tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15312232.post6731011011731772429..comments2024-03-28T18:21:10.728+11:00Comments on The Duchy of Alzheim: HeckenfeurBloggeratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501347647235993401noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15312232.post-44748637268332538842012-09-27T08:06:01.070+10:002012-09-27T08:06:01.070+10:00On behalf of Pjotr:
Greg,
I write you this mail...On behalf of Pjotr:<br /><br />Greg, <br /><br />I write you this mail because I can't convince blogger I'm not a robot.<br /><br />First of I'm rather getting tired of writers patronizing me in gaming magazines and I don't appreciate these fellow hobbyists telling what "us" wargamers and "you" wargamer really want or ought to do: I can make up my own mind thank you. I mean, all the stress of reaching goals and keeping focussed...I have that at work...I don't need that in my free time.<br />That's just the fun of having a hobby: I can do whatever I want, when I feel like doing it. <br />I should feel bad having run over someone with a car, leaving my pregnant wife and two sick children, ...but come on, should I be talked into feeling bad because I started a project and not feeling up to it any more, or having other interesting things to discover for the moment.<br />If you are content enjoying many things but not reaching any goals...be happy with that. <br />Well, I guess somebody got me on my horse a while ago, but I just don't like wasting time and money by reading how to optimise my hobby output to reach certain goals again and again. It's just not interesting, at all.<br />I like looking at pretty pictures like your latest painted colonial miniatures (really wonderful), reading the odd battle reports and refights. Spending time painting and organising armies without feeling obliged to write about them in a blog, just because once I thought it would be fun doing so (for me time spent not blogging is time spent modelling) but in the end wasn't fun. <br /> <br />Anyway, I guess the point of a hobby is that it should be impossible to have bad feelings about it.<br /> <br />Right, got that out of my system, thank you for your patience. I just hope you get my drift, it's not aimed at you at all.<br /><br />PjotrBloggeratorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15501347647235993401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15312232.post-75179100719944436552012-09-20T21:46:32.252+10:002012-09-20T21:46:32.252+10:00Historicity - I try and keep it to the period with...Historicity - I try and keep it to the period with variations, sometimes a mix of real and imaginary units. The look of the period is important to me; some periods need more exactitude.<br /><br />Projects - I've got too many (?) but I find that it provides variety. I try to get to a point on startup of a project to enough for initial game, then I may move to another project for a change of pace or different modelling challenge etc<br /><br />above all enjoying the hobby time is the main point<br /><br />-- Allan<br /><br /><br />tidders2https://www.blogger.com/profile/01858990279764140459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15312232.post-47065558168039271882012-09-20T21:20:18.947+10:002012-09-20T21:20:18.947+10:00Firstly, thanks for painting up the lancers and th...Firstly, thanks for painting up the lancers and the Long Tom, 2 more things I won't have to do myself, :)<br /><br />As for the rest, there's a couple of questions wrapped up in there. The short answers I think are expectations and impatience. <br /><br />Starting with the mega project, a lot of the original inspiration comes from a less urgent age where people expected things to take time and hobby projects were about the doing not the final outcome. <br /><br />I tend to do things in a haphazard way, it is my nature, but despite this I have vague sorts of plans of where each part of my wargame collections are headed over a period of 5 - 10 years as well as shorter goals along the way. As I look about the room, I have about 15 different periods in 3 scales on the go with as many past and gone. The oldest one stretches about 38 years, the youngest one, only 3, is faltering and vague, not knowing where it is going or if it is, is at least gameable and has been played.<br /><br />As for imaginations, it is our own chains. There is a more public face to fictional Colonial campaigns and Tricorne campaigns because of a few individuals but one only needs to scratch a very little to find such things throughout the breadth of wargaming from ancients to modern, from the Hyborian Campaigns of Tony Bath to AK47 etc etc. <br /><br />I find that it is hard to inject fictional countries into very specific settings, such as the F&IW but it is relatively easy to inject fictional units and campaigns. eg Colonel Blood's expedition against Fort Rien on the Neverwaussie River.<br /><br />Anyway, I think the mini-diorama idea is not a bad one. Esp if it is a temporrary diorama in Toy Soldier fashion which could at some point be used to play games should the occasion arise.<br /><br />-RossRoss Mac rmacfa@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04053555991679802013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15312232.post-13478251962886715132012-09-20T20:37:54.378+10:002012-09-20T20:37:54.378+10:00I think I see a pattern, here. I am much the same...I think I see a pattern, here. I am much the same - with several projects and ideas going at once. Some of us do have excuses, or reasons bordering upon excuses (exogenous and unforeseen interruptions). Less excusable, but more compelling are detours into other worlds, realms, periods, and ideas. <br /><br />For all that, I do feel that I'm gradually closing in upon something. At least I am in a position to fight some sort of campaign in most of my favoured periods. Give or take a playing surface...Archduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15312232.post-39717411415049808412012-09-20T15:34:03.054+10:002012-09-20T15:34:03.054+10:00I find that my pattern is a little like this: I st...I find that my pattern is a little like this: I start or to be honest, pick up a project started months ago. I work like mad on it. Get distracted by another, run hard on that, then another until I have 3-4 on at the one time, dind my efforts are too dissipated, get discouraged, shelve the lot and then the cycle starts again! Like the tide, with each wave I advance a little further up the beach!<br /><br />GregBloggeratorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15501347647235993401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15312232.post-91366063827529416072012-09-20T15:26:54.574+10:002012-09-20T15:26:54.574+10:00Fitzbadger has said it well.Many projects equals m...Fitzbadger has said it well.Many projects equals much fun.Like browsing in a library I pick up periods,run with them,put them aside and pick them up again.The cycle is ever going onwards and is enjoyable.<br />Some folk in the ether try to make one feel "bad" for not doing one thing,one vast mega project.It is a shame for that is not the way for all of us.So what if we start something and move onto another period.Only to revist a year or so down the line.<br />Let's enjoy our hobby and celebrate the orginality of others!<br />cheers<br />Alantradgardmastarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13116967655904601740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15312232.post-75185251346474898282012-09-20T10:03:34.669+10:002012-09-20T10:03:34.669+10:00My answer to both of your observations is "it...My answer to both of your observations is "it's about the fun".<br />Large Charge or Grantian units and armies were never in my sights, because I know my limits and knew I wouldn't have fun that way.<br />I do have different projects going on and different games and figures, because that's fun for me.<br />I don't worry much about "historicity" in any period/genre I game, mostly because my inspiration comes from Hollywood and other fiction as much as or more so than from history. For me that is fun. Delving into the history and "historicity" may be fun for people that go that route.<br />After all, this is a hobby - it should be fun. :)Fitz-Badgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15510866929782142007noreply@blogger.com