the awful truth

[winterbadger]

Neta, sweetheart, I figured that sooner or later you would need to know the truth about wargamers. Even that video only hinted at it.

This tells the whole, dark story, just the way it is...

Comments

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

You're letter her read Larry Leadhead? Now I know you're serious - that's "if this doesn't scare her off, nothing will" territory. ;-)

In other news, I went out shopping for miniatures today (my first trip to our local gaming shop). It's so bizarre to actually have a local shop that sells a wide selection of historical minis. I didn't buy anything today, but I know where to go now to get 15mm Napoleonics, which I think is going to be my next project. But I want to decide what campaign and what ruleset before I buy any figures. (Though I suppose I could always get started on French - you always need French in Napoleonics.)

[winterbadger]

French, like black, go with everything.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Unfortunately, since there's still that little part in the back of my head that's screaming I should be doing this in 10mm rather than 15mm, I couldn't even get that. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to get that part of my brain to shut up, though, once I set down with the rulebooks and prove to it that there is no basing scheme that's compatible with both Shako and Empire that can be done with figures cast in strips of 5. If it turns out there is such a scheme, on the other hand, I'll be surprised as all hell - so surprised my head will probably explode from the shock of it.

[winterbadger]

Strips would work fine if you were basing for Grand Armee. :-)

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

If memory serves, they'd also work fine for Volley and Bayonet, but I'm trying to not have to buy another set of Napoleonics rules here. ;-) In the end, my main criterion will be "Do this basing system work for Empire?" because Shako seems flexible enough that it should be adaptable to anything that works for Empire.