Hello and welcome fellow wargamers! It has been a hot minute since our last post
and topic of discussion so I apologize if you’ve been waiting. If not then that’s all right too. I hope everyone has been doing well with
their hobby path and I wish you many successes.
So let’s dig right in shall we?
A lot has happened since the last post, most of it has been
pretty rough in regards to work but I’ve changed back to my old shift once
again so that means more time to do hobby things on the regular! Even though my other shift had a lot of open
times with the rotating days off I find myself being able to do more if I try
to get a couple hours done each night instead of binging 8 hours once a
week. So that has been exciting as of
late.
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| The winner of the Gencon cosplay parade in my heart #tingle4life |
One thing that has been pretty major is that Gencon 2017 has
come and gone and this year just felt a bit lackluster. It being the 50th anniversary I
suppose I expected some more pizazz but instead the crowds were huge (in fact
they sold out of badges before the con) and the general feel of the events were
more mercantile than gamer. Still had fun
but it just didn’t have the same feel as prior years, something shared by the
rest of the regular crew we have. I
personally had a hard time trying to rush so much crap in that I forgot to just
enjoy my time, but once I slowed down I think things started to sink in a
little bit.
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| Still don't know what this is. |
This year I think I kept my cool in terms of buying into new
games completely. I did pick up some
Skarrd for Dark Age and I also tried to snag as many of the con exclusive I
could. I saw that the Privateer Press
booth was looking a little sad compared to other years, though I didn’t visit
it until day 2 or 3. I didn’t pick up
any Grymkin (I mean I could just Malifaux instead) but I did grab the Rolling Bones Goreshade exclusive, so there’s that. I think the only new game I really got into
was Heavy Gear Blitz. I’ve seen some
videos on Guerilla Miniature Gaming’s YouTube channel and I’ve been wanting to
try out a more action type of mecha game.
So they had a deal with the started set with two factions, the Northern
and Southern forces, I figured why not?
I did get to demo CMoN’s upcoming Game of Thrones game, A
Song of Ice and Fire, and I have to say I am excited about it! It even became my first Kickstarter project I’ve
ever backed. It had a lot of those
elements that get me hooked into a game, and it reminded me of what would
happen if a WHFB style game were updated with modern rule philosophy. The models look great too and while I’m
usually not a fan of pre-assembled models the quality of the demo pieces
changed my mind. So I backed up the
project and I look forward to when they are rolling out.
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| House Lannister wrecking the Starks like a bawss |
As far as personal projects go I’ve been taking this time to
assembly everything I’ve had, including some older kits. I’ve assembled all the Heavy Gear pieces (I
think it was a PVC type plastic, so that was odd), Algoryn Hazard Suits and
Liberator Tanks, some Guild Ball pieces, the Dark Age Skarrd, and some 40k kits
I’ve had laying around. In the near
future I’ll be cleaning the metal and resin pieces to get started on the
forever long painting queue.
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| Me looking for Skarrd models that don't exist yet like an idiot |
So that’s what’s been happening on my end, hopefully things
have been better on your end and hopefully I can get back to some regular
articles coming in. Until next time
gamers take care and happy gaming!
