The Republican submarine C1 was sunk by Nationalist aircraft at Barcelona.
A C-class Submarine.
2 hours ago
Tuesday, 9 October 2018
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
The random thoughts of an ancient wargamer. Featuring rules, battle reports, and all sorts of miscellaneous wargaming (and other) topics.
Pages
Pages
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.
Blog Archive
-
▼
2018
(343)
-
▼
October
(30)
- Stalled ... but only briefly
- Warships in Toulon
- Nugget 312
- I have been to … Spain, France, Italy, and Gibraltar
- Cruising can broaden the mind ... and the waist!
- I have been to ... La Spezia Naval Museum: The ope...
- I have been to ... the La Spezia Naval Museum: The...
- I have been to ... the La Spezia Naval Museum: The...
- I have been to ... the La Spezia Naval Museum: The...
- The sailing battleship Monarca/steam battleship Re...
- I have been to ... the La Spezia Naval Museum: Oth...
- Pure self-indulgence
- I have been to ... the La Spezia Naval Museum: The...
- I have been to ... the La Spezia Naval Museum: The...
- Decima MAS
- I have been to ... the La Spezia Naval Museum: Sma...
- I have been to ... the La Spezia Naval Museum
- Dice holders
- My latest book sales figures
- Spanish Civil War: Day-by-Day: 11th October – 1st ...
- Heritage: What is it good for? Not very much, appa...
- Spanish Civil War: Day-by-Day: 9th October 1938
- Dice holders
- Hexes and Miniatures: A website that is worth visi...
- Stepping down
- Keys ... or how to waste a lot of time and money!
- 440 The Strand
- The Portable Napoleonic Wargame: Progress and changes
- Square hills
- Nugget 311
-
▼
October
(30)
Links to my websites
Links to my favourite websites
My favourite blogs
-
Battle Of Hoth - Last night I got a chance to play Battle Of Hoth, which is a new boardgame using the Battle Cry/Memoir '44 system and covering the Imperial assault on th...
-
-
Painting Update - Two very different sets finished this week: First attempt at French vehicles and some french camouflage . The two trucks are Frontline Wargaming Re...
14 hours ago -
Happy new.........er Blenheim! - Well, far too late for any type of seasonal greetings but never to late for a nice Blenheim! Zvezda 1/200 Mk IV. This has rested on my desk unpainted ...
1 day ago -
The 'Goeben' Incident - a 'Jono's World' Scenario - A short while ago - a week or two, maybe - the subject came up in someone's blog, or comments therein, of an incident early in World War One involving a...
1 day ago -
Walcourt 1689 and Fleurus 1690 - Well, you learn something new every day. The Duc de Gobin on his excellent blog https://warfareintheageofcynicsandamateurs.blogspot.com/2025/12/neerwind...
2 days ago -
More Dominion of the Blitzkrieg - A couple of weekends ago I played a few more games of DOTB. Partly to get more experience of the game in different theatres of war and partly as an exc...2 days ago
-
ACW and Imagi-nation Napoleonics - *The standard two-decker on the right and my filed version on the left. The plastic is very hard so it took a lot of careful wok to get the hull reduced ...
2 days ago -
My DWARFS. - I've decided to do DWARFS and ORCS. I recon on about 20 figures a side. For a fantasy game I've decided to have a go at writing my own rules for the game...
3 days ago -
-
Half way there - April last year I posted about the start of a new project, the Anglo-Sikh wars of the 1840s. This was a synergy project as a lot of the British forces co...4 days ago
-
De Bello Gallico - As indicated in previous posts, I'm currently working on a solo campaign for Caesar;s war in Gaul that will generate battles that can be played on my lim...
4 days ago -
Start of Cordova Campaign Phase - *Central Germany – Campaign Phases* Cordova is set in southern Spain and follows the French invasion under the command of marshal Suchet and the Span...
4 days ago -
Midwinter Spuddling 005 – Tanky Stuff - It is a damp wet British winter. I have a plastic sprue tree to prune. Roll on the good times! Plastic Soldier Company kits normally come four to five to...5 days ago
-
Wargaming a small English Civil War action - Since returning from holiday (and catching up on some of the inevitable backlog of gardening tasks) I decided to try playing a few small English Civil Wa...
5 days ago -
Skirmishes on Greenland - [image: using the free 1 BC (One Brain Cell) toy soldier rules by Pete Kautz for a fast skirmish wargame with army men based on WW2 skirmishes on Greenla...
1 week ago -
Breughel Snowballing winter scenes meets Airfix or Airfaux medieval footballers - It wasn’t me. Alan Gruber made me do this … Crossposted from my Man of TIN Blog Two: https://manoftinblogtwo.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/breughel-snowballing-...1 week ago
-
Another Late Night 2mm Wargame - Once again I woke up in the middle of the night. I thought of my 2mm games and Horse & Musket 2.0 rules. I started thinking of different ways to deploy ...
1 week ago -
Collaborative Campaign Years 10-11: Part 2 - Continuing the Year of the Snake, another report has arrived regarding the machinations of the Picenian Empire. Words and game images are the intellectu...
1 week ago -
Happy New Year - 2026 - The good news it that we are still here! I checked! Best Wishes and I hope 2026 is good to you.2 weeks ago
-
Romans and Gauls by Allan Tidmarsh - Searching for a participation game that can be played on a small table in a couple of hours with simple rules and 54mm toy soldiers, Anthony dug through...
4 weeks ago -
New Year, New (and some old) Plans - As the old year draws to a close, of course it's natural to think about what was achieved since 1st January, and what might be planned for the New Year...
4 weeks ago -
A Festive Surprise - The Midlish plan was to surprise the Valdurians, spoil their New Year's Eve and Day and make up for all of their defeats over the last decade...... But...4 weeks ago
-
D’Erlon’s I Corps Shiny French Infantry - Scott MacPhee (MacPhee’s Miniature Men Blog) just finished painting the figures for the 4 Divisions of French Infantry for my shiny Napoleonic Armies pro...
4 weeks ago -
Forest Dragon 3D Sculpts - A Christmas pressie to myself ... ... and on the inside. Not the best presentation with their packaging. Contents are revealed. Can you tell what the...
4 weeks ago -
Winter Break: A Beary Simple Wargame - *A Beary Simple Wargame *made it out of the box today. My daughter set out the terrain while I cleaned up lunch and we played while the boys took their...
5 weeks ago -
The Battle of Valverde. New Mexico Territory, February 21st 1862. - This article is my personal interpretation of events at this time. Any mistakes are my own. On a cold morning in February of 1862 a watery sun shone thr...
.jpeg)
1 month ago -
Maloyaroslavets - 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...1 month ago
-
Warp Speed into 2025 - 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...
1 year ago -
Update and WIP - [image: Merry christmas wallpaper design] Well, it certainly has been eventful, this year. Shortly after my last post, far too long ago, some things...
2 years ago -
Blog Closing… - 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...3 years ago
-
Sharp Practice. SP3 - Adventures in the Peekaboo Valley – Clash at the Crossroads! - *'DaDa Dah, diddler, DaDa Dah, diddler, DaDa Dah.....'* Episode Three in our Mighty War of 1812 Sharp Practice Saga! *"The Heroic British forces led...
4 years ago -
New Accessions – tidying up … - 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 ...4 years ago
-
Solo Play Testing - 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 ...5 years ago
-
Warplan 5/5 Campaign System - 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...
6 years ago -
Take the High Ground - “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...
6 years ago -
Focus on 2020 - *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...
6 years ago -
Initial... - ...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...
8 years ago
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 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.
Labels
- 'How to' (55)
- 17th Century (15)
- 18th Century (52)
- 21st Century (1)
- 3D printing (3)
- Aircraft (2)
- Airfix Battles (10)
- Airsoft (3)
- American Civil War (114)
- Ancients (60)
- Art of Tactic (14)
- Axis & Allies Miniatures (6)
- Balkan Wars (12)
- Battle Cry (81)
- Battle Report (298)
- Blogger (3)
- Board Games (68)
- Book Review (335)
- Budget Model Railways Challenge (14)
- Callan (10)
- Campaigns (76)
- Chaco War (30)
- Charlie Sweet (8)
- ChatGPT (15)
- Colonial (418)
- Computers (6)
- Connections UK (3)
- COVID (7)
- COW (Conference of Wargamers) (319)
- Cruising (100)
- Cyberboard (12)
- Decluttering (10)
- Dice on the Hill (11)
- Discord (1)
- Dolmenwood (1)
- Dominion of ... (24)
- Donald Featherstone (30)
- Early 19th Century (122)
- Early 20th Century (794)
- Early Wargames and Wargamers (178)
- Eastern Front/Great Patriotic War (33)
- Edward Woodward (7)
- English Civil War (7)
- Eric Knowles (27)
- Fantasy (9)
- Fletcher Pratt (2)
- Floor Games (6)
- Franco-Prussian War 1810 (17)
- Freemasonry (87)
- Genealogy (7)
- Gerard de Gre (16)
- Guest blog posts (2)
- H G Wells (41)
- Hexblitz (22)
- Hyboria (4)
- I have been to ... (311)
- Imagi-world (42)
- Imaginations (222)
- Interbellum (77)
- Introduction (2)
- Itchy & Scratchy Rules (26)
- John Ruddle (8)
- John Sandars (5)
- Joseph Morschauser (204)
- La Belle Époque (98)
- Late 19th Century (689)
- Late 20th Century (71)
- Laurania (36)
- Lego (1)
- Lionel Tarr (12)
- Little Cold Wars (6)
- Little Wars (159)
- Madasahatta Campaign (26)
- Maldacia (20)
- Matrix Games (46)
- Medieval (1)
- Megablitz (49)
- Megagame (4)
- Memoir '44 (91)
- Memoir of Battle (55)
- Memoir of Battle at Sea (39)
- Memoir of Modern Battle (30)
- Military History Plus (8)
- Million Hits! (10)
- Mini-campaign (63)
- MIscellaneous musings (2427)
- Model railways (69)
- Modelling (366)
- Napoleonic Wars (303)
- Naval Wargames (250)
- Nostalgia Project (10)
- Obituary (1)
- One Hour Wargames (12)
- Operational Art (3)
- Paddy Griffith (33)
- Painting (13)
- PBEM (5)
- PBOM (Politics by Other Means) (12)
- Personal (52)
- Peter Laing Figures (9)
- Podcasts (10)
- Polemos (15)
- port (1)
- Portable Wargame Compendium (51)
- Red Flags and Iron Crosses (42)
- Redcoats and Natives (6)
- Restless Natives (2)
- Science Fiction (5)
- SCWaRes (3)
- Shambattle (17)
- Spanish Civil War (195)
- Spartan-Athenian War of 1890 (4)
- Table Top Battles (40)
- Terminated by Amazon KDP (4)
- Terrain (46)
- Terrain generator (14)
- The 3 x 3 Portable Wargame (55)
- The Nugget (363)
- The Portable Air Combat Wargame (13)
- The Portable Colonial Wargame (44)
- The Portable Naval Wargame (48)
- The Portable Skirmish Wargame (2)
- The Portable Wargame (688)
- Tony Bath (3)
- VCOW (Virtual Conference of Wargamers) (55)
- Wargame Design (665)
- Wargame Developments (500)
- Wargame in a matchbox (3)
- Wargame Shows (78)
- Wargames on film and TV (17)
- Wargames publications (722)
- Warships (218)
- Websites (281)
- When Empires Clash (62)
- World War I (65)
- World War II (615)
- YouTube (45)
- Zubia (16)
No comments:
Post a Comment
Thank you for leaving a comment. Please note that any comments that are spam or contain phishing messages or that come from Google Accounts that are 'Unknown' will be deleted.