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, 27 January 2026

ACW and Imagi-nation Napoleonics

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The standard two-decker on the right and my filed version on the left. The plastic is very hard so it took a lot of careful wok to get the h...
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Saturday, 24 January 2026

Gunboat Diplomacy

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S.M.S. Iltis I have always had a fondness for gunboats. This probably stemmed from the very first naval wargame command way back in the late...
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Friday, 23 January 2026

Halfway Through….

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Two of my research sources - Paul Silverstone’s excellent book and the ship cards from Yaquinto’s Ironclads board game. These are really hel...
Wednesday, 21 January 2026

Bots Going On?

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Way back in September last year I wrote the following blog post: Bots the matter? 2,000,000 plus or is it? Well, it looks like they are at i...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2026

Thoughts on the Recent Battle

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The Russian cruiser Oleg beginning to have a bad day…. I have been fortunate in that so far the testing of the rules for my new book has bee...
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Monday, 12 January 2026

An Affair of Outposts, Yellow Sea, November 1904….Game Number 79 Part 2.

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  The initial staring positions - the Russians are on the left whilst the Japanese are on the right. The two sides were using a similar crui...
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Sunday, 11 January 2026

An Affair of Outposts, Yellow Sea, November 1904….Game Number 79 Part 1.

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A Japanese squadron looking for the Russians For a variety of reasons the planned naval Russo Japanese War game for next week at the club ha...
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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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