Decision Time

One of the things I like to try and do is mix my painting projects by interspersing units from another collection between the units of the main task. It keeps things fresh for me and also means that I seem to get things done twice as fast. Up to last weekend that meant painting ECW units between the Persians. But as advertised in the previous post the Scots are finished.

So what next?

Well I bought a copy of "Beneath the Lily Banners" 2nd edition last week (if you thought that "Last Argument of Kings" was a lovely publication then you'll be very pleased with this - worth it for the pictures alone).

I've not played the rules but they have a lot of excellent reviews and I like the look of them after reading through. I'll publish a review later once I've chance to thoroughly digest them.

The eye candy photographs in the rules does mean that I'm now leaning towards getting around to re-basing and reorganising my Great Northern War project. All the infantry were done and I've got a lot of horse and some artillery in the barracks waiting for uniform distribution. BLB offers me a chance to remodel the battalions in smaller units and have fun making bases with features (just go and have a look at Barry website "League of Augsberg" and you'll see what I mean).

I need a little time to get my head around the concepts and to play with numbers and base sizes before committing myself, because this is the last time (how many times do we tell ourselves that?) I'm doing this. My original concept of 48 figure battalions was good but hard to realise and make playable on a normal game night. I think BLB might offer an alternative, Black Powder does but I'm not sure I want that style of play for this. Either way the unit size would be the same for both rule sets.