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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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A (board) game in Spain - A few weeks back my chum Tony H sent me this link on Facebook: link. Yes. It's a game about the battle of the Ebro during the Spanish Civil War, published ...
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French Indian War Campaign - Game 18 - For the next campaign game we have a French force under commanded by Drucour attacking Fort Stanwix. As ever the operational moves and campaign background ...
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Revisiting Risk: Europe and Hollywood Medieval Gaming - *The box art - this is not like a 'normal' Risk game, in fact I think it is closer of Axis and Allies in many ways.* *The rear of the box showing the...
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My [First] Conference of Wargamers (CoW) 2018 [Part 1: Friday] - The games I played and the "adventures" I participated in, recorded for posterity, so that my memory does not fade: *D-Day - Friday (Hit the Beach):* *The...
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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 ...
2 days ago -
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...3 days ago
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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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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. ...
5 days ago -
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. ...1 week 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 ...
2 weeks ago -
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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