Making Plans again...

Every few years I go through a cycle of:
A) Selling off a bunch of incomplete projects and simplifying and
B) Then slow accumulating more incomplete projects

Not the first time I have done this, and never successfully, but I am going to try to make a plan.

I have bags of 6mm figures for a 10th / 11th Century project for the Normans in Italy and 1066-ish in Britain (those Normans were everywhere!) Plus some Orcs so I can lure my wife into playing a Lord of the Rings themed game.

My basing scheme is everything goes on an 80mm x 40mm base, except light infantry which gets an 80mm x 20mm base.   I am using Niel Thomas's Ancient and Medieval Wargaming lists as a base for my forces.  This will give an army of 8 bases, which feels like a good size for my playing area and the size of the game I want to play.

Rules will probably be modified One Hour Wargames, but I need to get cracking on the painting.

So, I have made a table where I can track my overall progress

As I finish a base, I will be marking them off in gray.

A couple of points:

• This should allow me to do any combination from the army lists
• Why so many Normans? Well, Normans also had a habit of fighting amongst themselves
• All figures are from Baccus Codes, with some exceptions:
• Byzantines are a combination of late Roman Infantry, Seljuk Lancers, Sassanid heavy Horse Archers, and Roman Cataphracts.  I borrowed the idea from Roll a One
• Orcs are from Microworld Games, I use Hobgoblins
• Lombards?  I need them to fight Byzantines, Saracens, and Normans.  I am using Goth Heavy Cavalry.  Combined with Viking and Anglo-Saxon unarmored spearmen, they should do the trick.  I am assuming they were slower to adopt the kite shield, so will let me easily distinguish them from Normans and they can serve as 9th Century Franks to fend off Viking attacks.

I am home sick today, after going to the doctor I am going to try to knock out a few units.  Let's see how long I can keep my focus!