Googong is close to Canberra in the middle of New South Wales.

I am very new to the forum and the 10mm scale.  A few years ago my 20+ year career as a Firefighter was cut short by injury and I was retired.  With all the time on my hands I decided - after decades away - to attempt a return to figure gaming.  The result is about 3000 6mm SYW figs and an 8' x 4' table straining under the terrain.  I have a few mates that come over regularly to play as I live on a small farm and have a 8m x 6m gaming shed - complete with fridge!  Although my wife has run a sustained (and annoyingly successful) campaign to turn it into a storage shed... if only I could find a set of rules for shed wars.... and get her to stick to them WITHOUT house rules!   

I ended up here due to a growing interest in gaming AWI.  Hard not to with the range of figs and the superb painting on display.  I feel like an iron filing up against a Pendraken magnet.  After hitting Leon with 20 questions he deftly and politely guided me to the forum.

I look forward to discovering the scale and the community.

Eric (ecka)   

Hi Eric, welcome to the Forum!



PS, I live on Canberra Road...

Hi Eric,

welcome to the forum!

The briefest of perusals of the forum should show you that it is by turns friendly, informative, amusing and wacky.

If you have questions just ask. There's always someone here with an answer ... sometimes several someones with several answers!

Don't let the running gags, in-jokes and personal hobby-horses put you off and feel free to let loose with your own!

Cheers

Hello Eric/Ecka

I live in the north, up near Coffs Harbour. Have done for about 20 years but before that lived in Forrest and Kingston for a while.

Can't say I can remember much about Googong I'm afraid, when I was living around there it wasn't mentioned much. But knowing Canberra, maybe that's a good thing  

I'm sure you'll enjoy you time here at the forum, most of the traffic here is friendly and helpful (when they've remembered to take their tablets). Just bear in mind that there's no such thing as a stupid question, just stupid answers   .
Just remember that after AWI there is a great raft of other periods to obsess you draw you in. What rules are you thinking of using for AWI?

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan
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Thanks all.  I wasn't expecting replies.....so quickly.

I'm of a mind to hit AWI with "Maurice".  I have read through a lot of wargaming rules for this and round about periods but there is something about "Maurice" that appeals to me - esp for AWI.

I was very much a "70's & 80's" gamer using what my Son would now call "old school" rules.  Things have come a long way (and in some cases u turned and gone back!) over the decades.  What appeals to me about Maurice is no defined turn sequence in the conventional sense.  What I mean by "conventional" is for eg a turn will consist of a volley phase, followed by commands, followed by moves, followed by melee, followed by rally - rinse and repeat.  A game might be, say, 10 such turns.  Maurice replaces this with 50 turns.  You now decide what does what and when.  4 moves in a row with a force?  Go for it.  Then to add a tad more uncertainty it introduces player initiated (via cards) events, interupts and modifiers.

Personally I find it charming and different.  In too many rule sets I "know" when the shooting will be.  I "know" how far my opponent can move before I can react.  But also, whilst the dice rolls are random, I can predict the odds with certainty.  Events, modifiers and interupts as well as in hand card limitations keeps things just that bit more unpredictable and less certain.  Keeping my gaming mates in mind, it is also wrapped up in a very simple straight forward rule set.

My thoughts are, combined with the old Avalon Hill game 1776 as a campaign driver, it could provide for a wonderful AWI experience...

Welcome Eric

I've been involved with the forum  and Pendraken for a bit over a year, having been drawn in by the AWI figures. After painting almost 800 of them I can say they are beautiful figures and a joy to paint

The service from Pendraken is exceptional and the forum is friendly,  informative and insane in various combinations 

Hi Eric,

I'm on the other side of Canberra in Yass, I've recently being pulled towards the Pendraken magnet too, I've been thinking about the War of Spanish Succession using Maurice. At the moment though it's full steam ahead for Warband, I haven't wanted to do anything fantasy for many years until I seen the Warband rules.

I think you'll find the Pendraken  forum very friendly and more than a little nuts  There seems to be a lot of British humour flying around so if you like that then you'll fit right in.

Jez

Upgraydd, who do you play Maurice with?  It would take nothing to convince me to build an Army matching your period.....    Plus it would be bloody refreshing not having to provide both Armies....plus all the terrain......even just once!

Welcome to the forum and to say I am jealous of your gaming shed would be a massive understatement!!

Welcome to the forum, there is no escape now!

Welcome Eric,

I never knew we had so many regular forum members from Oz.  

Over the last week or so my other half has d started "persuading " me that it would be a good idea to have a holiday on Oz and NZ and visit her sister   in Sydney

Hello and welcome.
Sounds like an ideal way I !

Welcome Ecka - have played a lot of Maurice in the SYW period.

Welcome aboard Ecka