Thursday, 29 May 2025

A very real lack of wargaming

 2025 has started off much as 2024 panned out....pretty dire in places with the odd bright spark. Having given up the editorship of Slingshot in December, I thought I might have been able to do a bit more actual wargaming this year but so far really not much at all. I cant remember the last time I picked up a paint brush and havent properly gamed either. 

Mitigating circumstances (sound like excuses!) are that in January I started working full time as a contractor consultant (yawn) in brewing (Ooooh) so including travel time, my week is very full and the weekends spent in family catch up mode. In February I learned that I had a serious heart issue that I am still coming to terms with and in fact have surgery booked in for next week to fix a couple of my arteries that are blocked. As an aside, if I dont make any further entries into this blog, assume surgery went badly and that I have paid the ferryman (also dont let my wife throw out my wargaming figures...sell them!). Lastly, my father in law passed away suddenly last month and we are still knee deep in sorting everything out. 

Basically, I put my lack of wargming down to the fact that I get tired alot and I get a bit grumpy and I am still working flat out so I should be a little bit more forgiving to myself. Still, I've managed to put this entry into the blog, more as a journal type reminder for me to look back on. Hopefully the rest of 2025 will improve....and I am really hoping to at least get to one wargame show this year if at all possible. 

Right...where did I put my dried frog pills?



Wednesday, 1 January 2025

Hello 2025

 So, I have started 2025 very much as I mean to go on...namely more wargaming generally, some non-solo wargaming as I really must get out there more and also writing articles and rulesets. I have now also handed the reins of Slingshot on to my successor Richard Taylor at the Society of Ancients who will do a splendid job of editor going forward.

I have spent most of the afternoon writing my Dark Age Britain ruleset (ok its the 4th iteration but who's counting...) and am really happy with it so far. I have borrowed as always from other ruleset writers who are far better at it than me. Still as long as they work and do what i want them to do, which is model British Warfare in the 5th to 7th centuries then i will be happy...

The other thing I am going to do, or rather NOT going to do, is buy more figures for the whole of 2025. I have masses of painted and unpainted figures in multiple scales and I really want to focus on getting more stuff painted and spending less money as well. Terrain and rulesets are obviously outside of this but that's fair other wise life would be boring.

Anyway, I will post some more thought on here, especially in regards to my ruleset, in the near future.





A very real lack of wargaming

 2025 has started off much as 2024 panned out....pretty dire in places with the odd bright spark. Having given up the editorship of Slingsho...