#Greek hoplite shield mu update

The Anabasis of Antiochus would last 10 years and be largely successful.

However, once Antiochus the Great came to power he shifted his focus and travelled eastward to re-claim the lost provinces. The rest of the empire was busy battling Ptolemaic Egypt and other foes to stop them. By this time, the most distant eastern provinces had broken from the empire under their own Hellenistic rulers. If it wasn't a Blood and Spectacles game though, chances are it hit the back burner.Īntiochus the Great took the throne of the Seleucid Empire in 223 BC. Overall, a very successful year! Lot's of stuff painted, lot's of games played, and a decent amount of purchasing and rules writing.

I spent some time talking to other game designers via social media.

#Greek hoplite shield mu update

The Website is still a bit behind though, that is harder to update than the others.Ĥ. I tied the content of the online presence closer together. I kept my painting and gaming tracker up-to-date all year!ģ. However, they are still things I want to get done.Ģ. These are random gals related to 'running the business' and other local efforts that may or may not be exciting to my dear readers. I still have a lot of rules in the hopper, but not across the finish line yet. Add a WIP game to the Blog- I actually have moved almost all WIP content to my Patreon, instead of using my blog. Warships: Paper Ships, Steel Resolve, Combat! Starring Vic Morrow, and Revolt! A Wars of the Republic Supplement.ĥ. Move a WIP Game to the Wargame Vault - I have gotten three new items to the Vault. Try to get a new work published- Made a few pitches, but no new progress.Ĥ. Update The Games: Blood and Spectacles - Started, but only about 50% completeģ. Complete Castles in the Sky for Osprey- CompleteĢ. I have been slowed a bit by the Post-Production efforts related to some of my new games.ġ. I have been writing away, but much of my work is not ready for primetime OR supplements for existing games. I even got to GM a one-shot of Those Dark Places. There we have mostly focused on D&D 5e but have had the occasional One-Shot as well. In addition to the wargames, I have been having a regular RPG session once a week as well. My RPG and Wargame group all got vaccines and boosters pretty early on and that helped us get more games in. However, I ended up playing 25! That is two a month! My goal was one game a month, so 12 games. This year, I mostly focused on my own game systems that needed to be tested or promoted. However, there were some things I knew I would need to focus on. This was another surprise success! I was pretty conservative with my gaming goals. Let's get into what goals were and were not accomplished in 2021. Miscellany- Other things related to Blood and Spectacles Publishing that do not fit into the other categories.Rules Writing- New Projects and games I am working on.

Playing Games- The games I play and report on.Painting and Modeling- Things I paint and build.

Like most years, I broke my goals down into a few categories: I think these goals successfully kept me from jumping from project to project. As usual, there is nothing binding about them. Like previous years, I made a few goals to try and accomplish this year and to keep me on the rails. I am getting old! The years are going by fast, but I am pretty sure I still have a few good years left in me. 2020 has slipped away, and now 2021 has also slipped away. If feels like the Pandemic started just a few months ago, yet here we are two years in.