Hi all

[vladgothic]

I thought it was about time I joined up and said hello  having lurked for some time!

Recently getting back into tabletop gaming after what turns out to be about a 10 year hiatus ( was 1/35 scale modelling, an still do)

Periods of interest in 10mm at the moment are

WW2 1:1 scale using panzer marsch rules (down grading in size from 15 to 10mm)
SYW still to decide on rules, Piquet are looking interesting, any suggestions?

6 an 28mm for Napoleonics, massed and skirmish respectively
1/3000 napoleonic naval, trafagar rules

when I have a little more time I may well add some AWI and ACW to this list 

I must say its nice to see a friendly and helpful forum.

Vlad

[FierceKitty]

Delighted that some have the historical sense to choose SYW in preference to Napoleonic. Welcome aboard!

[Techno]

Welcome Vlad !

Cheers - Phil.

[Maenoferren]

Welcome aboard Vlad

[Arsenus]

Welcome!

[nikharwood]

Welcome Vlad 

I use Black Powder and Rank & File for SYW

[Leon]

Hi Vlad, welcome to the Forum! 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

MORNING! 

[Luddite]

I must say its nice to see a friendly and helpful forum.

Now, hang on.  Some of the...

Oh, who am i kidding?  This place is GREAT!   

Thumbs up for making the forum a relentlessly positive, friendly and constructive place everyone! 

And welcome to it Vlad.  Looking forwards to finding out what you're up to on the table...

[capthugeca]

Hi Vlad

Good to have you with us

[vladgothic]

Thanks very much for the warm welcome 

Hopefully when the busy job and the high octane 1year old allow I can show some of my finished stuff, time as always is a major premium 

@ Nik, I hadn't considered Black powder, what are they like? 

[nikharwood]

@ Nik, I hadn't considered Black powder, what are they like? 

They're OK - reasonably simple & fastplay, although to be honest, I find myself increasingly drawn back to 'purer' Warmaster variants [I blame kids for my frazzled brain being unable to remember more than one 'core' engine - mine are high-octane too  ]

I've posted a couple SYW batreps here:

Large battle: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=1690.0
Single brigade: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=3247.0

[Luddite]

Yeah, Black Powder is just the Warmaster engine tweaked a bit to make it look like more traditional historical wargames and to try and write out the 'tournament/competative play' feeling that pervades most of the GW-style games.

Its not too bad as a ruleset.  i prefer the way it handles command (achieving similar results to WM with fewer dice rolls - always a good thing), but other than that its fairly bland.

For me it fails to inject any period flavour though, which is a shame.