Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Allan Quatermain and another blog!




I can't start a new year without a new blog so I have decided to lump all my steampunk and other Victoriana into a new one called Legatus' Victoriana Wargames.  This will cover In Her Majesty's Name, Empire of the Dead and anything else which is nineteenth century skirmish based and outside Africa (I have a hankering for Wild West this year!).  One of the things I want to do this year is go back to the neglected blogs and try to do at least one thing for each so they don't look quite so sadly abandoned.

Of course, this brings the number of my wargaming blogs to 22.  Some people have wondered why I don't consolidate all my posts into one blog.  Well, apart from the fact it's too late to go back at this stage, I really like having separate ones for each period as I am often reminded of something I have half finished by looking at the various blog titles and thinking something like "now, where is that half finished unit of Carthaginian veterans?"  I set up the first blog to focus my painting (hollow laugh) and I do find that even if I don't do any painting I can at least do something on one of the blogs (especially if I am abroad).  

The first proper post (I have copied my other appropriate posts across too) is of my newly painted West Wind Allan Quatermain.  I have to acknowledge that Sofie's Paint Table Saturday is giving me a boost to get stuff done at the weekend and I am now evolving, for 2014, a process of working on one unit and one character at a time. 




I'm also going to note down the music I was listening to when I wrote each post.  Today it is the Symphony No 1 by Lars-Erik Larsson a hugely underrated Swedish composer who sounds like, as Sophie once put it, "Sibelius with tunes".   His piece Dagens Stunder (The hours of the day) is one of the most atmospheric and melodic pieces of music I know and deserves to be much better known.



11 comments:

  1. I agree that with so many different gaming / historical periods covered having a special blog devoted to every one of them is extremely reader friendly, makes information retrieval so much easier.

    Now, perusing the list of your blogs I observe that the 'tricorne' era is -to my very biased opinion- sadly underrepresented and, if I daresay, neglected. The GNW (last update just 3 years ago) and the Swashbucklers (18 months without a new post).... Not to mention the cavegirls falling in oblivion -though they could well live on some Mysterious Island and be discovered by your gallant explorers / pirates from various periods. I'm quite sure for instance EotD and IHMN could be played with miniatures (swashbucklers among them) in tricornes (re. here for instance)... For a part what is covered by the (controversial, I know) vocable of 'Lacepunk'.

    Anyway keep the good work, paint & post!
    Best wishes,
    Jean-Louis

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  2. I think the sheer number of figures you need for tricorne era has put me off up until now but I have recently ordered the new Donnybrook skirmish set with an intention of doing late seventeenth century skirmishes (big hats rather than tricones)but I also want to do French Indian War too.

    More GNW is on the way!

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    1. If you're interested in French Indian Wars, have a look at Muskets and Tomahawks... excellent rules that fall into the kind of large skirmish style game that let you get a reasonable number of figures on the table without it being a chore. Happy to give you a game if you fancy it!

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  3. That will be another one for me to follow then! I do like Sofie's idea, so simple and unpretentious, but just what I need to keep me going - after all what would more embarrassing than submitting the same photo every week?

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  4. I should have added that I love the Quatermain miniature too, must have one of those!

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  5. Alastair, yes please to a M and T game. I actually have the rules somewhere but no painted figures yet.

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  6. Alan Quartermain is a nice figure form the EoTD KS admirably painted I might add. I'm coming around to your blog for each period approach expect some new blogs from me.

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  7. That's rather unfair on old Sibelius. He's like Brahms - the tunes are there, you just have to find them.

    Giles

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    1. Sophie has many estimable qualities. Musical taste, however, is not one of them.

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