With my upcoming retirement in a few years I decided it was time to sit down and work out what games I wanted to play in my retirement.
Rather than follow the trend of newest, brightest, shiniest, I have decided to go with games that I have enjoyed playing over the years. We all have games we loved but moved on from when a newer (and sometimes inferior) edition came along. So I spent time writing a list of the games I really enjoyed playing – and why.
At the top of the list came Warhammer Ancient Battles. It was a ruleset that harkened back to units rather than “elements”, and had a great deal of the things I found enjoyable in Warhammer Fantasy Battles.
The second item to hit the list was Warhammer Fantasy Battles. For me 6th edition was when I was most involved in the games, and a time when hero-hammer was gone and horde-hammer was yet to arrive. For the most part the armies were well balanced and the Warhammer universe had yet to go very very dark, as it started to do with 7th edition.
Middle Earth Strategy Battle Games comes in a solid third on my list of projects. The cost of the books is a little steep (especially in New Zealand where we pay double the exchange rate for stuff bought locally) but the game is solid. The acquisition of a 3d printer has helped.
Lastly I will be assembling a small collection of 28mm WW2 figures and vehicles for NW Europe. It is tempting to buy into lots of other campaigns as well, but this is to be my minor project, so limitations must apply. Endless gaming fun can be had though with just a platoon aside thanks to Too Fat Lardies and their Chain of Command ruleset and campaign modules.
I have also started dabbling in Star Wars Legion. It is unclear at this stage as to whether it is a distraction or will soon become quite the obsession! Past experience suggests the latter…