2015 Week 4: When two tribes go to war…

“involves no painting and no gaming… but an awful lot of scheming!”

This is what I promised and so it begins… On Friday as usual I met up with MRO (My Regular Opponent) and within minutes we both concluded that despite best intentions it had indeed been a very long week and dragging ourselves to the gaming table would be too much to ask. This left us with some spare time which we are more than capable of filling with coffee and opinions. Directing the conversation towards the more productive I raised the question “So, what games do you really want to get in this year?” and several hours later we had something closely resembling an answer!

So, the question is “When DO two tribes go to war?”. What periods are we interested in playing, without the obvious answer of “All of them”! We split it down into categories of Land, Sea, Air and Space. Then split those into periods in history/fictional settings and then further into rulesets and scales. None of these are hard fixed, we may do something in 10mm rather than 15mm, or 20mm rather than 28mm, or even use a different set of rules altogether.

The list got longer and longer and longer. We took the decision to further divide it into those games we’re close to being able to play this year and those games we’re just interested in (or only one of us is really interested in). Working on the theory we’re going to meet every Friday, but we’d miss some weeks through illness, kids and the odd zombie apocalypse we whittled the list down to about 30… 30 different combinations of setting, period, ruleset and scale… for this year… I did mention that we’re megalomaniacs didn’t I?

Anyway, I’m sure you’re interested, and if you’re not then why have you read this far?, so here’s the list:

Land	Sea	Air	Space
Ancients Warmaster Ancients – 6mm Dark Ages Saga – 28mm Age of Blood – 28mm Age of Piracy Legends of the High Seas – 28mm Napoleonics General de Brigade – 6mm LotR variant – 28mm WW1 The Great War – 15mm WW2 Bolt Action – 20mm Battlegroup – 15mm Flames of War – 10mm Moderns Cold War Commander – 3mm WRG – 3mm Battlefield Evolution – 20mm Lord of the Rings LotR:SBG – 28mm Judge Dredd Judge Dredd: MG – 28mm Warhammer Mordheim – 28mm Necromunda – 28mm Blood Bowl – 28mm Warmaster – 10mm 7TV Zombie game – 28mm Battletech Battletech – 1:300	Napoleonic Trafalgar – 1:1200 Victorian Aeronef – 1:1200 Sky Galleons of Mars – 1:300 WW2 Victory at Sea variant – 1:3000 Moderns Shipwreck – 1:3000	WW1 Duel of Aces – 1:600 WW2 Scramble for Britain – 1:600 A Mighty Fortress – 1:600 Arab/Israeli War Desert Spitfires – 1:600 Korea Mig Alley – 1:600 Vietnam Thud Ridge – 1:600 Falklands Flames Above the Falklands – 1:600 Moderns Airwar C21 – 1:600	B5: Call to Arms – Fleet Action Scale Silent Death – Fighter/Patrol Ships Full Thrust – Fleet Scale

And that doesn’t include the games that we have sat in boxes waiting to be thought and talked through!

So, we culled the list right back to what we really want to play in the next few months, focus on those, get them as organised as possible. So, the main focus over the next few months is going to be:

• Trafalgar
• Bolt Action
• Scramble for Britain
• Victory at Sea variant
• Lord of the Rings:SBG

We’ll both be continuing work on our side projects, like my Seleucids, and we agreed that as long terms plans which really must happen this year we have:

• Cold War Commander
• Shipwreck
• Silent Death

So you can see, we have far too many fingers in far too many pies (explains why neither of us are skinny…) but that this year we’re really trying to focus on some core games and push the diversions to one side. Of course next week I’m sure something new and shiny will come along, like Star Wars: Armada… oh hell!

So, is anyone else making plans for the year ahead? Someone please tell us you have more projects on the go that us!!!