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...
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| Some US Paratroopers from 2D6. |
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| Some Volksturm from 2D6. |
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| And some extra French infantry from Heroics and Ros. These have a wider variety of support weapons, so should come in handy. |
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| Plus some Baccus WW2 British: artillery, anti-tank guns and armoured cars |
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| 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...
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Otherwise, the little gaming I have been doing has been RPG-based: some Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1e and some Original D&D.
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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.
Good looking troops, John, glad to see you’re still productive and looking forward to seeing some batreps out of you, assuming real life leaves you alone for a bit ;)
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Jack
Thanks very much Jack. There are some reports on the way as in the games have been played and I just need to finish the write-ups. But hoping to get some fresh games in too.
DeleteSounds like you've got a lot going on. Well done getting any painting done at all!
ReplyDeleteThanks Martin, appreciate it. One thing that is quite rewarding is that when I paint up stuff for the bairn, it gets into a game very quickly. I'm not always delighted that some of them end up needing repair jobs quite quickly, but at least they aren't in a box somewhere, those toy soldiers really earn their danger money!
DeleteQuite a bit of variety there. Painting WW2 and Ancients, and with some boardgames throw in to the mix.
ReplyDeleteThe spice of life, I believe they say! More variety to come soon...
DeleteYour "not much done" is different to mine :-) Hundreds of figures painted, got in a few games, a few RPG sessions. I do seem to spend most of my free time thinking about games, or tweaking my own rules.
ReplyDeleteI guess it was compared to what I wanted/meant to do! Especially as the year started off on such a hot streak...but yes, I am making progress on the projects and getting some games in, even if not quite as many as I would like.
DeleteThere probably is something a little bit more serious to write about how thinking/daydreaming about gaming is kind of an important part of the hobby for some gamers at some times - definitely including me. As I mentioned, the cognitive effort and determination to put on a game can just be a little too much, and so I retreat into planning the next campaign, or the next army or something.
That is good going, especially considering ‘real life’. Good look with your venture.
ReplyDeleteThanks Norm, appreciated. Early days, but off to a decent start!
DeleteSorry to hear about the redundancy old chap:(! You certainly have been busy right across the board:).
ReplyDeleteThanks Steve, that's kind. But it is also fine, I was glad to be moving on and starting something new. As ever, hope springs eternal, and I am hoping that the chaos is subsiding a bit and I can get back into a better rhythm of doing stuff that I want to, not just stuff I need to.
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