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Wednesday, 5 June 2019
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My favourite blogs
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A Yokai/Kobold Scuffle - I tried another game of Fantastic Scuffles yesterday, and went for two extremely different warbands. The first used my Yokai figures and used three chara...
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Happy Mother’s Day 2025 - Topical Repost from 2023 for Mother’s Day: https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2023/03/19/mothers-day-2023/ Thanks Mum! Remembered especially today … Blog r...3 hours ago
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God Emperor! Concluding the first stab at it.. - Continuing on from last weeks post, I have played the rest of the reign of Gaius Maudlinus (see below), but first a word about the game itself. Surplus ...
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Bakudan o otosu! - Or "Bombs Away!". Tim put on trial game of his VCOW offering, covering Japanese air raids on Wake Island in December 1941. This is of the one player = o...
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Ready To Go - Practice helps! The armies are good to go. There are more battalions, squadrons and batteries to be cast, converted, and painted, but the lads are ready...
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French Indian War Campaign - Game 2 Report - The French and Indian War mini-campaign continues with the battle of Fort Robert. General William Colchester, commanding the British forces, has swiftly ...
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Send Reinforcements: I need more Adventurers - Female Elf Adventurers - The eldest son is off at university and it comes as no surprise, he is soon to be found running a Dungeons and Dragons campaign with new found friends (and...
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SANTA FE - HO Train Crew. - Hi...Today I received my NOCH Figures from Western Australia. The NOCH Train Crew figures are excellent. The NOCH Train Crew with the GP7 Diesel and Sant...
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First Alamein – Mersa Matruh - Second Alamein is a beast of a wargame. I have only managed it at Front Scale Orbat (FSO) on one table by creating a carpark, or by splitting it into two s...2 days ago
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Minifigs 25mm Seven Years War - I haven't managed to do much painting over the last 3 weeks due to other calls on my time - managed some gaming. I have been trying to work out how to o...
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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 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.
I see that the larger squares make it a "Portable Wargame Board" rather than an "Arena". I suspect that this distinction may puzzle people who don't read your blog.
ReplyDeleteYou are clearly highly influential in the Wargame industry.
Mike Hall,
DeleteIn truth, I suspect that only people who read my blog or buy my books will even look at the catalogue for this item.
As for being influential in the wargames industry ... that I seriously doubt, but as Warbases are a small yet very efficient company, I think it is more a case of them seeing an opportunity to expand their range of products. If only other businesses were so forward thinking and responsive.
All the best,
Bob