Opening Volley

 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 them rather than just Planning to Remember and then simply forgetting what those thoughts were.

As an opening post, I'm going to include a picture of a small set for Neil Thomas's excellent One Hour Wargames that I put together several years ago, and finally got to dust of yesterday. I may even continue to work on components for it too, as it felt good to be moving units and rolling dice around again. 

(The shot of the board is actually more of a mockup of events as I forgot to take pictures during the game!)





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