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, 17 August 2026

New Rules and Decals

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The rulebook and play sheet The back cover. Apologies for the reflective glare but in my defence the cover is really glossy! It is always a ...
Thursday, 13 August 2026

To Infinity and Beyond….

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Starfighters R Us! Registers very highly on the fun factor and with bags of potential! Yesterday evening at the club saw your truly taking c...
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Wednesday, 12 August 2026

A Small Piece of the Crusades

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A selection of rules for varying levels of medieval mayhem As far as the ‘middle ages’ are concerned my only interest has ever been the Crus...
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Sunday, 9 August 2026

A Tale of Books, The Battle of the River Plate and of Coffee Stirrers….

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Jane’s Fighting Ships needs little introduction and this is the compilation WW2 volume. Fighting Ships of WW1 and WW2 is a hardback compilat...
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Wednesday, 5 August 2026

Turrets and Other Bits

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The first of five boxes worth of laser cut MDF bits and pieces used in my warship models As part of my return to scratch building ironclad w...
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Tuesday, 4 August 2026

The Look of the Thing or Size DOES Matter!

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An oldie but a goodie! Taken from the climatic Battle of Static Bay as described in Developing The Portable Ironclads Wargame: The American ...
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Tuesday, 28 July 2026

The Portable Ironclads Wargame: Definitive Edition

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What a winning combination of useful titles with which to base a project around! Methinks these will be rather well-thumbed by the time the ...
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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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