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Scenario 13, the long road home

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 Tonight's game was One-Hour Wargames scenario 13. The Blue army is returning home after raiding Red territory. It's journey is blocked by a number of Red units. 15 rounds till end of game. Blue achieves victory is they can get 3 units off the board by Southern Road. Reds only objective, is to not let that happen. At all costs. Each side has a 6 unit army. How OHW works for that is you roll a d6 for each side on the 6 unit table to get each army composition. Blues consisted of 3 Infantry, 1 Skirmish, and 2 Cav. The Reds consisted of 4 Infantry, 1 Skirmish, and 1 Cav. The table was set up with a main road down the center, a large forest on the left, and a hilltop on the right. Blue deploys all 6 units on the Northern Roads while Red only deploys 1 unit slightly up from the Southern Road. Blue takes the initiative every turn. The bugle sounds, the march is on. Turn 1 Blue time has the initiative for this game so they'll go first from here on out. Blue draws a chance card to s...

Feel like Icarus

      Recently I had a come to Jesus moment about my Wargaming/TTRPG hobby. I felt like Icarus and flew too close to the sun. I had too many rulesets, too many types and sizes of miniatures, a pile of random terrain that went no where. Just too much stuff. I've been chasing that next best thing and falling for the ol' fear of missing out. So when I finally got a second to sit down and play, I felt overwhelmed. I wasted so much time trying to choose a ruleset or scale, that I hardly has anytime to actually play. Terrible. So I took a step back and reset my hobby. I had to be honest with myself on what to keep and what to get rid of. First was the rulesets. I've thinned down my rulesets to just a few that I know I enjoy. Which in turn, helped with slimming down on terrain and miniatures. I've kept the appropriate and necessary terrain for the rulesets that I kept so now set up takes half the time. Now onto the hard one, everyone's favorite..... the miniatures. Too man...

Wargaming Blog

This is my attempt to get my thoughts, battle reports, and hobby progress out on paper. To me, this is just another outlet this great hobby allows me. I have too many ideas and thoughts going through my head, they need a place to go. This page will go through many changes as I figure out how things work. May the dice be forever in your favor, because they sure as hell hate me.