Saturday 8 May 2021

20mm - across the ages

 Still very busy, so no new games...so in order to fill space, a smattering of old pics from the 20mm  games completed across the last 7 or 8 years of the blog - old 20mm plastics still great (where does the time go?).

 And yes - I'm repeating old pics now, so things must be desperate LOL..

 

A game from 2014 - Snappy Nappy at Waterloo/Wavre



From the 2-day Arnhem battle

Steiner's boys defending Ponyri in 2019 during Steve's excellent Kursk campaign

some..ancients, no less

Market Garden action - Sept 18 - with Command Decision

Ardennes with FoB - and explosions!

Vietnam taster

ACW with FoB - Aug 19


FoB WW2

This was 'Five men in Normandy' - though one bloke here...

Some 'Field of Battle WW2' in Tunisia - from a few years back.

First look at 'Crossfire' in 20mm - really must revisit these rules.

20mm ACW with 'Field of Battle'

More FoBWW2 - Ardennes classic

Final scenes from the Arnhem game, during last year's lockdown

Bekaa valley action with 7D

Punic Wars in 20mm with 'Age of Hannibal' - again, this needs more attention.

Soviet Hordes in 'Iron Cross'.

Feb 2019 (remember it well!!) - Khe Sanh with 'FOB'

Another Vietnam game from 2015 I think.

A very old Waterloo game, done at the birth of the blog, with Snappy Nappy - great game if I recall.

...must...do ...more ...gaming.  I can't possibly continue rehashing old pics like this :)  The Wargaming Blog Police are after me already !!!   It reminds me of when Kiss used to re-hash old tracks for new albums...of course, people would still buy them ...
 


15 comments:

  1. Lovely shots, I wish the hard plastics revolution had been in 20mm and 1/72 rather than the 28mm that we got!

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    1. Thanks Norm - I had to get something on the blog :) even if it's rehashed.
      I agree - there's something about the scale that I love - I guess it's nostalgia for the Airfix days to an extent, when we were kids in the 70s/80s.
      I bought a few Warrior Miniatures true 25s recently - and they are compatible with modern plastics, and very old school, and toy-soldier style - really opened my eyes to the old school possibilities. As you say, if 20mm had remained a thing, wargaming would be in a very different (and arguably better) place.

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  2. A nice selection of 20mm games.

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    1. Thanks Peter - best to get something out there I thought. Didn't realise I had so many old pics, so maybe worth it after all.

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  3. Cheers Darren, an excellent trip down memory lane!

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    1. Thanks Steve - seeing some of the old Ponyri pics again - I must put up a few more of the epic campaign actually.

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    1. Thanks Jonathan.
      I need to be dedicated if I ever wanted to get to the number of posts you have sir.

      Must...strive...to..do...better :)

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  5. I enjoyed the pics. Looks like a nice history of gaming. 😀
    Though it is a tricky question; what to do with a wargaming blog when one is not doing any wargaming? I don’t have a good answer either.

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    1. Very true sir. I must get a game in - even if a solo. If I get to the stage where I am doing '6mm across the ages' and '25mm across the ages', with old pics re-hashed, then the blog is lost forever :)

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  6. Wonderful looking photos/games and in 20 mm - 1/72, my favourite kind!
    Regards, James

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    1. Thank you James. I had no idea how much crap I had on my hard drive :)

      But yes - God's own scale I reckon.

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  7. Great collection Darren, very impressive! Looking forward to seeing what you get up to next.

    V/R,
    Jack

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    1. Anything Jack - I can't be re-hashing old pics all the time :))) HEEEEE

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    2. A clever stalling tactic, though ;)

      V/R,
      Jack

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