What it's all about...

So… what is this blog going to be about? Well – firstly, my favourite hobby – wargaming. From there, if I can maintain this, more perhaps, but this is a good starting point. I’m sure as my mind takes me I’ll wander off at times but hey, who doesn’t.

The blog is called Sword Beach because I’m trying to put together a game of that particular battle, using Flames of War, to be played on or around the anniversary this June 6.

D-Day has been something that has always interested me and I’ve already spent way to much money collecting books on the landings at Normandy. I was lucky enough to playtest the D-Day book for Battlefront and got to play the missions contained in that book quite a few times each. For those games I just painted a sea section onto my gaming table but never actually built a proper beach table.

This is what I mean...


So… this blog will hopefully document me building the table, painting the forces involved and playing the final game in June this year. The possibility of public humiliation (if anyone bar me ever reads this I’ll be pleasantly surprised) will supposedly help motivate me.

This is against a background of me being a “normal” person with a job, wife, son, two dogs and all that that entails. I also write for Battlefront, run the Sydney Playtest Group (which doesn’t involve too much at the moment), do some commission painting, and have a hobby which largely involves starting one project and then getting easily distracted into the next.

Hopefully, the work I do here will end up forming the majority of a Late War British Army I intend to take to the next tournament I’ll play in (next October). I'll also end up with a few more german units, some bunkers and a new table. This is my main project for the first half of 2008.

I already own most of the stuff necessary to complete this project and the odd bit of it is painted as in this Sherman DD I did probably almost 2 years ago.

Soon I’ll post up the Army Lists and what I need to do so you can see the scope of the project and I’ll try to keep you up to speed with my progress.

I have a couple of obstacles over and above the normal one – general slackness – including going overseas in late February for a couple of weeks (and buying more books!) and a couple of internet articles for Battlefront – but I’m keen to do this and I hope this blog will help.

Have fun.