2024 Plans

It's January of a new year and it's time to build the list of plans for the year. No how many will I actually accomplish is a different question. But before we get started lets reflect back on 2023.

 2023 saw me start a terrain project with GHQ Terrain Maker system of 4" Hexes. I had spent the better part of 2021-2022 trying to come up with a nice playing surface for my games at home. I wanted something that looked good and was modular. I played around with standard mats and terrain boards. Neither one really fit what I wanted to do. I bought a few tubes of GHQ Tiles and got started playing around with that system. It has it's upsides and downsides but overall it is fitting exactly what I was looking for in a home terrain system.

Other projects included my first dive into what has been my favorite scale for land based games... 6mm. My local group decided a couple years ago to give Altar of Freedom a try using 6mm Baccus ACW miniatures. Our first game was solid, the game moved quickly, reached a reasonable resolution. It will definitely be a regular game for our group.

Now you ask what is the plan for 2024? You didn't talk much about naval, what gives? Well first and foremost in 2024 I really want to jump start this blog. I was really unsure of the direction I wanted to go. Plans fell through, plans never came to realization. 

 But for 2024 here are my plans: 

 Battles: 

 ACW

     - Perryville - 6mm ACW using Altar of Freedom 

     - Shiloh - 6mm ACW using Altar of Freedom 

These are two battles my local group definitely wants to do. These will be played out at the club as either 1v1 a multiplayer 2v2 or 2v1. Painting will need to be done to finish up my confederates for these games. 

 Naval

     - Various Mediterranean  naval engagements with both Victory at Sea and General Quarters 3.3. These will be played as I build up my naval forces for a campaign I'll mention below 

 Air Combat 

     - Missile Threat 1965-1975 Soviet's This will be our last minute pickup game of 2024. My opponent will be running USAF aircraft while I'll take the Soviets. 

 Campaigns: 

 WWII 

     - Operation Nostalgia: The Hypothetical 1943 Allied Invasion in the Aegean Sea This will be the big one and a shout out to Grymauch for the idea. But I will be doing Operation Nostalgia from two old editions of Wargaming Illustrated with some modifications to the OOBs.

     - Atlantic Naval Campaign - This is a Naval Thunder campaign that I'd like to replay with General Quarters 3.3 

 Painting/Workbench Projects 

     - Continue painting my Confederates and build to the Shiloh battle. This includes 14 more stands of infantry, 3 of cavalry, 3 Generals, 6 Artillery.

    

     - Operation Nostalgia OOBs. This will be probably 60+ stands of land based, 24 3mm aircraft, about 12 1/2400 ships. 

     - 12 - 1/285 scale Cold War Soviet aircraft 

     - Continue to expand my GHQ Terrain Maker Tile collection. This project will mostly coincide with the ACW battles.

This will be a busy year for me.  With Operation Nostalgia being my solo priority followed by ACW as my club priority.

Thank you all for following along I hope to be releasing much more content this year.