2022 Yearly Goals and Plans

 

             This year's plan will not exactly the same as last year. Or the year before. This year I am going to actually finish what was started last year. 

            I want to do AdeptiCon, Little Wars, HistoriCon, NEAT, and Fall In. GMing games at HMGS' cons.

Year's Goals

Paint, Sell, and stop buying collections or armies.

        **** No buying terrain. 
        **** No buy armies or collections.
        **** Sell off the dust collecting items

        **** Develop new players

        **** TO and GM games at Cons 

Year's Plans

Blood and Plunder

        Everything is purchased, minis and terrain. There are current 8 minis in the works. All only a day's or so work away. There terrain is in various states. I will be traveling with these and hopefully finishing everything in the first 6 months of the year.

            1st will be a female dominated group. Then a traditional group. Once over 50% of the way in, I will start to teach VV. Once one group is done. There is a local group of players.

RF&F

            The Cavalry has to get done. 90% of the Union is complete. I have the first 30 CSA guys half way blocked in. Their horses are finished and waiting.

               At Little Wars I will run Stones River again, and another scenario.

               I think I will try to run Culpeper Courthouse at the LBHA convention. This will need more Cavalry done.

By Fire and Sword

            There are units in the works from a painted collection I purchased. Then there are a mountain of bare metal in the boxes from a larger collection purchased. I thought I had a painter lined up. He dropped out at the start date. Lucky nothing was sent to him. Now I will have to do it. I guess the start date will be summer, late summer, and then continue until finished.

                I will not be moving on to 2nd edition. The changes being made are for the most part crap. The only thing I like is the new activation system. I would like to bring only that into 1st ED. Which all depends on how they handle activation supremacy.

Muskets and Tomahawks

            If by chance I finish stuff, this is next. I have been enjoying painting 28mm again. So hopefully that can continue into M&T. 

            I will not be moving on to 2nd Edition. Don't care.

Warmaster Ancients

            Maybe some dudes will get painted on the road.

Epic

            The sallies will get finished. Some how?

2021 Year End Plans and Goals

 

Year's Plans

Paint, Sell, and stop buying collections or armies.

      **** No buying terrain. Only painting what I have.

                This did not happen. I bought a shit ton of rail fence, hills, desert stuff, and trees.

        **** No buy armies or collections. 

                This did not happen either. I bought up two By Fire and Sword lots.

        **** Sell off the dust collecting items 

                This did not happen. Once ebay dumped Paypal. I stopped ebaying.

        **** Develop new players

                We did find some new players and lost contact with existing players.

        **** TO and GM games at Cons

                I ran games at Little Wars and TO at Cold Wars. And there was the pig roast tourney at the house.

            As I breakdown the details. Very few were completed at all. The same old, same old held true. As everything was half assed. With the way the year went with work and the CCP virus, it wasn't so bad.

Host Games
        Host games at the house. TO the Warmaster tourney at Cold Wars. GMed Epic, and RF&F at Little Wars

Paint 1200+ Minis
        Not even close

Mountain

2021
Bought = 366 + an army

Sold = 0

Painted = 841

28mm = 7

20mm = 21

15mm = 282

10mm = 225
Epic = 40

Terrain bought = 207
Terrain painted = 277

Tables
       Spare GW table is still under way. The river sections are done.
       Rehab the GW FW city fight board continues. And continues 
       Build a Sengoku table. Never even started

Warmaster Ancients
         The plan is to get armies on the table, and continue to host some historical battles. Battles were hosted.

         Macedonians/SuccessorsPyrrhus got ZERO love

         Carthaginians got ZERO love

         Numidians; got ZERO love

Warmaster 

        Samurai; ZERO love

        The Lizard army was bought and completed.

Regimental Fire & Fury   15mm ACW

        This will be the year's primary project. I hosted and ran both the Wheatfield and the Stones River scenarios.

         Everything is done but the Cavalry and the command stand flags.

20mm Moderns
        Multiple games were hosted. Even the Zombies got out.

20mm Colonial Sudan

        This project got shelved last year. It may get little attention this year also. ZERO love

Little Wars calling for GMs

 

Lisle, IL 21 Apr to 24 Apr

        The call is out. Get your games in; Registration

            I am going to run RF&F Stones River and one other. I need to sort the second one. Then on Saturday I will TO the Epic tourney.

Cold Wars has been canceled

         The board took a beatin about Ocean City. Mutiny was on hand. The CCP virus and conditions allowed for the contract with Ocean City to be cancel for 2022 and 2023. No new location has been set. Cold Wars 2022 is not going to happen.

Warmaster Weekend "Rules question"

 

    The Cold Ones charge and eat the skeletons. The support falls back as they are effected by the combat result. The zombies all the way on the Skeletons left flank are not effected by the combat result, correct?

        The Hive Mind has spoken. We played it correctly. Those Zombies on the side are un-effected by the combat.

Warmaster Lizards Vs Vamps

             Last weekend I got to visit Maj Brown. He is a long time Warmaster guy. He terrain is spectacular. His armies are beautiful. 

            This was a game ruled by the dice. Lizards win 2 to 1. The Maj's right flank never got off more than 1 command rolla turn. The left flank moved once and never moved again until the last turn. The knight refused to move all game. This let the slow Lizards get into place and concentrate. Krox on a hill are tough to push off.

Warmaster Lizards Vs Dark Elves

 

            Matt, another Matt from the group of Matts, was down visiting family. I was home nose picking this week. The wives didn't care or assign tasks. I got to host. The Lizards won. Not by any great generalship. 

            Matt's Cold Ones charged my Cold Ones in echelon. His were banged up. Mine were banged up. One or two stands left in each unit. Had they won and advanced into the echeloned Cold Ones, it would have been a different story. They won the first round and lost the second. Mine pounced in my turn. 

            The Krox, did Krox stuff. I got off two Wings of the jungle. And the Terradons blew the first engagement. They held on for the rest of the game being a nuisance.

Northeast Epic Armageddon Tournament 'The NEAT"

 

Saturday December 11th

Portal in Manchester, CT Link

10am - 7pm

3000 point armies, 3 rounds.

Contact the.epic.gamer@gmail.com for a spot

Blood and Plunder "Fire on the Frontier"

 

        I am completely happy with Muskets and Tomahawks ver 1. (I never got ver 2. I did not see a reason to upgrade other than to upgrade) Now I have not played in years. The minis are still in cold storage. I hope they survived storage better than the ACW. Dad did break the fort during a storage to storage move. I can still remember his face. The box broke open and the fort exploded. It sounded like someone throwing a dish down the hall. Poor him. I scooped it back up into its box and said it was an easy fix.

        All of this has jack all nothing to do with Blood and Plunder. Yet on the 15th of December "Fire on the Frontier" is released. Pre Orders are up NOW. 

        I believe Fire on the Frontier is set earlier than M&T. The real difference would be the proliferation of fire arms and the type of musket. B&P's books are wonderfully beautiful. Of course they will be minis too. I am most interested in the minis.  Only two or three sets are up for pre order. Hopefully they will expand the range.

 

Little Wars 2022 21-24th April

 

Sheraton Lisle Naperville Hotel. It is a Marriott property.

3000 Warrenville Rd 

Lisle, IL

630 505 1000

AdeptiCon 2022 "Warmaster and Epic are a go"

AdeptiCon 2022 March 23 - 27th

        Outstanding! Matt from HMGS mid west called an audible. After finding out on the last day to submit events to AdeptiCon. We briefly spoke about asking to late submit. 3 days later Epic and Warmaster have been submitted and accepted. Warmaster tourney is on Friday the 25th. Epic tourney is Saturday the 26th. Both I think have 10 player cap.

        If someone needs a loaner army, hit me up. We had people stop by at HistoriCon wanting to play with no army. We all have multipe armies. I am happy to teach or run a demo anytime.
 

Come join for our annual Epic Armageddon Tournament. This is a 3 round, 3,000 point tournament utilizing the NetEA Tournament Pack and Epic UK army lists. If you want to try the game but don’t have an army, get in touch with us and we will try to get you a loaner army. Likewise if you want to use an unapproved army list just contact us. Army selection and rules links: www.tp.net-armageddon.org Army generator: https://traitor-legion.appspot.com Tactical Command website for Epic info, tactics, questions, etc: https://www.tacticalwargames.net/taccmd/

After almost two decades, darkness descends on the island of Albion once more. Do you have what it takes to Conquer the Island? Take command and battle for supremacy of Albion in this 3 round 2,000 point Warmaster tournament. Players will play 3 rounds using 2,000-point armies, using the Warmaster Revolution Compendium. Warmaster Revolution army Builder: http://wm-selector.appspot.com/ Warmaster Revolution rules: www.wm-revolution.com/articles/download.html Discussion and additional info: www.forum.specialist-arms.com/index.php?topic=9108 Bring copies

Cold Wars "location sort of"

 

        Cold Wars was announced to be in Ocean City. The Board ran away. People were not happy about Ocean city. It was said that they were considering a location change. For now it is Ocean City. 

        It would be an hour and a half more for me to drive. Fuck Ocean City. I would go to Fredericksburg 1st. So I think I would ditch Cold Wars for Little Wars. Little Wars and AdeptiCon.

HistoriCon 2021 "Day 3"

 

            Warmaster Revolution Tourney day. The tourneys are in the same spot they were last time we were at Valley Forge Casino. The tourneys are on the casino side downstairs. It is a huge open space with cement floors. So noisy and hard on the back by the end of the day.

            I took Lizardmen this year. And I screwed up before leaving. Originally I had selected 9 Saurus warriors.  I own 7. I have to find 150 points. That 150 got me a Kroxigor for 135 and I eat the 15 points.

List 1985

Slann

Hero on T-rex

2 wizards

2 heros

4 Shinks

7 Saurus

2 Kroxigors

4 Cold Ones

1 Terradon

                                            **** Zero pictures were taken.****

Game 1  Take and Hold scenario

            I played Bryan. (I think he spells it with a "Y") Bryan took Demons. Wonderfully paint Black Gate miniature Demons. He had two large brigades of chariots and Cavalry set one the Flanks. In the center sat Infantry. I set up with my Cavalry left of center with a all Saraus brigade and Teradons to their right. On the flanks sat Kroxigors and Saraus brigades. The shinks hid in the woods all game.

            I opened with with double moves. Yeah passed every command roll. Right flank Kroxigors got into the woods just off the objective. The Left flank Kroxigors shifted towards the center. The center Saraus took a hill on the Left flank. Cold Ones to the center left. Teradons hanging out wait to pounce. 

            Bryan sent both Cavalry Brigades against the Kroxigors. His right flank pulled off an Alexander Cavalry maneuver to get in front of the Krox in the open. They failed to charge. His left flank Cav brigade continuosly bounced off the Krox anchored in the woods. 

            My left flank Krox charged his Cav brigade on initiative. The cold ones followed in on orders. 

Lizards for the win.

Game 2

        I can't remember my opponent's name. He had Orks. He won. Those little bastards have a spell that drives you back. My cold ones did zip. The Krox did their best dishing out wounds, but could make a save.

Game 3 Take and Hold

        Dave's Dwarfs. Another spectacular painted army! Well there are cannons. Lizards have no shooting. Wings of the jungle failed 3 times, including the reroll. Bye bye Teradons. The cannons ate my left flank completely. The Cold ones were on the left. They were running a Mango maneuver. They were there ready to roll Dave left flank in the flank. And and failed to order. Then failed wings of the jungle. Then got shot off the board. The Krox brigade in the center slammed home with the Saraus on flank and in support. 30 plus dice scored me 4 hits and 2 wounds. 

        Dave wipe the room clean with my sorry ass.

HistoriCon "Day 4"

 

                EA tourney is today. I have NetEA World Eaters. Kal spit back my initial submitted list. The list champion changed Dreadcraw pricing. Which is not correct in the army builder. It was 25 points per Dreadcraw per detachment. It is now 5 points per unit within the detachment. Then to give a Berzerker Retinue a dreadcraw, it would be 40 points. Well that 40 points is an odd ball number and just dicks everything up.  So Dreadcraw for me.

                WEs went 1 - 1- 1.

The List 2990

Berzerker Retinue

*SC, Rhinos, Dpack

Berzerker Retinue

*Rhinos, Dpack, Keeper of chains

Terminators

*+2 termies, Dpack, Keeper of Skulls

Possessed

*Dpack

Possessed

*Dpack

Bikes

*Dpack

Defiler

*+1 defiler

Helltalons

Helltalons

Space Craft

Deamon pool

*greater demon, 6 lesser demons

+6 lesser demons from the Dpacks

Game 1

            Hot tub time machine. Bill is back! Bill is back. Bill is a great dude. Funny fucker. I had not seen him in 10 or 8 years. When I first started back into Epic he helped me out. Bill run my first Epic tourney. And I got him and his Eldar game 1. Bill won, 2 - 0. Blitz and T&H. I took him to turn 4. I just did not have enough left on table to go to turn four. 

            The stupid Eldar jet bikes were a bitch and the stole the Blitz from me. It sucks to be an engage army when the other guy can just float up and give you the finger.

    We were set to area denial on the gate. All summoned up. Come out and get stuffed.

    Everything prep-ing the titan's engage

        Now had I killed this dude. The game would have been mine. I didn't know what his death would do to the Eldar on board in line of sight. All I had to do was pop him. He was broke and down to one wound. And I didn't?????

    They went ape shit and landed 14 hits on the titan, 1 a TK. They titan won the engagement. They were broke with 2 stands left. The titan limped away with 2 DC left.

Game 2

        I played Matt and his steel legion. The Shadowswords paled with the defilers all game. Then I made a mistake. By advancing up my right flank, I vacuumed all his forces into a tight castle. There was no point to hit. My termies cam down and sat on my Blitz. There by saving my BTS. The Bikes came on an end around, try to pull apart the castle on the left flank. They hit, killed, out numbered, had a character, and rolled snake eyes. Broken for the rest of the game. His air assault unit was punishing me. 

        Some how in the end of 3. I got TSNP and DTF for the win. The TSNP was alway mine. I took his from him and then play stretch for DTF. Matt shot but could mess up the stretch.

Game 3

        I got to play Fisherman and his Death Korps. This game also went to turn 4. I only had TSNP. It went down to points. A blood bath. 995 to 960, a tie.

        I removed his center and right Flank with the possessed and bikes. The center was entrenched with AA. Planes were shot down on both sides. His left flank was were the party was at. The shadowswords were playing all game with the Defilers. My Berzerker retinues and his mech infantry companies were slugging it out. The termies came down, summoned, surrounded, and eat a Mech company loaded up.