Russian Around For Some Danish On Mother's Day Weekend

My original choice of game to run at OttoDotCon this year, was an Irish Civil War skirmish game based on the song "Johnson's Motor Car". I was about 70% done, when Tracy sent me a John Curry book on Deception in wargaming. 

There was a section in there on "Hall Games", using the entirety of a church or school hall to use the distance between gamers to sow confusion, doubt, and uncertainly. 

I loved the whole article. Naturally, I had to do this for OttoDotCon. 

So, I pivoted and started working on two 6mm Cold War forces. For my Blue Force, I chose the Danish Army, specifically looking at a force based around the Jutland Dragoon Regiment. The opposition, my Orange Force is a fairly generic East German/Russian Tank Regiment with accompanying Mot-Schutzen mounted in BTRs. 

Danish recce Land Rovers, that most Euro of scout vehicles, and 2 1/2-ton trucks 

Danish Centurions in their two-tone camo pattern. In the foreground are some MTLBs for the "Orangeland Forces".

Before I went with the 6mm Cold War, though, I did think about going BIG. Like 1/48th scale vehicle and 1/32 scale figure Toy Soldier BIG. My choices were WW2 or, again, Moderns. 

North Shore Regiment landing on the verdant shores of Not-Normandy

Everyone's favourite Tim-Mee Tank cruising through the lawn looking for trouble

And the book that has all the goody-good stuff on playing a large-scale game with small-scale figures

There is a lot of work to do before the game is ready for prime time. To include getting a LOT more little buggers painted. But the bigger worry for me is getting all the terrain and game support material complete before I head up to Vermont for two weeks of Gub'mint sponsored fun.