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General => Announcements and forum stuff => Introductions => Topic started by: Triarii on December 28, 2021, 11:38:50 AM
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Hi,
Long time lurker, lost account details, just gotten around to logging back in. Enjoying the write ups and I'm blatantly stealing inspiration from battles, campaigns and paint schemes.
Back into wargaming after a huge gap, but have gamed using other peoples stuff for a while now. I'm mainly into getting skirmish level stuff in 28mm, like VBCW, Pulp Alley and other similar genres. I have an interest in Cthulhu so have built some Innsmouth inspired stuff and painted up a few fish people. Happy to play, and have played anything anything really.
Started years ago with 1/72 Romans and Greeks, then 1/72 WW2 by the bucket load, before moving onto medieval using WRG 6th Edition (nearly put me off forever), especially Wars Of The Roses and Swiss / Burgundian wars. A hiatus whilst I played RPGs, mainly Traveller and some Paranoia, but they needed figures too.
Then got into 15mm War of the Spanish Succession using a range of rules before selling off my armies to a gent in the US ($ lots). Dabbled in DBM for a bit, and eventually sold off my medievals as DBM armies (£ lots).
The big gap followed and a few years ago VBCW caught my eye as it allowed for deviations from rigid historical orbats and uniforms, was skirmish sized (no more painting 500 redcoats for me thankyou) supported an injection of imagination and the use of whatever activity was going on in your neck of the woods in the 1930s. I also liked the fact that it was between the horse and musket era and very modern warfare, with really crappy tanks (if available) and armoured cars, including homemade stuff.
I also really enjoy making scenery and in some ways find it more fun than painting figures, but then I also get a tad 'railway modeller' about my terrain and buildings. Pulp means I now have a range of stuff from desert, jungles, ancient ruins, historic rural and urban etc (and the resulting storage problems) and am always looking out for more inspiration.
A side interest, after visiting a number of Middle East countries and reading about the further east exploits of Valentin Barker et al, is the Trans Caucasian area and the local and 'East meets West' aspects of it.
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Welcome back, I'm a regular occupant on the lurkers bench, there's plenty to check out :)
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Welcome :)
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Welcome aboard!
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Welcome! We share many of the same interests. You are welcome to a game on Guam any time lol
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Welcome back. You should post some of your work and give us all a treat.
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Welcome back!
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Welcome. :)
Making scenery is always a great motivation.