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...