I have now painted the second of my two fleets of toy-like model ships. Like the first, this fleet comprises four battleships, two armoured cruisers, and three protected cruisers.
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The First Rule of Wargaming and the Spirit of the Wargame
The First Rule:
‘Nothing can be done contrary to what could or would be done in actual war.'
- From 'The Rules of the Naval War Game' by Fred T Jane
The Spirit of the Wargame:
‘Wargames are played, for the most part, without the supervision of an umpire. The game relies on the integrity of the individual players to show consideration for other players and to abide by the rules. All players should conduct themselves in a disciplined manner, demonstrating courtesy and sportsmanship at all times, irrespective of how competitive they may be. This is the spirit of the wargame.’
- Adapted from 'The Spirit of the Game' in 'The Rules of Golf' as published by the R&A Ltd.
Wrapping Up 2025
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I've settled on three of my collections to take part in the last games of
2025. The first will be a 16thC Red Book scenario with an English raid
trying ...
All round to Phil's for Christmas DBA
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Phil felt sufficiently sorted in his house with his wargame room to restart
his tradition of Christmas snacks and a wargame or two. Alas with Christmas
c...
1914 Belgians - part 2
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A few of my Belgians are pre-painted metal castings. These would normally
be vastly expensive but were bought at a discount. We've already seen the
two...
Little Great War - Battle of Isla Santa Maria
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Upon the other side of the world from where events were developing in
Europeia, in the Golden Empire of Khitai, the remote naval stations of
Ruberia an...
Bloody April, 1917….
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*Bit of a grail game this one - WW1 in the air above France in 1917.
Operational in scope but with a tactical element for combat resolution.*
*The rear...
Cards And Cordiality
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Today is the 250th anniversary of the birth of author Jane Austen. So this
evening Catherine, Fraser and I celebrated with a game of 'Marrying Mr
Darcy'....
My 3F HORNBY - OO Scale.
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I will be soon ordering the 3F Jinty Tank made by HORNBY. I've decided to
do an OO small layout using exclusively HORNBY and PECO Track.
The 3F HORNBY.
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Two Grand openings and a Closure
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[image: Two grand openings of new garden railway layouts, and the closure
of another garden railway; Pine Hill Railway (PHRy), Furubakken
Hagejernbane]
Th...
Tigers at Minsk - Tank Attack at La Fiere
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Plodding on the through the scenarios in Fireball Forward using Tigers at
Minsk, another US Para one in Normandy. This one covers the attack on La
Fiere...
Making custom containers for Ancient miniatures
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In my previous post, I mentioned that I was planning on expanding my
Carthaginian Gauls so that I could field a full Gaul army, and that once
painted and...
Collaborative Campaign Year 8
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Year 8 of the Campaign (The Year of the Lizard) witnessed an assassination
attempt in Zigura - poison had been secreted in the light lunch (22
courses) ...
Playing Wargames
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Over the years my style of Wargaming has changed dramatically, as I suspect
it has with most wargamers. I started off playing on the kitchen table...
Spuddling 003 – The 2025 Pile of Fun
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I regard my unbuilt and unpainted stuff as fun-yet-unrealised, rather than
a pile of shame. Some time ago, atc (Plane) Dave challenged me to produce a
list...
Risorgimento 1859: Organising the Forces
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Having recently acquired a selection of reinforcements for my 6mm
Risorgimento 1859 armies (from Commission Figurines), it's time to make a
start on org...
Scale Link - Belgians 1914
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I've had it in mind to make a unit of Belgian infantry to go with my Funny
Little Wars armies for some time, largely influenced by this:
The picture abo...
Muddling along...200th post
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Sadly not a lot to report for the 200th post. It has been a case of
cat-like herding of various projects into productive activity at weekends
recently......
Red Metal 1943
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I was asked for an update on Red Metal a while ago. At that stage it was in
a bit of a state. I had been playtesting using counters and a hex map of
O...
Maloyaroslavets
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Battle of Maloyaroslavets, by Peter von Hess
This was a very special game played in the War Room some months ago against
old friend of my fathers. Mar...
Dendermonde Glacis finished
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Finished flocking the Dendermonde Glacis this morning and it is now
drying. Just need to dry-brush the walkway and it is done.
That means there is j...
Gallia Miniatures.
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After enjoying painting my Falcon Civil War figures, it has me rethinking
my figures. I came across Gallia Miniatures that I have. They are stumpy
figu...
Unit Commander/ Strength Stands
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For weeks I’ve been mulling over the best way to represent and track unit
strengths and casualties in a way that is functional, but also doesn’t
disrupt ...
Warriors of Valdur!
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"The Wild Woods Folk have broken the ancient pact! You have sent them
fleeing back to the woods, but is that enough? Shall we not march and make
them e...
Dominion of the Spear Army Builder
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It seems that the new hotness is a series of rules by Steve Parker
starting with *The Dominion of the Spear* and having expanded to cover
several other ...
Warp Speed into 2025
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The last year has been quite challenging. I suffered a stroke in November
2023 and have spent the last year or so in recovery. I'm not there yet, but
do...
Update and WIP
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[image: Merry christmas wallpaper design]
Well, it certainly has been eventful, this year. Shortly after my last
post, far too long ago, some things...
Blog Closing…
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This blog will be closing down on 1st July. I have a fairly expensive
hosting package that I no longer need as I am only running Black Hat and
selling pain...
New Accessions – tidying up …
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So, 3 items under the camera … Chris gave me a P&G SU-76i quite a while
ago, and I’ve been meaning to get round to it … the SU-122 I did years ago.
It’s a ...
Solo Play Testing
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The next Seven Years Wargame with the "Usual Suspects" has moved to the
right by a couple of weeks. One of our group, who has been unavailable for
a few ...
Warplan 5/5 Campaign System
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I'm afraid I couldn't find a way to reproduce the snazzy double headed
arrow in 5/5 in the text so will have to do with this instead.
Warplan 5/5 came o...
Take the High Ground
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“Take the high ground”. These were Captain Scarlett’s latest orders in the
ongoing campaign to repel the Teutonians from Albionia’s green and pleasant
lan...
Focus on 2020
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*G*reetings my fellow wargame bloggers. Instead of doing the annual recap
of 2019 I'm just going to skip that and focus on what I plan to achieve in
this n...
Initial...
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...deployments.
Seconds out...first two rounds, of 15. In the Blue corner (US invaders):
On the right flank, a unit of US Regulars, an artillery battery, a...
I have been wargaming for as long as I can remember. One of the first toys that I was bought was a wooden fort that was garrisoned by assorted lead soldiers ... and I have never looked back!
The first wargames book I bought was CHARGE! (although I had taken out [and repeatedly read] Donald Featherstone's WAR GAMES book beforehand [and many thanks to John Curry for republishing it!]).
My first 20mm figures were the good old Airfix Guards Infantry and Band (in shocking pink!), soon followed by others as they were released, and by 1968, when I bought my first metal Hinton Hunt 20mm figures, I had a large collection of World War II figures, tanks, guns, and aircraft.
I was a founder member of WARGAME DEVELOPMENTS and have been the treasurer and membership secretary ever since. I have also organised – along with Tim Gow - the annual conference (COW – Conference of Wargamers) for more that fifteen years.
My main interests are wargaming any wars from 1850 onwards, although I have a special interest in Colonial, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II wargaming. I also have a special interest in wargames that use square or hex grids for movement and weapon ranges.
Curses! Now I feel a compulsion to begin building ships again........Must...finish...Schleswig-Holstein War....minis...first........!
ReplyDeleteSteven Page,
DeleteYou could always build the Danish fleet of 1864, couldn't you? That way you could do two projects in one!
All the best,
Bob
Genius! The rolf Krake it will be!
DeleteSteven Page,
DeleteI'm sure that you would have come up with the same idea yourself.
All the best,
Bob
Such an elegant fleet. Just the thing to show off to the Empire... and to send the upstart Hun to visit Davy Jones in his locker... Arrr.
ReplyDeleteArchduke Piccolo,
DeleteThanks for your kind comment. I hope to get these ships into action against their enemies ASAP ... and have already draft some rules for play-testing.
All the best,
Bob
I shall imagine each one manned by a miniature Kenneth Moore. That sort of decent, solid sort of chap.
ReplyDeleteConrad Kinch,
DeleteI'm sure that he would be wearing his cap at a jaunty angle ... just like a thrusting admiral would!
All the best,
Bob