Hello: Steve in Glasgow

[steve_holmes_11]

A bit late posting here since I've been active on the forum for about a fortnight.

Mid 50s father of 3 who has been gaming on and off since the heyday of Airfix and when there were local libraries with Featherstone books to lend.

During the last few years I've developed a focus on specifics, with a view to "projects" (There must be a better term for this) that actually result in games.
This has seen a shift from big battle to a greater number of skirmish style games.
I still enjoy the occasional big game.

Current stuff:
   6mm Napoleonics using Black Powder - Generally my Russian Division against my pal's Austrians, or Franco-Bavarian force.
   Song of Blades and Heroes - various settings.
   Song of Drums and Shakos - an outlet for some long-serving 20mm plastics.
   Dux Bellorum - Lots of 6mm forces assembled for that "Great all Britain conquest campaign" that I never find time for.
   Congo - I had no interest in Colonials or Darkest Africa until I met these rules - Now one of my top 3 game systems.

I also work on home-brewed game rules, most of which are at an "In progress" stage. Titles include:
  Blatterball - a game of football administration and corruption.
  Flat Earth Explorer (Don't fall off the edge) - Steampunk airships in a dash to discover the world.
  An Mein Volk - A grid based Napoleonic game for the big battles of 1813-14.
  OrkLife - RolePlaying meets Tribe Building meets Survival - you begin te game as an orc youth.

A few loose ends, which will probably be tied together under the OrkLife umbrella.
  Tribal - Tribal warfare rules, looks great - I'm looking to adapt them to an Orc setting.
  Palaeo Diet - Stone age hunter gathering "Eat or be eaten" - Again I'm looking to implement an Orc themed setting.


As you'll see, Orcs are my go-to proxy where a generic forces is required.


Other Matters:

Scales:

I'm a big fan of 6mm, through eyesight issues mean I've probably made my last 6mm purchase - I hope 10mm will fill the gap.

15mm for skirmish and mass-battle (I don't have a 12' x 8' table).
Some older 20mm plastics.
about 60 28mm's colledted for Frostgrave, SOBAH and the like.

[Leman]

Welcome Steve; I'm sure you'll find something to tickle your fancy in 10mm. I too have recently moved into a bit of Skirmish, namely Ronin and Saga: Aetius and Arthur. I also play Dux Bellorum and Dux Britanniarum. Game in 2mm, 3mm, 6mm, 8mm, 10mm, 15mm and 28mm, but no fantasy apart from HOTT - well I have to use that Warmaster dragon somewhere.

[fsn]

Welcome.

Mid 50s father of 3 who has been gaming on and off since the heyday of Airfix and when there were local libraries with Featherstone books to lend.

Good man.

I also work on home-brewed game rules, most of which are at an "In progress" stage. Titles include:

Excellent.

I'm a big fan of 6mm, through eyesight issues mean I've probably made my last 6mm purchase - I hope 10mm will fill the gap.

10mm is the scale of the future. 15mm is dead, and doesn't know it yet.

[SV52]

Hullaw rer frae Aberdeen 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

More da*med foreigners

Moaning

[FierceKitty]

Welcome.
Good man.
Excellent.
10mm is the scale of the future. 15mm is dead, and doesn't know it yet.

Me, I concur.

[d_Guy]

Very excellent introduction, Steve. Welcome! I must say you already have an impressive body of work (thoughtful and/or entertaining posts) which might actually threaten to raise the standards here. OK, probably not - lost cause really - but good effort!

BTW - I’m a bit of a fan of Ganesha Games myself.

[Techno]

Welcome, Steve !!

Cheers - Phil

[Steve J]

Welcome on board from another mid-fifties Dad

[Ithoriel]

Welcome from a mid 60s father of two boys ... nice to see youngsters joining up  

Perversely, the worse my eye-sight and hand-eye coordination get the smaller the figures that attract my attention.

I love the "Tribal" rules and have the "Primeval" supplement. We have a small, irregularly run campaign, using 15mm figures, in which my Homo Heidelbergensis tribe are showing why they are now extinct!

[T13A]

Hi Steve

Just to add my welcome from one a few years older than you.

I am/used to be a big fan of 6mm as well but have similar eyesight issues, I just use them for Napoleonics, Blucher rules.

Not sure about the demise of 15mm as there is already an awful lot out there and being used, that said if I was starting ACW again I would certainly go down the 10mm route, Pendraken of course.

Cheers from Somerset. Paul

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Hello and welcome

[Orcs]

Welcome Steve from an Early 50's father of 3 girls.

I currently do Black powder for ACW and War of Spanish succession. in 10mm
The men who would be kings for Colonial 28mm
Chain of Command in 20mm
and Blitzkrieg commander 2 for early war
For Ancients awe are just starting to use sword and spear.
We will be trying out sword and spear fantasy soon in 28mm.

Not sure about using Orcs for "Skirmish" Fantasy.  I and two friends started that way .......we now field an army of some 1600 Orcs between us/

[paulr]

Very excellent introduction, Steve. Welcome! I must say you already have an impressive body of work (thoughtful and/or entertaining posts) which might actually threaten to raise the standards here. OK, probably not - lost cause really - but good effort!

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[Leon]

Welcome to the Forum!