Hard to find the mojo

     I have purchased yet another set of rules, not for the WoTK (War of Three Kingdoms) this one is for WWII. The second edition of Chain of Command from Too Fat Lardies. For those that may not know Chain of Command, or CoC as shortened by TFL, is a platoon based skirmish game that in my opinion is the best there is. But aside from that, I am still looking at the Epic boxes and trying to get back into painting and basing.

    Before we go too far though, My approach to EPIC is a bit different and unorthodox as I have been told repeatedly. I am not looking at bases of ten figures across, two ranks deep. No, that would be far too easy. I cut the figure stands and bases in half. This makes them five figures across and when combined one in front of the other makes four ranks deep, a bit more historically accurate, as if I am in anyway or shape a stickler for accuracy. Smaller frontage also makes Marching Order look better on the table top as far as I am concerned.  Also, it takes a more historic approach to sorting the lads out for line of battle. Yes, it makes the end of the figures a bit less antinomically correct, i.e. the arms are bit out of whack, but honestly a tiny bit of putty and paint and you cannot tell unless you really look closely. This makes a three stand unit a six stand standard unit with muskets on one end and pikes in the middle. With each figure standing for ten actual it gives you three companies roughly which fits nicely into a unit called a brigade. You can add other units to make larger brigades as needed. 

    Being a yank, one would wonder why the War of Three Kingdoms is found to be so interesting. I mean why not the American War for Independence, or the American Civil War?  While I do have interest in the AWI, for the most part, it was a war of attrition, a hurry up and fall back strategy that, in the end worked, but doesn't make for many an Epic Battle. The American Civil War in contrast is mostly Epic and I have the set, just not really started on it. So, for now it is simply the ECW. 

My wife and I took a trip to Scotland and as I am of Scottish decent, I was enthralled with it from the time we landed in Glasgow until we left Edinburgh eight days later. We were never far from a castle, battlefield or WWI statue. Being of Highland decent meant we kept mostly to the Highlands, only venturing as far "south" as Edinburgh. I had a rudimentary knowledge of  Scots history, but to see castles and lands up close was something. (I do in fact live about two hours and a 20 minute boat ride to a battlefield from the War of 1812, but it was minor and botched horribly by the American forces. Gettysburg is a full two days drive away, and a visit I would like to make someday,) So that got me interested in firstly the Jacobite Wars. Then the ECW. (That Cromwell fellow was a right bastard). Research, as they say continues, and I have just received a book: Cromwell, Against the Scots 1650-1652. Which some claim to be the third English Civil War, yet as the author points out in his forward, it was actually Scot V English soldier. A war between to separate nations. More Epic battles follow I am sure.

Looking for lost mojo, is a theme that I often come up against. Is it lost if you feel the itch and just cannot seem to make anything work towards the result?