Planning next projects

Having recently finished a couple of months clipping and snipping away to produce a couple of paper armies (Jacobite and 1066) it was time for a change. I had a box of GW Militarum Tempestus Scions stashed away, which while small in number would be a good filler activity while I ponder my next modelling or painting project. My options are to expand my Seven Years War armies, paint up some old Samurai figures mainly old Minifig's with a few other manufacturers thrown in, or add a few more units to my 19th Century Imagi-Nations armies.

A few more figures representing security forces to add to my Necromunda style games using One-Hour Skirmish War-game Rules

On the wargaming side I plan to get back to and complete my English Civi War campaign which as languished for a couple of months as my focus was on making and playing with the paper soldier armies. However, my immediate gaming interest is to setup a WW2 mini-campaign using the Guards vs. Panzer Grenadiers campaign chapter from Donald Featherstone's "War Game Campaigns" book as inspiration.

The mini-campaign will use the book's map as a guide and create a point to point map where each point represents a 4x4 foot tabletop. The map will represent 6 tabletops by 6 tabletops and units will be ordered to move from point to point and when opposing units meet a game will be fought.

Campaign map to use used as a guide

When playing the campaign the Panzer Grenadiers advance (from the top of the map downwards) will be determined by dice. While Guard movement will be via written orders which take effect the following campaign turn after being issued. This hopefully will present a challenge for the Guards (solo wargamer) player of trying to guess in advance the movements generated by the dice.

More on the campaign rules to come...

Example of a 4x4 tabletop game

A close up of a game in progress