New Year’s Eve and New Year Ideas

Old school rules in hardback from John Curry’s History of Wargaming project, the latest naval title from the prolific Angus Konstam and a study of the redcoats of Queen Victoria from Ian Knight

HAPPY NEW YEAR ONE AND ALL!

It has been a busy old Christmas break and at last 2024 is upon us. Christmas was very kind to me in terms of the ‘haul’ - aside from the books you see above there were also a number of choice comestibles including not one but two litre bottles of Bombay Sapphire gin - as yet unopened I might add!

I also picked up a copy of a book from a local indoor market - £7.99 down from £24.99 so even the memsahib was impressed! 

The Old West Skirmish rules were the original Western gunfight rules and I remember fighting many a close fought and desperate action with them. I even remember converting various 54mm figures to use with them. Great fun for sure and larger scales definitely work well for skirmish games in my opinion. 

The Convoy is real ‘Cruel Sea’ territory and a thrilling account of how ASW was painfully perfected with frontline experience. A sobering account of the full cost of the Battle of the Atlantic.

Warriors in Scarlet covered the experiences of the Victorian soldier whilst red coated and in building and defending the empire. Ian Knight needs little introduction and so this will be a book to savour - with nary a project coming out of it!

I can resist anything except temptation…..

On a brief run into the local village market I happened to pick a copy of the book you see above for the princely sum of £7.99 instead of the RRP of £24.99. Chock full of information and colour plates this has given me a definite dilemma in respect of my Battle of Britain Angels 20 project. I have sufficient models to be able to cater for ths although would need to add the Italians. Something to think about for the new year then.

End of the Year Stuff

It has been a challenging year for sure and so I am looking at 2024 with a certain degree of trepidation but for all that, a degree of optimism - probably misplaced but hope springs eternal and all that! My main focus for the year will be the Revised and Expanded Portable Ironclads Wargame and all the bits that go with it - models and scenery mainly. I hope to get a few other bits done but we shall see how things plan out.

In the meantime though, I hope that 2024 proves to be a good one and that all your projects roll on and into fruition at some point.

We can but hope!