It’s just over a week since I decided to do some work on my Eastern Front/Great Patriotic War collection, but since then I’ve made little progress … and the arrival of a copy of Gabriele Esposito’s ARMIES OF THE ITALIAN RISORGIMENTO has rather knocked me off course.

Reading the book gave me loads of ideas for possible imagi-nations set in the period from 1815 to 1850. Furthermore, it gives me a way to use some of the surplus figures from my Napoleonic collection that would otherwise sit in storage boxes. These might require some renovation, varnishing, and rebasing … but that shouldn’t take me too long, and then the fighting can begin!

So, what should I do? I suspect that I’m likely to work on both these projects in parallel for a while, which I know is bit of a cop out on my part … but who cares except me?

The sort of thing that I’m envisaging with regard to any 1815 to 1850 imagi-nations armies I might create would be somewhat akin to my Cordeguayan Civil War of 1820 armies. These fought several battles back in 2011 during the early stages of the development of the PORTABLE WARGAME.

The Presidential Army (led by President-for-Life and General José Santa Maria).

The Constitutionalist Army (led by General Roberto Branco).