Many Topics

I know I haven't been posting here lately, but I still am planning to do so soon and making plans for buying the figures from Pendraken. 

The First topic is that Victoria 2: A House Divided comes out tommorow!  I probably wont get it right away, but considering it is an expansion for a strategy game, it could probably be found pretty cheap for download somewhere.  If this had happened a few months ago I would not have cared at all, but fortunately I have come back to Victoria 2 and played a few games, one with america up until the late 1860s!  Almost a record long time for me.  Anyway I hope the expansion encourages German conquest of Schleswig-Holstein and adds many new nations including some Mexican ones!

The second topic are a few new ideas for wargaming.  They have come from books and media that I have seen recently.  The first idea is Peshawar Lancers wargaming, of which I have recently read the book, it probably could be done with 10mm, you could probably use native troops from the Northwest Frontier and Boers and well as W.W.1 Australians for Imperial Angrezi forces and just Northwest Frontier Bandits for their enemy's.  Unfortunately you would have to watch out for those pith helmets, a shame if you ask me, I rather like them.  The second idea I came up with is a game based off of the Harry Turtledove book Agent of Byzantium, you could probably use early 1400s Byzantines for the Byzantines, and Generic European barbarians for the Franco-Saxons, they only problem is that for the Franco-Saxons there would have to be some sort of distinguishing symbols so you know they were not just generic European barbarians, maybe a Cock on the flag, or a cockade.  The third idea is from another harry Turtledove series, The T.L.-191 W.W.1 books, but these are already explained below in the post entitled "Christmas".  For some reason I also think it would be cool to get some Star Wars risk Gammoreons and paint them as pigmen.

The final area to talk about is my Pendraken miniatures order, I will order it but I just haven't found the time to decide what I want and then buy it, because I have a rather busy schedule with school and pesky math homework then I have to practice the Tuba, leaving me very little other time.  Anyway I had to cut down my plan for the Orcs&Foblins army to be infantry as 5 men and cavalry as 3 men.  Hopefully that will reduce costs enough to let me buy a second army, which brings me to another point.  See, at first I was thinking of a Dwarf army to fight the Orcs&Goblins, but now I realized I could but Egyptians for a lower price and get theri monsters from  Eagle Games and other sets, that would possibly leave me room to buy a few TL-191 W.W.1 test sets.

Also, no school tomorrow so I definitely will try to update some sets that are partially painted and maybe even get my order sent!