Anyways,
I did go to a miniature game last weekend (4/12) at the Big Muddy Games Day at Wargamer’s Cave in Granite City, IL. There were three WWII armor games in two different sessions. I played in Steve H's FoW 1941 East Front one as the Germans. I was doing a great job hitting the Russian tanks, under Pat L., but either he rolled really well on his armor saves, or I rolled really bad on my firepower, but either way, I only forced the Russians to bail out of their tanks a lot and very few burned. The Russians having such a high morale, got back in their tanks in short order. The game end with an easy victory for the Russians (I lost 3 of my 4 platoons and I think I only killed 10-15% of the Russians). I forgot my camera, so no pictures.
I did go to a miniature game last weekend (4/12) at the Big Muddy Games Day at Wargamer’s Cave in Granite City, IL. There were three WWII armor games in two different sessions. I played in Steve H's FoW 1941 East Front one as the Germans. I was doing a great job hitting the Russian tanks, under Pat L., but either he rolled really well on his armor saves, or I rolled really bad on my firepower, but either way, I only forced the Russians to bail out of their tanks a lot and very few burned. The Russians having such a high morale, got back in their tanks in short order. The game end with an easy victory for the Russians (I lost 3 of my 4 platoons and I think I only killed 10-15% of the Russians). I forgot my camera, so no pictures.
I
am taking a week off to get a trash disposal
company to get rid of a bunch of junk in my basement and garage. This is part of my New Year’s goals and sort ties in with my
gaming as it will free up some of my gaming area so I can possibly
start running games again at my house (finally).
Last Saturday, 4/19, both Steve H & I went to the Missouri Civil War Museum at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, MO (link). While it is no where near the size of the collection at the General Sweeny's Museum at Wilson's Creek, it is very nice museum with a nice collection and display. It is well worth seeing if you are in the St Louis area and interested in the Civil War.
If you are in the St. Louis area, on April 23rd, the St. Louis Civil War Roundtable (link) is having a meeting where the guest speaker will be James Erwin, the author of
Guerrillas in Civil War Missouri and Guerrilla Hunters in Civil
War Missouri (link to Amazon). I plan to attend as I am
very interested in the Civil War history of Missouri. I will admit that
I still have
not read his books, but I have both of them in Kindle forms. I might start reading Erwin’s books
as I am sort of in the mood to read Civil War
books again and I specifically want to start reading up on Price’s ’64
raid as it is the 150th anniversary of the raid…plus it has
some of the best battles: Fort Davidson (Pilot Knob) & the march to
Leasburg (a truly amazing story of a Union victory),
Westport (the Gettysburg of the West), & Mine Creek (the largest
mounted battle of the war).
As
for other things, I am slowly prodding through my “junk” miniatures to
start cataloging stuff to try selling again. I need to step on it as I
really need to clean house. I got
a bunch of books to go too, but still have to get them typed up in a
list.
I have been working on making labels for my stands for easy identification of what stand is to be (i.e., 1st Sqd, 1st
Plt; or General Belgrano C-4). I am trying
to think of a good color code for marking my individual skirmishers for
their weapon types for Chain of Command, since sometimes it is hard to
make them out on the table, even if they are 20mm figures. Once I have
decided, I will start marking bases for
my Falklands figures first.
Oh,
I got my first batch of Baker Company’s 28mm Winter War figures and
tanks. I have not had much time to look through them individually yet,
but they look nice. I thought that
I had ordered some bases for them already, but I have not, so I will be
doing that soon. I plan to use 25mm circles and use the Litko mass /
mob bases to place them on for teams / squads for speed of play and
knowing what figures belong to what groups.
Be seeing you
Sapper
1 comment:
Nothing wrong with being a collector imo. If you don't need to sell them for the cash and you've got space to store them I say hang on to them as they don't cost anything to keep and they don't have a use by date.
I like to have a rummage and find something that I'd forgotten about and remember the (usually half baked) idea that I had before I got them- I find it is a nice kick of (re)inspiration.
Cheers,
Pete.
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