Not many concrete plans so far

Finish Prussian 7YW army - only 2 regiments of cavalry to go but I might "need" some more infantry 

Buy and paint another regiment of French WW1 infantry.

Finally play 7YW games.

Sell 15mm Romans and Gauls and replace (maybe) with 10mm.

Get a not-Seven-Years-War campaign going.
Get the FPW project moving again.
Play more WWII.
get the 15mm SF playable
Rebase 15mm renaissance for Impetus

And just plain game more; I now have three quite playable armies and should be using them.

I need to finish early war French and Germans for IABSM.
Kick starting my FPW project using "to the last gaiter button", but based so I can also use them for 1870.

I will probably supplement my existing WWII figures as needed.

Whiteoak, as you can see I also use 10mm for IABSM. I really enjoy the rules - in fact, I just ran a game of US paras vs. Germans a few days ago. To me they provide a fun, challenging game.  They do require some planning to play as they don't have a point system. But since I only get to play about four times a year I have plenty of time to design scenarios. 

I mostly run games at conventions with people who haven't played IABSM before. They pick the mechanics quickly but there's usually a tactics learning curve as they realize real world tactics work better than how they've played with other rules.

Tom

Shecky,

Seen your post on the Realistic Modelling site.  I think the answer is really up to you. The rules as written allow you to produce a Prussian Jager battalion with just 12 figures on 6 round bases, and a French one with 5 round bases.  As long as you keep the number of bases the same there shouldn't be a problem, but the different bases do allow you to see easily those units allowed to fire out of any face of a square, regardless of which side they are facing.  You could either discount this rule (no big problem) or find another marker. IN terms  of how many troops to use for a scenario, I'd start with a Corps a side, so about 20-36 battalions, 10-16 batteries, and a brigade of cavalry a side. If you like the rules as much as I do, you won' t be able to stop there!  Enjoy.

Mollinary

Thanks Mollinary. When I first heard about the rules a few years ago I dismissed them as I wasn't too keen on the idea of grid movement. However, I think I've come around on it. I've been looking for ways to game large battles that don't require a lot of time, bookkeeping or which are mentally taxing. Some rules are good at the divisional level but break down when scaled up. Other corp/army sized rules don't suit my tastes. I think TTLGB might be the right rules for me.

Tom

Current

10mm

FPW French.  Really need to get round to finishing these off (i always struggle to paint French forces - never seems much point).

28mm

AVBCW.  Finish off the bits and bobs i got over Xmas (T26b squadron, and suppot like supply and medical units.  then i should be done with the Chopwell Communists (fateful words!)

VSF.  Finish off my Martian forces to oppose the valiant British Empire builders!


'In the planning'

Well now that's an interesting one as i have a couple of 'half formed' plans boiling about in my noggin at the moment.

1.  Wierd World War II
Scale?  Not sure, but it'll be either 10mm or 28mm.  I have a start in both but haven't settled yet.  Nor on a set of rules.

2.  Star Wars
What i really want is a set of 10mm or 28mm Star Wars figures (or 'not-Star Wars' proxies).  In 10mm i'm looking at FwC for rules.  In 28mm i'm looking at a conversion of Legends of the Old West perhaps.  Problem there is figures again - especially the vast amount of different aliens i'd have to sort out.  But i like the idea of posses of Sith hunting down posses of Jedi in hiding after the clone wars...

3.  Malifaux
Hate the rules but the setting's a pretty good idea.  If it flies, this'll probably be in 28mm and will use the GW WFB terrain.

Other than that, i'm not sure what will take my fancy over the next few months...

Greetings

I've umpired/played a couple of games of IABSM3 in the last few weeks - one in 15mm and one in 20mm, so Ihaven't yet had live experience in 10mm.  The use of armour is smoother than before and so is likely to be better than previous iterations for more armour heavy engagements, albeit the table area will still be pretty small with the ground scale being 1 foot/30cm = about 80 yards = 1/240. 

I'm aiming to experiment with Operation Compass in the coming year.

Regards

Edward 

To get out and attend a few conventions in the coming year after an absence of two years. Looking forward to meeting a few of you around the circuit. 

Complete my 10mm AWI armies - still a long way to go there, but I do finally know where I'm going, which helps.
Finish off some 15mm ECW which are loitering half nude on a shelf!
Finish off all incomplete 6mm projects, too many to count mainly Napoleonic bits and bobs
Try to fight a couple of campaigns:
   ECW - Tinker Fox in 6mm or 15mm. Actually I'd like to use this mini campaign series as a means of pre-contact manoeuvre in a grander campaign system but I'll have to set some time aside to work out something suitable.
   Medieval - King and Pretender 6mm
   AWI Home and Colonial in 10mm...yea...
Do new 10mm project probably Colonial/WW1 East Africa  - it would be nice to see some pics of the ranges in the catalogue Leon, just in case you were looking for some additional new years resolutions 
Make a lot of 6mm and 10mm scenery
Look for an opponent. Solo gaming is OK but solo campaigning doesn't work so well.   

Puhh, quite a lot actually 

6mm
-War of the Austrian Succession Anglo-Austrian Army (also known as the"Pragmatic Army")
10mm:
-completing my very modest sized Anglo-German AWI force (1 Hessian & 1 British brigade on 2x2 bases..should work for small games on the kitchen table; friend of mine 'll do the rebs)
-League of Augsburg 
but I wont start painting up/buying any units untill it's at least clear that there's a realistic chance of seeing the range continiued in 2012.
-expanding my 1809 Austrians with the hopefully soon to be released cavalry 
15mm:
-War of the Spanish Succession Bavarian army.. friend of mine just wrote his graduate thesis on this topic (after a recommendation by me) and now I'm quite tempted to give it a try one the tabletop.
-small French Revolutionary Wars Skirmish using the old Battle Honors miniatures

plus all the spontaneous stuff.. i think i don't have to go into details on this one   

Hey nikharwood can't wait to see some of those projects especially the WWI Middle East, Finns and the secret projects. I am always amazed at how quickly you get things painted and ready to game. Some really interesting stuff in everyone elses plans as well. I have been thinking about 1930's British Civil War in 10mm and would love to see more pictures and what people do with this project. May motivate me to get started.

As for myself trying to limit things this year. Would be happy if I get some of the following done in 10mm all in pendraken figures of course:

1) Austro-Prussian War
2) Russo-Japanese War
3) Start SCW

It will take some time but I will get stuff up on the blog when done:

http://myblog-lekw.blogspot.com/

Like many others I would just like to get any project finished, so with that in mind I think my projest list for the year will be

ACW then WW2 fallschirmjager, then whatever shiney new thing takes my fancy, but that still leaves ww2 early forces both german and austrailian, a half finished british napoleonic division, loads of half started ww2 allied projects, a ww1 project that is still unbuilt.  The reasonably new GNW project not yet fully purchased. Too many.

hope everyone had a great festive period and good luck in the new year.

jon

I would like to finish one project, just one little project before being distracted by something shiny (again)...  

Quote from: Sandinista on 03 January 2012, 07:16:47 PM
I would like to finish one project, just one little project before being distracted by something shiny (again)...  

It's much better to set realistic targets you know ?

Quote from: Sandinista on 03 January 2012, 07:16:47 PM
I would like to finish one project, just one little project before being distracted by something shiny (again)...  

has anyone ever actually done this?

I really must crack on with my 1818 Army of the Andes, although the possibilities of a Falklands range combined with an Argentinian father-in-law to annoy is awfully tempting...................................
and there's that New Kingdon Egyptian project.........
and some Republican Romans...............
and a few Arab-Israeli bits............
and..........
and..........
so on ad infinitum 

In no particular order:-

1)  Organise my life better so that I can paint little and often rather than having to wait for holidays to blitz my lead pile.
2)  Finish converting and painting my Pendraken 10mm fantasy stuff.
3)  Start doing a bit more regular sculpting (got the bug after the 2011 competition).
4)  Finish off painting and selling off my 28mm fantasy and pulp stuff.
5)  Start painting the 15mm scifi stuff I bought last year. [I had vowed only to game in 10mm but Critical Mass Games and "5150 New Beginnings" caught me at a week moment].
6)  Make a bit more 10mm and 15mm scenery.
7)  Tinker with Warrior Heroes:: Armies & Adventures.
  Game a bit more.
9)  Try to keep the wife and children happy and feeling loved while attempting all of the above.

I try and paint for an hour or so 3-4 times a week, which does make a difference to progress on the painting front.

1. Plan and fight a fictional campaign in 1930s era Latin American war  as opposed to skirmish actions.

2. Conceptualise an 1870s FPW era Prisoner of Zenda scanario as a demo game   Painting almost finished. Thanks to speedy Pendraken delivery before Christmas.

3. Finish my terrain tiles, now scaled to 10mm 1/150 scale. in a genre that will allow a degree of interchange between scanarios 1 & 2.

4.  Part with hugh amounts of 15mm lead. (AK47 era modern)

Sunray out

My goal for 2012 is to paint up another 400 bases of American Civil War Infantry. That’s 1600 figures total.
-Bryan

6mm

Continue crafting my own Tyranids for Epic 40k and painting+basing them

10mm

Finish my Tomb Kings army for Warmaster (where nearly all of the infantry is Pendraken's)
Maybe starting Empire

28mm
Repaint my Witch Hunter Warband for Mordheim.

Maybe too much work, but my priority is 10mm, love the scale and the prices.