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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!

4 comments:

  1. Looks fantastic, Bob, although I am trying to recall if I have ever seen the words "Intestinal Fortitude" before!

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    1. Steve,

      The expression was certainly used during the Second World War as a euphemism for guts. Apparently, it was coined around 1937 by John Wilce, an Ohio State University professor and football coach, to avoid using the more direct term.

      All the best,

      Bob

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  2. There's a good broad spread of topics Bob. I'm looking forward to reading the 4th Compendium

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    1. Maudlin Jack Tar,

      It’s thanks to people like you that the Compendia have been so successful.

      All the best,

      Bob

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