Today I managed to complete preparing my map for a planned mini-WW2 campaign. I am using the map from the book "War Game Campaigns" chapter "Panzer Grenadiers vs. Guards" as a guide. I was going to redraw the map by hand to show a series of tabletops, but was able to copy and paste bits of the map into a campaign map.
Each square represents a 4x4 foot tabletop. The lines between square show where forces can move from one tabletop to another. Now I need to draw up the campaign rules.
On a completely different matter a couple of secondhand books arrived in the post today to add to my library.
Nifty map work! You added two find additions to your classic war gaming library. I see Vol 1 frequently but less so for Vol2. Are there some classics for which you are still searching? I have duplicates of several of the classics. Maybe I could fill a gap in your collection?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your kind offer. Currently I am keeping an eye out for Vol 3 in the series. As for other books Grant's programmed wargaming scenarios is proving very elusive or pricey, which is very frustrating as I once owned a copy.
DeletePeter, I recently came across both of these books on ebay. What is too much to pay for the Grant Programmed Scenarios book?
DeleteHi Jonathan, I have $40 USD in mind. All the ones I see seem to be in the hundreds.
DeleteVery creative map production. I don't think I've seen or recall either of these books by Don, and I have a few myself. I was fortunate to meet him briefly at Historicon, maybe 15 years or so ago, on his last trip to the US, by way of an introduction by Jim Getz.
ReplyDeleteThank you and what a great memory to have meeting Donald Featherstone.
DeleteIt's funny isn't it how another persons thinking can open a door for you. My mind had assumed and was locked into the idea that the original 9 grid map would define the tables, then you turn it into a 36 grid map and suddenly a light goes on! really looking forward to this.
ReplyDeleteAs a teenager my local library had the four volumes (if I remember correctly) of the Featherstone series and for several years, they were a cornerstone in my reading, having been borrowed by me on countless occasions. We can look back on these books with a certain nostalgia and quaintness, but at the time, they were a central part to the building blocks of an entire hobby in a way that is very different from anything that circulates today - well perhaps Neil Thomas excepted.
I did start with the 9 grid map, but realised that would not work for what I had in mind. I then tried 16 grid map, before going with the 36 grid map, but with the squares slightly adjusted to get a useful tabletop.
ReplyDeleteI partly buy these books partly for nostalgia, and also because they are pitched at the level of detail I like.