Bored Games: The Return

Yeah so, as stated before I haven't been doing blog posts for a while, but I need to re-start the 'paint all the miniatures and post them' project. I have by no means been completely out of wargaming and hobbying: I've actually painted a few things, played quite a few games here and there, and done a few projects.

Hex & Counter Design

One of these projects has been making maps and counters for hex & counter wargames, which I have ideas to either upload to Vassal and play online that way, or else print out and DIY to play physically.

I've worked on various of these games, but mainly focussing on really excellent Multi-Man Publishing/The Gamers titles such as Tactical Combat Series (TCS) and Battalion Combat Series (BCS), which I think are works of genius rules-wise and have vast potential for customisation.

TCS 1980s US Marines.

TCS modern Australians.

Works in progress: TCS Guyanese counters. 

Experimenting with shaded '3D-ised' counters for BCS.

Tiny Printed Strength & Honour

I have also started putting together a very compact, portable and low-cost printed version of Reisswitz Press/Too Fat Lardies' Strength & Honour, which I want to get into and explore fully with a campaign or two.

Very simple counter art: units for the Nicopolis 48 BC introductory scenario. Nowhere near as good as some commercially available printable armies, let alone 2mm miniatures themselves, but good enough for trying out the rules. (These will be printed at 4cm x 2cm).

A stylised Roman marching camp, again 4cm x 2cm. The maps will also be printed, with 2.5cm squares.