Acquiring a routine...

Hi Chaps,

well the weather is pants for half term but that does not seem to affect my son who is very happy with all outside activity being rained off, it just means more 360 time!

Hobby wise I am still plodding with the immensely detailed Perry medieval figures but they have been reinforced with some Irregular miniatures artillery and crossbowmen. when I first started war gaming with metal figures Irregular was my favourite company as they seemed to have every figure imaginable. Slowly I started to discover other manufacturers but is was still good today to receive a parcel filled with the characterful Irregular figures. If you have not been to the site treat yourself...

http://www.irregularminiatures.co.uk/

I do hope Irregular do not get medieval on me for using a few of their pics (I will post my pictures when the lads have been painted).

I did order a lone long bowman to make up a unit and he fits in well with the Perry plastic bowmen. The crossbowmen should be interesting to paint and add some variety to my already growing army (well OK Battle).

See you soon chaps, keep busy!

Solo Wargaming

Hi Chaps,

It has been some time since I did the D and D thing but I think that just for the amount of effort put into this project we should give it a look.

As a game thi would be ideal to drop into and I wish it well. Kickstarter is an excellent concept for those of us trying to get our work out to the general gaming community...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1235706284/journey-to-the-overland-a-solo-tabletop-roleplayin

Thanks for looking.

Hail Caesar

Hi Chaps,

In a desperate attempt to actually get some games played I have bought Hail Caesar. Maybe DBA would have been a better start but if this book is anything like Black Powder the illustrations should be amazing...though I may well try 1/72 or even 6mil to get gaming quickly.

What would you chaps recommend to use? I do like 28mm but would like to get a game in with my son (who is 11) before he starts uni....

Impulse buy

Hi Chaps,

I have just purchased this box of infantry and despite painting them twice before I had the urge to paint them (better this time) again. The basing may be a problem...what does Hail Ceasar use? Would 3 or 4 figures on a 40mm square base be OK? As I will be doing this thing solo is it the same as black powder with 3 bases being around average unit size?

Thanks for any help or ideas you have regarding the basing problem....I am off to do some sticking and cutting.

Back when Games Workshop was cool!

Hi Chaps,

there has been a few days delay with this post because my router snuffed it and I had to buy a replacement....and then wait for it to arrive. Still on the bright side I have super fast broadband now!

Is anyone old enough to remember when GW was cool? I have their early rule sets including the first Warhammer 40 000 which is actually a very good game. Everything changes though, a recent visit to their shop in Preston was a revelation...all the paints have changed names again and the prices are just a joke....such a pity as this was once a good company.

It seems that this may be a year for experimenting with rules, IHMN are excellent fun but Force on Force is a total let down. Buckets of strange dice and the initiative changes make me dizzy. Also where does one buy all the good 1/72 stuff from?

World aflame is interesting and I may use it for some Back of Beyond games, it struck me as old scool in the record keeping department, not as good as Contemptible Little Armies though.

For inspiration if you can get hold of White Dwarf 360 (December 2009) there is an article entitled "Old War Stories". For me this article really captures what war gaming is about...how an army evolves and why certain characters and units develop the way that they do. In fact I was so inspired by re reading this that I went straight to games workshop to buy some figures. Only to come straight back out again when I saw the prices!

Keep blogging Chaps, I missed you all!

Hi All,

I have just ordered this as a treat to self along with some scratch building materials...balsa sheets, balsa shaped wood, Willis windows and some foam board. Great to be playing with toys at 47! Hopefully I will have a couple more buildings for my Victorian board by the end of the week....its the strangest thing but I have misplaced all but two of my D10s so I also have 15 of those on the way from Amazon.

Just as an afterthought I must have in the region of 100 dice and I cant remember where I bought even one of them! How many dice do you chaps own? What is the average number of dice (OK die) owned by the average war gamer I wonder?

Keep blogging lads I need to copy your stuff!

Tripod acquired...more light needed!

Hi Chaps,

Well upon advice I have acquired a tripod and used the timer to take pictures on my camera....only to find that I definitely need more light. Even after playing with the photo on BeFunky these snaps are too dark for use. Never mind...I will provide more pictures as I wrestle with this process. My camera is a humble Canon Powershot A490, 10Mega Pixels.....

Its strange because I could swear that the background was white when I took the photo! LOL. Photographing miniatures indoors is the work of the devil!