Well the past few weeks have been a real mixed bag of the sort of stuff that 'real life' throws at you, when it decides it wants to derail all of your best laid plans and all that! So gaming related activity has been intermittent at best, as my poor old grey cells have been too muddled for anything much if I'm honest. At least after my recent Fall Rot 1940 game (AAR here), I did have a spurt of painting, which can be seen below, as I wanted to finally get some paint on a mix of AFVs that I've had in the lead pile for over 15 years now!
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| The dangers of browsing ebay, where I picked up this nice French WWII bomber for future France 1940 games. |
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| Some Panzer 38 (t)'s. |
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| 6 of them that I think I bought for Rommel's 'Ghost Division'. |
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| Pz III Kurz, that I 'converted' from the Lang variant by cutting down the barrel length. Back in the day I think this was the only Pz III Pendraken did. |
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| Stug III ausf A with command vehicle. |
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| Whilst the German panzer grey is a tad dark for 10mm miniatures, it does paint up very quickly, with a wash and drybrush over the base coat. I'm in two minds as to whether to apply balkan kreuz's and turret numbers to the vehicles, with the former being very tiny and thus hard to apply, ditto with the latter, especially when trying to cover turret hatches, as they don't sit flat, which would annoy me! |
The Barbarossa Campaign
Whilst painting the above AFV's and with others in the queue and on painting sticks, my mind turned towards trying a few games set during the invasion of Russia in 1941. This was another driving force in getting my long neglected Panzers painted. I read a good Osprey Campaign book on Army Group South, where the Russians at least put up a good show of resistance in places, and on occasion actually counter-attacked, just the sort of thing to make for some fun standalone games or mini-campaigns.
Campaigns In General
The campaigns I've played last year highlighted one or two issues with regards to maintaining the momentum of them, certainly with regards to WWII. Firstly it is one of actually having all the kit you need before embarking on the campaign itself. It's all well and good thinking the campaign will drive you to paint more stuff, which on one level is true, but I find that I actually struggle to find the time for this. Much better to start things off once you have all the kit you need, which is rather blindingly obvious! Secondly as 'real life' is wont to disrupt your plans, keep things to around 3-5 narrative campaign games, as anymore than that and the drive dissipates in my experience and generally you've reached a natural conclusion to the campaign anyway.
What Next?
Well I did manage a lovely little Honours of War game today, so an AAR on that will follow in due course, most likely at some point tomorrow. I have plenty more AFVs to paint, both German and British, as well as a mixed bag of Infantry and Support Weapons. I need to take stock of where I'm at before ploughing ahead regardless. Easier said than done of course!
Spring is threatening to give us some nice weather, but not for a while yet I'm afraid. We could all do with some sunshine and warmth after the all too brief taster of last week. Once it does arrive gardening and other activities will take lots of my time for sure.
Thanks for reading and as always, any comments greatly appreciated!
TTFN.
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