Thursday 6 April 2017

So what shall we play next week....

You might have noticed over the last few posts that the Shed has been hosting a variety of games each Monday night – it’s been one of my priorities for 2017  to dust of some of the collections I have in shed and remind myself why we embarked on these projects in the first place.

I thought it might be a bit of fun to list these collections and the typical rules we use so folks out there in the blogosphere can see what might be coming up in the future. 

I should add that some of these collections belong to my good friend Mark who owns his own shed and once he gets it refurbished Shed Wars will go back out onto the road (Woking actually !)

In no particular order….

Genre/Period
Scale
Armies Available
Typical Rules
Fantasy
28mm
Warbands and Monsters
Frost Grave & Dragon Rampant
Fantasy
10mm
Empire, Undead, Elf, Dark Elf, Orc, Goblin
Warmaster
Greek Mythos
28mm
Greek Heroes & Monsters
Home brew set in development
Ancients
10mm (Mark’s)
Romans & Celts
Warmaster Ancients
Medieval
10mm
War of the Roses/ 100 Years War
Warmaster Medieval
Medieval
28mm
Crusaders, Saracens, Robin Hood
Hail Caesar, Lion Rampant, Crescent & Cross
Dark Ages
28mm
Vikings, Danes & Saxons
Saga
English Civil War
28mm
Royalist & Parliamentarian
Pike & Shotte, Pikemens Lament
English Civil War
10mm
Royalist & Parliamentarian
Pike & Shotte
French Indian Wars
28mm
British, French & Native Allies
Muskets & Tomahawks
18th century Pirates
28mm
Pirates & Above
Home rules based on M&T
Napoleonics
10mm
British & French
Black Powder, Legacy, Age of Eagles
Napoleonics
28mm
In progress
In progress
American Civil War
15mm (Marks)
Union & Confederacy
Fire & Fury
Anglo Zulu war
28mm
British & Zulus
Black Powder
Colonial Expansion
28mm
All Factions
Congo
Very British Civil War
28mm
All Factions
Bolt Action
1930’s Pulp
28mm
All Factions
Pulp Alley., Bolt Action
World War 2 (early)
28mm
British & German
Bolt Action
Aliens v Predators
28mm
Predators, Aliens & Colonial Marines
Bug Hunt (Home Brew)
Post Apoc
28mm
Terminators, Mad Max
Home Brew
Modern
1/300
Russian & British
WRG Modern Rules

When I sit back and look at the list its quite a surprise to see that virtually all the major conflicts us wargamers are interested in are covered.

There are a few omissions – for example the Wild West, the Crimea, Indian Mutiny and Late World War 2 – but to be frank many of these do not interest me and are unlikely to feature in the shed (but we should never say never).

You will also notice that there are two primary scales – 28mm and 10mm (aside from Marks ACW stuff) – the rationale is quite simple I don’t have to have multitudes of terrain in different scales.

The games can all be fought in temperate, arid or jungle conditions and aside from my Frostgrave boards most of the stuff is quite generic and can fit with a multitude of periods. Afterall a tree in the middle ages is going to look the same in the 1930’s.

So whats up next…well as you will see in the upcoming post I have been somewhat carried away with one of my projects...





6 comments:

  1. Excellent stuff! You are covering a whole lot of bases there :-) Great seeing you play on a regular basis ... something I need to do better myself.

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  2. in what scales are these ? Wild West, the Crimea, Indian Mutiny and Late World War 2

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  3. And scenics to match every force!

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