Geordie's Big Battles

The ongoing adventures of a boy who never grew out of making and playing with plastic model kits (and even some metal ones too). Also a wargamer in search of the perfect set of wargaming rules for WWII Land and 20th Century Naval campaigns. No part of this blog may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems.

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Monday, 1 June 2026

4,000,000+ Hits - But what does it mean?

Shrug ... Absolutely nothing .. as my guess is that it is mostly Bots. Gawd help the future of AI if it is mining my posts for accurate know...

Friday, 29 May 2026

Roll of Honour for "dead" blogs: "Tidying up Blogs I Like to Read" [1]

I was checking the bottom of my "Blogs I Like to Read" list and there seems to be deadwood. Blogs that are no longer with us (snif...

Thursday, 7 May 2026

Note to Self: Interesting Blog - Stephen Balagan

https://balagan.info/

Wednesday, 6 May 2026

What's Going on with the Internet?

Ok so I am back blogging but I cannot understand the statistics (see below, why the spike when I was posting any new stuff?): So .. I think...

Saturday, 4 October 2025

Bots - Are we back to normal "hit levels" again?

Last post was only 56 hits after the first 24 hours. Which I think are probably real people! Compared to the thousands previous .. what has ...

Thursday, 18 September 2025

AI Blog Bots Are Still Looking At This Blog .. But For What Rhyme or Reason?

Would non-human readers please go away! (see below, there is such a strange spike in things reading my blog, that I don't believe are hu...

Friday, 4 July 2025

So true .. Hobbies should be FUN .. good video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHAqhP8EeYQ Game and have fun! Model and paint to have fun! Retain the JOY! The doing counts .. Experience i...

Sunday, 21 July 2024

The Conference of Wargamers (CoW) 2024 - Initial Reports (from other Bloggers)

These are the early sightings of Conference of Wargamers (CoW) 2024 reports: David Burden's Tweets https://x.com/hashtag/COW2024? src...

Wednesday, 29 May 2024

Interesting Political Military (PolMil) Game Posting - Steven Balagan

I can highly recommend Steven Balagan's website for excellent content and stimulating ideas. https://balagan.info/using-political-toke...

Wednesday, 15 November 2023

Contrast Paints - Am I still not "Getting It"? (Probably Not)

As is my want, when in town I pop into any shop that could vaguely have wargaming "related" (as in useful) material in it. My loca...

Sunday, 22 October 2023

Note to Self: Urban Warfare Link

https://groundedcuriosity.com/urban-warfare/

Thursday, 17 August 2023

Note to Self: Listen to "Military History Plus" Podcast

Military History Plus Podcast, interesting content already after just eight episodes (see link below): https://www.militaryhistoryplus.com/

Monday, 14 August 2023

Note to self: Interesting Blog Thinking About the Future

One to take a look at: https://sourcesandmethods.blogspot.com/

Thursday, 10 August 2023

Good Blogger to follow: Shaun's Wargaming with Miniatures

Now this is an interesting recommendation from a friend ( Game We Play ). Something for the Ancient and WWII enthusiast: http://shaun-warga...

Friday, 2 June 2023

More Spearhead Resources (Video)

Courtesy of the Armchair Dragoons introducing me to Jim Owczarski I came across some more learning videos. Seeing people getting rules w...

Saturday, 13 May 2023

A blogger worth looking at Ashley R Pollard

This Blog certainly deserves more followers: http://ashleyrpollard. blogspot.co.uk/

Thursday, 12 January 2023

Strange Blogger Stat Question - View Count Seems Frozen at (1) : Blog Feed Problem

----------------- FIRST DRAFT OF PROBLEM ---------- FIRST DRAFT OF PROBLEM ------------------ Very, very strange, all my posts since (after)...

Tuesday, 19 July 2022

Interesting Blog Post - Simplicity in Wargaming

http://flagsofvictory.blogspot.com/search/label/Simplicity%20in%20Practice

Sunday, 17 July 2022

WD's COW 2022 at Shrivenham

To give you a better insight into the event I can do no better than direct you to some excellent bloggers (see below, fellow WD'ers who ...

Sunday, 24 October 2021

I have started .. eating .. Mince pies!

I think "they" have appeared in the shops very early this year! I have a theory, maybe it is because of the disrupted logistical n...

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Geordie an Exiled FoG: A wargamer and a modeller. Old enough to have all the toys I wanted but never had as a child :) The trouble is finding time to play with them :(

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