This is the end...

...of the year, that is.  So ends ODGW's first year as a limited liability corporation, and I have no idea what effect that will have on my taxes.  My first and safest guess is that it will be adverse.  The IRS is a cruel master.  ODGW ends the year in better condition than we started, thanks to a gaming public interested in what we have to offer.  Our oldest game is being updated and sprouting an offshoot, Meine Truppen.  Our naval games, GQIII and Fleet Action Imminent, still maintain a solid following, and will have new products added this year.  We have additional products planned for all our titles.  2010 looks to be a promising year.

For those who are interested, stay tuned here and at odgw.com for announcements of our latest products and games.  With all the stuff we have percolating, there will be lots to look at.

I wish everyone a prosperous and safe new year.

Battle of Lake George

Looks like a fine scenario for American Battlelines.

Now the real work begins

I have literally a ton of unmade paper terrain buildings and fixtures that need to be constructed.  It is time to dig into these and put them together.  The 10mm are for a friend's playtest and development group for his miniatures game.  The 6mm are for my chosen scale, microarmor in WWII, and 10mm everywhere else, though I may be tempted by 15mm's for the War of the Roses project.  So much to work toward now, what with a group that is willing to try out new systems and help me out with playtesting.  The Battlelines system has to jell relatively quickly, so that I can open up space for the GQIII project final work, and the Meine Truppen rules, which are going off in directions that no one planned for.  It is all keeping me busy.

The March of the Little Lead Soldiers

Music by Gabriel Pierné.  Merry Christmas.

Unbased figures

There are 10mm armies waiting to fight the ECW and AWI.  All of them crying out for basing.  Somehow I cannot decide on a scheme which will satisfy my allegiance to several rules sets at once.  Despite my ODGW connection, I do play other rules, and currently, but not permanently, we do not have an ECW set. And just yesterday some more English Civil War guys just showed up.  Time to get to work.