A couple of people have asked if I could add a “Follow” button to this site, so I have added a “Follow” widget at the bottom of the page [now moved to top of Sidebar].
Month: October 2016
Rod’s Wargaming Home Page
When I set this Blog up, I created a static Home page, giving information about the structure of the website. I have since decided that it would be better if it showed my latest Blog posts on the Home page, however that could potentially lose the information about the structure of the website.
I have solved this by posting that general information as a Blog, but making it a sticky, so that it will always appear at the top of the page. I have then customised my Home page to make it show my Blogs – problem solved (and I have learned a bit more about WordPress, which I have found to be really excellent).
As a result of this, I have also removed the Top Menu item of “Blog”, since it is now on the Home page, and this has moved all of my Top Menu items onto a single line – much neater.
Rod’s Wargaming Website
Having been wargaming for over 60 years, a few years ago I created this website as a record of my activities.
The “About” page contains a history of my wargaming over the years, and since I grew up in Southampton, which many might regard as the spiritual home of wargaming in UK, you will notice some well known pioneers of the hobby mentioned there.
The other Top Menu pages are devoted to the different historical periods of my wargaming, in the main sections of Ancients and Horse & Musket. The Ancient section has drop down sub-menus of Roman Era and Medieval. The Horse & Musket section has drop down sub-menus of 18th Century, Napoleonic and Zulu War. There is also a section on General matters, which includes sub-pages on Terrain, Planning, Modelling Tips and Wargame Accessories.
There is also a section on Military Historical Research, containing a number of items of straight (ie not wargaming) matters which I have researched over the years. This section comprises two drop down sub-sections, one on Organisation and one on Tactics. The former includes a paper on the Authorised Establishments of the British Army (1802-1815), which has details of the organisational structure of infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineers and supporting units. It also includes a paper on British Converged Light Battalions, the latter formed by converging all of the light infantry and rifle companies in each brigade, plus several further papers.
The right end of the Top Menu has a Contact page and a Search button.
The postings on the Blog record my current model soldier production or wargaming activities. I also use this to announce any new pages published on the website. The blog postings below are in reverse chronological order, but can also be accessed by subject through the side menu.
Finally, I also have a website to give details of my portfolio of Military History Talks (currently 21). This can be viewed here.
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