Hello Everyone!
Welcome to my weird little wargaming world. I am intending to use these pages to document my on-going wargaming projects. I hope you find them interesting - that you learn something from them, even if it’s only how not to do things - and that you are entertained by my peculiar brand of wargaming insanity.
Mostly these pages will consist of a blog, but with other things being added occasionally - when I think the subject matter warrants it.
My Current Project...
Like many wargamers, my interests change - sometimes as quickly as the wind. I normally have several projects ‘on the go’ in some sense, but usually one project which particularly excites me. My previous ‘exciting’ project was GW’s Lord of the Rings. I am still interested in that, and still working on it, but in a much more low-key way. I’ll go back to it in a big way, at some point, for definite - Tolkien’s works have been a big part of life for far too long to abandon the project.
In about June last year though, I returned to one of my perennial favourites: World War II. From the late 1980s onwards I did a lot of WWII wargaming in 1/300 scale, first using Command Decision, and then moving on to Blitzkrieg Commander. Great fun! But in recent years, with the number of ‘worm’s eye view’ books on the increase, I have become much more interested in actions involving small units - platoons and sections. Platoons are represented by single stands in Command Decision, sections by single stands in Blitzkrieg Commander - neither, therefore, gets close enough to the view from the ground for my current interest.
Visiting the Phalanx show at St Helens in June last year, I had a chat with the guys from Great Escape Games - publishers of ‘Rules of Engagement’. A period of reflection and planning followed, which culminated in the decision to use the TooFatLardies’ (www.toofatlardies.co.uk) ‘Troops Weapons & Tactics’ rules (which I duly bought as a PDF) and 20mm/1:72 scale models. I was very tempted by the 28mm figures from BAM, Crusader, Artizan et al, but the ‘traditional’ scale won out in the end - mostly because I’m a bit of a military vehicle ‘snob’, and there are so many more models available in the smaller scales.
But now... I am working on Warlord Games 28mm Romans - and Celts when they’re available - with a view to doing some wargaming with those. I’ve been a Roman ‘nut’ ever since being taken ot Hadrian’s Wall by my parents, aged about five! I hve owned several Roman armies, in several scales, over the years, though I’ve never done ‘Eraly Imperial Romans’ in 28mm before.
