I've read a couple of excellent things about planning gaming projects recently, one in Tim Beresford's article in Miniature Wargames 362 and another on Trebian's Blog wargaming4grownups. This inspired me to review my current projects and see where I am going with them.
1. My main project is my ongoing Peninsular War campaign. I have all the troops I need for this, although I currently have to proxy Neapolitan and Dutch infantry, for example. But I have the vast majority of what I need for it, so the main problem has been to find time between extensive work and family commitments, and some unfortunate bouts of sickness, to resume it. Hope springs eternal however and I've managed to get it started again this weekend.
2. The next campaign I am lining up is a re-fight of Caesar's Conquest of Gaul and his Invasion of Britain. I still have a few more chariots to construct and paint, but in the main the armies for this are done. I shall use Polemos SPQR probably, although DBA and DBM are also possibilities. The key thing to research and decide here is the boardgame to use as a basis for it. I'm still looking, so any recommendations would be very useful here!
3. I'm strongly considering getting rid of all my 20mm and 15mm figures and concentrate only on 28mm (for hybrid games, mainly) and 6mm. It will make storage and sharing terrain easier and will mean I'm only ever painting for massed effect or individual figures.
4. I feel a strong to desire to thin out the rules and books I have. I don't think I have a very large collection by wargaming standards, but I don't want to keep rules I'm pretty sure I'm never going to play (again). Look out for some advertisements on TMP!
5. More generally, the other things on my 'stuff to do' list are:
Play some more WW2 games with the intention of finding the rule set or sets I really like.
Finish painting my two 6mm Wars of the Roses armies.
Decide whether to expand my token 6mm ECW forces. And if so, decide whether to wait for Baccus to re-sculpt them.
Decide whether to collect a 6mm Napoleonic Prussian army (the last of the major combatants I don't have). On the plus side, it would be great to do a large Waterloo wargame in 2015 with all the 'correct' troops (and not use my Russians or Spanish as proxies for example). On the negative side, isn't it that the kind of completist thinking which leads people to collect far more than they could ever game with regularly? And also, the Prussians were the main Napoleonic range which Baccus hasn't re-sculpted yet. I might kick myself if Baccus get round to doing re-sculpts for them in 2016-7, say.
Decide whether to do moderns or not. I'm really interested in them, but feel perhaps I should wait until I'm happy with a WW2 set or two, so I know the kind of modern game that I'd like before starting to collect the figures.
I'm aiming to be in state of 'finished' by Christmas 2014. I had aimed to be like that last year, but in the end 2013 ended up being so busy and disrupted it was never going to happen, so I've extended it by a year. I have more or less decided that I want to stop collecting big armies by the time I'm 40 however - everything after that will be additions or for small games only.
We shall see how I get on...
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