2021: A Vague Plan

Twenty Twenty One still sounds like a Scifi date to me but it needs to be dealt with anyway.  This past year was a good time to have had life long hermit tendencies and they served me well and will doubtless do so again this year. None the less, I might find myself able to play a face to face in person game again before the year is out and it will be welcome. Plans are afoot  to improve the lighting in my games room and to acquire a real webcam to facilitate better video-chat games and hopefully there will be a few more of those.  In the meantime, the solo games will continue unabated!

There will definitely be some of these.

While reviewing the unruly mob  of furloughed  forties on the bottom shelves, and my officially not-really-plans, I decided it was time to decide what to do with the idlers that I obviously don't wish to dismiss. Tentatively they were supposed to mesh with the 1812 lads, themselves in need of attention. It didn't take long to remember my old determination that every part of my collection provide a different style of game in some way. Two days later, after poking about with figures and looking at old blog posts and old rules, I decided that I'd now rather play what I like than worry about duplication, and apparently don't mind using the figures from 1812 and the 1840's together against enemies both historical and fictional, using the same basic rules I'm using for the 54mm Toy Soldier games, just set earlier with  close order formations and less effective shooting. That should make enough difference in the games to matter and be less confusing and easier on the brain and memory. Oh well, searching on labels and rereading old blog posts from the last decade was interesting and sometimes enjoyable as well as useful 

The 1812-1850 40mm figures have already begun being sorted, organized and based to make units (1/2 battalions or "wings") of 2 stands, each of 4 figures for use with the Model Major General  on the hex grid once a few more lines and modifiers are added and so on. Once all that is done, life and gaming continue with only a few gentle ripples.

So, hopefully some of something like this before too long.

I was a little surprised that in 2020 I had easily managed to table each of my Active collections  as well as all of my Reserve ones and at least one that had supposedly been retired. Since the original goal was to have armies played with and/or added to at least once in 3 years, I just remarked them all as Active. It is highly unlikely that I will be co-hosting at, or even attending,  any conventions this year so all together, the goal for this year is to play or paint what I feel like when I feel like it! That's probably going to be harder than it sounds but I'll give it my best effort. 

and I'm pretty sure there'll be more from this lot.

So.....what's up next...and after that? Why are you asking me?  Any suggestions in case I can't make up my mind?