I saw two things at Salute that lodged in my brain and have been festering ever since. One was Simon Miller's forthcoming horse and musket variation on To The Strongest! provisionally entitled Lust for Glory! The other were the WoFun plexiglass flats. After some intense soul searching over the last few days I've fully resolved to invest in the WoFun War of Spanish Succession and English Civil War standees. Both of these will be used primarily for Simon's grid games - LfG! and For King & Parliament!
Although intrigued by WoFun, I wasn't initially convinced, but the more I thought about it, the more I was attracted to the style of the 'figures' and the straightforwardness of the pre-printed approach. They will be ready-to-play after a couple of hours' assembly and light to carry.
It has also helped me to come to terms with the obvious: I will never complete more than a tiny fraction of my accumulated lead mountain and might as well start disposing of it.
An initial ECW order is in and a WoSS order will follow. The disposal side will take longer and be more difficult. This is undoubtedly the most revolutionary development in the history of my adult wargaming career.
It took some time to decide on the scale. The beauty of the artwork shows best with the larger figures, especially 28mm, but the ECW rules require some flexibility in unit representation (e.g. small, large, pike-heavy, shot-heavy etc) and this was best offered by the 18mm stands. I'm not attracted to the 10mm flats as it's quick and easy to paint 3D figures in that scale, but my attitude may change if I decide to invest in Napoleonics. And maybe I'll also look at the '45, another period I've always wanted to do.
I've bought a lot of Wofun figures, whilst not for everyone they have enabled me to get figures onto the tabletop and playing in short time . I would suggest joining the Wofun fans group on Facebook as they have some guidance on ordering and avoiding VAT etc
ReplyDeleteThanks for the heads-up about reducing costs. Too late for my first order, but I'll take advantage of that in future.
DeleteI was lucky enough to be allowed to play LfG at Salute by Simon. Thoroughly enjoyed and whilst I should have read the rules in more depth I thought they were an interesting set and different again from TTS and K&P - The basics are still there. Simon is talking about extending them up to the American War of Independence...
ReplyDeleteSimon has kindly penciled me in for a future event.
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