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 MY NAME IS JIM AND I AM A WARGAMING FROTHER....

.....and you can bet your last dollar on that....or pound coin, euro whatever, you can bet the last currency unit of your choice on that. Why do I mention this? Well I'll explain....

   Take the photo at the top of this page as an example. This is from a game of Lion Rampant 2nd edition that I played on Friday gone. I hadn't played Lion Rampant in a few years and had definitely not played 2nd edition (there's very little difference in the core rules) since I had bought the new rulebook. That fact didn't get in the way of a couple of really good games with a new gaming chum. The upshot of which in the immediate sense was that both the chap I had played against; let's call him Johnny since that's his name and one of his pals (who's name might be Graham but then again, it could be Callum) who had watched some of the game being played, are both now very interested in playing more Lion Rampant. 

   Excellent, as Lion Rampant is, in the grand scheme of things, a fairly inexpensive game to get into, and being a medieval themed game, there is some interest at the local gaming in nearby East Kilbride, in playing games based in the period of The Crusades; a period I have only the very faintest knowledge of but, you know, it's medieval with swords, spears, cavalry, you know... 

   That was Friday evening. It's now Monday evening, four days later and, damn and blast my own goggly eyes, since Friday I have dug into the stash in my hobby room and rooted out stuff!! 

The hobby room....

rooted out stuff...Front Rank miniatures

...Citadel Miniatures Bretonnian Archers...

....Wargames Foundry Crossbow Men

...and more Front Rank men-at-arms. All these were
bought for playing Bretonnians in The Old World
...more of that another day..perhaps

....but that's not all as I have also spent, no, not spent, I have also invested about £100 on books relating to The Crusades as well as buying some more figures...and downloaded a book on The Crusades from Audible....

.....a couple of games of Lion Rampant, some interest in the game from some guys I met at a local wargaming club recently and, whoosh!! I am off a-frothing, a-frothing and a-spendi....I mean investing..

    So, being a wargaming frother, and an unrepentant one at that, that's pretty much what you can expect from this blog. My next post should be about GWs Inquisitor.....I write that to remind myself as I was a-frothing about that last week....and it can sometimes be difficult to keep many different strands of frothing going...which is why I ma writing this....so I don't forget...

chin chin,

Jim