It’s feeling like summer is
drawing to an end already. Says are getting shorter… evenings cooler… and so my
thoughts turn to what I’m going to be doing for the rest of the year. There has
been a lot of other planning at my place lately – mostly classes and activities
for the kids, and Amanda, and even me! Honestly I don’t know how were going to
fit everything in.
Looking back at the last Game
Plan 2014 Update I was mostly considering what I was going to be
painting over the next 6-8 months. Not a lot has changed, I’m mostly planning
on working on much the same stuff. I may not reach my objective of painting
more than I’ve purchased… but I’ll be close… and I’ll do WAY better next year!
(This year’s acquisitions were skewed a bit by the 400+ super cheap plastic
Hät figures – at $7 per
box the whole shebang was about $100 and worked out to 25¢ - or less - per
figure… who could pass up THAT action!?)
Anyway, the plan…
Song of Blades and Heroes Campaign
From September to November I’m going to run a A
Song of Blades and Heroes/Song
of Deeds and Glory campaign on Saturday evenings – when I’m not
playing in the GURPS Modern Horror Campaign (see below). Why Song of Blades and
Heroes and not Song of Shadows and Dust right away? Well I HAVE enough figures
I could supply warbands for SoBH for any number of players right now – and some
other players could currently supply their own warbands (and I’ll be
encouraging some of the others to work on their OWN!). This will also give us
time to all build more factions and terrain to run a proper SSD campaign in the
new year.
GURPS Modern Horror Campaign
What the WHAT!? My friend John
is threatening to run a GURPS Modern Horror Role-Playing campaign starting in
October – once a month for 10 months. I’m actually pretty excited about the
idea of PLAYING in a role-playing game… even if it is GURPS…
Other Role-Playing Games
I’d like to run a role-playing game for the kids (and
possibly some friends) in the fall, but I haven’t quite figured out when or
what… I’m thinking I will probably use
A
Tale of Blades and Heroes and run a campaign set in Greek Mythology
or the Roman Empire in the first century AD (perhaps using some stuff from Cthulhu Invictus…?).
maybe I’ll run both over the winter… I’m really torn – both seem really
appealing to me right now.
Song of Shadows and Dust Campaign
As mentioned above I’m planning
on running a Song
of Shadows and Dust campaign in the new year. Over the next few months I'll be working on some new figures to build new factions or add options to factions I'm currently working on. I hope some others around here might build some of their own factions!! I also plan on building a whole lot more buildings so that I'll be able to run a few games concurrently.
Board Games
I’ve been playing a lot more board games with the kids
lately. They’re both getting old enough to play some more sophisticated games
and we’ve been trying out ones I’ve been sitting on for a couple years – mostly
ones thematically related to stuff we’ve been reading about in the history
we’ve been studying. This week we’ve been kind of crazy about Smash
Up (which is not-so-thematically related…), but some of the other
thematically related games I have lined up to try out include Ra,
Parthenon:
Rise of the Aegean, Quo
Vadis?, Ostia,
The
Hanging Gardens , Palatinus,
Ostrakon
and Conquest
of the Empire… and I wouldn’t mind getting in a few more games of Ur or
Ark…
or some other not-so-thematically-related favourites such as Small
World, or any of the Munchkin
we have.
DBA/HOTT
While I’m not really planning on doing a DBA or HOTT
campaign for the 11th Annual Tim’s Wargaming Birthday Bash/Winter
Wargaming Weekend as I had been thinking of at the time of the last Game
Plan 2014 Update , I would still like to at least finish up the New
Kingdom Egyptians and Nubians, and at least TWO (of five) Greek Hoplite armies,
and something to fight my Early Imperial Romans. I would definitely still like
to run a Greek City State campaign at some point – as well as a Roman Civil War
and a Campaigns of Alexander and/or Wars of the Successors campaign(s) – as I
HAVE figures for all those… just got to get them painted… For now though… just
enough to play a few more games “thematically related” to our studies.
Painting, Modelling, and Terrain-Building
In the immediate future I’ll likely be working on ancient
and fantasy subjects for the remainder of the year – mostly individual figures
and terrain for A
Song of Blades and Heroes or Song
of Shadows and Dust, but, as mentioned above, I would also like to get
a few DBA/HOTT armies finished up
as well.
Probably in November/December our Reaper
Miniatures Bones II: The Return Of Mr Bones! Kickstarter
figures will be arriving…. Theoretically those are “for the kids”… so hopefully
it shouldn’t affect my plans.
ToonCon?
Earlier in the year I had been
thinking I’d run stuff a ToonCon
again this year. I had fun running Force
on Force, Ambush Z and
Wargaming
Nineteenth Century Europe 1815-1878… and I thought I might run some
“Song of…” games this year… but then I just got feeling overwhelmed by all the
other stuff going on this summer and fall and decided to give this year a miss…
It seems I get to them every other year… so… maybe next year.
Great War?
The great War projects have
fallen by the wayside somewhat this year… Maybe next year… I would still like
to do the Canadian Corps attack of Vimy Ridge in 2017… (See Vimy
Project Planning)
and finally, thinking ahead into 2015...
11th Annual Tim’s Wargaming Birthday Bash/Winter
Wargaming Weekend
Well, considering the success This
Year’s skirmish campaign I have decided to put off the DBA or HOTT
Greek campaign for another time and instead run a Song
of Shadows and Dust campaign – perhaps incorporating some of the more
detailed campaign/faction building rules from Song
of Deeds and Glory for the “main event” on Friday/Saturday. Then,
following the Same
Format on the Sunday we will play a thematically related boardgame: Conquest
of the Empire… and any other (shorter) board/card games we happen to
be able to cram into the remains of the day… but more on that in a couple
months…
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Sounds like you're going to be busy! Good luck, I'm looking forward to further updates.
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