"The one period you wanted to start but never really did?" Topic

We all have that one period we wish we had. For a variety of reasons we never quite start it, or have many false starts and never quite get there. The one period I have always wanted to do is the Crimean War. My interest in all things historical was piqued by a book about the history of cavalry. In the plates was a swedish hussar of the 7YW and I loved the whole look! The busby the pelisse. Soon this lead me on to famous Hussars of history and i ended up at the Charge of the Light Brigade. What a story, then reading into the war there were the bearskinned guards and the peerless British Infantry of the time. The stoic Russians the French including the FFL.
Problem was noone else played and the closest i could get was Napoleonics and so there it is has sat on the back burner for getting on 25 years.
Do you have that one period?

FM

War of 1812. I can never seem to get it together.

Funnily enough just referred to it in a previous post – a Pony Wars version of the Boer War.

World War One in East Africa.Just waiting for someone to do the figures in 15mm

Crimean War, 2nd Afghan war…the list goes on.

Mordheim, if that counts as a period. I love the background and aesthetic, but never got the chance to play.

Indian Mutiny

The Age of Marlborough – cant find a set of rules.

Not including periods for which I am waiting for figures, I always thought the 7YW would be fun. My interest was at a fever pitch five years ago when my older daughter gave me a book of Knotel´s work done on cigarette cards that she found in an antique shop in Dresden.
Then I saw all the cavalry I would have to paint and decided WWII North Africa would be the next project. The only remnant of my grand plan is a tab in my project spreadsheet.

Only one? Spanish American War. I've bought figures twice but sold them off without ever playing.

Spanish Civil War/30s pulp

War of 1812
Indian Mutiny
Guadalcanal

Well, I built the Barsoom project, but I've never found opponents. Of those I haven't--
Wild West, and lurking in the back of my mind
urban guerilla warfare in the mid-20th Century--Ireland 1919? France 1943? Germany 1946?

Samurai Wars.
But I don't worry, someday I definitely will sculpt and produce figures for this.

Napoleonic. I have bought and sold the figures twice now. I love the look but no time to paint and little time to play. I'd want to go big battles, but I also like 28mm.

Thirty years War. Bought some figures but never painted them nor did I buy rules. French Foreign legion in the Saharah and Tonkin. Never got past the reading stage on that one.

Thirty years War. Bought some figures but never painted them nor did I buy rules.

Spanish-American war
Indian mutiny

Landsknects and Swiss.

Taiping Rebellion.

Ever since reading Peter Mathiesson's Under the Mountain Wall – an account of his visit, in the early 60s, to a stone-age tribe in the highlands of New Guinea – I've thought this could make quite an intriguing wargame mini-campaign, full of quick raids against nearby villages for prestige, women, pigs and tubers, accompanied by a great deal of strutting and preening of feathers. I'm actually being honest – it could make a great game. The trouble is no one has had the good sense to make figures for it; oh, and in 54mm, mind you. I'm still waiting.

Lots of other projects never started, of course, but this is the big one.

Several, but Italian Wars has been on the burner the longest. I cannot decide if I should do it in 28mm which looks the best, but would take ages to get anywhere or 15mm which would better accommodate the amount of figures needed, but still take quite some time to do.

Christopher

I've started quite a few. Bought figures. Painted a unit or two. Then I got bored and moved on.
That list would be too depressing to compile.

Started WW1 in East Africa with HLBS figures but they dropped the line before I could paint enough to game with. Sold the what I had a few years ago and never picked it up again. Also wanted to do the Crimean War but no one in the club was interested and I felt overwhelmed with the possibility of painting figures for four armies.

ONE?

Several:

~ 13th Century Crusades

100YW – Crecy
100YW – Agincourt
WOTR
Italian Wars – 1490 – 1525

Samurai – wide period range here

I do have a small late medieval DBA Army that I purchased, but a couple of units have troops that are too tall (different figs manufacturer), so I need to swap those out for others.

Crusades….

1066 campaign.
I collect either side of it (Arthurian and medieval) but not 1066 yet……

Border Reivers

Crimean War.

Love the history of the conflict, plus it is IMHO the best example of the cusp point in the evolution of Second Generation Warfare (where the rifled barrel takes dominance on the battlefield), which is the most interesting transition, again IMHO. While I have these attractions to the period, basically, I feel like I would suck it up and that would be extremely disappointing.

On my maybe, one-day list are VBCW, 15mm South American Wars of Independence, and 6mm ACW.

WW2 Naval and Napoleonic Naval. I've played both as board games which would directly translate to miniatures but somehow I never get around to them. I keep thinking, oh I'll do another battalion of x,y z instead.

Russian Civil War has been started and partially sold off twice. Considering a 3rd try.

Seven Years War has also been started and sold off twice. Not considering a 3rd try currently.

I really fancy Mughals ad Rajputs in 28mm but I think that isn't possible yet

1st Indochina War aka Viet Minh War. There are some excellent miniatures available but I never really searched for rules and slowly and inevitably the jungle swallowed the whole idea.

LT

Bonnie Prince Charlie and the '45. And so many new 28mm figure ranges available for this period now.

Indian Mutiny
WW1 Desert
Spanish Civil War

WWII tanks and their teenage girl squads. Well doubt the girls but skirmish game of tanks painted up like the girls would.

Medieval Japan. I have a few samurai, ashigaru, and ninjas, but most of them are still in their blister packs.

I played Bushido several times in the 1970s, but never got a copy.

Bought armies of Alex's Macedonians but no one around here plays ancients. Aztecs too, both in 15mm and 25mm.

Maybe someday, you never know.

I had 15mm WW2 western desert figures, but sold them. Too many periods and scales.
Kind of regret it now.

ECW and WWI.

Medieval Japan
WW1 Europe

Tangiers campaign late 1600;s

Sengoku Japan. I want to do big Kurosawa-style armies, but I can't imagine painting all the kimonos, banners, etc. and doing it justice.

After years in a box under the gaming table the Italian Wars figures are on, or scheduled to be on, the painting table.

Biblical wars

I've wanted to do the 1885 Riel Rebellion ( or the NorthWest Resistance, or whatever it's called now) for some time. Not been able to overcome my resistance to converting figures that are close but not quite right for the conflict.

Bonnie Prince Charlie and the '45. And so many new 28mm figure ranges available for this period now.

I've been interested in this one for a while as well, and thanks to the Paperboys, I'm almost there! Peter Dennis has taken care of painting all that tartan for me ;)

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Another vote for the Crimean war.

Seven Years War, I bought Young and Lawford's book back in 1972, and have one unpainted infantry regiment stashed away in a corner, but haven't gotten any further.
15th Century Byzantine. An idea that came to me in the late '70s, but hasn't really gotten very far.
Sepoy Rebellion. I have two or three figures for this and a small statue of Ganesha, but that's about it.

There are a bunch of other things that have come and gone over the years: Sumerians, samurai, a pair of big fantasy armies, Balkans Wars, WWI, etc.

Grelber

SCW
War of 1812
RCW

French Indochina war (I've lays been fascinated by dien bien phu)
Warhammer 40K…seriously
Pony wars