Hi everyone these are my Plans for 2016 (http://www.10mm-wargaming.com/2016/01/happy-new-year-2016.html), what are yours aims/plans for the coming year.
Take care
Andy
Looking good, and thanks for the post about last year's releases as well!
8)
Quote from: Leon on 05 January 2016, 02:26:45 PM
Looking good, and thanks for the post about last year's releases as well!
8)
You are more than welcome Leon, I feel good about the coming year.
Take care
Andy
Main thrusts for this year:
10mm SYW
10mm Italian Wars
15mm WWI 1914 Belgium
2mm - probably Langensalza for BBB
I shall leave it there for now. If I go for too much then no single project will be completed, e.g. the SYW is the only one I can actually game at the moment.
Plans for 2016
Buy more than I can paint for <project of the moment>
Paint less than I hoped of things bought
Change <project of the moment> regularly
Drag out old projects, make desultory attempts to paint same, put project back in cupboard
Realise I will never achieve all the things I plan
Survey the fields in which the f**ks I give about this are grown and see that they are barren :)
Create plan to do much the same in 2017!
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 :(
- Neil.
Continue 1917 project including reinforcements
1914 additional additional reinforcements
Complete AWI terrain
Continue Age of Sail project
Continue considering next project
Quote from: Ithoriel on 05 January 2016, 04:33:54 PM
Plans for 2016
Buy more than I can paint for <project of the moment>
Paint less than I hoped of things bought
Change <project of the moment> regularly
Drag out old projects, make desultory attempts to paint same, put project back in cupboard
Realise I will never achieve all the things I plan
Survey the fields in which the f**ks I give about this are grown and see that they are barren :)
Create plan to do much the same in 2017!
That plan sounds remarkably similar to my 2016 plan though maybe I can give Paul R something to work on while he considers his next project 😇
Must admit to a wry smile, as that's where my (and many others') good intentions are likely to end up.
It will be interesting to return to this post later and see who stuck to there projects
Take care
Andy
This years plans are to finish off my IJA for Bolt Action.
Then it's onto my High Elves and getting stuck into my new fantasy world. :D
Quote from: Womble67 on 05 January 2016, 02:17:27 PM
Hi everyone these are my Plans for 2016 (http://www.10mm-wargaming.com/2016/01/happy-new-year-2016.html), what are yours aims/plans for the coming year.
Plans! Plans!
What!
You guys make plans!!
Mad, I tell you, mad.
"Happy talk, keep talking happy talk,
Talk about things you'd like to do,
You gotta have a dream, if you don't have a dream,
How you gonna have a dream come true?"
:D
I have three projects in various stages which I will attempt to complete in 2016:
1. 10mm SYW - I'm about 40% where I want to be with the Prussians and Austrians. Later this year I will start on the French, British/Hanoverian and potentially even the Russians. (Yeah, right)
2. 20mm Modern for the upcoming Fighting Season rules - about 75% complete. I'll keep these on the back-burner until closer to when the rules come out.
3. 28mm Crusaders for Saga and Soldiers of God - about 25% completed. Even though I love painting these figures I put this on hold until my opponent who got me into the period at least starts to paint his forces. No sense completing the army if I don't have anyone to fight.
Other odds & ends:
1. paint up a few 10mm WWII figures and tanks I have left over from previous projects in order to build up forces for Iron Cross.
2. Add a few more 10mm Union and Rebel units for Altar of Freedom.
3. Paint the MDF buildings I got at a convention two months ago.
Trying really hard to stick with two projects this year-
1. 6mm War of Spanish Succession
2. 10mm ACW
This is going to be really hard for me but I am going to really try!! :)
I am very good at planning. However ... they are subject to unpredictable changes.
I've got a lot of "add ons" to be completed - you know when Pendraken add something to their catalogue that you HAVE TO HAVE. Just a few nights on each ...
French WWII
Italian WWII
My 1960's Desert Battle (hangers will go nicely into the battle at the airport.)
Need to research (plagarise) some rules for 1:600 air combat. Also, since I've been strangely drawn to the Pacific in WWII, I may have to construct a generic aircraft carrier ... or see if there's a kit or two to be had.
I know that I am going to by some US Marines and Japanese this year.
I tend to buy everything before I paint (that's my excuse anyway) and so I think this year will see me continuing to buy lots of Napoleonic Brits, and Bavarians (don't ask ... I just love Cornflower Blue) and then probably have to start buying some French so that the Brits don't look lonely on the field. Problem is I don't yet know if I'm going for a late Peninsula army or a Waterloo one. The Peninsula allows the Portuguese and Spanish, but the Waterloo allows for the Prussians (and ultimately Russians and Austrians.) Decisions, decisions.
Having said that Pendraken are likely to release a new range of something lovely and I'll just have to get diverted into that. Just saying that some Korean War infantry would be bonzer (though the WWII commandos fit very well for the Brits), but Pendraken are likely to bowl me a googlie and add chariot armies or something and then where would I be? At the front of the crowd throwing money at Leon. Then after I left Peppermint Giraffe, I would go on line and order some Pendraken goodies.
Leon! Leon! LEEOOONN! No ... go with the sparkles .. yeah ... brings out the colour of your eyes ... has the medication not worked then? Never mind, just put on some aviators and look cool. Anyway don't distract me. Could you tease us (the teaspoons in the Pendraken cutlery drawer) about your plans for 2016? Turkey? Sounds good. What period? First two weeks of May? No, Leon, when I said about your plans I meant what is Pendraken planning to release in 2016? No I don't thinks Techno's over-long bows are going to bankrupt the company with increase casting costs. Could you just give us a peak at some broad themes for 2016?
Conquest of Mexico would be fun. But there's little choice involved....
Quote from: jambo1 on 06 January 2016, 05:53:35 AM
Trying really hard to stick with two projects this year-
1. 6mm War of Spanish Succession
2. 10mm ACW
This is going to be really hard for me but I am going to really try!! :)
Should we use weeks, days or hours in the sweepstake on when you diverge ;)
Hmmm... let's think (not much of a planning man I fear...) :-\
In 10 mm that would be:
- 1914 project; all new and seems like it's going to be big...
- Keep working on the 1918 project,
- Finish all NWF that's lying around and maybe get some more tribesmen,
- Maybe get back into the AWI, (for 'Maybe': read 'Probably')
- Contemplate on some sort of 17th century project to have an excuse for all the scenery I bought,
- Contemplate on Berlin 1945 as an excuses for all the scenery I bought that would fit that project...
20mm:
- Depending on how this weekend turns out I might be stuck with hundreds of 1944 US Marines plus scratchbuilding some proxy Destroyer Escorts...
- Keep working on German 1944/1945 Winter Panzer units,
- Finish my 1813 Württemberg and Italian Brigades and then some more French cavalry...and...and..and...
- getting a lot of plastic ACW figures based.
28mm:
- Get another ACW regiment done plus some bits and pieces,
- Do some boardgame models; finish Zombicide Black Plague when I get it all and maybe start painting the regular Zombicide models,
Rest:
- Keep building some 1/700 ships every now and then,
- Work on the 1/96 CSS Alabama,
- Work on the 1/144 WW-2 airplanes for WoW
- rebuild book collection!
I think that'll keep me occupied besides working, reading, familylife, enjoyong life music, re-enacting and taking the bike out every now and then...
Cheers,
Rob
Quote from: jimduncanuk on 05 January 2016, 11:51:10 PM
Plans! Plans!
What!
You guys make plans!!
Mad, I tell you, mad.
you may be right
Quote from: Ithoriel on 06 January 2016, 12:34:44 AM
"Happy talk, keep talking happy talk,
Talk about things you'd like to do,
You gotta have a dream, if you don't have a dream,
How you gonna have a dream come true?"
:D
very true
Quote from: jambo1 on 06 January 2016, 05:53:35 AM
Trying really hard to stick with two projects this year-
1. 6mm War of Spanish Succession
2. 10mm ACW
This is going to be really hard for me but I am going to really try!! :)
like it, really trying to stick to only two projects. its just so easy to start another
take care
andy
10mm
Poles
More Romans
Finish LOA Anglo Dutch
Few Falklands bits...
Henrician English
Much Warbandage
15mm two tanks
After that, no idea...
Quote from: jimduncanuk on 05 January 2016, 11:51:10 PM
Plans! Plans!
What!
You guys make plans!!
Mad, I tell you, mad.
;D
As I think Von Moltke was on to something ("no battle plan survives first contact etc."), have no big plans .... yet!
But I must upgrade my roads, rivers and buildings .... and maybe another Prussian SYW regiment .... plus .......
Quote from: fsn on 06 January 2016, 08:34:51 AM
I tend to buy everything before I paint
Me too. Especially since my notorious "paint before you buy" incident in Woolworth's (1968).
:-[
Do tell!
As a complete wargames slapper I cannot be expected to stick to any of the below. but here is the plan as of 18:05 on 6th January 2016. It will probably have changed by lunch time tommorow.
10mm
Early german Vehicles
WSS British
Belgians
15mm
Ak47 Army
20mm
WW2 figures and infantry
28mm
Finnish Hobbit warband for Dragon Rampant .
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 06 January 2016, 06:06:21 PM
Finnish Hobbit warband for Dragon Rampant .
Finnish Hobbits - that must be a bit of a niche range ;)
Yeah, yeah, I realise it's just a typo :)
This is my hoped for plan...
10mm: complete more Vikings, Normans and Saxons, possibly even starting on my Picts.
Add more Warband armies to my collection.
Complete more Romans and Britons.
15mm: I have just started a 15mm Carthaginian army for 'To The Strongest', 4 bases completed so far, need at 15 for a decent game. My friends are all collecting opposition.
28mm: Add to my collection of historical and fantasy 28mm for use with Lion/Dragon Rampant and or Frostgrave.
However one friend is already trying to persuade me to do Dragon Rampant in 15mm and as ever, I am weakening.
Oh yeah, Picts...
And finishing 1870 French 1st Corps! ;)
And 1864 Prussians and Danes, and 1870 Prussians and...
Quote from: FierceKitty on 06 January 2016, 08:36:26 AM
Conquest of Mexico would be fun.
Shouldn't take long between all of us. Especially if we go in around lunchtime.......
Quote from: Ithoriel on 06 January 2016, 06:30:28 PM
Finnish Hobbits - that must be a bit of a niche range ;)
Yeah, yeah, I realise it's just a typo :)
Dammit! I thought that was going to be a sneaky release for Warband! :'(
Finnish hobbits could be intended to indicate Moomins, couldn't they?
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 :D
Cheers
Ian
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!!!
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!
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
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.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 06 January 2016, 06:30:28 PM
Finnish Hobbits - that must be a bit of a niche range ;)
OOHHH! another Army I will have to do.
Quote10mm 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
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa242/danandsan/IMG_1914a.jpg) (http://s198.photobucket.com/user/danandsan/media/IMG_1914a.jpg.html)
Ten points of Saracens
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa242/danandsan/IMG_1143a.jpg) (http://s198.photobucket.com/user/danandsan/media/IMG_1143a.jpg.html)
That looks 'Brill', Dan.....
Super stuff.....Most impressive. :-bd
Cheers - Phil
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.
Superb Dan! 8)
Those are BIG!
Looks superb in 10mm. What about Lion Rampant in the same way?
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.
Thank you for the kind comments.
QuoteI 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.
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.
=P~ =P~ =P~
Lovely armies!
I was going to do something similar with the 10mm Mongols for Lion Rampant. 28mm basing conventions and 10mm figs.
Very nice Dan
:-bd =D> :-bd =D>
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 07 January 2016, 06:24:23 PM
=P~ =P~ =P~
Lovely armies!
I was going to do something similar with the 10mm Mongols for Lion Rampant. 28mm basing conventions and 10mm figs.
Was? What stopped you? Mongols should never be a 'was going to do' army! I dunno, some people. :D
For 2016 I mainly have to get my 10mm New Model Army circa 1650 (the English one) painted.
Will continue to work on battles in Scotland and Ireland doing the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
And starting a whole new project in 10mm here:
http://signaetportenta.com
Quote from: FierceKitty on 07 January 2016, 01:11:42 AM
Finnish hobbits could be intended to indicate Moomins, couldn't they?
AGH! Moomins! Somebody was on a strange mix of tablets the day they came up with that cartoon........ :o
They look fantastic Dan
Take care
Andy
Surely Moomins are trolls not hobbits?
Also, yes, depressingly beautiful armies Dan :)
So far I've painted 5 palm trees this year :(
Quote from: d_Guy on 07 January 2016, 08:54:42 PM
For 2016 I mainly have to get my 10mm New Model Army circa 1650 (the English one) painted.
Will continue to work on battles in Scotland and Ireland doing the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
And starting a whole new project in 10mm here:
http://signaetportenta.com
Interesting new project d_Guy :)
I particularly like this from the end of your post
Quote...for wargaming, more than anything else, is about story telling.
10mm allows me to indulge my taste for megalomania with the advantage that the figures sit in the landscape in more pleasing manner than 28mm do, unless you are playing 1:1 skirmish games.
I had originally intended that my 10mm Crescent and Cross armies would just be proxies until I could get some 28mm figures finished but they actually give a better game for this era, especially if you scale up the size of the armies, we currently pay four player games with two Christian and two Arab players per side. Force sizes are generally very large for Saga, 15 points for the main Christian/Moslem forces and 9 points for their Milites Christe and Mutatawwja allies.
However, using the excellent crescent and Cross rules they play easily on a 6x4 table in less than 3 hours with the added advantage that the individual forces offer very different playing experiences.
To return to this subject of this thread :o I shall be expanding my Crescent and Cross Armies to include Spanish and Moors (using Normans and Arabs) as well as getting the Byzantines involved.
Quote from: Subedai on 07 January 2016, 07:50:43 PM
Was? What stopped you? Mongols should never be a 'was going to do' army! I dunno, some people. :D
Still have them, and still want to use them. I just don't want to commit to Lion Rampant and then find how I've based them impedes their use as no one else plays LR.
I also thought about using the figures for Warband, but I've that much other stuff on my plate at the moment it may take a few years to get around to it.
Wow thats a beautiful army. SAGA Crescent and Cross you say for the rules? How do they play? I shouldn't be asking, I might end up getting tempted to change eras and do some medieval instead of making myself work on my already existing lead mountain, but I have to ask anyways!
Paulr,
Thanks for checking out the new project and the comment on storytelling. Great storytelling is why I am following your epic building of the trenches and looking forward to the storytelling that will take place once they are in use in the game :)
Ref: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,13335.0.html
Quote. SAGA Crescent and Cross you say for the rules? How do they play?
Very well, the basic rules cover movement, combat shooting etc. but strength of the system is their use of very different army profiles and abilities controlled by allocation of SAGA DICE n the faction's Battle Board.
The Crusaders are very much about building up their faith based abilities early on in the game before using the abilities to launch overwhelming attacks while the Saracens are more subtle in their abilities to ware down and distract heir opponent.
Hopefully I'll be able to expand my new 10mm ECW collection this year. :-X
Quote from: Poggle on 11 January 2016, 08:06:33 PM
Hopefully I'll be able to expand my new 10mm ECW collection this year. :-X
Good man! :D