So here we are. 2019. My inner megalomaniac is as crazy as ever. I’ve talked about my recent successes in 2018 Reflections of a Megalomaniac Wargamer and Amateur Historian . Now it is time for the overly ambitious, world conquering even, list of what I’d like to get done this year.
Megalomaniac surveying all those unfinished wargaming projects
This is the brain dump of my projects with the higher priority items are at the top of the list. To be honest I don’t really mind if I don’t get to the bottom of the list. Actually even getting 30% down the list would be awesome. With that in mind I’ve split the list into parts: likely in 2019, background activity, possible, and unlikely.
Period
Project
Rules
Aspiration in 2019
All
Wargaming
Any but mostly Crossfire , Big Base DBA /HOTT , and Operational
WW2
Ruins of Stalingrad
Crossfire
Buy, build, paint more 3″ x 3″ sectors using Wargames Tournaments kits
Write a big Stalingrad scenario for Crossfire
Get the ruins on table and play the big Stalingrad scenario for Crossfire
WW2
Operational / 2nd Kharkov
TBD
Italian Wars
Italian Wars
DBA-RRR
Portuguese Colonial War
Portuguese Colonial War
Fogo Cruzado / Crossfire
Scratch build and paint some proper African huts
Base more palm trees
Buy, build, paint Portuguese Paratroopers
Buy, build, paint more Portuguese Light Infantry (Caçadores)
Work on some new scenarios
Get the figures on table and play more games of Fogo Cruzado
Write a campaign system
New World
Conquistadores
New World DBA
New World
Portuguese Explorers
New World DBA
WW2
Soviet Tank Riders
Crossfire
Peninsular War
Albuera
Volley & Bayonet
Liberators
Sipe Sipe (1815)
TBD
Select a set of rules to use for Liberators
Recruit skirmishers for all my battalions
Write a scenario for Battle for Viluma / Sipe Sipe (1815)
Get the figures on table and refight Viluma / Sipe Sipe
Biblical
Battle of Kadesh
Big Base DBA
Write a DBA scenario for Battle of Kadesh
Get the figures on table and refight the Battle of Kadesh using Big Base DBA
Thirty Years War
Thirty Years War
TBD
Choose rules to play this period with Big Bases including Pike and Shot on the same base
Write a scenario for the Battle of Nordlingen (1634)
Get the figures on table and refight the Battle of Nordlingen (1634)
Arab-Israeli Wars
1967 Arab-Israeli War
Crossfire
Rebase my newly purchased Arab and Israeli forces
Buy, build, paint some middle eastern houses for use with Crossfire i.e. can take the roofs of
Write a Crossfire scenario
Get the figures on table
Period
Project
Rules
Aspiration in 2019
WW2
Ponyri / Kursk
Crossfire
Rif Wars
Rif Wars
Crossfire / Fuego Cruzado and something grand tactical
Finish converting Ansar figures to Riffi
Paint the Riffi
Buy, build, paint some middle eastern houses for use with Crossfire i.e. can take the roofs of
Select a grand tactical set of rules for the bigger actions
Get the figures on table
Medieval
100 Years War
Big Base DBA
Expand my Medieval Spanish and Portuguese armies and get more English
Get the figures on table and refight one of the battles in the Peninsular during the 100 Years War – Aljubarrota or Najera
Medieval
Catalan Company
Big Base DBA
Buy, build, paint figures for the Catalan Company
Buy, build, paint figures for the opponents of Catalan Company in Greece and Turkey
Get the figures on table
Medieval
Reconquista
Big Base DBA
Recruit a new Granadine army (buy, paint, base) including those great Muslim Knights
Making Stuff
River
Various
Repaint/texture my 3D rivers compatible (Military Miniatures, Flames of War, for 4″ hexes )
Buy, build, paint linking sections because all of these are slightly different widths
Get the rivers on table
Liberators
Simón Bolívar and the Northern War
TBD
Buy, build, paint complete armies for the Northern War (Venezuela, Columbia) with Simón Bolívar as my next Liberator
Ancients
Rise of Rome and Fall of Rome
Big Base DBA and its replacement
Rebase on Big Bases . Although I have enough figures to play, I haven’t rebased all of my figures. In particular there are more to do in:
Expand my Carthaginian forces to cover the very early wars in Sicily against the Greeks i.e. get some chariots
Expand my Celtiberians from being mercenaries for my Ancient Spanish to being a fully fledge army
Buy, build, paint camps for the armies without e.g. Gallic, Numidian, Macedonian/Selucid
Select a new set of rules to replace DBA ; one that, amongst other things, does not cripple the Ancient Spanish and is good for the Punic Wars and Hundred Years War
Decide if my replacement for DBA is actually DBA 3.0 (or perhaps DBA 2.2+)
Get individual command stands for these armies because any rules to replace Big Base DBA are likely to use them
Get the figures on table, in particular my Gallic and Numidian armies that have never seen the light of day
WW2
Operational Artic Fox
Megablitz
I found a good Megablitz scenario for Operational Arctic Fox. Be good to play it.
WW2
Berlin (1945)
Crossfire
Buy, build, paint late war Soviet tanks, e.g. IS-2, SU-100, T34-85, 203 mm howitzer M1931 (B-4),
Buy, build, paint late war German tanks, e.g. Hetzer
Buy, build, paint Spanish SS “Unit Ezquerra” / late war Germans for Crossfire
Buy, build, paint a distinctive building for Berlin (1945)
Get the figures on table
Carlist Wars
Carlist Wars
Whatever I use for Liberators
Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War
Crossfire / Fuego Cruzado and something grand tactical
Get the figures on table
Select a grand tactical set of rules for the bigger actions
Finish some of my scenarios e.g. the draft Battle of Madrid scenario that has been lying around for years
New Zealand Wars
New Zealand Wars
TBD
Choose a set of rules to use
Figure out how to use my existing figures for Big Bases – if at all
Buy, build, paint a Maori Pa
Get the figures on table
WOW! It would take me all of 2019 just to write out those plans, never mind accomplishing any of them. Good Luck!
I like the exhausting nature of the list. It helps me get real.
For the New Zealand Wars: Irregular Wars perhaps?
could be. Chris and I tried HOTT. Worked okay.
Are you ever around Cardiff? Just rebasing 15mm armies for big base DBA and quite a few of us are around at Firestorm Games, Trade Street Cardiff? It would be great to have you along!
Mike B
Despertaferres.wordpress.com
Mike, thanks for the offer. I’m rather fond of Wales in general and used to visit Cardiff a lot for work. Unfortunately, it has been been some years since my last visit. I’m not planning any trips to Cardiff but you never know. And it is about time I introduced my Thomas clan to the ancestral homeland.
You’d me more than welcome! Very impressed by all your DBA armies and the big bases variant! I’m surrounded by MDF and Bostik because of your site!!!
By the way, I’ve now followed your blog. 🙂
Thanks Steve- spending Summer rebasing DBA collection after your blog! Those new 30 years wars rules of yours look very interesting too!