Reply To: Hobby Weekender 10/08/18

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Hey Team, thread is off to an early start, happy surprise, caught me off guard 🙂

Questions first up:

(1) What would you do if you woke up in the morning and found out that the timeline had changed, and only certain other people, if any, had noticed it? What could you do?

Actually this happened to me a few years ago following the great war against the evil garden gnomes. Funnily enough I’m the only one that seems to remember it…

(2) Name something new you tried this week in regards food, takeout, cakes, deserts or a new dish you attempted to cook.

Using avocado oil when making quiche. Actually, avocado oil with pretty much anything… It’s expensive but so very tasty..

(3) Do you like pop culture references in your gaming? Be it computer games, board games, wargames or RPGs? If so, why, and if not, why? Also, give one good and bad example of such things.

Pop culture references always find a way in, and they are usually entertaining. first example that springs to mind is a game of Pathfinder form a few years ago where the DM set up a trap where there were a horde of baddies and a necromantic gem hidden in a stash at the centre of the room. Idea was that we would kill the baddies, loot the stash and when we disturbed the gem all the baddies would raise up from the dead, have us surrounded and attack once more. My rogue ended up sneaking in, looting the stash, pocketing the gem and sneaking out without engaging the baddies. A few rooms later my character got smashed to bits by a high level monster. I hit the ground at which point the gem I had pocketed, it’s properties unbeknownst to me, activated and resurrected me. My immediate response was naturally “Strike me down and I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine…” which, due mainly to the immense amount of sugar everyone had consumed by then, garnered more than a few giggles 🙂

@mage Thanks for hosting once again. Love that track 🙂 Ogres are coming along nicely (gut plates are a stand-out in my opinion), and great BatRep. Was good to see you breaking out some Mordheim at  the end of last week’s thread – is that another project to be queued up? or just sorting some stuff from storage for later? Yeah, I’ll never be able to let Mordheim go…

@biggabum BMG stuff seems to be progressing at a rate of knots – hopefully you are enjoying the minis. Keen to see how the good guys look with a bit of paint on. Sorry to hear about your chair – can you pad it out with cushions and prop yourself up a little? Hope you don’t use the same cahir for painting…

@woldenspoons welcome back! Enjoy the well-earned days off. Ha, nothing like a deadline (or in this case, a game) to motivate the painting. If it wasn’t for tourneys I don’t think I ever would have finished an army back when I started gaming…

@tuffyears Kill team stuff is really looking good. Have you had a chance to muck about with the rules set a little? I’ve watched a few BatReps on Youtube but still don’t really have a feel for ot. Hopefully my copy will arrive next week and I can get stuck into pulling the rules apart a little.

My pledge:

– Work on historicals for Sharp Practice

– Fix up my old Orc army a little

– Prime some counters

– Work on the Death Guard marines I primed last week

– Print up more terrain for when Kill Team arrives

– Paint up some terrain

– Maybe have a go at playing with pigments

– Quick Shade on to some Bretonnian archers and British historicals

– Probably a bunch of other stuff if I get to it…

Current state of the Kill Team terrain I’m printing. This may end up being a little large (each piece is a 5cm square and the walls are about 8cm high…) but I personally like terrain elements that force you to interact with them rather than just treat them as line of sight blockers. Need to fill in the floor in the middle, print and swap out a few of the wall sections and add a ruined second storey at the front. Well at least that’s the current plan…