Over recent years I seem to have bought fewer and fewer 'souvenirs' each time I go on a cruise. I always try to buy the national flag of any new country that I visit and – where possible – any regional flags as well.
On this cruise we did not go anywhere new, so I didn't buy any flags. I did, however, buy two new ready-painted resin buildings to add to my collection ...
... and two wooden Sudoku boards.
I bought the latter in Split from stall in the market that was selling all sorts of different wooden toys and kitchenalia.
I don't enjoy Sudoku problems ... but I am sure that I can find a wargaming use for them. Possible they could be used to record hidden movement (the boards do have 81 separate holes in them, organised in a large 3 x 3 grid of smaller 3 x 3 grids) or to record each side's casualties and/or progress towards reaching their Exhaustion Point.
On this cruise we did not go anywhere new, so I didn't buy any flags. I did, however, buy two new ready-painted resin buildings to add to my collection ...
... and two wooden Sudoku boards.
I bought the latter in Split from stall in the market that was selling all sorts of different wooden toys and kitchenalia.
I don't enjoy Sudoku problems ... but I am sure that I can find a wargaming use for them. Possible they could be used to record hidden movement (the boards do have 81 separate holes in them, organised in a large 3 x 3 grid of smaller 3 x 3 grids) or to record each side's casualties and/or progress towards reaching their Exhaustion Point.
I play Sudoku quite often...
ReplyDeleteArchduke Piccolo,
ReplyDeleteMy father was an avid, almost fanatical, player of Sudoku ... but although I tried it a couple of times, I could never get that enthusiastic about it.
All the best,
Bob
Went through a phase od Suduki but I got better...
ReplyDeleteI always come back from visits abroad with buildings etc - lots of nice 15mm-ish ones from Paris, 6mm-ish from Santorini... Santorini also netted some nice Greek gods and goddesses for HoTT games.
In Paris lots of the shops have a fantastic range of 20mm-ish items - lamp posts, people, underground kiosks etc, etc - keep looking at them but they are a bit expensive!
Xaltotun of Python,
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing what useful wargaming buildings (and other bits and pieces) one can find and buy in souvenir shops. I have a draw full of approximately 120th-scale pre-painted resin buildings from Croatia and Greece, and they are suitable for almost any wargame set in a Southern European/Balkan country. I also have some similar Belgian and Scandinavian model buildings.
All the best,
Bob