The Year of Playing Dangerously

Stuart and I have embarked on an optimistic and perhaps naïve attempt to get more regular wargaming done in 2026, and have pencilled in a rough plan to play a game a month. Here's how we've got on so far.

January: Oh dear, not the best start. But January is always slow. That's my excuse, anyway.

February: We playtested my Stargrave scenario The Enemy Within.

March: We got in one game of The Nam. Stuart's summary is here and mine is here.

We also played Tomorrow's War; here's Stuart's battle report.

That's two in March, making up for the January deficit!

April: Rangers of Shadowdeep is built on the same rules as Frostgrave and Stargrave, although it's a cooperative game with an ongoing narrative. It has role-playing game elements, but I think it's close enough to its wargame roots that it counts.

(If it doesn't count then we didn't play anything in April, and that's bad, so I'm counting it.)

Stuart has written about our first couple of missions here.

So what's next? We've got a lot of options. We're going to try to revive our 40K project with the second edition of the game; we're just waiting on Stuart to finish painting the last few Dark Angels. Stuart also has the enormous boxed edition of OGRE, a game I've never played and which Stuart is keen to get to the table, mainly because he bought the enormous boxed edition and it mocks him every time he goes into his vast games library.

I'm hoping we can squeeze something in before the end of April, and get ahead a bit. We shall see.