My Apologies, A Blog Change

All,

My most humble and sincere apologies, but you may have seen this coming.  I started this blog, "The Hakuna-Matata Wars,' full of piss and vinegar to go and start a modern African "imagi-nations" project in 3mm.  Well, I started it, but, alas, my passion was unsustainable.  So I apologize, but "Hakuna-Matata" is no more; I will continue to play 3mm wargames, but I honestly can't see myself coming back to this form of modern African imagi-nations.  The biggest reason for this is that I'm already getting my fill of African imagi-nations via one of my other blogs, "Cuba Libre" (https://cubalibrewargame.blogspot.com/), and I simply have too many other passions to pursue.

So, what am I doing with this blog, then?  One thing we can be sure of is that I'll never get tired of gaming WWII!  I've been playing WWII since I started wargaming, and I'll keep playing until I die.  Matter of fact, I already have a WWII blog for the Pacific (https://oldleadbreed.blogspot.com/), which already has 27 battle reports on it from the Philippines and Dutch East Indies.  And I've already played a lot of WWII games in Europe, with big plans for a whole lot more, so I've made the choice to change this blog from modern Africa to WWII in Europe.

I've already played a tremendous amount of games in this arena: my Operation Jupiter series of fights, All Americans (following US 82nd Airborne), Hell on Wheels (following US Armored troops), The Last Fifty Yards (following a Brit rifle platoon), and Blood and Guts (following US infantry, tank, and tank destroyer platoons).  Hell, one of my most popular has been Kampfgruppe Klink, following a German battlegroup.  I've decided to move a lot of that stuff over to this blog, and move the modern Africa stuff over to my original blog (https://blackhawkhet.blogspot.com/), and most of the WWII stuff over here.  But not all; KG Klink will stay on Blackhawkhet, this blog is dedicated to the good guys of WWII.

So where am I going from here?  I'm working on some stuff for All Americans, Blood and Guts will definitely continue, I can see coming back to Hell on Wheels, I'll definitely get back to Operation Jupiter at some point, not sure about The Last Fifty Yards.  But there are two huge projects I'm getting ready for:

1) I'm currently amassing forces in 6mm from Heroics and Ros to fight out the campaign in Normandy, then maybe Market-Garden.  I've already got about 20-25 fights planned in and around Caen, really licking my chops for all the various British/Canadian operations (Goodwood, Epsom, Totalize, etc...), with a heavy focus on the Canadians vs 12th SS Pz Division (there's a wealth of scenarios out there for them, particularly the Fire and Fury website).

2) I'm currently painting up aircraft for The Battle of Britain, which I plan to play in its entirety, every single day, with one dogfight per day, following an RAF fighter 'group' of two squadrons, one flying Spitfires and one flying Hurricanes.  I've already play-tested the rules (in seven fights in the Pacific) and got the gear, just gotta get it finished up.

The coolest thing about those two gaming concepts is that I'll not be playing solo, I'll be going head to head against my 9-year old!

*KG Klink will continue, but it will stay on the Blackhawkhet blog, so don't fret if you're a fan.

So, that's where we're at and where we're going, I hope you stick around and enjoy the ride!

V/R,
Jack