Spot Report and List of my Wargaming Periods of interest

Work and vacation have interfered again with my hobby activities, but I will provide a quick spot report:

• I finished reading Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front 1943-1945: Red Steamroller and I loved it.  I am an East Front novice, but I thought it was a well-written look at how not only the strategic and logistical tide shifted against the Germans but how the balance of tactical and operational competence shifted as well towards the Red Army.  I shall be reading more on the topic.
• We vacationed on a cruise last week, it rained a lot but it gave me an opportunity to read most of The Complete Hammer's Slammers: Volume 3. I just so happen to have some Picoarmor Sci-Fi that looks close enough to work and now yet another project is tempting me.  Good writing by David Drake
• I finally finished painting and basing my first set of 3mm US Army and NKPA troops for the Korean War, about a company per side at 1 base = 1 squad or a support weapon or vehicle.  Starting to fiddle with Hammer of Democracy, pictures will follow.
• I did get two 3mm Industrial areas finished, based on 4" hexes.  Pictures will follow

We shared a table with an utterly charming family from the UK (Devon) on the cruise, and are now starting to lay the groundwork for a visit to Perfidious Albion probably next year.  They have graciously offered to help us build an itinerary and navigate the country.  Of course I am thinking about where I want to go.  Visions of Bovington Tank Museum and Baccus 6mm dance in my head.

I will wrap up with this.  As with most of us, I am fascinated with many different periods, which tends to make me spread myself too thin.  So, I thought I would list out to help stay focused.  By Thor, I have a lot of stuff (and I have thinned out over the last few years), am I not entertained ?!?!?!  I need to focus on playing and rules fiddling and painting and not acquisitions.

Until next time, good gaming!

Periods (in Chronological Order)	Forces All painted and ready to play unless indicated
Dark ages Circa AD 900 - AD 1100 Britain, Sicily / Mediterranean	6mm Normans 6mm Vikings (unpainted) 6mm Anglo-Saxons (unpainted) 6mm Late Byzantines (unpainted) 6mm Saracens (unpainted)
American War of Independence Southern Campaign 1780-81	6mm Patriots 6mm British / Hessians / Loyalists Also.. 6mm skirmish forces (unpainted)
Napoleonic Wars 1809 Campaign	6mm French 6mm Austrians (Painted, but need rebasing, could be used) 6mm Bavarians (unpainted)
Victoriana ~1860 - 1900 Darkest Africa Victorian Science Fiction	28mm British and Askaris 28mm Explorers, Hunters, and Porters 28mm Zanzibar Slavers 28mm Rugga-Rugga 28mm Tribesmen 28mm Prussians 28mm Civilians, Scientists, Steam powered Robots and contraptions 28mm London police, ladies of the night, Jack the Ripper, and Sherlock Holmes and Co.
World War I (late 1916-18)	10mm British 10mm Germans
Interwar 1920-1938	3mm Interwar Imaginations, Ruritanian Elbonian War of 1925 28mm Pulp: More figures than I care to list for high adventure with Nazis, Mad scientists, Dagon Cultists, Canadian Mounted Police, Hard Boiled Detectives, Dames, Gangsters, Fu Manchu, Explorers, Pilots, Gypsies, Rocket Corps,   and overlap with Victoriana above and much, much more
World War II Eastern Front 1943-45	3mm Germans (unpainted) 3mm Soviets  (unpainted)
Korean War 1950-1953	3mm US Army and NKPA or CVF (both are work in progress, but enough to play a game) 3mm Aircraft, Jets, B-29’s (unpainted)
Cold War NATO Central Front 1980’s	3mm US Army 3mm Federal Republic of Germany 3mm Warsaw Pact 3mm NATO and Soviet aircraft (unpainted)
Misc	28mm Dinosaurs 28mm Various Monsters and Zombies 28mm Cows, bears, wolves, dogs, etc. 6mm Orcs (to fight 6mm dark ages troops in Middle Earth)