Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy

NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION

A nyway, ‘paint more than you un-paint’ is the mantra for this year, and so far I’m bang on target because I’ve painted the odd model and stripped naff all. Early days yet though. Next step, get some full-sized units up and ready for action. Not that my armies have seen much activity this last couple of years thanks to the constraints of contagion. Another thing to put right. Maybe that one will have to wait for next year.

The good news on the gaming front is that another campaign is being plotted even at this moment: a further visit to the heartlands of Europe in the age of Napoleon circa 1813 … Huzzah! Campaigns are the spur to at least half of the games I take part in, the other half comprising visits by friends followed by an impromptu gathering of the clans and the hugest wargame that can be mustered. Although campaign games do sometimes result in one-on-one encounters, far

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