Pending Projects

Taking a few moments of time, I started looking through my projects directory at what I had started but never finished. As it turns out, there is quite a bit. The problem is that the projects are all over the place and work on any one will not help any of the others. So far my list is sitting at 20 projects. I am listing these here just as a reminder for later.

Rule Set	Project Description	Completion %
Algernon	Austro-Hungarian scenarios based on FLIK 55j	15%
KMH	AWI Scenarios and Modifications	80%
BTH	SCW Scenarios	5%
BTH	Italian incursion into France - 1940	10%
DUX	Late Roman	10%
DUX	EIR Roman v Early Germans	10%
IABSM	Greek Campaign Update to IABSMv3	100%
M&B	Eastern Front Supplement	100%
M&B	302nd Engineers Sceanrios	5%
SP	Lawnmower Scenarios	35%
TSS	Stoneman's Raid 1864	10%
SP	Ottomans	50%
SP	Scenario - Action at Sonolenta Aldeia	90%
SP	The Next AWI Campaign	10%
SP	Scenario - Pohick Church	100%
TCHAE	Atlanta Campaign	1%
TSS	1861 Part 2	5%
TCHAE	Lewinsville	10%
TW&T	Next scenario for SOTCW	0%

The ones that are at 100% are in the hands of others at the moment. I really think sometimes that I just have too many interests. Painting projects are another story entirely.

A Curious Idea, Marketing & Weekend Plans

A Curious Idea
I am sure everyone is familiar with the concept of Shareware. I was wondering if this would work as a model for war games scenarios. For instance, I am working on a couple of projects in the background. One is some scenarios for Terrible Sharp Sword for the Battle of Atlanta in 1864. Rather than try to put it together in a large book of 30 or so scenarios and release it, what about putting together a couple of scenarios and posting it up on the blog for anyone to grab. If they like the scenarios, they can send something via paypal. What do ya'll think? Would that be a workable model?

Marketing
I will be the first to say, I don't have a clue how to do this. Any tips for an aspiring scenario author anyone? I have put posts on the typical places: TFL Yahoo Group & Forum, a post on the Market Place and WWII Scenario group on TMP, a post on LAF, A post on the Guild, a post on Society of Gentleman Gamers, two bloggers have reviewed the CSIR book, Wargame news and terrain posted it for me and I have some friends posting on boards I am not part of.

I am assuming at this point it is subject matter that is too marginal for the average war gamer to be interested in. Anyway, any word of mouth/internet that you dear readers could help spread would be very welcome. Any suggestions on something else I can try?

Weekend Plans
Mark is organizing a game at Gigabytes in Marietta from my book for Saturday at 12. Should be fun as it is one of the scenarios featuring Soviet Armor in the form of the formidable T-37. I really wonder how successful the CSIR would have been had they encountered any T-34s in the opening months of the campaign. Instead, they encountered tanks of such obsolescence that they did not even want them.

I have not gotten a game in with other people in a long time. I am really looking forward to this. I am even missing out on opening day of deer season for this. Ah, the sacrifices one must make. :)

I hope everyone has big plans for the weekend. Enjoy.

Thanks and Dabbling with Terrible Sharp Sword again

First I just want to pass on a thank you to Anibal Invictus for posting up a nice review of In the name of Roma on his blog: http://mylardiesgames.blogspot.com/2013/09/italians-in-russia-forgotten-army.html. Much appreciated.

While sifting though Google for tidbits on the Battle of Jug Tavern I found some really nice maps of Georgia circa 1864. I found a great map in 1:350,000 scale. The map in usable form is in a jp2 format. I tried to get the gimp plugin for it working but that is not working out. I found some other software to try out called IrfanView. I was able to open the file and save it as a regular JPG. The original map can be found at: http://www.history-map.com/picture/002/Northwestern-Georgia.htm.

But the area I am interested in is this particular chunk of the map. I copied the scale bar onto the chunk to give perspective.

Sorry if this is huge.

Now, this little plot of real estate shows where the Battle of Jug Tavern took place. If you find Lawrenceville and move west-southwest, you will find Beaver Ruin Creek. I actually live not far from there. Some Yankee labeled it Beaver Run on the map. Oh well. Also in this area is where another action took place. It seems that a home guard detachment from Athens fired a "rifled battery" at Adam's Brigade and more or less scared off 2 brigades of Union cavalry. The report of Adam's Brigade (you can get these from the book "The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies" Series 1 - Volume XXXVIII, Part II - Reports from 1891) details that they were following the Oconee river to get to Athens. I am wondering if he ment the actual Oconee or the Middle Oconee River as the Middle Oconee River would have been infront of Athens while the actual Oconee passes through Athens.

Much of the landscape has changed. Names have changed as you can no longer find Jug Tavern on a map (its now Winder). Unfortunately King's Tanyard is nor pictured on the map. We do know it was about 3 miles from Jug's Tavern and there was a bridge present that collapsed under the weight of fleeing camp followers and Union soldiers. There are a couple of likely spots on this map for that. Too bad I have not found anything as detailed as I did for Northern Virginia.

Enough for now. Take care.

The 100 Follower threshold has been breached!

While I was out of town over the weekend, I noticed that the 100 follower threshold had not only been reached but broken! Thank you all for joining.

First up we have Chris. Thanks for joining. I am not sure if you have a blog or not from your profile. Let me know and I will update.

Next is Grigork of the Megalomaniac. He has some good AARs posted on his blog with the most recent being a Black Powder game.

And number 102 is Ubique Matt from Ubique. He has recently launched into YouTube AARs. Good stuff.

I really aught to do something to commemorate this.

Now that the CSIR book is done (31 books sold at this point), I am looking for my next project. I know I want to do more with the Roman Dux campaign idea. I also want to do another Sp supplement. I am not sure if I should go with the continuation of the AWI stuff or maybe a Terrible Sharp Sword thing around Atlanta in 1864. I am actually a little bit adrift hobby wise right now. I have a painting table with some left over WWII Soviet troops. I have painted up some additional casualty figures for the Soviets and part of a platoon. I should finish that this week. Maybe.

I was looking at some research that I had for a skirmish that would be perfect for Terrible Sharp Sword. I thought I has lost it. Then I remembered that I had blogged about it back in 2011. Great. How to find it? Well Google offers a nice search gadget to pop on the blog. A few clicks later and I have it - The Battle of Jug Tavern August 2, 1864.

Cool small feature that is really useful. Now, what to do about Jug Tavern....

Another Great Prize Draw

The Blog with no Name is having a fantastic prize draw. Check out the goodies he has up for grabs. I could really use the paint brushes.

Also welcome follower #99 - Steve63. I can't find your blog to link back on from your details.

Also Sean was good enough to let me know Puggle_monster's blog: http://spprojectblog.wordpress.com/. Please head on over and check it out.

Lastly, a book update. So far I have sold 24 copies. Obviously it is not hitting a best seller list any time soon but I am pleased. As always, thanks for stopping by.