - What could that possibly mean? The text for the book is no...
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Thursday, 29 May 2025

Small Games and Big Ideas

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My collection of smaller boardgames. The Hunt covers the search for the Graf Spee whilst the others ‘do exactly what it says on the tin (cov...
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Sunday, 25 May 2025

Boot Sales and Battle Reports

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The story of the WW1 German commerce raider and minelayer the Moewe (Seagull).  Laurel and I headed out this morning to our local boot sale ...
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Thursday, 22 May 2025

The Dinger of Hums

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The grand finale has been fought and a victory secured. The game was enormous fun and oozed period ‘feel’ which is exactly what a good warga...
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Tuesday, 20 May 2025

The Grand Finale

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Tomorrow evening will see the battle that will form the grand finale to Developing the Portable Ironclads Wargame: The American Civil War be...
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Saturday, 17 May 2025

A Colonial Conundrum of Sorts

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Basing sorted - infantry will be in 3s or 2s for dedicated skirmishers (30mm x 15mm), cavalry and artillery on a 30mm square - a gun and two...
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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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