Wargame Warrior

As there has been a deathly silence following my few attempts to provoke discuission about Platea, I am going to work on the assumption that we are not bothering with the Battle Day next year. If there are views to the contrary let me know what needs painting before January. Otherwise I will concentrate on games at Salute next year...

erm i cant comment really as i have like 2 stands of hoplites and am not getting more in the forseeable future concentrating on 6mm ww2 as is known

les nick come on guys last year was fun and this looks like a good battle to stage in april.

Well, I was doing it.  Painting Persian Cavalry (as per 'Successor Project' post).  I did suggest we chat about at the last game, but as no one else turned up, we didn't.  From memory, we don't need a lot painted and the terrain is pretty basic which we going to task Jim with anyway.  I'll look tomorrow and we cab discuss either at SELWG or the following weekend.

Righto.

if you require me to make some scenery up as has been mooted you'll have to give me some clue as to whats needed... greek temple for instance

Right then, it's decision time. Les has had to bail on the SOA Battle Day due to a conflicting commitment, so the question is; who else is fussed about going this year?

Well I am not enthraled by the battle of Plataea, I have got some Greeks & I have reserved the time. Busy recapturing the upstairs room from Rose so that I can host games again. What happened with Jims shed?

Oh - Rome was excellent although it has been downgraded slightly because a pair of Albanian? girls tried to pickpocket Rose.

Off to Devon with the children & grandchildren next week - plans include the FAA museum at Yeovilton & Tanks at Bovington.

Bovington tank museum I remember as being excellent. There also used to be the opportunity to see tanks firing on the range near there...

jims shed should become operational about a month after the weather breaks although the 6mm army will almost definately be finished much later than that.

as in ....i havent painted a sausage yet.

although i have got a small fledgling kampfgruppe of tanks and a battalion + of infantry.

les has said we should try his arab israeli stuff as a run through game.

we also discussed last night about when the next possible game could be.

Come on guys!

I am very disappointed with the attitude shining forth from this forum page. defeatism: a lack of interest; and a strangely perverse fascination with Jim's shed.

Show some spirit! The event is not about whether the battle of Platea is interesting or not. It is about supporting the Society of Ancients; supporting the event; and , above all, supporting Picquet as a set of rules!

Get off your fat backsides and start painting some hoplites. Forget about a poxy shed which we all know is going to leak anyway and paint some psiloi. Forget about silly 6mm tanks as none of you have retained sufficient eyesight to see them anyway. Get painting those Persian cavalry for the hell ot it!

Alternatively, pretend you got the date wrong and present the battle of Platea 1941. Battlefront do a nice range of WW2 Greeks, you know!