The Siren Call of Old Games

Hi!

I've spent most of this week painting my way through some Wood Wodes in 15mm scale but I've been finding myself drawn back to an old project, namely Leviathan.

Approximately once a year I get to wailing and gnashing my teeth about the game which has obsessed me down the years but that I have only played a handful of times and even then I've been reduced to using cardboard counters for the most part as I don't have the space for the suggested 8'x4' board or indeed the 28mm scale figures required.

Titanosaur

Looking back through my blog, there's a constant train of posts where Leviathan is mentioned, referenced and projects started and then stalled but why does this one game which I never played when it was originally released still attract me so much? Why after repeated failures over the last ten or so years do I still look at it and go Hmm...?

 Lesser Goblin Wartower

Is it the rules, the setting, the chunky resin figures or something about reclaiming my youth (I originally picked up the rulebook in the mid 90's whilst at high school) Whatever the reason, I cannot seem to shake the attraction to the game and over the last few years have even managed to play the odd game or so but I never seem to be able to fully succeed with the thing or indeed finally shake my hankering after it.

My previous post listed a few of my successes from last year hobbywise and listed a few of the games that I had been pondering trying my hand at this year and it has got me to thinking about how best to combine this all into some sort of semi coherent plan rather than merely wishlishting.

Necrosaur Wartower

With that in mind, I think I am going to approach the issue from a bit of a tangent. I have a hankering for some skirmish gaming in the world of Aeroth with it's post apocalyptic awesomeness but also the need to play out some of the mass battles I've always imagined with vast machines and titanic monsters fighting alongside hordes of infantry and cavalry.

15mm scale Skirmishes!

 6mm Armies!

SD Scale Boar Company

Now the second part is easy enough to do now I have been working on my 2mm stuff and I figure I should have a decent sized army put together for all four of the original races by the end of the year but the skirmishes are a different manner.

As I see it, I have three options, 1) Buy 28mm stuff and use it to represent disperate warbands of survivors, 2) Use 15mm scale to do much the same and 3) Sculpt my own SD scale stuff.

15mm scale Warbeast

We shall see how I get on but the idea has come to me to use the Aeroth setting as the backdrop for trying out rules from several different games. For example I could run a campaign in one of the ruined megacities of the pre Death Elven civilisation using Mordheim rules and sculpt my own small warbands to duke it out. Similarly, Crucible and Chronopia have great, thematic forces that would make interesting additions to Aeroth so there's the option of mashing several elements together into one mega madness project...

We shall have to see how things progress but I hope it's going to be a year full of hobby shenanigans!

In the meantime, All the best!