Welcome to little lead men of valour

Hello all and welcome to my wargamming blogsite. My Name is Neil and I am a keen wargamer based in Melbourne. I am a member of Nunawading wargames Association http://www.nwa.org.au/index.html

This blog will cover current and past wargamming projects and provide plenty of eyecandy for the wargamming fan. I will also add articles I have written on various aspects of our curious hobby including lots of how- to stuff.

Currently I am interested/playing the following games/genres:

De Bellis Antiquatatis (DBA) - Ancient & medieval wargamming.
For this I use 15mm figures. At the NWA we run a different campaign each year. Last year was the 1st Crusade, previous years we have had Fall of the Roman Republic, Samurai Age of War
http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/neil_hughes/sengoku%20jidai.htm
and this year we are going to be playing The War of the Roses.

Hordes of the Things (HOTT) - Fantasy wargamming
A great set of rules for fantasy/sci fi gaming based on the DBA system but with some great extra troop types. I use 28mm figures (God's own scale) predominately Games Worshop figures. Despite GW's many faults they do make superb figures. Here is the NWA HOTT club page:
http://www.nwa.org.au/hott/hott.html We play a fair bit of Big Battle HOTT >36AP rather than standard HOTT.

Warhammer EPIC 40K.
One of the best games to come out of GW. I play the imperial guard and plan to do Feral orks in the future.

Canvas Eagles - World War I dogfighting
We play this great game using 1/72nd scale figures. I recently scratchbuilt a Zeppelin for our club open day. http://www.nwa.org.au/events/080809games08/backroom/g08backroom.html#ww1

Gaslight- Victorian Science Fiction gaming
We have just started playing this. Currently I am painting a 28mm British force using mainly Eureka Miniatures figures and scratchbuilt vehicles.

English Civil War - 28mm
This is the other main project for 2009. I plan to play it in 28mm using probably Foundry,Perry and the upcoming Warlords games plastic 28mm figures.

other games/periods I have some interest:

Warhammer 40K
Lord of the Rings
Bloodbowl
American Civil war
Napoleonics
Napoleonic Naval 1/1200
Colonial


I hope you enjoy visiting this blog.

Cheers
Neil.