I’ve been flailing around for a
few months with out a plan or direction so I thought it might be a good ides to
sit down and make some sort of plan to give myself some forcus for the rest of
the year and into the new year.
Looking back on my Plans for 2013…
Looking back on my Plans for 2013…
For the Birthday Bash I ended up
playing a
game of Bolt Action on the Satruday and the Top
Malo House Scenario for Force
on Force. I’m already starting to plan
for the 10th Annual Wargaming Birthday Bash next year.
After that I didn’t really
organize any other weekend games or campaigns… I did play a bit of Force on
Force and Ambush Z… and played a few games of Wargaming Nineteenth Century Europe 1815-1878 over at John
Bertolini’s. I also organized and ran a few games at ToonCon
2013.
I did finish painting up a LOT
of Modern 28mm stuff (and a fair bit of Great War stuff too)! Here's that list I made…
Modern & WW2
FOOT
Modern
30x Modern USMC – DONE!
45x Modern US Rangers, etc. –
Still to do…
30x Modern SAS – Still to do…
20x Modern RM – Still to do…
30x Modern Germans – DONE!
20x Cold War British – DONE!
40x Central/South Americans –
Still to do
65x Zombies –DONE! (well…mostly…)
unfortunately I don’t have a post with pictures of the whole Horde… (I should
do that…)
20-30x Modern Civilians – I
think I’ve finished most of these… but then acquired more! Again, no pics of
the lot and they were done in bits.
8 x SWAT – DONE!?
(I think…?)
20x MegaMinis SWAT – Still to
do…
30x Vietnam Americans – DONE!
20x Vietnam Anzacs – DONE!
WW2
24x Soviets – I may have done a
few but mostly “still to do…”
20x Paras - – Still to do…
I have a lot of others to do as
well. but these were the only ones I’d PLANNED to do. I also finshed a bunch of
First
Special Service Force.
Vehicles
2x M1 Tank – Still to do…
2x LAV-25 – Still to do…
2x Warrior MCV – one DONE!,
one still to do…
3x Challenger - two DONE!,
one still to do…
3x BTR-60 – DONE!
3x T-72 – Still to do… (but I
didn’t paint a T-55!)
3x Marder – Still to do…
4x Hummers – Still to do…
1x Modern Pick up Truck – Still
to do…
1x M113 – DONE!
1x M48 - DONE!
I didn’t do any of the planned
WW2 vehicles…
Great War, Etc.
Foot
30x ANZACS – still to do…
50x EW French – a few Infantry,
More
Infantry, and Machine-guns
DONE! But one more infantry unit still to do…
30x Belgians I gone a few Carabiniers
DONE! – But still have a few to do…
60x Turks – still to do…
30x EW British (Scots, actually)
– still to do…
20x Germans DONE!
(mostly)
180+ Canadians – Still to do… (
I think I painted a few, here
and there…)
80x Boers – Still to do…
40x French Foreign Legion - DONE!
Mounted
10x ANZACs – Still to do…
10x French – Still to do…
8x EW British (Indians,
actually) - DONE!
10x Germans DONE!
10 x Canadians – Still to do…
20x Boers – Still to do…
That is a fair bit I got done so far... and looking at the Painted vs. Acquired I'm doing not so bad - I'll have painted more than I bought by the end of the year... I won't have painted TWICE as much as I bought (which I'd secretly hoped), but maybe next year...
So what to do for the rest of
this year…?
The Kids
I got playing a lot of Board
Games and card games with the kids (mostly munchkin
variants – Supers, Cthulhu, Conan) and I’d like to keep doing that.
I started out the year playing a lot of Ambush
Z with them, that’s fallen by the wayside, but I’d like to get going
on that again – especially now that Keira’s painted all her own zombies! I’ve
also played a few Force
on Force games with them and should do more of that too.
They’ve really been wanting to play another Savage Worlds campaign,
and I’ve been promising I would for a long time, but just haven’t gotten to
that. A week or so ago we made characters for a new Fantasy campaign, but that’s
as far as we’ve gotten. I’m hoping when the renovation dust settles
(literally), and things are less chaotic we will get on with that. It’d also be
fun to include some other friends (CHRISTIAN! I’m looking at YOU!) (and Aaron... and Bruce...) (All gaming pals I know with kids around my kids age that like playing games)
Vietnam
For the longest time I’ve run
role-playing games on Saturday nights. For a good few years now it’s been
Savage Worlds (Savage Saturday Nights) and thos campaigns (as well as the ones
with the kids have been chronicles at Savage
Timmy’s Playhouse. At the end of last year the campaign fizzled and
we started playing Ambush
Z. Over the summer even that died off – with ramping up for the
renovations and people just generally being busy doing other stuff…
Somehow, probably because I got
motivated to finish up my 28mm Vietnam stuff, I got it in my head that I’d be
fun to run a Savage Worlds
Tour
of Darkness campaign… except using Force
on Force/Ambush
Valley to play out the skirmishes (you can see the AAR from the first
mission here: In
Country.
Hobby-wise this won’t be much
work as I have pretty much all the miniatures I need to play painted… I would
like to build some new terrain – fox-holes, sand-bag bunkers and other
perimeter defences for an air base and/or fire support base, gun emplacements,
log bunkers, new Vietnamese buildings, better rice paddies, more jungle, streams,
tunnel entrances/Hot Spot markers, etc… I’m sure there’s a few figures I might
pick up and paint at some point… maybe a few more vehicles (additional M113s,
M113ACAVs, a few Huey Slicks…). But nothing that’s going to hold me back from
playing.
28mm Modern
I do still have a few modern
things I’d like to finish up… the Generic US-backed Central or South Americans,
some Modern Americans and British (RM and SAS) and a bunch of vehicles – 2xM1
tanks, 3xT-72 tanks, 2x Leopard 2 Tanks, 3x Marder IFV, 1x Warrior IFV, and a
bunch of assorted cars and trucks… I also have a handful of modern zombies and
civilians to finish up and a bunch of Geezers
(I got the “one of everything” special deal… lots to still do!)
I also have a handful of Zombies
left to do… I should get those done… It might be nice to make a few more
buildings too.
20mm Modern!?
I have a bunch of 20mm stuff I’m not sure what to do with…
Most of it was based on multi-figure bases and I used it for Cold
War Commander. I have since taken all the 1970s/80s Cold war stuff
off those based and based them individually for playing Force
on Force… (I figured If ever I was going to play CWC again I’d just
build new forces with 6mm micro armour). Of course I have a lot of those same
things in 28mm, but I have a lot MORE in 20mm… It seems sill having them in
both scales… maybe I could sell off the 20mm stuff to fund picking up more 28mm
stuff – tanks and IFVs in particular - mind you a LOT of the 20mm tanks and
IFVs I have aren’t even assembled or painted, so I wouldn’t get much at all for
them… and some you just can’t get in 28mm… Anyway, whether I selll them off or just USE them, I'd like to finish up a few of those forces.
I have even
more Vietnam stuff in 20mm still on the multi-figure bases. Maybe I’ll keep
them that way and use them for larger engagements using CWC – there aren’t so
many tanks and vehicles to clog up the table (that was the real downside of
using 20mm stuff for CWC)…
40mm Great War
I started sculpting a few 40mm
Great War British a while back, but haven’t had time or space (both
in reality and in my head) to do much work on them since the renovations began…
I’d like to finish them up over the winter and be able to play some 1914 battle
with John (I painted a Unit
of his 40mm French a while back…). He’s got pretty much everyone BUT
the British sculpted and ready to cast and paint… We’re planning to use our own
variant of Neil Thomas’ Wargaming Nineteenth Century Europe 1815-1878.
28mm Great War
I did get a lot of that stuff done in the summer... and 2014 approaches... maybe that'll be a spring/summer project next year...?
28mm Great War
I did get a lot of that stuff done in the summer... and 2014 approaches... maybe that'll be a spring/summer project next year...?
40K!?
NO I’m not about to start playing 40K… but I did read a few
novels over the summer and got inspired by all their fluff and had it in my
head to run an Only
War campaign (except using Savage Worlds for
character creation and role-playing aspects and using Tomorrow’s
War for playing out the firefights… and maybe Future
War Commander! with Epic minis
for playing out the REALLY BIG battles!) (Wow… how many gaming heresies did I
commit in that last statement!?). I painted a bunch of my imperial guard and
picked up some more and a few Orks… But that moment may have passed…. For the
moment… but it’ll be back…
Hordes of the Things
I’ve been feeling the urge to
bust out the armies and start playing again. The kids and I used to play a lot
of this – it was probably the first miniatures game I ever played with them. It
might be handy to get some practice in as I might be running a campaign for the
10th Annual Wargaming Birthday Bash! Playing might
motivate me to finsh up a few new armies or at least finish up the remaining
elements needed for a few armies…
WW2…?
There are a number of forces that would only take a week or
two to totally finish up… and part of me wants to (because I sould use them for
Force
on Force, or could have another go at Bolt
Action - with a few tweaks…). But, as I think I mentioned earlier,
I’m sick to death of World War Two…
Other Stuff
I have a few items that I
promised to paint for others that I am determined to get done before the end of
this year! I have a few Aurora Monsters I’m painting for Rick – I may not
actually get ALL of those done, but I am going to get The Mummy done, and
hopefully one of the others (King Ghidorah and a Robot and some other creature
from Lost in Space). I also have a package of Watchmen miniatures (from
Grenadier Miniatures for the the old DC RPG) and a few cars and bikes and
pedestrians for Dark Future that I’m painting for
John Burt.
Blog
One thing I’ve really been
wanting to do for a while is update my pages – all those galleries listed over
there on the top left… Once the renos are done I’d like to get out in some
natural light (if it’s not too cold!) and get some proper pictures of my
existing collection – and maybe take stock of painted vs unpainted again while
I’m at it…
Um… I think that’s about it for
now… Is that too much? Probably...
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you are going to be a busy boy, I was going to do some planning soon but have so many commissions I am too busy to plan
ReplyDeleteKeeps me out of trouble.
DeleteTim
ReplyDeleteI admire your planning and evaluating.
I fear I am not so organised...
Looking fwrd to following your projects thru the Fall and Winter and beyond.
Cheers
Alan
Cheers!
DeleteI'm pretty good at making plans and evaluating... sticking to those plans... whole different kettle of fish!
Dude, I promise, soon I will have a plan for a RPG!
ReplyDeleteNo worries, I have no shortage of stuff to do in the meantime!
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