This is not so much solo as for miniature gaming in general.
One of the most often dilemmas I find other gamers having is finding inspiration for their games.
While this can happen to all of us, it is not hard to cure if you just look around you. Here are some of my suggestions for gaming inspiration:
So the next time you lack inspiration - just look around you and I'm sure you will find something near to give you that spark!
Well, it is good to have a new podcast out and to be getting great comments from all my fellow solo wargamers out there. In case any of you are confused, the new podcast is being hosted by podbean.com and can be found at http://solowargamingshow.podbean.com . I am really happy with the website and its content and the ability to add pictures. I hope to set it up through Itunes soon and then hopefully I'll just have to post to it from then on out.
In other news, I recently picked up a copy of Donald Featherstone's "Wargames through the Ages: 3,000 B.C. to 1500 A.D." When I ordered the book I had no idea that I had actually poured over this book when I was younger in my local library taking in the information, sketches and tables. For those of you who do not own the book, Mr. Featherstone covers the different historical armies/soldiers of the periods from 3,000 B.C. to 1500 A.D. However he does it in what could probably be called the first Army List format. Each chapter covers a new army/nation like say the Saxons. He then describes the army, its fighting methods, its strengths, its weaknesses and even better he summarizes it at the end of each chapter under several common categories like organization, command, etc. So if you want to compare the organization of an early New Egyptian army to that of a Greek City State you can do that and determine which should be comparatively more organized. Just to clarify these are not "wargame" stats for any particular game they are simply "rankings" which allows you to then extrapolate and use them when "stating" out the various armies/nations yourself.
This book was the basis for a wargame I later made when I was younger called the Joint Kingdoms based on a world where armies/nations from different great periods in Earth's history all fought at the same time in the same world, so you could have Ceasar's Romans v Alexander's Macedonians. King Richard's Knights v Darius of Persia. In fact my game included summary tables similar to Mr. Featherstone's but wtih different categories and more of them.
It sure brought back a lot of memories though holding this book again and I definitely intend to work it into a podcast.
It's good to be back!
