"Favorite Period You Will Never Wargame?" Topic

Do you have a historical period which interests you, yet you know you will never actually get around to wargaming?

The only way I will ever game WWI or WWII naval is if someone else paints all the models and does all the work.

Russo-Turkish War of 1877, no 28mm nice enough or complete enough for my attention.

French Indian Wars. Fascinating period but I just don't like skirmish games which in my opinion best suits the period.

500AD to 1500AD Europe or Middl East. Love it, but not going to buy it or paint it. Not even for DBA.

Mexican American war, WWI in Middle East

Probably WW1.
Fascinating developments in small unit tactics, but making a table's worth of trench boards and cratered no man's land makes it highly unlikely.

SYW in 25mm. I'd LOVE to have 2 huge armies for this but painting all that would… probably never happen. It makes me sad.

Don

British Colonial from about 1870 to 1939. I love the exotic locals and the interesting uniforms. Artillery mounted on elephants. Steamboats up the Nile River.

All those inspirational movies, Gunga Din, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Khartoum, Zulu, Zulu Dawn, The Four Feathers, both versions, are very tempting to get me into this period.

Still, I just can't seem to bring myself to devote the time and money needed to do the period justice. Of course, I do have a few of the HaT figures, just in case…

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

Nope

If it's a period I am unlikely/never going to wargame then it is hardly a favourite period.

World War One East Africa, shutztruppen etc.
No one does the figures in 15mm and by the time they ever will , I shall probably be past painting them. Then I will have to find a decent set of rules to cover it.
Just not going to happen

Probably Dark Ages. Just too many other things on the platter. If not that, Spanish Armada naval.

Pre-dreadnought era naval; love the big clunky battlewagons, but I will never get around to ever making any

D Effinger – if you are ever in southwestern Ontario, I will put on a SYW game you will never forget – I have big Prussian, Russian, French, Austrian and British armies in 28mm

Italian Wars- Will almost certainly never happen.

I still hold out hope for WSS and pre-dreads.

Russo Turkish 1877. Louis xiv …
Then can a wargamer really say never on such a subject.

You can find nearby the true miracle: this one who already has everything on … ( fill gap) and interesting+++

The Taiping rebellion always found the whole thing fascinating but realistically I'm never going to games it.

Almost everything that isn't Napoleoic, I love WWII and 7YWar but a skirmish is the best I could do if I got around to it.

The GNW, some of the Russo-Polish wars, probably won't get back into the SYW… The list is quite extensive.

ACW, AWI and the Crimea.

Arab Conquest/Crusades, WWI East Afrika, colonials in general, etc.

WWI East Africa.

The Crimea here too!

I doubt it

Phil

+1: French & Indian War

The Jacobite Rebellions. Too much plaid on one side, too much lace on the other.

WWI trench warfare in large scale

Fascinated by the battles, but would not what to wargame.

Senor Squint.
Move down to my area and I'll let you paint some of my stuff. I have never finished Jacobites because I got tired of painting both sides.
You sum up quite well the difficulties of doing both sides.

For those pining for the FIW, I feel your pain. I did enough to do Plains of Abraham and St Foy. Then it was "What next?"
So I sold them.

@d effinger
It has always been a back burner dream to have massive SYW Prussian and Austrian armies in 25/28mm.
But a friend has massive 15mm armies, so why should I bother?

Seven years war

20mm WWI, Western Front 1914. I had plans for 28mm Russo-Turkish War. Reality got in the way. I said, what was I thinking.

I'm in the process of painting 15mm SYW armies. I realize only have room to run a small Corps of 15mm troops or several platoons of 28mm British Colonial figures at the house because of space limitations.

Large scale games will have to wait for gaming conventions. Space restrictions got me to get rid of my 28mm ECW, 28mm Trojan War, 28mm Riel Rebellion, and 28mm Spanish American War. I'm cursing the day I did everything in 28mm. I've got an entire closet of 28mm plastic figure cases. Plus all the GW WH40K stuff I have in foam and plastic boxes needing Battlefoam.

I bought some fishing tackle boxes for my 15mm SYW armies. Storing my 15mm SYW armies is relatively straight forward. Makes me wish I would have done everything else in 18mm… Ugh.

ATTN: FAT WALLY!!! I'm over one thousand painted figures into my 15 mm French and Indian War collection (which means about half way done or so). This conflict does not have to be just very small skirmishes. I rate my 39-42 figure units as companies and, when done, will have 20 'euro' companies and 7 native ones. (10 finished for euro, 4 native, with 2 native and 2 euro on the painting table – and virtually everything but some boat crews primed and ready to paint) And lots more besides including plenty of unarmed civilians. The militia can do double duty as armed civilians.

Anything post 1900 (except von Lettow Vorbeck perhaps) I just read rather than game – the action is too fast or too vastly large to represent in a satisfactory manner on the table for my tastes.

The ACW is a "favorite period" and has been since I was a little boy. But I will never game it. Americans killing Americans. I can't go there….

The Pershing expedition into Mexico and the Banana Wars fought by the Marines. There are some great 28mm figs out there as well as some great TSATF rules. Love reading about the periods, the uniforms, the characters, and would love to game them. Age, cost and time have unfortunately ruled out building the respective armies.

2nd Sino Japanese War

I second Prince Rupert. The Taiping stuff is fascinating enough that I've actually roughed out some rules, but I'm probably not going to ever paint any figures for it.

Also interesting but not compelling are the big 3 South American wars (Triple Alliance, Pacific, and Chaco).

Frederick,

Oh man I'd LOVE to do that!You MUST post some pics of that. It has to be awesome. I have go-zillion ACW miniatures in 25mm. I'll bring them. We can have to massive game of both!

Winston Smith,

I hear ya. I'd settle for a 15mm SYW massive game but… not happening either. Actually NO ONE around here is even sort of interested in SYW. So sad.

Don

100 days at Peking

I believe I've said it before … the Crimean War.

There are many opportunities to play the conflict, but if I get into it, I want to play it all. Balaclava is an interesting conflict, but there are a lot of other parts spread all over the place. I would want to be able to play the whole conflict, including many of the minor parts.

Probably WW1 land warfare in Europe.

Well said, Dagwood. I've always wanted to do the Boxer siege of Peking. It has so many possibilities: a wild and colourful foe, the drama for the legations that if they lose they die (always a great motivator to fight harder), quarrelling, unscrupulous European powers, a great cityscape to fight over…but that last is actually the killer. Building a city is just far beyond my powers (and interest level).

AWI in 28mm. I love the idea of it but I don't get to paint as much as I like as the kids keep me really busy so I need to be realistic with what I am going to work on which for the forseeable future means building on existing collections.

The key phrase is "that interests me." Thus, the question is one that interests me enough to study and research it, and at the same time not be enough interest to get me to model it. Faced with those conditions both of which must be "true" there is only one. Napoleonics. The reason for the failure to model on this is that I don't like how normally friendly, nice, affable players become when they game Napoleonics.

It's like climbing into a steel cage with a rabid wolverine.

I once gamed with a completely toxic group of gamers who only wanted to play Napoleonics and that was the experience. It was so negative I dropped out of war gaming for six months, and gave away over 1000 Napoleonic troops. (30mm Scruby's)

SYW

WWI (went with WWII instead).
AWI (went with ACW and FIW instead).
Crimea (not enough time).
Vikings
Ancients in general (drawn to horse and musket period more it seems).

Not painting my own armies and not playing are two different things.

Former is 19th Century Colonial Armies, WW1/WW2, Modern Land combat, anything Naval, and Zombies.

Latter is ancients, and anything after Vietnam on land or sea (aerial is okay) until "Far Future."

I agree with MB. There are two different questions here. What favorite armies you will never get around to painting. What favorite periods you will never play.

WWI and WWII Naval. It will have to be with someone else's figures etc. It's not the figures as it is the rules. They are like technical manuals. Way over my head.

I am beginning to think I will never put together my own Napoleonic armies in 15mm for lack of rules I can live with. Everyone I know has them so I concentrate on stuff no one else is doing. I do play Napoleonics a lot but I have no figures of my own.

War of 1812 no time for it.

Mexican/American War, I doubt I will ever get around to it.

Although I have a bunch of minis for the period, I suspect I will never game 17th century Moghul empire. They will just look nice all painted sitting on a shelf.

I'm doing 40mm AWI and 25/28mm ACW, and so probably won't do 25/28mm AWI nor 40MM ACW, although I'd love to do both becuase I like so many the figures. Oh well.