The Single Handed Admiral

It being summer I get my my regular exercise swimming laps in my local outdoor public pool.  I show up when it opens at 8am with a bunch of ...

OK let's work the key features into a 1941ish Med action.  One of the nice features from a gaming perspective is that the initiative swu...

When I was in my teens, my guitar teacher used to have me transpose the chord progressions from Beatles tunes to different keys.  He did it ...

Naval Warfare  is one of the blogs I follow.  Today's post covers the USS Idaho and Mississippi - but not perhaps the ones you're th...

We fought out the rest of the convoy action last night.  To allow Curt and Sarah the use of their dining room table, we marked the ships...

Well after a week's delay we went to sea and fought it out over the convoy last night.  Forces on table at the start were as follows. ...

After a week's delay it looks like we're good to go with the WW2 naval game this week at Curt's , domestic gods and goddesses a...

The plan had been for Sylvain and I to get our naval kit on table at Curt's this week, but this has been delayed by an outbreak of real...

With Sylvain and I pumping out the WW2 Naval models, we gave  some thought to a naval game next week.  I volunteered to put together a scena...

This Friday night we are planning a NWF frontier game.  Here's the sit rep and map from Charles S Grant's Scenario book (a must hav...

I spend 3 days at the Actuarial Research Conference in Winterpeg last week.  Unusually for a conference it was within driving distance (590...

As with many things in life, nothing I blog about is very original.   A quick google of "operation Menace wargame scenario" or re...

I managed to find a copy of Operation Menace  by Arthur J. Marder  at the University Library this week.  It's a very interesting and we...