A Year Goes By...

It has been nearly a year since my last post on this blog.  Really nothing has changed for me on the colonial front:  figures (in 15mm) are still impossible to buy due to a certain company's inability to provide product and service.  To make it worse, I was also considering dabbling in Italian colonials, but my preferred source there has dried up as well (Aude Historica).  Luckily I did buy two packs of their 1880s Italians (Battle of Dogali period), so I can still do some skirmish gaming with them, or use them as a faction within a German colonial setting (ala The Wind and the Lion), although that setting would either have to be somewhat imaginary as the Italians were a far cry from Sudwest Afrika.

One blog of note, gaming the German Ost Afrika wars, is A Grab Bag of Games.  The post on the Ost Afrika project is inspiring and detailed and it drives me to try and game some German colonials, but I am certainly not going to change scales (my terrain is nearly all 15mm and my space is limited).

And another interesting gaming site of inspiration, Darkest Africa.  There are some posts about Wissmann, German Marines, German Askaris, etc.  Some good work there, although, like A Grab Bag of Games, in 25/28mm.

All this cool stuff and I sit here, nearly dormant.  I did just pull out The Herero War (the Jones and Alvarado gaming guide).  Maybe I should try reaching out to Old Glory 15s to see what transpires....