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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)
- The Miniatures Page
- The Universal General Website
- Tin Soldiers of Antwerp Website
My favourite blogs
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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...7 hours ago
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Jadotsville 1961 - Every now and then you find something "new" and all you can say is: "Well I never!" That is the only way I can convey my amazement on watching "The Siege o...
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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...10 hours 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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WW2 game using a tabletop teaser - This weekend after playing during the week two English Civil War campaign games, one of which still has to be written up as a battle report, I wanted to se...
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Gnuston Heights - part 1 - All along the watchtower - An Israeli watchtower goads the Syrians by flying a big flag. Looking west (right) with the AT ditch in the foreground. Like many fine games, this one sta...
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More Death-Racing - We played our first club game of Gaslands yesterday where each player brought their own vehicles. And, with one exception, they did their own designs as we...
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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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Deserty Update - I am glad to say that with a bit of detective work I have managed to track down this French Foreign Legion and Arab 20mm figure range and have completed...
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First you get bigger THEN you get faster. - So, I set up a quick game, the OHW of CS Grant's Flank Attack from Scenarios for Wargames. It took about 1/2 an hour to play and was OK for a quick diversi...
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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...6 days ago
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Surprise Party - June, 1944. Operation *Bagration* had begun, stormed though German lines and surged deep into Belorussia and the Baltic States, At Latvian Dvinsk (Dunab...
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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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