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Sunday, 25 January 2026

 

                                        Junction Jeopardy by Henry Hyde

Been a follower of Henry since his days editing Battlegames Magazine. He has written several useful books on the hobby. Junction Jeopardy: A Coffee Break Campaign is the latest addition.



Junction Jeopardy presents players with 9 maps centred around a critical village at an important transport junction. The book is designed to be used as a small campaign of connected scenarios throughout a range of periods. It can be adapted for use with your favourite ruleset.



The book has suggested several ideas for periods I am interested in. The maps can be used for individual scenarios as well as a campaign. This fits into my idea for a multi system campaign for VBCW using Nuts!, Went The Day Well or One Hour Skirmish rules for smaller games and Chain of Command or Bolt Action for larger games. Possibilities exist for using Sharp Practice rules for horse & musket games.

Really useful product. I got my hard copy from Amazon, but you can get a PDF from Battlegames – Wargaming content from Henry Hyde, Creator of Battlegames on Patreon          

Sunday, 18 January 2026

 

                                                           


                                                         FINAL FRONTIER.

My gaming group tend to plan a year ahead which games are played. We are currently ¾ of the way through a tranche of Star Trek Attack Wing. David has consistently played Romulan, Del Klingon and, more recently, Borg. I played Kazon, Vulcan and Independent.

Here are photos from previous games.       













                                                   IT’S BEEN A WHILE.

Not posted since 2017. Real life got in the way, then habits change and mojo gets lost.

However, having watched a YouTube article on the relevance of blogs, I decided now is the time to resume. The blog is useful as inspiration and incentive. Hopefully, it can help push me to progress the ongoing process of rationalising and downsizing my lifetime hobby accretion/collection that I now see as SABLE (Stuff Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy), or maybe a better description, TABLE (Toys Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy).

My latest project is building early WW2 vehicles for historical or Imagi-nation gaming. I built two 1/72 7-TP from First to Fight. One of the kits needs TLC before painting, as it got crushed in storage.