I have been repainting, repairing and adding to my 20mm American west collection on and off now for the last six month. Surprisingly my interest hasn’t waived. I am great at starting projects but get distracted so easily. It’s like that heavily caffeinated squirrel like entity that’s sitting where my brain should be is making me dash all over the hobby spectrum. But it’s not happening with this project. I have marshalled all the components and have it all up to a good games table standard. My standards will differ from yours however because A) I have a visual impairment so my painting is impressionistic. B) I have a ton of that certain green paint and flocking material that was last in vogue in the early 1990’s but which if I am honest is still my basing aesthetic. So what to do with all my refurbished toys.
A limited series of games that form a narrative appeals. I’ve done this before back in November 2009, where I refought the Black Hills campaign of 1876, sufficed to say that the Native American Indians did even better that time of decimating Reno’s, Benton’s and Custer’s commands. Back then I had a more historical bent to my scenario design having read several books on the campaign. Today though, I could at best only hope to play games that would owe more to Hollywood western movies than history. Which really appeals, perhaps 3 or 4 games that have as an opener an attack on a 7th cavalry supply column as an incentive to ride back into rolling hills to eliminate those pesky Indians.
Well that’s a plan and there ain’t nobody tells me how to play with my toy soldiers, “dag nabit”. Time to make a list of must watch westerns.
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| Bless Those Old Atlantic figures, Big Men Smaller Horses. |
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| Apache Scouts |
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| A Supply Train Just Ripe For The Plucking. |
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Comanche Scouts, Scouting.
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