New Project: The War of Varasovian Succession

The War of Varasovian Succession : An Imaginations Campaign 

Campaign map, click for larger picture

“For thousands of years the Danaian Empire had ruled the regions washed by the Mother Sea. But 500 years ago, changes in climate led to mass migrations from the north and east of the region that overwhelmed and led to the collapse of the Danaian Empire. When the last Danaian Emperor signed off half of the empire to a confederation of tribes of migratory people, an era had ended, and a new era began, the Era of Kings.

Some news that caught my eye

Two things
1) Nicholas Murray and Chris Pringle have translated Clauzewit's history of the 1796 Italian Campaign.  This is the first english translation. You can find more at Chris Pringle's site.

2)  Secondly, Strategy and Tactics is coming out with a game on the Turkish War of Liberation. As you know I am also working ,slowly on my own interpretation of the Greek-Turkish War of 1919-1923 (which is seen as part of the wider conflict termed the Turkish War of Liberation), called "Salvation and Catastrophe". Knowing a bit about the type of game S&T produces, my expectation is that it will be an ok game, but one that will simplify some things too much and take out some of the sauce and core of the historical case. Still until I am able to get my own work out, this might be a good stop-over.

New Year Post! Happy 2018 to all!

Happy New Year to all of you, and especially my loyal blog followers. Health, Wealth, Joy, Peace to you and yours!.

I would like to update you all for the plans of 2018.

2017 was another good year of war-gaming for me. We completed our Bloody Big Battles “Last Century of the Ottomans” Campaign. I was almost done with the play-testing of my and Chris Pringle’s scenario supplement for Bloody Big Battles, focused on the 1^st and 2^nd Balkan Wars of 1912-1913, titled “Bloody Big Balkan Battles”. I even got some 40k Action in.

But 2018 has also brought some clarity and decision to clean slate. I am selling a lot of my stuff (you can see at Agora. My main goal is to sale in Turkey right now, but if you find something you like and are willing to cover the shipping costs, talk to me). This year my hobby plans are as follows

1) Finish the playtesting and writing of “Bloody Big Balkan Battles”, with a publish date target of either Summer 2018, or Winter 2018.

2) Paint my 10mm Pendraken Miniatures Austro-Saxon Army for the BBB Konningratz/Sadowa scenario.

3) Me, Onur and Nacho have become determined to do some later 17^th century, early 18^th century war gaming. Those of you who have been around this blog from the start, know that this blog began as part of an aborted attempt to get into the 18^th Century Imagination gaming. Well some things never die, and we decided to go down the imagination path. We will be waging the “War of Varsovian Succession” using the “Might and Reason” rules, with the “Lion and Cresent” and “Sun King” expasions, and the Might and Reason seasonal campaign system (here is a preview of the map I created).

We decided to go for 1/72 scale figures. My forces, representing the Dominion of the House of Travlos (hey it is make believe and I will satisfy my ego), will be based on Imperial forces in the War of Spanish Succesion but are themed after the Venetian armies in the Great Turkish War. Nacho is building his based on Spanish Bourbon forces, fighting for the Great Kingdom of Sanchez, while Onur will fight using Ottomans, for the Onur Halil Pasha Beylik.

4) Once the BBBB supplement is done, focus fully on the board-game “Salvation and Catastrophe: The Greek-Turkish War of 1919-1923” (here is a preview of the cover illustration I made)

5) I am running a e-mail game for the board game “Iron and Blood”, based on the 1866 Seven Weeks War scenario.

6)  Do a scenario for Great War Spearhead based on the Battle of Skra Di Legen, preferably close to the anniversary of the a battle (May 2018).

WW1 Exhibition at the National Historical Museum Athens

Happy New Year to all. I will make a more proper new year post later, but for now here are some pictures from the WW1 Exhibit set up at the National Historical Museum in Athens, Greece. Click on pictures for a bigger view

First off, an unknown, to me, painting from the 2nd Balkan War

The Exhibition