Romanes eunt domus!

So last night I decided to put off finishing painting my Welsh Bonnedig unit that's taking far too long to complete by digging out the Early Imperial Roman army that I bought back in the days before there was even any Northern Wasters. ( A gaming group from N. Ireland that liked to travel to Warhammer world for WFB tournaments.)
These had been bought via Wargames Foundry and their "Collections". In fact I remember their packs being £8 for 8 foot or 4 mounted figures, this is now £12, probably still not as good an investment as Lego. (Seriously 80s Lego was a better investment than gold, if you didn't play with it.....)
I had originally built this army for Warhammer Ancient Battles in their 1st incarnation using the sample army from the back of the book as the base. A small part of me regrets selling on all the WAB books that I had, and I had them all, but then I remember how much I sold them for and what I spent the money on so it's not to big a regret, and I probably still wouldn't have any opponents.
My rule set of choice is now Clash of Empires from Great Escape Games and true to their WAB inspired roots the EIR list is presented in the core rulebook, though of course I also posses the 3 source books they also have produced.
So armed with the old school pad of paper, pencil and calculator. (But not that old school as my smart phone stood in for the latter.) And only using figures I already possess I beefed up the small looking units from the WAB list and ended up with the following.

• General
• Sub commander on horse
• 24 Legionaries
• 20 Legionaries
• 20 Legionaries
• 24 Auxilaries
• 10 Archers
• 8 Javelinmen 
• 2 Scorpio
• 5 Equites Cohort
• 10 Allied Gallic/German cavalry.

Though if I drop 2 archers and 3 auxilaries I can afford a 2nd sub commander, or one to join the Gallic cavalry.
I would like to pretend I built this army around a battle plan, but those who know me would know I don't play games that way preferring to fit my plans to my armies but I feel this list is pretty solid if a bit light on skirmishers.
Now to get the Ancient Britons out and see what I can come up with for them.
(And virtual cookies for anyone correcting my Latin....)

There's a cream for that....

So.
I have the gaming itch again.
GW have dragged me back in. (40K is sooo sparkly at the moment.)
But I'm stopping at 2 Armies, OK maybe 3, yup definitely no more than 3 GW armies...

And there's other shineyness about.

I have some Saga stuff to get painted, in fact I've started, they're Welsh but that's OK.

And I've 15mm Greeks that need a system. L'Art de la Guerre (ADLG) seems to fill that need, of course I don't have enough Greeks so I need more. And then I'll need some other armies to fight, War of the Roses is sort of calling me here.

I still have 28mm Romans and Britons from when I wanted to play Warhammer Ancient Battles, Clash of Empires is my new choice of ruleset for those, as well as the Saxons and Vikings I've accidently bought lately. Maybe some Hail Ceaser for comfort.

And then there are the board games, so many board games, but not enough time to play them all.

I haven't really decided what direction this blog will go, probably just my incoherent ramblings and odd girly squeeee over something I find cool. Some tutorials will no doubt appear, some projects will be started but never completed.

Some weeks will get a post, some months may not.

It's not going to be a magazine for all that's new in the gaming world, too many people already doing that. It's just my way of telling people what I've been up to in the limited time left after a more than full time job, a healthy list of DIY and 2 young children have had their share.