The Nationalist motor torpedo boat Javier Quiroga sank off Gibraltar as a result of a collision with the Candido Perez.
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Sunday, 7 May 2017
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- Bob Mackenzie's Wargaming Website
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- Major General Tremorden Rederring's Colonial Wargames Page
- Mapsymbs Website
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My favourite blogs
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Aeronavale Corsair part 3 - I finally remembered to take some photos of the finished Corsair. The yellow and black 'Suez stripes' are a bit ropey close up, as indeed are the hand pa...
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The Weekly Sitrep....Number 3 - This week has been productive in many ways - but not quite in the way I intended! I spent some time researching and making notes for the naval side of the ...
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Next Up: Cavalry of the Sun King - Walloon Cavalry for Ramillies 1706. - The box has arrived and it's quite a big one!. The horses "sprues" look straight forward to put together but the cavalry troopers look quite complex as the...
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Newbury 1643 - Another say, another scenario. This time I adapted the 1643 Battle of Newbury for my ECW Portable Wargame. I mostly used the same rules I did for the demo ...
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Stout Hearts! - I have been quiet on the blogging front recently for many reasons, one of them is the ongoing design work on a new solitaire game. Clue above! More detai...
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What l am working on: the Fenian Raids 1866 - I am currently working on some figures to depict the Battle of Ridgeway in 1866. The Fenian troops ( not to mention some splendid rail fencing) were sent...1 day ago
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Campaign Diary Blog - *Current Campaign Strategic Map* I started the Magdeburg Campaign blog in April 2009. I had spent months preparing and setting up what would be my lon...
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Remembrance Day 2018 - On Remembrance Day this year, the Sheffield General Cemetary had a special exhibition about the Great War and specific information about 131 people who die...
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Wooden (MDF) ships of the line - This weekend has been one focussed on modelling as it was some nice to be outside (and it was dusty modelling work). My next English Civil War campaign wil...
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Last Post (ACW) (for now) - The opposing cavalry brigades may not be ready for inspection but they are ready to do battle. Roughly 1/2 vintage Airfix, nearly 1/2 Italeri and a mere ha...
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London Toy Soldier Show - It seems I took these pictures at the London Toy Soldier Show in December 2017 and started a post but never published it, so here it is, nearly a year late...
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SM1 - Engagement at Henley's Spur - A 2000 point game of Epic Space Marine (2nd edition) now. The Traitor Emperor's Children Space Marines versus the Loyalist Space Wolves. To add extra spi...
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Getting all your mistakes in, in one go. - We've been talking about what's hot and what's not on the ancient rules scene, so naturally I put on a game of Armati. I chose two Successor armies, Antig...
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ALAMEIN Operation Lightfoot Post Game Reflection - We played out ten moves in five hours of play. Players were pretty good about keeping to schedule, but I really need dice boxes to stop all the cocked dice...1 week ago
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Another Zulu War Portable Wargame - Anthony and I met up in his games room to play through another Zulu War era game using his 54mm Little Legion collection and the Portable Wargames rules. T...1 week ago
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Vales of Lyndhurst: Combat at Clydesdale: 2 - The armies drawn up for battle. Royalist defending Smallbrook village.Upon a July late afternoon, a small group of richly dressed mounted men might have be...
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Review: The Barbary Pirates by C.S. Forrester - [image: The Barbary Pirates]The Barbary Pirates by C.S. Forester My rating: 5 of 5 stars Short and lively, this a popular history for younger readers of the...2 weeks ago
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Space Soldier Somewhere in the Arkansas System - Took these photographs in Beaver, AR not too far from the one lane wooden suspension bridge. The middle picture was the money shot but I failed to get down...
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Warbases Loading Shovel - One of my recent purchases was Warbases Loading Shovel from their Sci-Favela range. https://warbases.co.uk/?product=sci-favela-loading-shovel Here's how m...
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Desert Update 2 - Thanks to Carl (in another place) pointing out these figures are now up on the Pictart web site and can be ordered on line using the site’s shopping basket...1 month ago
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Operational Boxes - (NQM Squared: the armoured thrust at El Alamein) Over the Summer a lot of thinking has gone into the Operational Game and to grids – squares and hexes. I...2 months ago
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Fire burn and cauldron bubble. - Bet you weren't expecting this to appear on Gathering of Hosts: A few years ago this vignette was one of several RAFM sets that I couldn't resist as long...
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- Robert (Bob) Cordery
- 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 the past ten 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.
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