Some Plans for the NEW Year

Well, after some adventures with my Napoleonics (which I am quite happy with at the moment) I am itching to get going with some plans for my ancients hobby. First up I have quite a ways to go expanding my Gaul and Polybian Roman armies. I try and add a new unit for both every week or so, and so far so good. The painting continues.





Some of my completed ancient armies.

Hosting some LIVE plays over on the Tabletop Commanders has been a blast. Recently I did some Blucher games and learned a lot about how to improve the quality of the videos. For those not in the know, a LIVE play is a game session played LIVE over Google+ Hangouts. For more on this check out the Tabletop Commanders link here on my blog. Anyway, I will be planning a Basic Impetvs battle next month for everyone. Been a while since I last played this awesome system. Although L'Art de la Guerre  is my rules of choice for ancients wargaming, Impetvs will always have a place on my bookshelf. Regardless, stay tuned for that as I will have more information on the details of the event - and results - later.
Another thing I want to finish is my last DBA campaign between the Gauls and the Romans. If you check my past posts here on the blog you will notice I never got around to finishing that last campaign - I think we did two battles so far? Anyway, I definitely want to pick that up soon as well. That campaign, by the way, is a playtest of our two-player campaign rules we have been working on. You can find the latest version of that in the files section here on the blog.

As far as what NEW projects I want to get to this year, I am not so sure. My options are plentiful, that's for sure. I still want to build some NEW armies for the early dark ages, as well as some early Greek stuff. However, first up will be the period that has my attention the most, which is the early republican Roman ear. I already have a start on Later Seleucids and Numidians, two armies which I will be expanding soon. Carthaginians and more Successors (Ptolemaics and/or Macedonians?) will eventually be in the works as well. But again, my hands are full with my current plans, so I will not get ahead of myself yet. Oh, and there is of course my massive re-basing of my Feudal English armies as well! As many of you might know, all these miniatures were mounted for Impetvs. However, I have since lost faith with that mounting system - the bases are just too big and clumsy for me as I like lots of terrain on the table. SO now I am re-basing everything over to the DBx standard. This will take some time.

King Henry III of England: mounted and ready for battle!

Some of my Impetvs based feudal English in need of re-basing.

So there it is; plans for the year - or at least the coming few months. I hope you all stay tuned as I get more and more done and add some awesome content to the blog.

Enter the Feudal English!

Among other things I have managed to complete (well about 98% complete) a new Feudal English army for DBA 3.0. I like the new list and it should be a fun little army to field. Of course I will have to find a suitable opponent for these little guys. I actually have tons of Feudal English models I have painted over the years (for Impetvs, DBM, etc.) so re-basing is about the only real challenge at the moment. I am debating if I want to use some of these models for a Feudal French army, or even Germans or Crusader. Hmmm... so many choices really since they all looked generally the same. We shall see.



The bulk of my new Feudal English army for DBA.

Another possibility is remounting some of these models for skirmish games (like Lion Rampant). I have been considering this for some time actually. Just have to figure how I want to mount the horse mounted knights as I like to use round washers for my models (they have a nice weight to them). I never use 'square" bases for skirmish gaming; it just doesn't look right. Hell, I refuse to use s"squares" for modern games as well (like Panzer Grenadier or Battlegroup). It some how just doesn't look right with all those pointy corners to my bases ;) Anyway...



Some of the remounted models waiting for a good flocking!
Note Henry III with the royal standard  on the right!

I should also have another BatRep for DBA soon as well. Perhaps I will end up trying out these Feudal English with the new 3.0 rules. Either that or more action with the Romans and Seleucids.




Various "camp" bases and extras  for my feudal armies. Note the Norman
bowmen near the wagon!
 

I am also considering what new armies I want to add to the mix. First up is probably a Gaul army and a Carthaginian army. Again, we shall see. I have tons of models laying around to choose from. However, I would like some armies that fit in with my Polybians and Seleucids. So these two armies make perfect sense.