"What are you looking forward to in the remains of 2009" Topic

We're now into November – just two months of 2009 left.
What are you looking forward to in the remains of the year with respect to wargaming?

For me it is a couple of rules sets – Republic to Empire and Lasalle – and the start tonight of our club Sharp Practice campaign.

Events, rules, figures to come before the turn of the year?

I might finally paint those OG modern Brits I bought back in May. I might even put those Armorfast Cromwells together and paint them.

More likely I'll just rebase 26th Panzer Division, I've got the box file down at any rate….

On the rules front, I've ordered 'To the Last Gaiter Button' and I'll be interested to see how they play. First proper playtest of the latest incarnation of my Corps level WW1 trench warfare rules this week, but they are still very much a work in progress.

moving into a new house by the end November :) and having a full basement and a 2.5 car garage as my new wood and metal shop Im even thinking about getting back into the resin casting :)

Getting some games in of my Lord of the Rings variant for Basic iMpetus and getting the article shipped off to Battlegames.

And playing the new PT Boat rules (Quick and the Dead) thereby rescuing my boats from being sold off for lack of play in the last two years.

My last 2 months of painting and gaming before children arrive and change my priorities…

I'm looking forward to Fall In, getting some of the new Perry BAL stuff including lancers and artillery and the warlord games plastic ECW cav.

Painting wise I want to paint the above and I've had a rebirth in my desire to paint 10mm ECW stuff as well. So that is a period going on in two scales.

After Fall In is over I hope to be able to play some games of Space Hulk.

MillenniumCon and getting some more painting done. That, and playing "Dragon Age: Origins".

Finally getting a Through the Mud and Blood game in in December.

Taking it easy on the painting front and just doing the odd bit when I feel like it.
This year has seen the end of me painting like a mad to get stuff done.

Getting hired…
Getting some of these college courses behind me…
Getting my truck fixed…
Getting some more figs painted…

That's about it….

Painting a lot of French artillery and finding the time to do more rebasing. I also am waiting for Republic to Empire.

I'm more looking forward to 2010; I will finally be able to play a real game with my own figures, and I'm waiting for Foundry's new early Nap Saxons range.

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Bob in Edmonton wrote:

Getting some games in of my Lord of the Rings variant for Basic iMpetus and getting the article shipped off to Battlegames.

Are those available online anywhere? I'm basing up some toys for it, but haven't yet got round to thinking about the details of the rules.

Finishing off my 15mm Confederate Infantry Division. I've just over a hundred figs left.

This year I've had the most productive year of painting I've had for many a year. A Bavarian Division, Prussian Corps, Union Cavalry Division and Union Infantry Division all completed in 15mm this year. Some 2,000 figs finished.

Next year I'll be getting some Confederate cavalry done and playing lots.

I've just taken delivery of the Songs of Blades and Heroes plus three expansions and I'm looking forward to some fantasy skirmishing with my son.

I can't wait for Super System version 3. Um, maybe some of the new plastic Skaven from GW. Blue Moon aliens.

Food,Beer
John
PS Also Fall In.

I'll be glad to see the backside of 2009,its been a bad year between just the general bad news and illness in the family. The only thing I particularly have for the rest of this year is Christmas,and gearing up my painting for the next year.

2 months until I have 20 years in and am eligible to RETIRE! I probably won't (YET!) but I could.

Surviving one more year.

Finishing my Perry samurai, hopefully by year end.

Steve
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Playing some more skirmish games with the kids.They have taken an interest the later part of this year so far.

more buildings from gamecraft , getting some testudo tyw 15mm cavalry …

Painting up more stuff for my online store. Get more 1/72 WWI figs done to use with Field of Battle WWI. Paint up more 15mm Pony wars troops. Finish up some more of my 15mm Rebel and Gzg Mini's along with vehicles from Combat Wombat. Oh, paint up the 48 plastic Zombies from Wargames Factory.

*EDIT Steve, please post pics of your Samurai figs when completed.

Thanks,

John

WAB tournament at Warfare (Reading show) – another outing for my sadly underused Macedonians, and another chance to show exacly how much like Alexander the Great I'm not.

Getting some games of some kind out of my impulse-purchase 28mm Plastic Napoleonics

Running an RPG session for the first time in 20 years.

Lasalle, and working on my 15mm Austrian Avant Garde.

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Finishing off 40 or so 28mm Arab/Turkish cavalry + 70 Arab infantry for WAB Arab Caliphates armies.

Setting up and hopefully starting a club campaign based on the WAB Shieldwall supplement.

Basing and varnishing a few hundred 15mm Anglo-Danes and Vikings.

That will probably just about do it for 2009 :)

Cheers,
Paul.

Finishing my Dark Age Brood and the one course I need to get my teaching license.

Le Feu Sacre and I aint been shot Mum next editions being released.

Playing first game of Troops Weapons and Tactics

My orders are in for BKC II and Volley and Bayonet. The first will be a minor change in my gaming. The second should revitalize my FPW project and may start a couple of others.