New Year

It is now 2015 and the work still continues on the armies.  I am well into the many infantry regiments of Bernefels.  They are the largest nation in the campaign.  So what have I learned in undertaking a project like this?  Well, for starters, my ambition was a little high!  I have three armies completely done and printed.  I have one army that is complete but I have yet to print them out and base them.  The time it takes to put the miniatures together is longer than I though.  The auto cutter I bought definitely cuts the time in half but it is still a time consuming process to glue and base 20+ infantry battalions.  I am struggling now to really set on a rule set.  I was going to use Piquet for it's card driven mechanic that works really well for solo war gaming, however, I just recently picked up Bob Jones' new rule set Die Fighting 2.  This seems like an interesting set of rules and will work for solo war gaming as well.  I plan on giving the rules a test run soon and see how they play out.  Also working out some campaign rules as some of the rules I've found have the campaign end way too early.  Everyone always talks about a war ending in a month, but it never happens!  So it would be unrealistic to have a campaign end in that time frame, especially with the amount of combatants I have in this campaign.  I would like to see this be a long grueling campaign that might see the destruction of a couple of these nation states and the political landscape change in this made up country of mine!  2015 I want to focus on finishing the armies and developing the narrative of this war.  Bring out the personalities and the movers and shakers of this war.