The Nationalists captured Talavera de la Reina.
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Saturday, 3 September 2016
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- Bob Mackenzie's Wargaming Website
- Chris Kemp's Not Quite Mechanised Website
- John Curry's 'History of Wargaming' Website
- 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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Napoleonic War Gaming for Fun - further nostalgia - Photos of the pages. I've green tinted them as I find the text easier to read that way than just black on white. Seems sharper somehow.My previous posting ...
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Modern Old Toy Soldier Style Zouaves - The transition is complete and the Rebels have now raised a battalion of Zouaves. My "New Toy Soldier" Papal Zouaves facing some original Old Toy Soldier ...
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Dettol- the result... - Having soaked in Dettol since Friday l got the figures out of the jar- The Dettol has worked wonders on them. I cleaned them next with washing up liquid...1 day ago
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Battle! Practical Wargaming - *The original version of Charles Grant's classic title devoted to WW2 wargames.* *The edition currently available from Caliver books. There is a lot ...
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TED TALK: What game theory teaches us about war | Simon Sinek - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bFs6ZiynSU Quite frightening!2 days ago
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Revisiting old and new buildings - One of the great things about COW and WD is that I've made some great friends. Okay, so we don't hang out down the pub every weekend, but that's partly bec...
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Bike Hunt - I wanted to try a variation on the Machinas chase setup, so set up a quick game this evening. In previous games the chase has mostly consisted of a single ...
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A few Sci-Fi games - In between playing French Indian War campaign games. I thought this week I would get some of my Warhammer 40K figures onto the tabletop. The reason for thi...
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COW 2018 - Last weekend I went on my annual trip to the Conference of Wargamers. Unfortunately this year my trip was cut short as I had to help one of my children mov...
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More thoughts on Why Battalions not Corps - *36 figure battalions in the mid 1980s* My last blog was mentioned on TMP Napoleonic Discussion forum, and resulted in some very interesting comments. ...
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Nostalgic for old telly - *Once you saw this, you knew what was coming was good* Like many others I often get nostalgic for the television programmes I watched when I was little. ...5 days ago
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GI Joe/Eagle Force & Cobra Command Logos - The GI Joe Cobra bug has bit again. So I printed and painted these up. They will adorn the army boxes for each force.
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Packed for COW 2018 - The tottering pile of junk which featured in the previous post has now all been stuffed into the car. Now all that remains is to climb aboard and head so...
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Basic Impetus2 - 3.2 Macedonians of Philip and Alexander 356-331 BC - Here is the Macedonian Army of King Philip, Alexander on his horse leading the cavalry. A bit light weight in my opinion after putting them up against ...
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I've got a Vassal module and I know how to use it! - I'm currently working with a developer on the Ramadi game. He has come up with a Vassal module in the space of a few hours so is a bit of an expert. He d...
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2nd Alamein – NQM Squared – The South (2) - A fortnight ago, YesthatPhil ran 44th Infantry Division against an Umpire-controlled Pavia and Folgore. For the second phase of this battle, Trebian took t...3 weeks 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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Hinchliffe 20mm Equipment Range - In the comments on a recent post about French line artillery on Stryker's Hinton Hunt Vintage Wargames Figures blog there has been a little discussion abo...
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Isandlwana Refight - Anthony and I met up in his games room to christen the new gridded battlefield he had ordered from me and I had recently delivered. This is based on the st...1 month ago
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OHW Smolensk in 54mm - At the weekend Anthony and I got together for our fourth game using the One Hour Wargame rules. Flushed with the success of our Napoleonic game we felt rea...
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What a Template - I feel I am a wee bit behind the times in that I have missed the opening flurry of games and comments about 'What A Tanker' from the Too Fat Lardies. That'...
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NQM Squared (1) - I put (1) after the title as I’m sure there is going to be more to come (however this post ‘is it’ for now) .. This was a trial game set up by NQM Chris to...3 months ago
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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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