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- Bob Mackenzie's Wargaming Website
- Chris Kemp's Not Quite Mechanised Website
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- Major General Tremorden Rederring's Colonial Wargames Page
- Mapsymbs Website
- The Antwerp Fusiliers Website (Now part of the Tin Soldiers of Antwerp Website)
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- The Universal General Website
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My favourite blogs
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Surely You Joust - I went to the St. Ives Medieval Fair this weekend, which is the first time I've been to a reenactor event since we emigrated here ten years ago. It was a b...
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Surprise Party - continued (1) - ... The narrative that follows will be more pictorial than textual, mainly because typing is such hard work at the moment! The action opened with Germa...
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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 day ago
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Gnuston Heights - part 2 - Skyhawk down! - As the Syrian onrush rushed on, Israeli tanks took up their prepared positions (both photos by Ian Drury) The Israeli Air Force - recipient of much of th...
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ECW Campaign - Game 2 at tale of two bridges - The English Civil War campaign continues with game 2. After the loss of the Yorkshire region, Parliament has made a move to secure East Anglia which is clo...
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Warlord Games: Cruel Sea - Have to say I'm interested in knowing more about this one! http://wargameterrain.blogspot.com/2018/09/breaking-warlord-games-cruel-seas-world.html However I...1 day ago
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and the answer is... - My gut usually knows when something is right or wrong but my brain can be slow to get from wrong to right. I understood well enough that what worked for a ...
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Arnhem and Manouvre - John brought a couple of games down to try out last night, firstly the preview of our participation game for next years show circuit. It covers the XXX Cor...
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On the workbench Vendel Miniatures - I read that ,the other day, Vendel Miniatures (recently called Bloody Day) are no longer available. I am saddened to hear that for l felt the figures wer...2 days ago
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ALAMEIN Operation Lightfoot D Minus 35 - Rather than asking players to fiddle around sticking pins onto bases for the game, I have preloaded all the pins onto bases, and gone back to dice in frame...2 days ago
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40 Winks and some Pots - Am getting some little fiddly bits done. Some matchsticks, Milliput, medical gauze and some scraps of plastic card. Makes a change from laying slabs in s...
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Armies for the Portable Wargame....Part 2 - *Rebels Advance! Spencer Smith Confederates from the superb collection of Jim Duncan* Following on from my earlier posts I spent some time thinking about...
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PowerPoint Battle Reports - I have recently been experimenting with doing a Powerpoint battle report as an addition to the previous battle report. The first video or slide show is ...
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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...1 week ago
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All the Queen’s Men Toy Soldier Ranges - In 2015 we acquired the “All the Queen’s Men” colonial ranges from a local collector. I am now pleased to say that we have now acquired all of the rest of ...1 week ago
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Ramadi launched! - *Ramadi:* Phew! The game is now available after a tense few weeks of final revisions. Well done to Mark Walker (publisher), Ilya Kudriashov (art) and Art...
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Colouring some Celts - So next year the SOA Battleday is Telemon a Republican Romans v Celts battle. The Celt army included a goodly number of naked warriors, and I don't have an...
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DBN29 -The Frogs & the Lobsters - A return to DBN now, the place Quiberon in France, the year is 1795. A British/French Royalist attempt to invade Revolutionary France, which did not go ve...
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3D Printed Cobra HISS Tank 1/72 Scale - I am enjoying printing 1/72 scale models of GI Joe vehicles. I picked 1/72 because the plastic soldiers for that scale will be easier to convert and look t...
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Lead Adventure Pysker - *Blind Eyes* There is a small part of me that will always have a soft spot for the dark future of the 41st millennium. The setting has always been rather...1 month ago
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Battle Cry in 54mm - For those unfamiliar with it, Battle Cry is a boardgame set in the American Civil War, it's played on a hexed board using 20mm toy soldiers which are activ...
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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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About Me
- 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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