Hello folks,
Yup, it is a little belated but here goes, Happy New Year to one and all, I hope that everyone is having a great start to the year. I’m guessing that most are managing some cold temps and pending snow storms. Good luck all around!
So as seems rather obligatory, January is the time to take stock and plan forward.
My plan for the year started out fairly robust…suffered some impact from real life items an slightly derailed as the year went by and focus changed. Some of the derailment was certainly not unwelcome, and led me in a few different directions and towards some unanticipated gaming areas. So, here we go, the plan versus the result (in red)…and how the next year looks right now (in blue):
1. I want to get moving…somewhat slowly with Afropia. I have the bones of a mash up between Petoriastan and Aponwana. And it gives me the chance to try a few different game types, as well as some game mechanics that I’ve been checking out. So I am actually getting exciting with the idea…again. This has been a very slow burn. I have some initial milestones for the framework of a proper campaign, but I’m missing some strategic nuances and am trying to translate some concepts into game process. I toyed around with Chat to help me out or at least give me some initial thoughts. Much more to come, I did take time this past year to paint up some Petoriastan military circa 1940’s/1950’s using some Battlefront WW2 US boxes, they will let me bring in my US paras and I can square them off against some Soviet equipped Aponwana’s - inspired by post-WW2 Soviet foreign policies.
2. Stemming from my 15mm US Parachute Company painting…I want to get a similar number of German infantry on the table, mix of basing for FoW and FoF, so that I can run a game at CanGames this year. I think it will be a FoF game, with Market Garden as the inspiration. More to follow on that. So, this was 50%+ successful. I was able to paint up 2 understrength Grenadier platoons electing to base the for Force on Force instead of FoW. I was not able to get a table running at CanGames this year, real life got in the way, but was happy to progress. I have a scenario in mind for when I revisit this and am thinking that it might be time to revisit Operation Market Garden and the Firestorm campaign.
3. Recycle some of the ideas about Red/Northern Dawn and get some Cdn Abn painted, as well as the framework of some scenarios and some small town Alberta terrain done. I was not able to get any progress on this stream. But I have a scenario in mind potentially for CanGames that would let me get some of these models on the table and help me get back into Red Dawn and Team Yankee - so thinking of a platoon level scenario using FoF. I’m still thinking of some Northern Dawn terrain and campaign, so more to follow and hopefully progress with.
4. Misc…SW Legion of course, MCP as well…and whatever floats the ole boat. Of course, I think it’s time I did a big clean of the basement area and get an appreciation for what I actually have and thin some of the not so achievable. More to follow on that one, lol. Okay, so this was a bit of a general shotgun goal, touching a few elements. I did a big clean of my miniatures area, got rid of some excess build up, aligned what I kept to themes of interest and potential scenarios in mind. My storage is definitely in order. I got some Marvel games in this year, did not look at Star Wars at all, but managed to also get some Marvel characters painted up…I have a few more to get through before I finish all of the Marvel that I have. So they will be part of this years painting goals.
New to the plan: I am working on getting the 02 Hundred start box finished, as well as make up some terrain that will work and allow me to get table or 2 for the game.
So, here is to the next year.
Take care folk.
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