The Secret Plan (tm)!

Okay it's time to start to put my Secret Plan into operation . . .

I'm having Fun working on my Ral Partha AElves. It's incredibly satisfying to me to finally be painting them. I have a lot of them. A lot of them. I've always wanted to do some decent fantasy miniature gaming and I like WRG's HoTT rules.

And, ever since I was a kid and read Gary Gygax's article in one of the very first The Strategic Reviews I've wanted to pull the wool over my players eyes . . . He had run a miniatures game where one side was expecting a fantasy battle (the evil wizard defending himself from the good guys) and the other were expecting a WW II game. Yeah, it's a pretty outrageous idea! And I still like it!

Only instead of WW II, we have the Castle Devin games taking place some where in England near the Welsh and/or Scottish borders . . . We also have a plethora of Ancients available too.

Pat's birthday got me thinking . . .

My Birthday is in July, roughly eight months away. With the Family Trip to Colorado and our July Guild Fair I won't be playing anything in July. But I could put on a game to celebrate my Fiftieth Birthday next June!

And I can concentrate on painting my Ral Partha AElves! I have no idea how many I can finish between now and then. But would be Fun and it sure would be Great Fun to surprise my Friends with a fantasy miniatures game when they were expecting another Castle Devin game!

Being a Secret Plan (tm) I can't let them know, or even let them know about this site yet either. Tim the Elder is in on the Secret already. We stayed up late after the last game hear drinking and talking. I mentioned my idea of this type of a game and he liked it. (At that point it was to be in honor of Gary Gygax, since he had recently died.)

So now I have a Secret Plan (tm) to put into operation! I'm off to finish the living room make over and order our materials!!!