Last Stand at Cairngorm: Battles fought and honors awarded.

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Battles fought and honors awarded.

A Gentleman's War has been released and Howard has done me the greatest of honors by putting my name on the front cover. I was merely along for the ride but have now been listed on Amazon as an author. In reality Howard did all the work whilst I got to play in some great games with fantastic and fun figures.

I started this blog to chronicle a painting project of Little Britons figures. There was no real plan for rules mostly just to have two forces of figures in the Wellsian style.

As I got some figures painted we tried Neil Thomas's One Hour Wargames but while an enjoyable set didn't quite give us the game we wanted. We tried MacDuff ,closer.

Howard tried a few things, some charts appeared, things changed, we had fun, others came and played, they had fun also.

My project crawled along. Howard went out and bought a boatload of figures and painted them all seemingly overnight. We had a really big game.

I played games, Howard worked. Then he found some of the comic book flats, painted them and he got to play.

A Gentleman's War in the 18th Century begins. My AWI collection gets broken out and we try it again. Though not a toy soldierly looking the game plays well.

Howard finds some Arab figures and makes his own from semi-rounds. We move to the desert.

Distinctions are added, rules are tweaked. More work for Howard more fun for me. The rules go off for layout and editing. Others work very hard. I then get an email from Howard saying they had been published.