16 May 25 - Hobby Update

It has been a while, hasn't it? I haven't done too much gaming - although not quite nothing - but I got made redundant at the end of March and I have been busy with a new business venture since then, so gaming time has been at a premium and sometimes, frankly, thinking about gaming has felt more within my remaining energy levels than actually doing any! 

That said, I have managed to get a bunch of 6mm WW2 infantry done...

Some US Paratroopers from 2D6.

Some Volksturm from 2D6.

And some extra French infantry from Heroics and Ros. These have a wider variety of support weapons, so should come in handy.

Plus some Baccus WW2 British: artillery, anti-tank guns and armoured cars

And some American armoured cars and artillery too.

I also did a bunch of Warlord Games' Greeks for my youngest. They turned out quite nicely I thought, they are nice figures. I did two batches, one with coloured shields, the other with bronze shields.

Games-wise, there hasn't been so much. I have nearly finished the Caesar's camp pint-sized campaign, will put up some more of the battle reports soon (there is one more scenario to go, although of course it is possible that that will imply more than just one action in the context of a campaign).

I have also had a couple of games of the old SPI game WW2: European Theater of Operations, just using the introductory scenarios as I start to get the hang of it. Here, the Brits are hunting the Bismarck...

Otherwise, the little gaming I have been doing has been RPG-based: some Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1e and some Original D&D.

Plans are to finish off this CoC campaign and then move on to other 1940 stuff; I would like to continue my intermittent refights of the battles of the Thirty Years' War; and maybe get something Napoleonic to the table too. I am also quite keen on starting a new campaign of some kind. But, as ever, so much I would like to do, so little time to do it! I have plenty to get on with painting-wise so I should try and be restrained about new purchases: OTOH, the new Napoleonic Spanish from Perry are very tempting and it is Partizan on Sunday! And plus, there is something nice about getting a bunch of new stuff occasionally. That said, filling in the gaps is still the order of the day, rather than whole new periods and so on. 28mm Napoleonic Spanish do fit into that: I do have some 28mm Napoleonic British and French for them to fight with or against, and I also want to have at least one 28mm horse-and-musket army in my collection, for if my eyesight starts to go when I am older - and it would make sense I think to have that more-or-less ready now. But I do still really want to eliminiate the lead pile, so I need to everything reasonable in terms of quantity.