My Plans for 2016, Whats Yours

[FierceKitty]

Finnish hobbits could be intended to indicate Moomins, couldn't they?

[Sandinista]

My plans for 2016 are

6mm
finish rebasing my Italian Wars armies

10mm
Finish basing my LoA armies
Paint Scots army for my 1689 "what if" campaign
Paint ECW casualty markers
Paint 1941 Russian army
Paint Mongols

15mm
Paint remainder of Swiss army

28mm
Finish painting Saracens and Crusaders skirmish forces
Paint Anglo-Saxon skirmish force
Decide what to do with a huge pile of Warlord Games ECW boxes
Fight the urge to invest in Elizabethan Border Reivers figures for a borders skirmish - I have been successful in fighting this urge for a few years but may yet crack

I am sure I will end up doing something completely different in the end though 

Cheers
Ian

[jambo1]

Ian,

I too have a load of Warlord plastics and metal ECW range that I still don't know what to do with!! Seemed like a good idea at the time but still sitting on the shelf,.... one day!!!

[Roy]

Errr... 

* sort out the 10mm Zombie stuff so they can be played with.
* sort out the 28mm cowboys so they can be played with.
* finish the terrain ruined building thingys, so they can be played with - currently thinking a Paintball game using a modified (Modern) Some Corner of a Foreign Field rules. Should work as as public participation game.
* finish my Three Musketeers public participation game - for Shildon 2016 (if the show goes ahead?)
* play Frostgrave against Bodvoc and his group
* meet up with a blogger who's just moved to Boro for a game
* attend Catterick Garrison Wargaming Club sessions
* continue playing La Gloire du Roi / The Glory of Kings (PBM)
* attend Durham/Stockton/Shildon/Stockton wargames shows. don't know if I'll go to Waugh Games event at Boro? generally trying to cut back on shows I attend, and stick to local NE ones.
* regularly play games!

[Chad]

Tall order but here goes.

1. Complete 1866 Western theatre armies
2. Complete 1859 armies
3. LOA
4. 15mm French Revolution
5. Continue working on WSS rules. Progress slow at moment.
6. Resurrect Ned Zuparko's "Vive L'Empereur " rules (still my favourite set) and develop a supplement for the French Revolution.
7. 1/600 Arab-Israeli wars 67-73
8. Decide what to do with unfinished 28mm SYW figures. Finish or sell.

Chad

[Subedai]

I have in my unpainted pile -as of the time of this going to press:

6mm
Medieval Polish/Hungarian/Russians
Ancient Egyptian
Ancient Hittites
Samurai (another one to face the one I already have)
ECW both sides
Ancient Byzantines
More Ancient Flemish/Sassanid Persians
Ancient Tibetan
More Alexandrian Macedonians


10mm
More Medieval Polish
More Mongols
Ancient British
More Ancient EI Romans

15mm
Vikings/Saxons (2 armies)
Mongols (undergoing a snail's pace repaint)
Marlburian English
Marlburian Prussian
Renaissance Polish
Renaissance Russian (this and the Polish are all the old Mikes Models figures bought at the time they were still a separate concern back in the 1970's! Not that I am old or anything.)
A smattering of SciFi

So close your eyes, twirl a stick over the list and point -you have as much chance as anybody else. I might even go off at a complete tangent and start something completely radical. Gone are the days of wargaming deadlines so I don't really make plans anymore as most of my games are solo so I can cherry-pick what I want to do...and I have a shedload of armies already painted in all of the above scales so I am not exactly stuck for choice.
The only real goal I am setting myself is to complete the book I am writing and allied to that, write more articles.

[Orcs]

Finnish Hobbits - that must be a bit of a niche range

OOHHH! another Army I will have to do.

[DanJ]

10mm SAGA The Crescent and The Cross. I'm sorry to say I may be looking elsewhere for the appropriate figures though. Makes me very sad  Sad

I've been playing C&C in 10mm for several months and it's much better than the 28mm version.  We keep the 28mm base sizes and distances but load multiple figures onto a base to differentiate between troop types.

Pendraken's Dark Age Arabs cover most of what you'll need for Saracens and Mutaawia (Sp?) except for the lack of camels which is a serious oversight for an arab range, personally I use Magister Mils camels.

Pendraken Normans can cover most of the First Crusade and the Mid Medieval range will do quite a lot of the third and later Crusades.

The barded cavalry are all Pendraken, EMM1 but most of the rest are other ranges I already had and which I've rebased.

Nine points of Milites Christi, including a Warrior Priest



Ten points of Saracens

[Techno]

That looks 'Brill', Dan.....
Super stuff.....Most impressive. 

Cheers - Phil

[Subedai]

Now those are really good. Can't get me 'ead around the circular bases though. The round-ended standard for the knights is rather nice as are the Saracen's. Printed or hand painted...I'm guessing the former. Still work well though.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Superb Dan! 
Those are BIG!

[Leman]

Looks superb in 10mm. What about Lion Rampant in the same way?

[fred.]

Those are really good Dan - its always nice to see photos of them! I was so close to doing Saga C&C this way, but my mate already had 28mm arabs.

[DanJ]

Thank you for the kind comments.

I was so close to doing Saga C&C this way, but my mate already had 28mm arabs

I went down the 10mm route because I had a few 28mm but lots of 10mm based for Warmaster that just needed a bit of rebasing.  It actually turned out to be a lot of rebasing but Leon has been kind enough to sell me quite a few packs of Crusaders and Arabs so that I can now play crusades using both Warmaster and Crescent and Cross.

The round bases work fine, and are one of the official options in the rules.  I use 25mm bases for infantry with between 3 and 6 figures on each depending on the class and 38mm bases for cavalry with two or three figures on each depending on class.  The effect is to spread the cavalry out more than if using linear bases which somehow looks right for the period.  By using the 28mm distances it means the ranges and movement distances are a reasonable multiple of the figure size which definitely wasn't the case in 28mm.

This might not be so obvious when using Vikings and Saxons, but with a lot of cavalry on the table it really felt odd to be moving a figure a little more than 3 times its height.

[NeilCFord]

Thanks for all the info Dan, it's really useful. I want to scale down the distances though so as to reduce the table space required, as I'm restricted on available space. So I'll probably go with individual basing to keep things simple.

Will be certain to post some progress photos once I actually decide what I'm going to do!

- Neil.