2018 The Plan part 2 the decision

I've spent much of the last three days reading reviews of 2017 and aspirations for 2018 on others blogs. All of the interesting, inspirational and helpful in making a more detailed plan for my own 2018 hobby experience. Some that particularly stood out are Palouse Wargaming Journal , Battle Game of the Month , Grid Based Wargaming , The Stronghold Rebuilt , Commission & Regiment , Gleaned from all these blogs as well as various forums have been strategies for painting more,tracking methods, rules reviews and various ways others deal with the pitfalls of human nature in their quest for having fun.


With all this in mind here's the breakdown ( until it does)

I will continue the Pledge on TMP as motivation to paint and a control to not buy too much. I've also join a similar painting challenge on the LAF which has a additional goal of painting 365 figures in the year. Since my average over the last three years has been 224 figures this may be a bit of a stretch but it's good to have a target.

Link games to be played with figures to be painted. This was a strategy from last year that worked fairly well. The bonus to it this year is that the group I'm gaming with has developed an better understanding of each other and what we want to play. It may take a few more weeks to shake this out but I'm seeing some new periods and systems popping up.

Now here's the laundry list of games, periods and figures to be focused on.

The Portable Wargame. This has some qualities that make it attractive. Easy to set up, plays within the allotted time frame, covers a few periods. The main attraction is as stated by the Author in his When Empires Clash is "the armies needed ... are small... this means that I can raise lot's of small armies"

Dragon Rampant All the Mersey rules could be included in this but I'll focus on these as I can use my LOTR figures and paint a force using my Warring States Chinese.

Battle Troll As a campaign. The group has everything needed so for the most part it's ready to go just working out linking the games.

AWI Skirmish. No commitment to a rule set yet Song of Drums and Tomahawks and Sharp Practice II are on the list. I've heard people are using The Men Who Would be Kings for this period as well. Listing AWI has more to do with getting figures and terrain painted than any one rule set.

The figures I'd like to get painted are quite a mish mash. The Warfare GNW figures are the one I'm most anxious to get started on with 15mm WWII being next, a few artillery units would give me complete armies for PW. After that it's AWI, 40mm Knights and Warring States. 

Not exactly the solid plan I had hoped for but I've too many interests and partial things done to commit to much. Perhaps devoting a month or so to organization would help starting with the work bench.

Thanks for reading.