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Retired (actual) professor of history. History purist/puritan. Page for my wargaming interests. I try not to do politics or academia/academic history here (for which see realhistoryguy.bsky.social). #actuallyAutistic

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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wargamers should probably read this
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Top Gary Larson reference. 👏🏻👏🏻
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good grief
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How it *could* work …
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thank you!
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This one’s a bit more set up for the paddies.
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thanks
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
See my banner picture
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some French armour for Indochina
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oh gosh. That’s very sad but - as they say - none of us is getting any younger. Perils of a greying hobby I guess.
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thanks!
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Any chance of the Crimean range being updated as was once mooted?
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The ones I saw looked much more Russian/Soviet inspired than Nazi, to me
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Excuse the (for wargames social media) inappropriate language but … fucking hell! Amazing.
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If GTA were a 1980s wargame or (esp) an Avalon Hill or SPI board-game these would all be in the rules anyway. www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-en...
thedailymash.co.uk
My demands for GTA VI, by a nerd
AS someone who’s been playing video games for more than 25 years, I’ve got some ideas about what would make GTA VI truly special. Here are my suggestions.
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The days of the immersive game. Brilliantly mad: kotaku.com/the-notoriou...
kotaku.com
The Notorious Board Game That Takes 1,500 Hours To Complete - Kotaku
The thick, black-and-white rulebook packaged with every copy of the 1979 war-game The Campaign For North Africa is full of obtuse decrees, but the
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Fantastic www.wargamer.com/board-games/...
wargamer.com
Two years into the world's most complicated board game, masochist gamers "still don't understand what the camels do"
The ridiculously complex Campaign for North Africa boasts 1,500 hours and recommends you play with 10 people - these gamers aim to finish it with two.
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Damned typing ineptitude
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Not for those of a nervous disposition and/or only for broad-monded adults
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
In the seemingly interminable process of unpacking, I found this chap: Gripping Beast ‘Grendel’. Might have been a linited edition, from c.2000?
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Put another way…
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Ppl may be interested in this
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Interesting www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/27/d...
theartnewspaper.com
One of Donatello’s most important bronze statues is being restored: should it ever be shown outdoors again?
“Gattamelata”, one of the most important bronze sculptures of the Renaissance, has been brought inside for restoration—and it may never return to its piazza in Padua
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Fantastic
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Wow
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Very good book but strange how it claims to ‘reveal’ who won the Hyboria campaign - which T Bath had revealed himself in the last part of his magazine series on the campaign in (by then) Military Modelling. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I think the Old School vibe comes free with SYW games
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
If the Prussians take that hill, they’ll have the surprise of their lives
Photo of a Seven Years War wargame, in the middle of which, one of our black cats, Morgan, has curled up and gone to sleep.
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Would be confusing in Hull, where toad is pronounced turd…
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
😢
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Like I need this temptation…
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Where is your Mediterranean household?
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Aerial view on Google Earth
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
@caseshotpublish.bsky.social !
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Lidl Italian operations and its crisp production are weirdly focused on the sites of Napoleon’s victories
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
👆🏻What he said
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The great unboxing has commenced (after nearly two years). Found this fellow (about 5cm long when on the move) in the bottom of a box of boxes of 1/72 figures ‘Come and visit for some games’ [some hours later in A&E] ‘Well that went well…’
Scorpion in the bottom of a packing box
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
“Whenever you want to buy something stupid you say it will be a teaching aid”: my then girlfriend.
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Currently he is most interested in the horse and (especially) cart - in line with his general obsession with lorries, diggers, tractors, etc
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
🤣
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Have I set him off towards becoming a wargamer?!
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
1:1 ‘wargaming’ for kids. In Santa Cruz de Tenerife there’s a whole kids’ playground based on the battle of Sta Cruz (1797 a where Nelson list his arm) and specifically on a particular painting of it. It’s insane - it’s fantastic. Esp if you have the excuse (eg a 2-yr-old) to explore it!
Painting of the Battle of Santa Cruz, featuring British Warships bombarding one of the town’s forts, a sinking cutter, rowing boats going ashore under fire.The playground from the Spanish ‘castle’ showing ‘canon’, and climbing franes based on a British battleship, the sinking cutter, rowing boats… The playground ‘castle’The ‘sinking cutter’ climbing frame with a ‘rowing boat’ in the background
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Mr Humbert d’Umpty, a prominent local purveyor of pies.
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Self-aggrandisement beginning ‘most people think…’ has a familiar ring to it
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The ‘British battleship’ climbing frame.
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
More photos of boards with cut-out faces to look through
British soldierLord Nelson - depicted inaccurately as already having lost his arm. Tut tutSpanish commander - GuttierezSpanish gunner
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
1:1 ‘wargaming’ for kids. In Santa Cruz de Tenerife there’s a whole kids’ playground based on the battle of Sta Cruz (1797 a where Nelson list his arm) and specifically on a particular painting of it. It’s insane - it’s fantastic. Esp if you have the excuse (eg a 2-yr-old) to explore it!
Painting of the Battle of Santa Cruz, featuring British Warships bombarding one of the town’s forts, a sinking cutter, rowing boats going ashore under fire.The playground from the Spanish ‘castle’ showing ‘canon’, and climbing franes based on a British battleship, the sinking cutter, rowing boats… The playground ‘castle’The ‘sinking cutter’ climbing frame with a ‘rowing boat’ in the background
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
40 minutes on the train from us!
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Mine was Bruce Quarrie's Airfix Napoleonic Wargaming book/rules.
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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Thought I recognised it. I read all of the Howard Conan stories when I was in my early teens.
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