Cast From Hitpoints

 Having the time (or rather energy) to squeeze a solo game in, I set up the grid board to play Bob Cordery's Portable Wargame.  I picked the book up originally around the time I got Neil Thomas's One Hour Wargames, and in fact the two seem to get recommended together a lot by those seeking space saving or solo Historical play. I also recently acquired Bob Cordery's Portable Napoleonic Rules, and till I expand the number of bases of units I have will be using a sort of slapped together mix of his two rulebooks as seems appropriate.  So, setting up a scenario from OHW and using the random force chart from it led us to the the Botched Relief of Glannes 1812.  The French Brigade under General Allard consisted of : 1st Infantry Battalion (Average) 2nd Infantry Battalion (Average) 3rd Infantry Battalion (Average) 1st Light Field Battery (Average) The British Brigade force under General Badger consisted of 1st Foot Infantry (Average) 2nd Foot Infantry (Average) 3rd Foot Inf...

 One of the things I've been trying to solve about making a small portable miniature-less version of OHW is the issue of terrain. Having flocked hills with simple wooden unit indicators seems a bit weird to me and defeats the purpose of trying to keep the whole thing simple, cheap and low effort.  So, what to do? One thought is to pre-print workable birds eye views of maps like these images pulled from google. While these would probably look nice on the 12 inch MDF board, and as decoration, it wouldn't solve issues where one game I would like a hill in the north, but for another scenario require an open field there.  One solution that originally occurred to me was using cute up bases, like the ones that you may have seen in the first post being used as hills. Renedra (or similar brand) square cavalry bases, the kind you typically end up placing two horses side by side on (that I had spare from an old and unfinished Saga project I may one day return to). However this requi...

 While I doubt many knew of my old tumblr wargame blogging of the same name, it has been long enough since I posted there (and long enough since I've done anything to blog about) that I finally took the plunge into making an account on blogspot (like the REAL wargame bloggers hur hur). Honestly, I had been gravitating towards this idea even back when I had been posting on tumblr still. Between several personal issues in my life as well as the These Trying Times of Covid, my content output has been nearly zero the last year or three. However, because of those things I have also been playing a lot more boardgames, including some solo games! So I figured why not make somewhere to return to throwing my opinions on them out into the void to.  I'm not sure yet if I am going to have any sort of theme to my posting content or frequency, but I suppose we will see how it goes. If nothing else, it'll allow me to collect some of my homebrewing thoughts on games after I've played th...