How went 2014?

2014 was another excellent year for gaming with 89 miniatures games (using 32 different rule sets) and one board game being played. There were 10 games each of Force on Force and Wings of Glory.

As well as my regular Monday night games at the Falkirk Club I also visited Clydesdale Wargames Club and Burnley Wargames Club and it was good to get down to Washington for a couple of games.  The usual shows and events were also attended with Robots Live at the National Museum of Flight being a new one for us.  I managed to tie in a couple of work trips abroad with gaming activity – 2 sessions with Mick in Switzerland (one of which was an epic 5 games in a day) and one with Pedro  in Lisbon.   I also managed to win an Impetus Tournament!

The gaming has been great but other aspects less so.  My blogging activity has reduced substantially and my painting output has been nonexistent.  However Carronade was another very popular event and it was fun to have Mick over for a long weekend of gaming and whisky tasting.

So overall a good wargaming year but some planning needed to make 2015 even better.

I hope that the readers of this blog also had a good 2014 and have plans afoot for 2015 – please share if you do.

Looking Forward to 2014

In wargaming terms 2013 will be difficult to beat, so my overall aim is simply to play as many games as I can and keep the variety of rules, venues and opponents as high as possible.  I also want to get more painted figures completed and on the table.

There are a few specific new things

                Play at least a couple of games of Bloody Barons

                Play some games of Check Your 6! in particular Mers el Kebir and perhaps Guadalcanal

                Get my Indonesian Confrontation game on the table

                Finish the Paraguayan War figures and get a game

                Complete my SF force and get a game of some sort

Half the fun is getting involved in other people’s projects such as the proposed WW2 naval campaign and Purple Heart Valley over Japan (think superfortresses)  

Of the ongoing stuff both the Longstreet and Mordhiem campaigns will continue and come to a climax in 2014 which will be good.   I will also probably take part in the Scottish Impetus circuit again this year.  

Looking to have fun in 2014.