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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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19thC Command Module for Hearts of Tin - Under the premise "Strike while the iron is hot" I passed some time today sitting under a patio umbrella on a hot summer's afternoon, contemplating command...
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Ground Zero....... - work in progress! I suppose it says something if I have gone to the trouble of designing a logo for this game. My enforced absence from blogging and game r...
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1/600th Thoughts and the Portable Wargame - *Tumbling Dice 1/600th infantry and cavalry with Perry Travel Battle buildings and Renendra plastic bases* As well the plans afoot for the Risk figures m...
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Someone has blundered.... - *The Remnants of an Army by Lady Butler* ...and I am that someone. I recently received an email about my recent piece in Miniature Wargames Issue 411 fr...
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Scratch building a French Indian War fort - Having completed a blockhouse to add to my French Indian War armies last week, it was time to figure out how to create a fort. One of the considerations I ...
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Campaign Supply System - *Note that the winning French need five depots and the losing Prussians only two. The red road is the main supply route for both armies.* You cannot ...
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A story of gore, and blood-letting galore - A Tale of Yore. - Looking southwards along French lines along the Elster River, Dolitz village in the foreground, Markkleeburg in the distance. The village of Dosen is just...
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The Earl will take the field! - As noted previously on my Game of the Month Blog, the proposed 40mm version of my Gathering of Hosts campaign has been officially binned. The Elastolins wi...
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Black Dog - The Black Dog has been sniffing around of late but has decided to launch himself upon me now. I know a number of you are visited by him too. Any suggestion...2 days ago
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Codename: Lovecraft - A new kaiju has risen from The Breach. Codenamed 'Lovecraft', it's a hideous tentacled horror with a wide-angle psychic attack. And it's been drawn to a re...
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Some Sepoy Shenannigans - Having downloaded the complete works of G A Henty to my Kindle recently I read some of his books whilst on holiday, including "In Time of Peril", his novel...
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Dun sur Meuse - On the nights either side of our Verdun visit we parked up at a nice little aire at the side of the Meuse. You're never far away from that river in this ...
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A Grand Day Out - The Medieval folk that run around hitting each other with sticks were out again at Delapré Abbey this weekend. We wandered down, because Delapré is one of ...1 week ago
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A Norman For Me - In my previous post I highlighted some Norman Knights that I purchased from Conquest Games. http://jim-duncan.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/summer-update.html I ...
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Pigs in blankets … well Winter smocks - Just a quick experiment really … I swapped on a few ushanka heads and painted some of the new Piggie scouts in snow camo … Now mostly the Red Army’s snow s...2 weeks ago
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Partisan 2017 - We went along to Partisan recently under the auspices of Wargames Developments to run 'A Platoon Commanders War' converted to hexes. As ever, it was a grea...
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Eugene's IV Corps in Minifigs S Range figures - As no stranger to grand statement projects myself, I was delighted to receive Alan M's photographs of his Eugene's IV Corps using S Range miniatures...
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DBN Quatre Bras 1815 - Part Two - The second part of our Quatre Bras game. The Duke of Wellington has arrived & Allied troops rush to stem the line. it would prove to be a very different ...
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Zulu Wars: Portable Colonial Wargame - Anthony and I played this game a few weeks ago at the Guildford Club but I have been so busy with work that I haven’t had chance to sort out the photograph...2 months ago
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Plastic Warrior Show 13th May 2017 - The date for this year's Plastic Warrior Show has now been announced, it's Saturday 13th May 2107 at the same venue in West London, The Winning Post, that ...
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More rules, less progress, but finally more landsers. - Five German rifle squads and one antitank team ready for the table (except I have to round up a truck for the ATG). Sorry for the lousy pic quality, they'r...
9 months ago -
Casting Season - It's casting season here at the Lead Gardens. The weather has "springed up" and it's perfect for getting outside and starting on some summer casting proje...
3 years ago
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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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