Musings two- Norway 1890ish.

The Norwegian General and his Staff looked carefully at the map-

It had been turned thus to make a point. Heads nodded and smiles formed on lips. General Jarlsberg suddenly spoke to the assembled throng " Gentlemen we have much to plan.Now please ask Admiral Gamalost to join us."

Musings...

I wonder if  my WW1 1/72 Germans would paint up as this chap?

Quo Vadis 2

Sent off today for "One hour Wargames" by Neil Thomas. Also decided to not burden myself  by too many targets/plans. Small steps,wee targets and some games I think.

No longer a Duke of the Stone Age

Readers of this blog know my penchant for simple rules and old school gaming -on the whole.
But no longer!
Yesterday I popped by one of my favourite blogs-
http://ilivewithcats.blogspot.co.uk/
I read there about a pike and shot game for the ipad. I downloaded it today and it seems great fun some far, I have had little time to devote to it. It reminds me of old battle maps and gridded games. I look forward to trying it out more later today.
p.s don't worry normal gaming service will resume shortly

Hurrah for Conrad Kinch!

Three cheers for Conrad Kinch bringing to an even wider audience the joys of gaming with grids through his splendid article in Miniature Wargames 385! A useful mention in the article of blogs and bloggers who have done much to move this splendid form of gaming forward especially Ross and Bob.Well done that man I say.

Quo vadis?

Its Saturday morning here in the Duchy. The excellent  weather of late has broken and I can hear rain as I type. Jan's first chemo went well but she is still at the stage of feeling miserable and very  off.Yet she remains so"up beat" as she goes through all this again.

I have been planning and thinking about hobby ideas in the odd moments been domestic and work matters this week. I have been thinking of what to do next with the ideas/lead pile. Is  worth setting out on a bigger project and moving it forward with small steps or to try something less ambitious...

The following have been considered-

• Big Portable Wargames rules projects in 1/72 .One being a tankfest between Army Red and Army Black on the eastern front. The other being a tankette and infantry game between the Duchy of Volare- Cantare and Austria set in the mid/early 1930s. This project would be on a gridded cloth with plastic figures and tanks. Easily set up,gamed and put away it has much to commend itself not to mention time satisfaction in terms of one tank/two or three infantry painted equals one unit to play with.
• Norway 1809 - loooong on the back burner . 28mm Napoleonic Norwegians v Swedes- very,very loosely based on the battle of Trangen . I have all the Norwegians,files of information and could build/buy the Swedes over time. This project with involve 24 figure units and a lot of work . Terrain would be a simple wintery theme.Rules would be that thin booklet (can't seem to lay my hands on it now) with a title like simple napoleonic wargaming. based round the Peninsular War it has lots of photos of a game with smallish armies painted in shiny style probably by Bruce (?) somebody?
• Do bits and bobs as energy/time allow and try to get a balance of solo gaming and painting /modelling on a number of fronts...

Decisions decisions,we shall see...

Update

We have had a good Easter holiday all things considered and have enjoyed being in and about the garden/house as well as having some most enjoyable wee day trips away.It has also been a time of plans,appointments,disappointments  and changes to plans. To cut a long story short Jan's cancer is back and on Monday 20/4/15 she has her first chemo of  a course of six. She is in good form and we all go back into this positively and dealing with it on conventional and dietary fronts. As before we ask for your positive thoughts and prayers.