Looking over this past year, although it started slow, it would seem I was quite busy on the hobby front after all.
I expanded the Princess P'trysha's and added three more forces to the Quar.
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| PPCLI get some tractor support |
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| Master-Yawdryl |
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| Messenger Squirrel Handler |
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| The PPCLI are the only Quar force to carry a flag, because it's tradition. |
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| Grenadiers |
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| Regimental Cannon Company |
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| The PPCLI finally get a fat cook too! |
Because the Gloam-Hyyn looked very much like WW2 Japanese to me, I went with a jungle theme for them and their matched opponent, the Toulmorese. So I did away with the 'official' uniforms and painted my Creole/Newfie flavoured Gloamers with Japanese colours, and painted the Australian flavoured Toulmorese like British Commonwealth troops in Burma. Both forces got jungle themed bases with laser cut foliage.
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| Gloam-Hyyn Squirrel Handler |
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| Supply Train in the jungle |
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| Trackers with Sarf-Cyn |
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| Toulmorese |
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| Toulmorese Supply element |
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| Master-Yawdryl with Tactical Mug |
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| Medic ready with a healing brew |
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| Squirrel Handler gives instruction |
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| Light Mortar Team |
The third Quar force had spikes on their helmets, so I immediately thought WW1 Germans and painted them appropriately in feld-grau. I'm thinking they can fight either my British flavoured Crusaders or my French themed Coftyrans. I also built them very much with trench warfare in mind, making four artillery crew to man the battery of howitzers and expanded the trench system. They also have some trench mortars and will get some extra machine guns as well.
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| Cook on bicycle |
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| Trench Mortar |
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| Gun crew |
Plus I got a lot done with my Cold War Imagine-Nations project, adding more armour and air assets to each side.
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| Mantovian J29s |
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| Tartarian MiG-15s |
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| Light Recce |
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| More T54s and BTRs for Tartaria |
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| Comet tanks for Mantovia |
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| Centaur AA tank |
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| Recoilless Rifle Teams |
And I got some
Midgard in and made good progress on the Goths and a second Roman force. Because I've always said that the best opponent for the Romans was
another army of Romans. And the 3rd century was full of civil wars, so it's only sensible.
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| Suitably heroic commander for my Romans gifted to me by Carole Flint |
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| First metal figures painted in over a year |
I also knocked out some big and important terrain goals.
Jungle terrain:
Expanded trenches to accommodate a battery of four heavy guns:
The publishing of Snorkers! (Good Oh!) has put some energy into my naval efforts and after kicking the tires on a couple of ideas for What To Do Next, I've gone and bought a bunch of stls for Italian and British ships for the Mediterranean, which actually saw a lot of surface actions.
I got a good number of games in too, in a wide variety of eras.
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| Helped to actually win a Napoleonic PBEM campaign. I was also on the winning side in a second PBEM campaign around the destruction of the German East Asian Squadron in 1914, run by the Mad Padre. |
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| Midgard, using my feudal armies |
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| WW2 using Xenos Rampant put on by Dan |
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| Quar on the road |
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| Working on my airships game |
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| Pat and I went to Scott's for a big game of General d'Armee |
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| Some Seven Days excitement |
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| More Seven Days, this time with aircraft! |
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| Quar in the jungle |
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| More Midgard, my 3rd century Romans vs Dan's Arab raiders |
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| Feallan, mini-con in October at the Port Albert Inn, I played five games |
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| More Midgard, this time in the Warhammer Fantasy Old World put on by Brett |
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| 6mm O Group at Feallan run by Brian and Keith |
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| Getting my Samurai out for Midgard |
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| Return to Brequar Manor |
So 25 games including some Blücher at KEGSCon, in a wide variety of eras and rules.
I hit all the objectives I set last year; built or finished 4 Quar forces, played more, got a good start with Midgard. As a bonus I made some jungle terrain and expanded the trenches. As an extra bonus the release of Snorkers! reinvigorated my naval games.
Not bad at all.
For next year I think working on Midgard, with Romans, Goths, and perhaps finishing the Samurai I have in the lead pile. Plus some Skaven too. I've always thought Skaven were fun, and seeing Brett adapt Warhammer Fantasy to Midgard traits was inspiring.
The big project will be 1/1800 scale naval in both the Mediterranean and the Pacific. My current models are 1/2400 and have a lot of curved hulls. I hope reprinting at a bigger scale will fix that.
