Today I stumbled across something obvious #-o
Next year, 2022, is the 80
th anniversary of 1942 :o
This leads to two thoughts:
- can it really be 10 years since I ordered my 1/3,000th scale WWII ships
- the 80th anniversary of the the two campaigns I mainly bought these ships for is rapidly approaching
Over the next few months I'll work on:
- getting ready to play Defending the Malay Barrier, The ABDA Campaign by Old Dominion GameWorks (using GQ I/II)
- finalising my scenario for Balikpapan, the fifth and last of my historic scenarios for the Dutch East Indies Campaign
- developing 7 historic scenarios for the Guadalcanal campaign
Far Far to organised...... :D :D :D
I was delivering a coaching techniques session this week. The issue I used as an exercise was "what wargames project should I do next?"
Had a very enthusiastic and innovative coach. We discussed my hermit tendencies and touched upon my end of life preparations.
The answer I was looking for was "Imperial Romans" or "Napoleonic Russians".
Why not both ?
It's just a question of time.
Under WRG 5th Edition you could have probably fought them against each other :)
Quote from: Orcs on 29 August 2021, 12:10:15 PM
Under WRG 5th Edition you could have probably fought them against each other :)
Na - thats 7th !!
2022 sees the 40th anniversary of buying some of my unpainted 1/72 plastics. Maybe they should get priority now.
Forget the last post. Seems my money needs to go on the drinks instead as that post made me Captain. <:-P <:-P
Ave me usual, pint o Creme de Menthe
Congratulations Captain!
Well done captain, slightly dehydrated from my mates 25th Wedding Anniversary parties this weekend. Can I just have a saline drip instead??
Quote from: DecemDave on 29 August 2021, 02:32:08 PM
2022 sees the 40th anniversary of buying some of my unpainted 1/72 plastics. Maybe they should get priority now.
I have some Heroics & Ros micro armour in a similar way, albeit in a basic coat of Humbrol enamel green.
Congratulations Captain =D>
Made a start on pulling together the SDS (Ship Damage Summaries) for the Japanese for Defending the Malay Barrier, The ABDA Campaign
I've got almost all the cruisers and larger vessels, there's a few where I'll have to use sister ships :)
Next will be working through the destroyers, definitely some using sister ships will be required :!!
Congratulations, Captain !! :-bd
Cheers - Phil. :)
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Congratulations Captain.
I've done the first pass through the Japanese destroyers and am very pleasantly surprised that I have about half the destroyers or suitable sister ships :o :)
Next pass on the destroyers will involve working out what destroyers I haven't already used and which I can safely use more than once as they are in different parts of the campaign :-B @-)
Congratulations Captain.
Quote from: paulr on 30 August 2021, 08:51:41 AM
I've done the first pass through the Japanese destroyers and am very pleasantly surprised that I have about half the destroyers or suitable sister ships :o :)
Next pass on the destroyers will involve working out what destroyers I haven't already used and which I can safely use more than once as they are in different parts of the campaign :-B @-)
sounds like a good campaign cant wait for the reports.
my plans for 2022 is :- mostly doing my place in Bulgaria and possibly concentrating on Stalingrad. (also 80th Anniversary)
Regards
Sean
Started on the ABDA (American British Dutch Australian) order of battle to check we have all the major vessels required :-\
Pierre the Shy has all the British and some of the Dutch :)
The way the campaign has been set up is quite interesting, the ABDA doesn't really have a chance to fully stop the Japanese advance, but slowing down the advance will mean that the level of the Japanese victory will be reduced. The ABDA players task is not easy, but with good planning (and a healthy dose of good luck) they can make the IJN work hard for an out and out victory.
We played the Solomons campaign from ODGW a couple of times so pretty au fait with how this one will run. Need to sort out all the ships and get out of the current COVID lockdown, so don't see this kicking off till early 2022 at least. I have the Dutch "what if" Scharnhorst style battlecruisers and ex HMS Tiger on the stocks at the moment, as well as some additional cruisers and RN destroyers....the ABDA will need every ship they can get and then some....
Those what if's mean the ABDA is much more powerful than the imediate IJN forces - course if a couple of Japanese battle wagons turn up ....Interesting varient.
I've surveyed my extensive unpainted lead pile.
2021/2 will likely involve a lot of painting, and some terrain updates.
I'm busily inventing reasons to NOT begin any new projects.
* Chain of Command (You need how many yards of wall and hedge???)
* Galleys and Galleons in the Indian Ocean (Absence of various sized Dhow, Prahu and Jonk ships, and cannot find a sea coloured mat with a fine square grid).
* Congo (Studio Tomahawk) in smaller scale (Cannot find a whole range with distinctive warriors and especially the important characters in the game).
Fear not: I have several hundred 15mm and almost a thousand 15mm figures in need of painting and basing.
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 31 August 2021, 11:02:01 AM
Fear not: I have several hundred 15mm and almost a thousand 15mm figures in need of painting and basing.
That's like quoting salami prices in Tehran!
Quote from: FierceKitty on 31 August 2021, 11:08:21 AM
That's like quoting salami prices in Tehran!
Typo alert.
Should have typed - A couple hundred 15mms and almost a thousand
10mms.
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 31 August 2021, 11:29:30 AM
Typo alert.
Should have typed - A couple hundred 15mms and almost a thousand 10mms.
That all ?
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 31 August 2021, 11:29:30 AM
Typo alert.
Should have typed - A couple hundred 15mms and almost a thousand 10mms.
The Ayatollah has decided that salami doesn't count as pork!
Completed the major vessel review of the ABDA (American British Dutch Australian) order of battle and we are looking good for the major vessels :)
Completed the next pass through the Japanese destroyers and I have enough given the campaign is split into two areas of operations for the Japanese so a destroyer model can act as a similar destroyer in each area. The largest Japanese force is limited to 16 destroyers more than double that :)
When I did the review of the ABDA destroyers we ended up short for the American and Dutch destroyers :-\
There were also some Japanese destroyers that it would be useful to have, particularly some of the 1920s destroyers that were also used as fast transports :-B
So a while ago Pierre the Shy added a few ships of his own to the order and kindly visited his local Chemist and got them to send a fax to Navwar
Last night he handed over my share of the order:
- 1 US heavy cruiser
- 10 US destroyers
- 4 Dutch destroyers
- 20 Japanese destroyers
:-[
I spent a while this afternoon working out which of the Japanese destroyers I would paint and label them up as I've only got at most a third of the ships of the various classes
I didn't need to do this for the Dutch or US as I have enough models for all the Dutch Admiralen class and all of US Destroyer Squadron 29
I should really get cracking on the Imperial Guard little wooden men. Then the Bavarians. Then the Polish. I might have another bunch of France dressed Germans as well.
Just got back from Penkridge - didna get what I was after but did get 500 10mm Horse, 6 WWII vehicles, some 15mm Italians and 4 sets of rules. Should keep me busy for a little while. Mind you Will would have it finished tomorrow.
After looking through the lead pile tonight my project for 2022 is to complete the projects from 2020....
(and possibly 2021)
/Looks at Romans sitting on my desk that I bought in 2004 . . .
Hey, at least they're currently top of the pile of things I might want to work on. (Doubt they'll be there next week)
Quote from: Raider4 on 25 October 2021, 11:29:07 AM
/Looks at Romans sitting on my desk that I bought in 2004 . . .
Hey, at least they're currently top of the pile of things I might want to work on. (Doubt they'll be there next week)
2004? If only!
I have figures I intend to paint SOON
TM that I bought in the 1970's!
You have plenty of time yet.
SOON
TM - a period up to, but not including, the next Ice Age
Can't figure out the logic...but aren't we technically still in an ice age ? :-\
Cheers - Phil. :)
Think it finished early in the C19th Phil. It's the reason that utterly boring b Charlie Dickens has white Christmases.
Quote from: Techno II on 26 October 2021, 05:51:42 AM
Can't figure out the logic...but aren't we technically still in an ice age ? :-
I believe we are, as there is still permanent ice at the poles.
Not wanting to start any sort of climate debate here, but the Earth has been far, far warmer in the past than it is now.
Quote from: Raider4 on 26 October 2021, 07:07:36 AM
I believe we are, as there is still permanent ice at the poles.
Not wanting to start any sort of climate debate here, but the Earth has been far, far warmer in the past than it is now.
Watched a program narrated by David Attenborough on climate change, and its only for the last 10,000-20,000 years that we have had such a stable climate. Before that it cycled +/- 7-8 degrees every few thousand years. So perhaps our current climate is the exception rather than the rule.
Quote from: Orcs on 26 October 2021, 09:06:38 AM
Watched a program narrated by David Attenborough on climate change, and its only for the last 10,000-20,000 years that we have had such a stable climate. Before that it cycled +/- 7-8 degrees every few thousand years. So perhaps our current climate is the exception rather than the rule.
It's more significant now because we mostly grow our own food.
And most of us live within a few feet of 'current' sea level
Quote from: Techno II on 26 October 2021, 05:51:42 AM
Can't figure out the logic...but aren't we technically still in an ice age ? :-
Cheers - Phil. :)
That doesn't mean there won't be a next one! :)
And yes, as I understand it, any period where there is ice at the poles is technically an Ice Age.
Quote from: Raider4 on 25 October 2021, 11:29:07 AM
/Looks at Romans sitting on my desk that I bought in 2004 . . .
And, they're gone, back into the shoebox of Things To Do.
Replaced by the Sellswords & Spellslingers rulebook, and some Mordheim-style ruined buildings in 10mm. And a shopping list of things required to do (small-scale) US vs. Germany, circa 1945.
/sigh
Maybe in 2022 ;D
My main 10mm project for 2022 will be the AWI, have ordered the first figures to get the ball rolling, and sorted my wish list with the next lot. :)
My main project for 2022 will be to end each day alive and solvent! :D
QuoteAnd most of us live within a few feet of 'current' sea level
Well....I don't. ;D ;D
Best part of a thousand feet above sea level.
No wonder we have 'low flying cloud' at Techno Towers. ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil. :)
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