Thinking of starting Successors

[vodkafan]

I've gone and ordered some 20mm Seleucid Phalangites from New Line Designs. More Painting to do!! At least I can morph most of the other troops from my collection.

20mm? Do you already have a collection in that scale? I would have thought it would be a bit limited apart from plastic box sets?

[Zingara]

I already have a load of 1/72nd plastics - mainly HAT, but Italieri etc thrown in. 20mm will be a little shorter, but in separate units won't notice much.

[Westbury]

Feeling the weight of responsibility now Gregor 

[Westbury]

So, played a 2nd game of my rules with the amendments from the 1st and Gregors considerable input. Very pleased, game had a better flow, some of the original issues seem to be resolved or at least on their way to being resolved. The unit size changes will improve the visuals I think - difficult to tell with cardboard cut outs  and some of the tactical problems I wanted to create are there. Still a way to go but at least this time I only had half an A4 sheet of issues rather than several 

[Westbury]

So 3rd game played as has Gregor and its coming along nicely, moving into the fine tuning stage now rather than the "shit, that doesn't work!" phase.
Going to spend a bit of time consolidating the various changes into some kind of errata sheet we can all use rather than "didn't we agree to change......?" before the next play through.

The time is also fast approaching of agreeing on how many boxes of plastics we are going to buy and then getting into the painting cycle but the important decision is going to be whose metal cavalry to use - I did a bit of a data sheet on what is available, at what price and that was quite revealing.

[Easy E]

From what you said you wanted in the rules, you went a different route than I would have.  However, I am still really interested in hearing more about the high-level mechanics you came up with and why you are using them. 

It is the wargame designer in me!

[Westbury]

So, the rules are in a decent enough state to play without too much "what I meant was....! which means I can now concentrate on the army lists - everyone loves an army list!
Original plan was to do a matrix style spread sheet and list all the troop types down one side and then have the different protagonists across the top and just tick the boxes. Well that failed and it looked crap so now doing 'proper' lists and the more I read the more I feel the need to do another army list! What was originally the usual culprits, Imperial, Seleucid, Ptolemaic, Pyrrhic, etc has now grown somewhat but I'm having great fun doing it.
Also the painting slog has begun, 3 units of Greek mercenaries are done and an elephant, just need Victrix to get their act together and restock the pikemen!!
More detail on the blog at westburywargamers.com

[has.been]

It will be impressive when finished, as are all of the projects
you and Dave do.

[Westbury]

Thank you Pete, how very kind.

[Digits]

Yup, looking forward to seeing the game in progress with all those minis!

[Westbury]

So, rules and lists done as well as they can be until fully fledged painted armies can get stuck in and break them 
If anyone is interested in a pdf to have a go with or just critique then get in touch at our email westburywargaming@outlook.com

[Zingara]

All that is needed now is the armies !! How long are you figuring on that taking Ian?? Certainly look forward to an interesting panoply. If not going to get them all done at once may be worth having some games with smaller points totals - see some progress :-).

[vodkafan]

All that is needed now is the armies !! How long are you figuring on that taking Ian?? Certainly look forward to an interesting panoply. If not going to get them all done at once may be worth having some games with smaller points totals - see some progress :-).

I am sure my army for this is going to take a year even at full speed 

[Westbury]

Good point on doing smaller games with whatever gets done first Gregor; so far there are 4 units of Greek mercenaries and an elephant so not quite enough yet but by end of June we should have most of the skirmishers plus some peltasts and a goodly number of cavalry done so the summer could see us doing some smaller encounters.

[Zingara]

Sounds like you are making good headway. I'll be having to book some time off work to come and see :-).