Plans for 2022

With the arrival of 2022 it is time to reveal my plans for the year! This will be broken down into Battles, Campaigns and Painting/modelling. 

There is potential for disruption this year with what should be my final house move - all being well in late March / early April. 

I will no longer have the benefit of a room within the house dedicated to wargaming although I have secured the smallest bedroom as my painting room and library. It will be back to the garage but I do not intend to endure the cold dusty environment of old. There are restrictions in our neighbourhood forbidding a full garage conversion to accommodation. They have to be retained in their primary purpose of car use (even though almost nobody uses them as such!). However, I have found at least one company that will insulate it and install a decent floor and ceiling. The garage door will have to be retained but that can also be insulated with all gaps sealed still allowing it to be used.

If all goes according to plan, I should be able to increase the maximum size of table to 8'3" (possibly even 9') x 4'6". The downside will be the time taken to complete the works which could halt my wargaming. If that proves to be the case I am considering a stop-gap of playing skirmish games such as Chain of Command which recommends a board size of 70cm x 50cm for 6mm. I may just be able to squeeze that into my painting room! 

With all that in mind on to my plans:

Continued - 

BATTLES

My Collections and Projects tab above will be regularly updated with future games but those listed below will be priorities.

ANCIENTS:

Early Imperial Roman 2nd Augusta Legion v Ancient British Durotriges tribe in the west country.

ECW:

Stoke Lane 1st July 1643.

Edgehill - a considerable number of figures need to be painted. I have included this battle as a possible although probably a long-shot for this year.

NAPOLEONIC:

Peninsular War project - Battle of Tamames 18th October 1809 Spanish v French. 

Napoleonic Campaign - Grazzbenn (French v Prussians). This will be the largest game I will have played since Waterloo. It is ready to go but given its size I am waiting until after I have moved when I will hopefully have more space.

ACW:

ACW fictional campaign - battles of Tenterfield and Dunbart.

Scenarios - I may well add an historical battle with Antietam looking promising. I would need to paint more figures though but all this will depend on Gettysburg:

Gettysburg Day 2 - I have been creating a map based on the Day 2 map in the original Fire and Fury rule book. My figure bases are 60% of the size of those used for 15mm in the rules which translates to a table 8'3" x 3'9" extending to 4'6". The garage upgrade (see above) will hopefully allow for that. Providing I can complete the terrain required I intend to play this before the year is out.

COLONIAL:

Rorkes Drift - Most of the figures have now been painted with just the terrain to be completed.

PONY WARS:

A priority to get the figures painted followed by terrain. I am optimistic (should not have said that!) a game or games will be played this year. 

WW2:

Battle south of Nibeiwa - Operation Compass campaign

Groesbeek Heights - Op Market Garden

Cristot scenario - 'O' Group rules - see below.

I try to avoid the urge to buy every new wargames ruleset which is not an easy thing to do given the very tempting new offerings that appear. That said I do not rule it out completely and although I enjoy Blitzkrieg Commander IV there is room for improvement. Recently I have been paying closer attention to Dave Brown's latest WW2 offering, 'O' Group. I have now purchased them as a possible replacement for BKC or having them as an addition but at a different level. This could change the WW2 plans for the year trialling this ruleset and maybe even shoe-horning them into the Op Compass campaign.

CAMPAIGNS

ANCIENTS:

Roman invasion of Britain. A hillfort needs to be constructed whereupon the next battle will be played set in the west country - Dorset of course!

WARS OF THE ROSES:

Kingmaker campaign. Next map moves needed to be done. I am hopeful progress can be made during the course of the year.

NAPOLEONIC:

Warplan 5/5 campaign to continue. The large battle of Grazzbenn to be played after my house move. I would hope more games are added later in the year.

ACW:

Another Warplan 5/5 campaign. I hope to play both impending battles before the year is out.

WW2:

Op Compass campaign to continue with 2 actions to be played including one in the Italian camps.

PAINTING/MODELLING

Targets for the year:

I shall be aiming for 3,000 x 6mm figures painted. My targets:

600 x Pony Wars
1000 x ECW  (Edgehill)
700 x Zulu Wars (Rorkes Drift)
400 x WW2  (Groesbeek Heights / Cristot)
300 Punic Wars (Trebia)

There is a high probability that Napoleonics will be added but no specific requirements as yet.

Terrain - 

Hillfort
Rorkes Drift
Pony Wars buildings, fort, mining camp + various mountain passes etc.
Gettysburg - more buildings and lots of fences!