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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.
A Naval Excursus -
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Hex grid as pencilled. The white lines is just the overhead
light reflecting off 2B pencil
Interrupting the Roman Civil War narrative is this little i...
First game in the new wargames room
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After setting up the wargame room, finishing the unpacking, and
reorganizing everything, I was finally ready for a game. The question was:
which period t...
Cleudo Hostage Rescue
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We were low on numbers so John put on Cleudo Hostage Rescue, which can
accommodate few or many players as required.
A very timely game as I've just been...
Suffra-graffiti in the park
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Blogvent Window 21: Unposted blog pictures from my unposted drafts in 2020?
Odd looking at these together again, although I found some of them did
finally...
Fight For The Fjords
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Ralph put of a WWII naval game for us on Thursday, which was the last club
meet of the year. He aimed for something different and mildly spectacular
and ...
Meanwhile, Back In the West Indies....
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*"Major! Move those riflemen forward, further away from the convoy!
There's a plantation ahead, just over that pathetic excuse for a bridge and
this ar...
STAR WARS- Newly Painted Characters.
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I've painted up the first batch of 25mm figures- I couldn't sleep this
morning and started painting around 4:00am - by 6 I had the eight figures
all lac...
Unfashionable City Breaks 6 – Birmingham
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Non-British readers may wonder why Great Britain’s second city is
unfashionable. We toured the Christmas Market with a native
Brummie-in-exile to find out ...
Fnurban #36 : What's in a Name?
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There's been something of a pause in hobby activities in the past few weeks
- largely just due to 'daily life' happening, really ( '*Life is what
happen...
Inaugurating a new wargames room
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Phil has been talking about turning his spare room into a wargames room for
a while. Goodness knows he has enough to put in it. At least two large car
lo...
Assaulting a Cannon
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*Enough to strike fear into the Emperor’s enemies!*
*WARNING….INCOMING GW POST….WARNING….INCOMING GW POST….*
For the sheer joy of blasting assorted gribb...
Jean Campaign – Day Seven
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*Campaign Ma*
Main French depot at Hellin – 18 days supplies
French occupy Je
Spanish attack Huelma
Guerrilla brigades active
13th French army – regrou...
Pax Britannica...but not for long!
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A couple of months ago I dug out my copy of Victory Games' Pax Britannica.
This last saw the light of day as recently as 2002(!) so another game was
r...
A tale of three books.....
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This is not a good, bad and ugly type review. Just some reflections on what
I have been reading recently.
The first of the three is James Holland's S...
Pavia Project Progress
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Not the most interesting of posts but one to prove to myself I am making
progress after some non-productive weekends.
This weekend I managed to clean up ...
Frying Pan and Blanket Amalgamated Catalog
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I am still busy cleaning my basement. In my "wargame room" I am boxing up
most of my toy soldiers and other hobby supplies, with the idea of going
throu...
Massacre!
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Play testing the 3x3 PW game in a *Wee Matchbox* produced a surprising
result, so that ticks a box (pun unintended).
Before reporting the game I wan...
And on to Austrians...
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I have some HAT Austrians that I intend to paint at some point (some are
currently painted as British, French and Dutch!) so I thought I'd tried
printin...
Plastic Warrior Show 2025
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*The date for the 2025 Plastic Warrior Show has now been released.....*
*......And here are the directions to get there:*
*TRAVEL GUIDE*
*Directions ...
The Battle of Prokhorovka
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We’re re fighting the battle of Prokhorovka at the moment using Memoir ‘44.
This was the giant armour clash between the 11th SS Panzer Korps under
Mans...
Barnyard Find - Group 3
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I finally found the time to peer inside the box holding group 3 of my
barnyard find.
Lots of unpainted lead as you can see. Another abandoned army proje...
Bear Terrain
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Above is are first three structures and some forest for A Beary Simple
Wargame. They will be primed and painted in the same glossy style as the
Bear...
Happy New Year
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Hi everyone, normally I would be posting my "review of the year" today and
my plan for 2024 tomorrow.
But as some of you may know I'm poorly in hospital...
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 ...
Fighting for Hearth and Home
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When word came from the Watchers that the host of Iron Men in the pass had
taken the North East road, the Elder of Smawlton was quick to send word to
Duke ...
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.
That latter one is a very vivid flag, isn't it?
ReplyDelete-- Jeff
Bluebear Jeff,
ReplyDeleteIt is a very distinctive and unusual design
The Majorcan flag is derived from the one used by the whole of the Baleraric Islands, the main difference being the position of the castle.
All the best,
Bob