Next Club meeting - Saga or Force on Force

It's that time of the month again and the Conwy Wargames Club meets this Sunday. I need to make my mind up which game I want to play. Dave is putting on another 20mm Force on Force game for which I don't know the details of. I enjoyed the last game and definitely want to play it again. Pete is putting on a Saga Dark Ages game which I fancy. I've never played Saga but I've heard good things about it and I fancy giving it a go.

Decisions, decisions

Battleground Blitzkrieg now read

I am very pleased with my purchase. Nice overview of the Polish and French campaigns with lots of great photos. The Germans get army lists for both Poland and France which I thought was a good idea. The new special rules look interesting and seem very simple to add period flavour to games. The best sections for me were the scenarios. I particularly liked the fact they used small forces as I don't have large Blitzkrieg era collection, and no French or Poles. One Polish scenario caught my eye which needed just 3 or so tanks. One of the French scenarios would need just 30 odd figures. I think these small scenarios are great to start off collecting a force so that you can play them. Unlike the other books there wasn't a large scenario which is a shame but then size is subjective.

Now which force to start collecting first...

Wargames Room progress

It's a while since I last gave an update on the progress of the dream wargaming rooms, so I thought I'd post a few pictures. In summary things are moving steadily forward, and the design of the finished rooms is much more advanced.

The all important bathroom. You don't want to be making crucial tactical decisions if you're distracted. The missing tiles are for wall units. Lesson learnt just tile behind wall units. Old houses don't have level walls so our wall units that looked OK when we test positioned them now look like a couple of leaning towers of Pisa. Solved by just moving them slightly away from the wall, except that now that shows the bare plaster. Bother!

Discovered pink painted floor board under the carpet. This will be removed. Not that I'm against pink but I need to replace the floorbaords due to some rot. This room will have figure and terrain storage and a 6x4 board.

The interconnecting doorways have been studded ready for plaster boarding. This room will  be the main figure storage and house a 6x8 board.

The painting area hasn't changed much apart from the old ensuite doorways have been blocked up. The boards on the floor are to hide holes and perhaps more importantly stop people falling through. The holes are tiny compared to the boards I used.  One hole being foot sized. As is the hole in the bathroom ceiling below.

The office/study has a lot less in it since I last shared a photograph. Noticeably the ceiling. I have to take all of the down to straighten and strengthen the ceilings.

The floor in the office/study was painted light blue. A 150 years of sooty deposits released by removing the ceiling sorted that colour out.

I like my new scaffolding...

... As does Jess

Max on the other hand is not bothered and would like to know when I will be coming down to feed him