tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4472889370304077924.post7778143175706618861..comments2024-03-27T07:02:30.838+00:00Comments on A Wargaming Odyssey: Stepping Back to Move ForwardDavid Crookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02497436789811496047noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4472889370304077924.post-13675671431524677942019-12-23T08:38:01.290+00:002019-12-23T08:38:01.290+00:00Hi Geordie,
We certainly will - although in what ...Hi Geordie,<br /><br />We certainly will - although in what scale is another matter entirely!<br /><br />All the best,<br /><br />DCDavid Crookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02497436789811496047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4472889370304077924.post-55777547286232346042019-12-22T01:17:23.729+00:002019-12-22T01:17:23.729+00:00Hold the line David ,, never say never .. but you ...Hold the line David ,, never say never .. but you do seem to have painted those German Battlecruisers in three different scales .. just hold onto one, we'll have to get a game of Dogger Bank done ;)Geordie an Exiled FoGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01002743056274635657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4472889370304077924.post-46769140708242920412019-12-19T08:55:06.814+00:002019-12-19T08:55:06.814+00:00Hello Mark, Man of Tin,
You are absolutely right ...Hello Mark, Man of Tin,<br /><br />You are absolutely right that this is not supposed to be work but I have seemed to make a hash of things over the years with wild flights of fancy and projects that realistically should not have been started.<br /><br />It helps me to have a framework - not necessarily a plan as such - that can be added to (or not, as the case maybe) so as keep things in perspective. My Command and Colours collection covering as it does my two favourite period, is woefully underused and so next year I shall be making a conscious effort to rectify this - not because I feel I have to but because I want to. This in turn will focus many other areas - reading, prepping figures etc.<br /><br />It is all about focus or as Yoda once said "Control, you must learn control...."<br /><br />All the best,<br /><br />DC David Crookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02497436789811496047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4472889370304077924.post-12247680184277518062019-12-19T08:48:35.070+00:002019-12-19T08:48:35.070+00:00Hi Steve J,
I am pleased that my own experience s...Hi Steve J,<br /><br />I am pleased that my own experience seems to have struck a chord with many! If I am honest it is not so much the money that I have wasted over the years but the time element. Next year I want to get my head down with some 'joined up' gaming but to have the odd foray into something that is for me not quite mainstream but still of interest. I want to be able to do this from my own resources rather than buying into something new and shiny. As far sa possible that is!<br /><br />All the best,<br /><br />DCDavid Crookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02497436789811496047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4472889370304077924.post-43653735334221287962019-12-18T21:47:21.279+00:002019-12-18T21:47:21.279+00:00An interesting and thought provoking read that has...An interesting and thought provoking read that has many parallels with my gaming history. Over the past few years I have been slimming down my collection and periods of interest, to 3 main ones, with a couple of possibles. I've also embraced the ImagiNations route for many armies, bar WWII, which allows me to game a wider period than purely historical ones. It works for me and gives me endless pleasure, which at the end of the day is what it's all about.Steve J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12143308117853983963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4472889370304077924.post-18789196505167369962019-12-18T21:03:39.655+00:002019-12-18T21:03:39.655+00:00Interesting and thought provoking, David. It is th...Interesting and thought provoking, David. It is that time of the year for looking forward and back. <br /><br />Having to sort through and find homes for your friend's collection must obviously give you and all of us pause for thought. <br /><br />I find that saying what I am formally going to do and focus on in the coming New Year has often proved a bit of a dampener or kiss of death on doing it. It feels a bit like work. Somehow doing something else, something that you "shouldn't be doing" always feels energised and enthusiastically like 'bunking off' school / work.<br /><br />At the end of the day it's a hobby. It's not work. I now try to keep my New Years gaming irresolutions as vague as possible, to make space for the random nature of the figures and inspirations that I come across (figures in Pound stores, seaside shops, job lots, gifts, conversions etc). I may do these things. I may not. The rest of the world doesn't care and doesn't stop if do or don't do. <br /><br />Stuff comes up mid year by chance like the Scouting Wide Games project. Never expected to be doing that. <br /><br />Sometimes I am just in the mood to paint, convert, cast and repair figures, rather than game with them at that time. It's almost 3D colouring in, and all the mindfulness and wellbeing that supposedly comes with colouring in. <br /><br />I have also found that dual flagging or reflagging a historical army into an ImagiNations one also creates fresh possibilities and saves on storage. <br /><br />I wish you all the best with the things you choose to do and everything else that crops up as a happy sidetrack and distraction. Enjoy! Mark, Man of TINhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10485063133593455522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4472889370304077924.post-373733069938952352019-12-17T19:41:55.573+00:002019-12-17T19:41:55.573+00:00Hi Graham C,
Many thanks for your comment - it is...Hi Graham C,<br /><br />Many thanks for your comment - it is a huge relief to know that this is not just me! I think the key thing for me is that fact that I have finally realised that figures, whilst nice and I would certainly not want to abandon them, are not the be all and end all of the table top wargame. As most of my games are grid based it seems more readily acceptable in my eyes to use units of half a dozen figures or so. I really enjoy Command and Colours so substituting a figure for a block does not faze me in the slightest.<br /><br />I am sorry to disappoint you but I cannot see myself ever painting 18th century figures but C and C Tricorne is a cracking game and covers the period very well indeed (the AWI that is). I am really looking forward to the Jacobite version next year.<br /><br />On the subject of old rules I wholeheartedly agree with you. I would happily fight games using Charge! Or Battle by Charles Grant and my standby set of rules for age of sail gaming are from the mid 1970s!<br /><br />I feel properly enthused and with a degree of focus that has been missing for a long time.<br /><br />All the best,<br /><br />DCDavid Crookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02497436789811496047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4472889370304077924.post-60151935071857807672019-12-17T19:28:36.153+00:002019-12-17T19:28:36.153+00:00A very interesting read and one that has a lot of ...A very interesting read and one that has a lot of resonance with me. Whilstbive talked about focus and rationalising many times and even made half hearted starts it was only the last year that I have made a focused and determined effort.<br />Whilst I have my own commercial figure range which means 18th century is a major focus I have found me returning to my original staples of Napoleonic, ACW and ancients . Mainly 15mm this time for ease of storeage.!! Although Napoleonic is in 20mm ( a much forgotten scale)<br /><br />For those butterfly moments then I use Command and Colours and the Paper Soldier books!<br /><br />Dare I say it in some ways I find myself revisiting some of the older rule sets as well! Is that the circle complete when I find myself playing games with rules from 40 years ago??? I dread to think how many figures I've painted and sold in this pursuit.Graham Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05229770388869939725noreply@blogger.com