Sunday, 21 June 2020

Battling through One Hour Wargames

I have for a while had a notion to play all the Scenarios in Neil Thomas's One Hour Wargames book in order, 1 - 30. As this is going to take me some time, and will be punctuated by other games no doubt, I have established another blog on which to record the results of the endeavor.

To observe the report of the first game, please see here.


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16 comments:

  1. Sprinks21 June 2020 at 19:49

    That's a great idea, might take a while but what an epic campaign you could fight doing all 30 battles!.

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    1. Maudlin Jack Tar21 June 2020 at 20:31

      Don't think I'm going to try to join them all up!

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  2. Jonathan Freitag21 June 2020 at 19:53

    I’ll be watching...

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  3. Mark, Man of TIN22 June 2020 at 08:03

    Good luck! In these days of highly publicised fundraising challenge efforts, a heroically organised and disciplined effort like this OHW challenge demands that you should seek sponsorship or mark the milestones and end in a suitably public way. Maybe donations to the Aged Wargamers Benevolent Fund?

    At the very least you should reward yourself with a new box of Airfix figures or two, which begets the next "Two boxes of Airfix and you've got yourself Skirmish Games for life" challenge ...

    In setting yourself this OHW challenge (blog) You are doing for wargaming what US author and early blogger Julie Powell in The USA did in cooking all the recipes in one year from Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking - which became the bestselling book Julie & Julia and Hollywood movie of the same name with Amy Adams and Meryl Streep.
    Who do you think should play you in the Film adapatation of OHW 1-30 and who to play Neil Thomas?

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    1. Mark, Man of TIN22 June 2020 at 08:13

      I forgot to mention, the Julie & Julia movie set in modern USA and an imagined postwar Paris for Julia Child has some interesting wartime links as she and her husband Paul were both OSS agents in WW2 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Child

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    2. Maudlin Jack Tar22 June 2020 at 08:38

      I love that your comment is longer than the blog post Mark! I didn't know about Julia Child and will go look her up.
      In the film of the book, I'd be played by Arnold Ridley (if he was still alive) and Mr Thomas by Tom Hanks.

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    3. Mark, Man of TIN22 June 2020 at 13:00

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    4. Mark, Man of TIN22 June 2020 at 13:02

      My Natural Stupidity requires a bit of a warm up to get going, hence the long-windedness. Excellent choice of actors, and yes Private Godfrey, you may be excused.

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    5. Mark, Man of TIN22 June 2020 at 13:16

      Supposedly her declassified OSS file is here somewhere https://catalog.archives.gov/id/2180661

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    6. Maudlin Jack Tar22 June 2020 at 13:40

      She was certainly an extraordinary person - "experimental shark repellent" reminds me of the spray used by Adam West as Batman!!

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    7. Mr. Pavone29 July 2020 at 03:17

      @Mark: I love the idea of an inexpensive box of soldiers, similar sculpting with just enough differences, cast in two colors and just enough of them to get started in miniature war gaming with a small army for each side.

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  4. Peter23 June 2020 at 10:14

    I like your game board and counters. Good luck with your OHW endeavours.

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    1. Maudlin Jack Tar23 June 2020 at 10:26

      Thanks Peter - the board was a cut & paste from the original created by Jay Ward of the Numbers, Wargames and Arsing About blog, and the counters were I think taken from the Junior General website!

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  5. Zabadak23 June 2020 at 11:50

    Tha'ts some task you've set yourself; good luck !

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    1. Maudlin Jack Tar23 June 2020 at 13:36

      Thanks Joe - its aimed at encouraging more games!

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