2020. New year. New decade (depending on how you count these things). 2019 was a good year but I want 2020 to be even better. My crazy inner megalomaniac demands I monologue about my world conquering (i.e. overly ambitious) list of what I’d like to get done this year. Get ready for the ride …
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 2020, background activity, and unlikely.
And remember, these are projects which are more or less “in progress”. No off the wall fantasy here (well unless noted)
Play wargames – Not really a project
The goal is Wargaming. Any but mostly Crossfire, Tilly’s Very Bad Day, Big Base DBA/HOTT, and Operational.
I’ve separated this out because it is not really a project.
Likely projects in 2020
Project | Period | Rules | Aspiration in 2020 |
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Jungle | Portuguese Colonial War, Burma, First Indochina War |
Fogo Cruzado and/or Crossfire |
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Tilly’s Very Bad Day – version 2 | Thirty Years War | Tilly’s Very Bad Day |
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Tilly’s Very Bad Day – field fortifications | Thirty Years War | Tilly’s Very Bad Day |
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Tilly’s Very Bad Day – Scenarios | Thirty Years War | Tilly’s Very Bad Day |
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Thirty Years War Saxons | Thirty Years War | Tilly’s Very Bad Day |
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Deep Battle | WW2 | Deep Battle |
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Rules for Italian Wars | Italian Wars | Variant on DBA or Tilly’s Very Bad Day |
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Soviet Tank Riders | WW2 | Crossfire |
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Battle of Kadesh | Biblical | Big Base DBA |
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Kiwis in Italy | Italian Campaign (1944-45) / WW2 | Crossfire | |
African Huts | Portuguese Colonial War | Fogo Cruzado / Crossfire |
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Portuguese Colonial War Scenarios | Portuguese Colonial War | Fogo Cruzado / Crossfire |
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Big Base Conquistadores | New World | New World DBA |
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Big Base Aztecs | New World | New World DBA |
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Cool Ruins | WW2 | Crossfire |
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1967 Arab-Israeli War | Arab-Israeli Wars | Crossfire |
Background activity
I have to catch up on my photography. No urgency but I’d like to do some of these this year.
Project | Period | Rules | Aspiration in 2020 |
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Photograph Strathclyde Welsh (Northern Cymry) including gods and dragons | Dark Ages / Reconquista / Medieval | Arthurian HOTT / Big Base HOTT | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies. Update it for Big Bases |
Photograph Muslim wizards, paladins, sneakers etc | Reconquista | Big Base HOTT | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies |
Photograph Hittites | Biblical | Big Base DBA | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies |
Photograph Polybian Roman | Ancients | Big Base DBA | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies. Update it for Big Base DBA |
Photograph Later Carthaginian Army | Ancients | Big Base DBA | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies. Update it for Big Base DBA |
Photograph Seleucid Army | Ancients | Big Base DBA | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies. Update it for Big Base DBA |
Photograph Later Macedonian | Ancients | Big Base DBA | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies. Update it for Big Base DBA |
Photograph Gallic | Ancients | Big Base DBA | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies. |
Photograph Numidian | Ancients | Big Base DBA | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies. |
Photograph Sicilian Greek | Ancients | Big Base DBA | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies. |
Photograph Germanic Horde | Ancients | Big Base DBA | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies. |
Photograph Late Imperial Roman | Ancients | Big Base DBA | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies. |
Photograph Alan | Ancients | Big Base DBA | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies. |
Photograph Later Visigothic | Reconquista / Medieval | Big Base DBA | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies |
Photograph Feudal Spanish and Portuguese | Reconquista / Medieval | Big Base DBA | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies |
Photograph Medieval Spanish and Portuguese | Reconquista / Medieval | Big Base DBA | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies |
Photograph Andalusian | Reconquista / Medieval | Big Base DBA | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies |
Photograph Murabitun | Reconquista / Medieval | Big Base DBA | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies |
Photograph Almohades | Reconquista / Medieval | Big Base DBA | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies |
Photograph Dutch | 30 Years War / 80 Years War | Tilly’s Very Bad Day | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies |
Photograph French Army | Peninsular War | Volley and Bayonet | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies |
Photograph British Army | Peninsular War | Volley and Bayonet | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies |
Photograph Spanish Army | Peninsular War | Volley and Bayonet | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies |
Photograph my Soviet Motorised Rifle Battalion | WW2 | Crossfire | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies |
Photograph buildings / Ruins | WW2 | Crossfire | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies. ncluding features on AYLAFRED, Commission Figurines, Iron Clad miniatures, Magnetic Displays, Mark IV Minis, Sarissa Precision, and Wargames Tournaments. Railway Embankment |
Insurgents | Portuguese Colonial War | Fogo Cruzado Crossfire | Address missing and/or substandard gallery in Steven’s Armies |
Photograph 1967 United Arab Republic (Egyptian) | 1967 Arab-Israeli War | Crossfire |
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Unlikely projects in 2020
Project | Period | Rules | Aspiration in 2020 |
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French Expeditionary Corps (FEC) – Goumier | Italian Campaign (1944-45) / WW2 | Crossfire |
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French Expeditionary Corps (FEC) – French/Moroccan/Spanish | Italian Campaign (1944-45) / WW2 | Crossfire |
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Late War German | Italian Campaign (1944-45) / WW2 | Crossfire |
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Peninsular Flags | Peninsular War | Volley & Bayonet |
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Albuera (1811) | Peninsular War | Volley & Bayonet |
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Portuguese Paratroopers | Portuguese Colonial War | Fogo Cruzado / Crossfire |
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Reinforce Portuguese Light Infantry (Caçadores) | Portuguese Colonial War | Fogo Cruzado / Crossfire |
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Rules for Liberators | Liberators | TBD |
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Liberators skirmishers | Liberators | TBD |
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Sipe Sipe (1815) | Liberators | TBD |
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Storage labels | All | All |
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Big Base Mayan | New World | New World DBA |
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Big Base Portuguese Explorers | New World | New World DBA |
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Big Base Sinhalese / Malay | New World | New World DBA |
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Big Base Portuguese Explorers | New World | New World DBA |
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Ponyri Station | WW2 | Crossfire | |
3rd Battery of the 1454th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment | WW2 | Crossfire |
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Japanese | Burma / Japan in WW2 / WW2 | Crossfire |
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Welsh, 14th Army | Burma / Japan in WW2 / WW2 | Crossfire |
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Gurkhas, 14th Army | Burma / Japan in WW2 / WW2 | Crossfire |
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Rif Wars | Rif Wars | Crossfire / Fuego Cruzado and something grand tactical |
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100 Years War | Medieval | Big Base DBA |
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Catalan Company | Medieval | Big Base DBA |
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Reconquista | Medieval | Big Base DBA |
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River | Making Stuff | Various |
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Simón Bolívar and the Northern War | Liberators | TBD |
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Rise of Rome and Fall of Rome | Ancients | Big Base DBA and its replacement |
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Operational Artic Fox | WW2 | Megablitz |
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Berlin (1945) | WW2 | Crossfire |
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Carlist Wars | Carlist Wars | Whatever I use for Liberators |
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Spanish Civil War | Spanish Civil War | Crossfire / Fuego Cruzado and something grand tactical |
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New Zealand Wars | New Zealand Wars | TBD |
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Albuera (1811) Houses | Peninsular War | Volley & Bayonet |
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So many terrific looking projects to follow in 2020. Hope you get to them all!
Hello and happy new year!
I couldn’t face myself with such a daunting list…
I’m glad your tackling scenarios for both TVBD and Deep Battle from the offset. I think that’s essential for gaining players.
Richard
I do these lists to remind myself I’m an idiot.
T S Eliot said “humankind can not bear very much reality,” but unreality can be overbearing too…
You just broke the old saying: “If you have unpainted lead, you cannot die”. You have changed it to “if you have enough unfinished projects……”
Dick(that’s my name, not my personality) Bryant
The two are, of course, related. Behind every great, but incomplete, wargaming project is an enormous pile of unpainted lead.
I’m holding my breath for Deep Battle! 🙂