My Plans for 2016, Whats Yours

Started by Womble67, 05 January 2016, 02:17:27 PM

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Duke Speedy of Leighton

10mm
Poles
More Romans
Finish LOA Anglo Dutch
Few Falklands bits...
Henrician English
Much Warbandage

15mm two tanks

After that, no idea...
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Westmarcher

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 .......
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Westmarcher

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).

:-[
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Leman

The artist formerly known as Dour Puritan!

Orcs

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 .
The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -Mencken, H. L.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Ithoriel

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 :)
There are 100 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who can work from incomplete data

Bodvoc

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.
'If I throw a six I'll do my happy dance'!

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Duke Speedy of Leighton

Oh yeah, Picts...
And finishing 1870 French 1st Corps! ;)
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Duke Speedy of Leighton

And 1864 Prussians and Danes, and 1870 Prussians and...
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Tawa

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!  :'(
Well that went down like a lead baboon......

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FierceKitty

Finnish hobbits could be intended to indicate Moomins, couldn't they?
I don't drink coffee to wake up. I wake up to drink coffee.

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  :D

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!

Rimmer: "Aliens."

Lister: "Oh God, aliens... Your explanation for anything slightly peculiar is aliens, isn't it?

Rimmer: "Well, we didn't use it all, Lister. Who did?"

Lister: "Rimmer, aliens used our bog roll?"

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.
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Orcs

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.
The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -Mencken, H. L.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

DanJ

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



Ten points of Saracens



Techno

That looks 'Brill', Dan.....
Super stuff.....Most impressive.  :-bd

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.
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