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, 28 February 2026

Back to the Missenhitti….Part 1

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The opening positions. The two Union ironclads gunboats - U.S.S. Carondelet with her distinctive red funnel bands top left and the U.S.S. Es...
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Sunday, 22 February 2026

Cavalier: Part the first…..

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Today saw me taking the easy hour long drive to Tonbridge in Kent to visit Cavalier - the wargames show organised by the Tonbridge Wells War...
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Monday, 16 February 2026

Sino Japanese War 1894/95

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  The latest offering from the indefatigable Mr. Manley. Broadside and Salvo rules, a potted history of the campaign and a complete campaign...
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Tuesday, 10 February 2026

Cruisers from 1865 to 1910

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Really chuffed to have gotten a copy of this - it will save me having to trawl through some dozen or so books at once! I must confess that I...
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Saturday, 7 February 2026

The Spanish Civil and Chaco Wars

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The entire Chaco collection. There is a soon to be published book from Helion on the naval dimension - gunboats and such like - which I will...
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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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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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