Wednesday, February 15, 2012

An Update

I have been so preoccupied lately with so many other things (it is truly a pity that real life gets in the way of our real fun!) that I have totally neglected not only this blog but wargaming in general.  But let's get caught up on things, shall we?

I have settled on a set of rules.  I will be using a wonderful set called When Empires Clash! by Bob Condroy.  They are based primarily on the old Joe Morschauser rules and I am actually using a 1-inch gridded board!  That's right, I said a gridded board.  there is a wonderful simplicity about a gridded board that one just doesn't see with a hexed board or a plain board.  It is a return to the wargaming in its heyday.  I am also using 10mm figures.  Most of the British figures I am using are from the excellent line by Perrin Miniatures.  Literally everythig else are pandraken Miniatures.  The basic infantry stand is 1.0"x.5" upon which are mounted three figures.  This represents an infantry company  Cavalry are mounted two per stand and artillery is ounted one gun per stand and both of those are mounted on 1" square stands.  My basing material are 0.8mm wood stands from Litko which have rounded corners.  They are really nice stands!  Terrain elevations are achieved by using 6mm wood squares again from litko (actually they are 3mm bases glued two high).  Roads are 0.8mm squares painted brown and water squares are painted blue.  You will see all this in pictures that I will post.

I have a full division of British troops composed of three infantry brigades and a cavalry brigade.  As of this moment the entire division is based in Kismet.  I will talk more about their dispositions i a future post.  For this moment, i just wanted to get this blog active again!