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".

Monday, 27 April 2026

A Touching Comment

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The book…. ….and the dedication. Several posts ago I wrote about my recent acquisition of what was very much a ‘grail’ book for me. North of...
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Thursday, 23 April 2026

A Lightbulb Moment and the Importance of a Well Placed Comma….

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Rough and ready looking I know but this is the final version of the firing arcs. There are port and starboard shown in the left hand diagram...
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Wednesday, 15 April 2026

Pimping an Age of Sail Warship

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One of the ships deployed on the game board from Fighters of the Pacific. I have a cloth with slightly larger hexes (50mm across the flat si...
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Monday, 13 April 2026

At Long Last - A ‘Grail’ Book with a Bonus!

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WW1 in the Black Sea, Russian against the Turks - what’s not to like? Many years ago, when I owned a rather nice 1:3000th WW1 Black Sea coll...
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Sunday, 12 April 2026

Putting the Arc in Firing Arc

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OK, I know it looks hellishly complicated but this is the draft version - the final copy will be a model of clarity…. After a pretty hectic ...
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Monday, 6 April 2026

Vietnam: Squad Leader Style?

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That really is the box art - taking minimalism to the extreme methinks - and yes, that is a M18 Claymore command detonated mine.  During thi...
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Friday, 3 April 2026

Hitting a Speedbump

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Speed bump, writer’s block, call it what you will but whatever it is it has slowed me down quite a bit as well as giving me pause for though...
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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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