So, I sat down in one of the brief downtime periods at work last week, to do some planning. I now have a regular gaming buddy who will play any game, but will only collect and paint Fantasy and Sci-Fi figures so if I want to play historical games, I'll still have to paint both forces.
That being said, I now have extra motivation to get things done as we both want to play more often. I have a horrible habit of starting a project, and then getting distracted by something else and then not finishing anything. So I made a list of current on the go projects and prioritized them -
1. Guildball - My game of the year for 2016.
2. Warhammer 30k/40k - yes, I've gotten sucked into this bloody money pit. That being said, we're still not 100% sure we're going to be using the 40k rules(gasp). Looking at several rules options and just carting along the fluff which is - lets be honest - pretty fecking cool.
3. Chain of Command - 15mm Germans, Soviets, and Americans. Really keen to get this going as my Dad is a huge WW2 buff and is looking forward to it. Already have the Soviet infantry platoon finished.
4. Post Apocalyptic - 28mm using either Across the Dead Earth or This Is Not A Test or both.
5. Zombie Apocalypse - 28mm campaign which I already have loads of figures painted for, but lets again be honest...you can never have enough zombies.
6. Muskets & Tomahawks - This is also a major interest of my Dad and we've enjoyed the few games we've played with half painted or unpainted figures. Planning on using it for both FIW and AWI.
7. 6mm American Civil War - This project was on hold for the longest time due to me not having found a ruleset that I liked...I then heard a review of "Alter of Freedom" on Meeples and Miniatures and bought a pdf copy and yep, they were exactly what I was looking for...now to just paint the two thousand 6mm figures I have.
8. Dystopian Wars - FSA Fleet.
9. Halo Fleet Battles.
10. Dead Man's Hand - I have one posse already painted, if I can get the 2nd one done we can finally get a game in!
11. SAGA/Dux Brit - I have fully painted 6pt forces for SAGA Vikings and Anglo-Danes, but have Welsh to get done, and am looking to add the forces needed to start running a Dux Brit campaign.
12. The Northern Crusades - Lion Rampant.
13. Ministry of the Occult and Paranormal (MOP) Project
14. 28mm Pirates - I got back from my deployment and for some weird reason I wanted to paint pirates...ordered something like 60+ from Foundry and haven't painted a damn one.
15. Frostgrave/Mordheim - have a painted sigilist warband and am playing around with some ideas for a narrative campaign.
16. 1/72 Ancients - Using "Sword & Spear" I have forces for the Punic Wars and the Roman Conquest of Britain and Gaul.
17. Charlie Don't Surf - 15mm Aussies and NVA/VC.
18. Game of Thrones - 28mm using Dragon Rampant.
19. The HUGE amount of boardgame figures that will be used for many many things.
The plan is to take the list and go down it working on one segment of a project at a time, in order from top to bottom and maybe actually FINISH something. My next post will be the start of just that with content about Guildball. Speaking of which -
A pic of a match I played 2 days ago. My half painted Butchers vs Brewers.
Stand by for more updates SOON!
Stand by for more updates SOON!
That's a lot of stuff! I'm also trying to get back into it, and I thought I had cut down my list of prospective games until I saw you mention Altar of Freedom and Dragon Rampant. Hadn't heard of those before, but they both sound excellent.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, I've just gone and ordered Dragon Rampant because it was 23% off at Book Depository. :)
Chain of Command and Guildball are two games that have been on my radar and probably should do something about.
Perhaps instead of a project to reduce the overall mountain, we pick one project and stick with it for 3-6 months and try and complete that without getting sidetracked. I get sidetracked so easily. :)
Wow - quite a list there!
ReplyDeleteGood to see Chain of Command in there too - I've had the rules for an age, and I was planning to give it a go over the next couple of months with my 28mm WW2 stuff...but maybe I ought to try it with 15mm.
Hmm...!
Yah, the mountain reduction didn't work for me this time. We probably need to plan/announce in advance when the next one starts.
ReplyDeleteYou have a lengthy list of projects.....but I suspect if I wrote my own out it'd be similarly long =P. I definitely have found some of the guys doing 40k setting with different rules (such as pulp alley) appear to be having a woot with much smaller model counts.
I keep hoping to finish an opposing force for a game, which would make hosting things WAY easier. Sounds like you have a couple of options for such a move.
You've got a lot going on there!
ReplyDeleteIf we were evr truly honest we'd admit that the lead/plastic mountain is never going to go away though is it ?
Good luck getting back into the swing of things.
(and not using the "atom" reply thing is a bounus for us that refused to use it)