I am pretty happy with my efforts in 2021 and now it is time to lay out my plans for 2022. As always they are crazy megalomaniac plans. 2021 proved that even pumped I can’t achieve all my annual goals. But I’ll try.
I start with a brain dump of my active projects, i.e. those all projects that are more or less “in progress”. The list is split into three parts: likely in 2022, unlikely, and background activity.
Likely projects in 2022
I bet you can guess. The big themes are Crossfire and Tilly’s Very Bad Day. Probably in that order. But Deep Battle is still in the running.
For Crossfire I’ve got four big aspirations for 2022. The first is to write an official scenario book for Crossfire and perhaps another official freebie. The second is to get my Crossfire forces for the Italian Campaign (1944-45) on table. Third is to both start and complete the Burma Campaign (1943-45) project (oops, nothing happened in 2021). And finally I want to get my Cool Ruins done.
For Tilly’s Very Bad Day I want to continue to explore combat in the east (Cossacks, Tatars). I also want to play a campaign if I can convince the guys (perhaps English Civil War). And lastly I want to adapt the rules to another period (South American Wars of Liberations).
But I know I should also stop sitting on my draft of Deep Battle and get it out there – Operational Warfare on the Eastern Front.
Project | Rules | Aspiration in 2022 |
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Official Crossfire material ➞ | ||
Crossfire Scenario book | Crossfire | I’ve been talking to Arty about writing a scenario book for Crossfire. |
Crossfire freebie booklet | Crossfire | I’ve got various ideas for another freebie booklet for Crossfire |
1943-45 Italian Campaign ➞ | ||
Scenarios for the Italian Campaign | Crossfire |
Now that I have all the armies I need to:
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1941-45 Burma Campaign ➞ | ||
Japanese | Crossfire |
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Japanese tanks and tankettes | Crossfire |
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Gurkhas, 14th Army | Crossfire |
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Welsh, 14th Army | Crossfire |
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Scenarios for the Burma Campaign | Crossfire |
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1941-45 Eastern Front ➞ | ||
Cool Ruins | Crossfire |
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Deep Battle | Deep Battle |
I disappointed Andrés Ferrari again in 2021. I’ll try for a “Beta” in 2022.
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1810-1824 South American Wars of Liberation aka Liberators ➞ | ||
Rules for Liberators | TBD |
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Sipe Sipe (1815) | TBD |
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1618-48 Thirty Years War ➞ and 16642-51 English Civil War ➞ | ||
Eastern Armies | Tilly’s Very Bad Day |
I want to continue to explore eastern armies in Tilly’s Very Bad Day so I’m going to buy/paint armies for:
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Populous, Rich, and Rebellious – English Civil War Campaign | Tilly’s Very Bad Day | This one rolls over from 2021 … Corral Adam, Chris and Jamie to play a four player Tilly’s Very Bad Day campaign set in the English Civil War |
Tilly’s Very Bad Day Scenarios | Tilly’s Very Bad Day |
Write more Tilly’s Very Bad Day Scenarios:
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Unlikely projects in 2022
Here are the “active” projects that I don’t think I’ll get to in 2022.
Project | Rules | Aspiration in 2022 |
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Biblical ➞ | ||
Battle of Kadesh | Big Base DBA |
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264-27 BC Rise of Rome ➞ | ||
Rules for Rise of Rome | Dunno |
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Raise armies for Rise of Rome | Big Base DBA and its replacement |
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Command Stands for Rise of Rome | Big Base DBA and its replacement |
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Camps for the Rise of Rome | Big Base DBA and its replacement |
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406-476 Fall of Rome ➞ | ||
Fall of Hispania Campaign | Any |
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Reinforcements for the Fall of Rome | Big Base DBA and its replacement |
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Command Stands for Fall of Rome | Big Base DBA and its replacement |
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476 – 1492 Medieval ➞ | ||
100 Years War | Big Base DBA |
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Catalan Company | Big Base DBA |
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Reconquista | Big Base DBA |
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1494-1559 Italian Wars ➞ | ||
Rules for Italian Wars | Variant on DBA or Tilly’s Very Bad Day |
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Reinforcements for the Italian Wars | Variant on DBA or Tilly’s Very Bad Day |
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1494-1700 New World ➞ | ||
Big Base Conquistadores | New World DBA |
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Big Base Aztecs | New World DBA |
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Big Base Mayan | New World DBA |
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Big Base Sinhalese | New World DBA |
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Big Base Malay | New World DBA |
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Big Base Portuguese Explorers | New World DBA |
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Big Base Africans | New World DBA |
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1618-48 Thirty Years War➞ | ||
Transylvanian | Tilly’s Very Bad Day |
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1808-1814 Peninsular War ➞ | ||
Peninsular Flags | Volley & Bayonet |
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Albuera (1811) | Volley & Bayonet |
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Albuera (1811) Houses | Volley & Bayonet |
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1810-1824 South American Wars of Liberation aka Liberators ➞ | ||
Liberators skirmishers | TBD |
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Simón Bolívar and the Northern War | TBD |
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1833-40 First Carlist War ➞ | ||
Carlist Wars | Whatever I use for Liberators |
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1845-72 New Zealand Wars ➞ | ||
New Zealand Wars | TBD |
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1893-1926 Rif Wars ➞ | ||
Riffi | Crossfire / Fuego Cruzado and something grand tactical |
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Middle Eastern Houses | Crossfire / Fuego Cruzado and something grand tactical |
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Grand Tactical Rif Wars | Something grand tactical |
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1936-39 Spanish Civil War ➞ | ||
Crossfire for the Spanish Civil War | Fuego Cruzado |
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Grand Tactical Spanish Civil War | Something grand tactical |
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1941-45 Eastern Front ➞ | ||
Soviet Tank Riders | Crossfire |
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Ponyri Station | Crossfire | |
3rd Battery of the 1454th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment | Crossfire |
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Operational Artic Fox | Megablitz |
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Berlin (1945) | Crossfire |
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1943-45 Italian Campaign ➞ | ||
French Expeditionary Corps (FEC) – French/Moroccan/Spanish | Crossfire |
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1948-now Arab-Israeli Wars ➞ | ||
1967 Arab-Israeli War | Crossfire | |
1955-75 Vietnam War ➞ | ||
ANZACs in Vietnam | Crossfire | Do the ANZACs in Vietnam – Steven’s Wargaming Project |
PAVN | Crossfire |
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PAVN Sappers | Crossfire |
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Viet Cong Main Force | Crossfire |
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1963-73 Portuguese Colonial War ➞ | ||
African Huts | Fogo Cruzado / Crossfire |
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Portuguese Colonial War Scenarios | Fogo Cruzado / Crossfire |
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Portuguese Paratroopers | Fogo Cruzado / Crossfire |
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Reinforce Portuguese Light Infantry (Caçadores) | Fogo Cruzado / Crossfire |
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Modelling ➞ | ||
Storage labels | All |
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Rivers | All |
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Background activity
The goal is Wargaming. Any but mostly Crossfire, Tilly’s Very Bad Day, Big Base DBA/HOTT, and Operational.
I have to catch up on my photography. No urgency but I’d like to do some of these this year.
- Biblical / Ancients
- Hittites for Big Base DBA
- Polybian Roman for Big Base DBA
- Later Carthaginian Army for Big Base DBA
- Seleucid Army for Big Base DBA
- Later Macedonian for Big Base DBA
- Gallic
- Numidian
- Sicilian Greek
- Late Imperial Roman
- Germanic Horde
- Alan
- Dark Ages / Reconquista
- Strathclyde Welsh (Northern Cymry) including gods and dragons
- Muslim wizards, paladins, sneakers etc
- Andalusian
- Murabitun
- Almohades
- Medieval / Reconquista
- Later Visigothic
- Feudal Spanish and Portuguese
- Medieval Spanish and Portuguese
- 30 Years War / 80 Years War
- Dutch
- Saxon
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Peninsular War
- WW2
- Soviet Motorised Rifle Battalion
- Kiwi Battalion
- US Battalion
- German Battalion in Italy
- buildings / Ruins e.g. features on AYLAFRED, Commission Figurines, Iron Clad miniatures, Magnetic Displays, Mark IV Minis, Sarissa Precision, and Wargames Tournaments. Railway Embankment
- Portuguese Colonial War
- Insurgents
- 1967 Arab-Israeli War
- 1967 United Arab Republic (Egyptian)
Hi Steven
It would be good to see something of ‘Deep Battle’. You might find that some feedback helps things forward.
Happy new year!
Richard
Fair point Richard.
I’d like to make a pitch for photography to support Tilly and 80YW. Trying Tilly and 80YW are in my goals list for 2022.
Bill, what do you mean by “photography to support … “?
Nice to meet somebody else interested in 80YW. This is what lead me to the Thirty Years War.
Just more photos of games and units. And game ideas. There’s just not much in English out there.
Happy new year Steven!
You didn’t disappoint me at all, but I do admit I would really like to see your latest thoughts on Deep Battle, even if it’s at a very early stage.
If Bolivar’s Very Bad Day comes to fruition on 2022 that would also be nice 🙂
Cheers!
Note: I would definitely buy Deep Battle and also your Crossfire scenario book (which knowing your proclivities is sure to have lots of Eastern Front scenarios), don’t think I’m asking for freebies! So keeping my fingers crossed they eventually happen!
Really looking forward to play testing some more ‘Bolivar’s Very Bad Day’, this is one to be excited for in my opinion!