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Monday, 3 November 2025

The Fourth Portable Wargame Compendium: An update

I’ve been making slow but steady progress with compiling the next Portable Wargame Compendium. I have recently received several more very interesting contributions and I think that the next volume will really take the whole Portable Wargame concept forward.

At present the contents of the Fourth Portable Wargame Compendium includes the following:

  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Hoplite: The Peloponnesian War in a Tin
  • Gridded Age of Sail Naval Wargames
  • The Portable Charge! Wargame (PC!W) … or Recreating the Classic Wargame Rules in a more manageable form
  • The Portable Naval Wargame: Russo-Japanese War
  • Chubby Mini-Marine War Game Rules
  • Building a ‘Chubby Marine’ for Portable Naval Wargames
  • Contact!: High intensity modern warfare at Division Level
  • The Portable War of the Worlds
  • Sci-Fi Skirmish Squared – A Portable Wargame 3 x 3 Variant
  • Duo Aleae Iactae Sunt’ (Two Dice Are Rolled): A simple fire or combat resolution system using only two dice
  • The Extended Battlefield
  • The Dominion of … Rules Supplement
    • Dominion of Conan the Barbarian
    • Dominion of the Oar and Ram
    • Intestinal Fortitude: An optional rule for the Dominion of … rules
  • Appendix 1: Hex and Square gridded maps for the Battle of Blasthof Heath
  • Appendix 2: Board and Unit Counters for Contact!