Yes - I'm still here, though there has been little wargaming activity that's
been blog-worthy lately...
I need to keep reminding myself however, that I don't blog to provide entertainment to others (as if you needed telling that!😏) but mainly to provide a record of what I'm up to; so for the record, not a day goes by without some kind of mental or other activity to do with wargaming (or music, or beer, or boats, or.. or..) but in the case of the little metal men, it's usually when I'm on Claud (Butler - the bike 😀) going to work..
At the moment my thoughts are much exercised by two things (perhaps three)...
One, DG and I have re-opened the annals on previous exploits with DBA. DG and I have been gaming for some considerable time now, but we started off all those years ago playing DBA (v1!) in our lunchtimes at work - we used cardboard counters, large sheets of flip chart paper which we could draw the terrain on with marker pens, and would battle away quite happily for an hour or so in any spare office we could find. I was clearing out a cupboard at work the other week and actually found some of those old flip chart battlefields... Either way, DBA has now moved on to v2.2 (v3 is out next year according to the WRG site) and DG and I suddenly got the urge to have another go as a result of the release of HOTT for free download on the Wargames research Group site (click here for a download) We're now into our second game, and we're using the truly excellent Battle Chronicler [click here] to play the game - this is the current move, I'm playing the Persians..
I need to keep reminding myself however, that I don't blog to provide entertainment to others (as if you needed telling that!😏) but mainly to provide a record of what I'm up to; so for the record, not a day goes by without some kind of mental or other activity to do with wargaming (or music, or beer, or boats, or.. or..) but in the case of the little metal men, it's usually when I'm on Claud (Butler - the bike 😀) going to work..
At the moment my thoughts are much exercised by two things (perhaps three)...
One, DG and I have re-opened the annals on previous exploits with DBA. DG and I have been gaming for some considerable time now, but we started off all those years ago playing DBA (v1!) in our lunchtimes at work - we used cardboard counters, large sheets of flip chart paper which we could draw the terrain on with marker pens, and would battle away quite happily for an hour or so in any spare office we could find. I was clearing out a cupboard at work the other week and actually found some of those old flip chart battlefields... Either way, DBA has now moved on to v2.2 (v3 is out next year according to the WRG site) and DG and I suddenly got the urge to have another go as a result of the release of HOTT for free download on the Wargames research Group site (click here for a download) We're now into our second game, and we're using the truly excellent Battle Chronicler [click here] to play the game - this is the current move, I'm playing the Persians..
In the first game I was well and truly boshed - but it had been a long time
since I played and the dice Gods were definitely with DG! Suffice to say it's
a huge amount of fun and the first thing I do in the morning is go and look
for the latest move..
This game is a big battle DBA - we're using the scoring system from HOTT to generate armies of 50AP's each, which works out at about 14 units each... so far it's going OK and I'm making a much better job of it, but fortunes can change like that in DBA!
Two (and I bet you thought I'd forgotten there was a two) - it's autumn, and a wargamers thoughts turn to campaigning... this time DG is going to set one up. Set in the American Civil War we'll have Corps sized armies, and will be manoeuvring to capture/defend a town.. looking forward to it - once again we'll be using Berthier [click here] to do the campaign moves. we'll use Regimental Fire and fury to play out the battles..
Looking forward to the start...
Three - I said there might be three things - I'm in a mini painting funk at the moment purely because of the thought of having to paint the Zouaves that have made their way on to the painting table! These are lovely lovely figures and I really don't want to muck them up... I have decided that the Union regiment are going to be Duryee's.. or more correctly the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry, purely because of this single image... that Troiani [click here] fellow has got a lot to answer for!
This game is a big battle DBA - we're using the scoring system from HOTT to generate armies of 50AP's each, which works out at about 14 units each... so far it's going OK and I'm making a much better job of it, but fortunes can change like that in DBA!
Two (and I bet you thought I'd forgotten there was a two) - it's autumn, and a wargamers thoughts turn to campaigning... this time DG is going to set one up. Set in the American Civil War we'll have Corps sized armies, and will be manoeuvring to capture/defend a town.. looking forward to it - once again we'll be using Berthier [click here] to do the campaign moves. we'll use Regimental Fire and fury to play out the battles..
Three - I said there might be three things - I'm in a mini painting funk at the moment purely because of the thought of having to paint the Zouaves that have made their way on to the painting table! These are lovely lovely figures and I really don't want to muck them up... I have decided that the Union regiment are going to be Duryee's.. or more correctly the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry, purely because of this single image... that Troiani [click here] fellow has got a lot to answer for!
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| 76th Pennsylvania, Keystone Zouaves |
..it's not a serious funk though, I know that as soon as I start I'll rip into it... 😀
...and that's it for now!
Steve,
ReplyDeleteThere is no law on the books that says that you can't do BOTH UNITS . . . so what are you waiting for?
-- Jeff
Go on paint them both, you can't have only one unit of zouaves.
ReplyDeleteSteve
ReplyDeleteThere was also new york highland regiment, that had kilts, though I can't find any evience that they ever fought in them, but still I'm tempted by a regiment or two of zouaves, complemented by highlanders!