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@@petermcdonald4740 Now there’s a great idea!

For some reason I missed your comment when it was made, so sorry for not replying earlier. I’m pleased that you like my rules and I hope that you get lots of enjoyment from using them with your AWI armies. I am currently working on my next video, which will be about the Naval Museum in Cartagena, Spain. It’s going to be quite long but it’s the only way I can do it justice. I’m sorry that your TV ended up with my ugly mug stuck on its screen! Mind you, it probably scared the living daylights out of any small children and family pets who saw it! All the best, Bob

In some ways, they might have been better off leaving the museum in the Rotunda. The move to the Arsenal site was premature in that there was little or no infrastructure to support it and the local council seemed embarrassed by its presence. Having a war museum didn’t fit in with their ‘vision’ for the future. This is born out by the sidelining of the former Heritage Centre (which was also relocated to the same site from its former location in Blackheath). It was closed soon after Firepower and the local archives were moved into storage which you can now only access by appointment with the part-time archivist. It makes local history research very difficult.

This was one of the wargames that indirectly led (via my Memoir of Battle/MOBAT rules) to the writing of the Portable Wargame rules.

@@johnscarr70 Sorry that it was bit too fast moving. I tried setting the time for each slide used to give viewers enough time to read the text but getting it right is a rather hit-and-miss process. I’ll try to overcome this next time.

@@Wargaming_Miscellany and ill wear my glasses!

@@johnscarr70 But then you’ll see how bad it is!

@@Wargaming_Miscellany not at all. Too much polish and the results feel unattainable, a bit of effort and enthusiasm, and that's what inspires me.

Cheers! I am planning to create more battle report videos in due course.

@@Skylab707 Sorry for the problems you had reading some of the slides. Trying to get the timing right is something that I need to address in my future videos.

I used 20mm figures, mostly made by Britannia Miniatures.

Cheers! I'm glad that you enjoyed it.

@@jamesmaclennan4525 I’m pleased that my video has sparked off some memories for you.

@@johnscarr70 Be warned … it is a bit ‘preachy’ in places. H G Wells was involved in the day-to-day production of the film and wanted to use it to proselytise on behalf of his Fabian/socialist/utopian political point of view. Poor old Raymond Massey - who plays two leading characters in the film - had to deliver several speeches that Wells insisted could not be cut or edited. Despite this, it was an amazing film for its time. At the time, it was the most expensive film made by the British film industry and used hundreds of unemployed people as extras as Wells thought that they looked more authentic when it came to portraying people living in the post-war, medieval-like Everytown.

​@@Wargaming_Miscellanythanks for that. I hadn't appreciated it was based on the Shape of Things to Come, it's completely passed me by. You have to appreciate the efforts of pioneering film makers of the era.

I gather that Wells had wanted to produce a film version of his original book but was told that it was impossible to make. He therefore came up with a script that covered similar themes but which was more suited to a visual medium.

Well, according to the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ they do!

When I joined Woolwich Poly in 1975, it had just take over the old Bloomfield School site in Sandy Hill Road. That became the Upper School and the original building in MacBean Street in Woolwich became the Lower School.

@@paulbenson9015 I was pleased to read that you enjoyed these videos. I used to teach in Woolwich from 1975 to 1985.

@@jamesmcconnell4818 I am very pleased that you found this video useful and I hope that you enjoy the others that I have created.

At least it is being used these days, which will mean that it gest some maintenance. The link will work once the second video is released ... which should be on Sunday.

Thank you, very interesting and informative. UBIQUE

@@NyPer920, Thank you for your comment. I’m pleased to read that you found this video interesting … and I hope that you will also find the second in the series as informative.

@@DBNwargaming I’m very pleased to read that you enjoyed this video.

Eric was ... and quite a few of us owe him a tremendous debt.

Those of us who knew Eric were blessed. He was a very special sort of person.

I am very pleased to read that you enjoyed this tribute to Eric Knowles. I am also very pleased to see that you are going to use that Heroscape terrain so creatively and I look forward to seeing what the end result looks like.

It would have been great to have had some photos of the battles we fought. Unfortunately I have had to reply on my memory and the few printed bits and pieces that I was able to obtain.

Cheers! I am very pleased to read that you enjoyed watching it.

@@Wargaming_Miscellany I love that whole era of wargaming, which I just missed.

@@martinradcliffe4798, The big thing that really strikes me looking back is how close a community wargaming was.

@@timgow1699 it was a pleasure and an honour to make this tribute to Eric.

You can buy a PDF copy from Wargame Vault if you don’t want a printed copy. Printed copies (in hardback, softback, and ebook) can be bought from Lulu.com and Amazon.

@@Wargaming_Miscellany that's what I love about this hobby. Authors, designers, makers are all just so accessible and helpful. I appreciate your advice. I've spent years going down the pdf route but recently I'm turning to books. Have a great weekend.

@@johnscarr70 I subscribe to a TH-cam channel entitled ‘Budget Model Railways’. Its creator regularly uses second-hand shelves and hollow doors (and even laminated corrugated cardboard and rigid cardboard boxes) as baseboards for his layouts. He buys them very cheaply from his local rubbish tip (civic recycling centre) shop. Stingy is the new creative recycling!

@@johnscarr70 Cheers! Over recent years I’ve passed stuff that I’m never going to use again on to other wargamers … and it’s all enjoyed a new wargaming ‘life’ as a result. By the way, with my wife it’s handbags!

@@eugenegubbard4017 I’d be happy to reach 500!

@@vpraze Many thanks for your kind comment. I am currently working on two videos about the history of the Royal Artillery’s museums that were located in Woolwich.

@@Wargaming_Miscellany Very much looking forward to them!

@@vpraze I hope that my efforts won't disappoint you!

I only wish that some of the wargamers who were around in the 1960s and 1970s could see how the hobby has developed since then ... and just how much we owed them.

I am very pleased that I have helped to get you into historical wargaming.

Cheers! All I've got to do now is to keep producing more videos.

Cheers! I hope that the number of subscribers will continue you grow. Next goal ... 500 subscribers!

Cheers! Thanks for your best wishes.

You and I sound as if we are both from that generation that are sometimes referred to as the post-war baby boomers. I don't know about you, but the monthly visits to the local model shop, clutching my pocket money in my hand, always led to some new addition to my wargaming armies, navies, and air forces. Airfix kits and figures were two shillings each and if I was lucky (and had been careful with my cash), I might acquire a couple when I paid my visit to the model shop. My health was good until 2020, and since then I;ve had cancer twice (colorectal and prostate) and now I have neuropathy. Wargaming has help to keep me sane, and has made me determined to get well enough to get back upstairs to my toy/wargames room again. All the best ... and enjoy your wargaming!

I will be very pleased if I have encouraged you to revisit a moribund project and get some enjoyment from it.

Cheers! 😀 I've never been told that before!

War Plan Orange (and its associated wargames and 'fleet problems') certainly prepared the United States Navy for the war in the Pacific.

Cheers! I decided to use a different background to this and my other naval videos (there is at least one more to come!) so that they were different from the rest of the Wargaming Miscellany ones.

It seemed to go done quite well at COW as an introduction for a wargame about War Plan Orange. I understand that there was a major fleet action as a result of the plan, and that the United States won.

Cheers! I hope that you enjoy watching the other videos as well.

Wow! That sounds like a very interesting project and I hope that you will soon be fighting battles over your new terrain boards. 3"/75mm squares are a nice size for terrain squares and are useable for most figures sizes. Staining your surfaces will allow the grain of the wood to show through and will mean that you will end up with an effect that is similar to that on Archduke Piccolo's hexed terrain board (see archdukepiccolo.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-portable-white-mountain-30yw-battle.html). I look forward to seeing how your terrain looks when it is finished.

Cheers! Making this video has made me realise just how useful the mini-campaign board is ... and regretting that I put it and all my Hexon II in storage before I broke my leg! If I hadn't, I might be able to use both whilst I remain immobile.

Cheers! I looked at buying a cork-covered board but all the ones I saw only had cardboard backing. As I wanted something more substantial, I opted for the magnetic whiteboard. Covering your board with green felt and burlap makes a lot of sense, as does using thumbtacks to show the corners of grid areas.

Cheers! Welcome to my TH-cam channel ... and thanks for your very kind comment.

@@Wargaming_Miscellany I enjoyed your book as well.

@@kevinsenglishschools3405 I hope that you using the PW rules in all their various versions.

I hope that you enjoy using the rules. I really should have made a video like this years ago but never seemed to have the time get around to it until now.

I used to include them in all my published rules. Perhaps I ought to do that again.

@Wargaming_Miscellany I may adopt that with the few I am currently working on. Helps to inform people of the mentally the game should be approached with.

@@stonehorsegaming, please feel free to use them. I think that you are right about them helping the players to approach a game in the right frame of mind.

It sounds as if you enjoyed my latest video I’ve had several comments in emails that my voice is different from how people imagined it would be.

Cheers! Thanks very much for the very positive feedback.

I am glad that you liked this summary of the game mechanisms used in PW. I have had battles where cavalry units have followed up Close Combats several times until they destroyed the enemy units they had been fighting ... and then found themselves well behind the enemy frontline and cut off. The death of an unpopular - or incompetent - General could be functioned in without too much difficulty and reducing an army's EP if it is out of supply makes a lot of sense. (It's certainly an idea I need to look at in greater detail.) Thanks for the every helpful feedback. All the best, Bob