{"id":829,"date":"2020-10-15T12:08:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T17:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historifigs.com\/site\/?p=829"},"modified":"2020-11-18T09:46:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:46:14","slug":"829","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/historifigs.com\/site\/2020\/10\/15\/829\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Hour Armies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My war gaming of late has centered around smaller games, gridded and otherwise.<br \/>\nGames\/rules such as <em>The Portable Wargame<\/em> (PW) and <em>The One Hour Wargame<\/em> (OHW) are usually my basis for a game; a mashup of these (and others) is most likely.<\/p>\n<p>Figure size has been leaning towards 25mm, but really any size figures is an option.<br \/>\nArmies are usually on the small side; usually about 50 figures plus a couple of artillery pieces is enough for a <em>basic<\/em> army.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-830\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historifigs.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1ha.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historifigs.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1ha.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historifigs.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1ha.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historifigs.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1ha.jpg?w=458 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With, these smaller armies and smaller games in mind, I&#8217;m toying with creating several, basic &#8220;army packs&#8221;. With somewhere near 50 figures (foot and cavalry) and a couple artillery pieces, a 25mm army could be priced right around the $40 mark. With 15mm being a bit less and 30mm being a bit more.<\/p>\n<p>While it will take longer than an hour to paint your army, your games should be playable in about an hour; thus the <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1<\/span> Hour Armies<\/strong> name.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of the idea?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My war gaming of late has centered around smaller games, gridded and otherwise. Games\/rules such as The Portable Wargame (PW) and The One Hour Wargame (OHW) are usually my basis for a game; a mashup of these (and others) is most likely. Figure size has been leaning towards 25mm, but really any size figures is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historifigs-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/historifigs.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/historifigs.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/historifigs.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historifigs.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historifigs.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/historifigs.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"http:\/\/historifigs.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/historifigs.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historifigs.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historifigs.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}