Reply To: Hobby Weekender 17/08/18

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Alright, so where were we? ah, that’s right… Weekendering…

@oriskany hope th lead-in to the BA boot camp isn’t too onerous for you. What flavour is your new lead mountain?.. Excellent point with regard to the advancement of technology being incremental and only a point in a continuity of scientific advances –  something I hadn’t considered. No real way of knowing what follow-on discoveries would be generated form cloning. As a thought, if you could generate sufficiently sophisticated cloned/identical biological samples to undergo testing on, then you would have a perfect control group with which to test newly synthesised pharmaceuticals and identify any unintended effects. And am referring to those fighters exclusively as TIE jagers from now on 🙂

The nice thing about Sharp Practice is you only need about 50 models a side for a normal sized game, so once I have the core forces set up I can add more interesting bits and pieces like cavalry and artillery. Form there I can hopefully slow-grow for the next few decades and wind you with an army large enough for Black Powder. Well, at least that’s the plan…

@elessar2590 kicking off with the national anthem no less 🙂 Love that statue, such an expressive face 🙂 best of luck with the restoration project. Mahdist War minis are looking great so far.

@woldenspoons wow that’s quite a list of games to be actively participating in at any given time – I’d be worried that I’d start to merge rules systems accidentally 😛 I’m already somewhat renowned for trying to invoke rules from older editions of Warhammer… 😛 Love the narrative write-up 🙂 Some nice looking minis there too.

@biggabum yeah I’ve been playing a game for a few years now where each year I look at what was released 25 years ago… Wasn’t too bad when it was The Division Bell Or Appetite for Destruction but it is now 25 years since 1993 – Somewhat notable locally for the inception of the current version of Triple J’s Hottest 100 – a national music poll where people (ok, predominantly young people, as it is a youth radio network…) vote on their favourite songs from the year. So given that, it looks like it’s been 25 years since rage Against The Machine and Radiohead began to garner more widespread acclaim… OK, off to collapse in a self-pitying pile of feeling old for a bit….

…. And now I’m over it 😛 Wil post some songs from that years countdown later on as a but of a nostalgia run 🙂

Numbers on the counters were etched/burned into the MDF, so all I had to do was some colouring in 🙂 Great BatRep!! Hope it was as much fun to play 🙂

@tuffyears wow – it’s like that picture is my inner me 🙂 Well played.

@dawfydd some great looking conversions – you have me tempted to jump in on some space viking action 🙂 I’m assuming you are picking up the new codex shortly?

@sundancer really nice work on the SWL – can you post some close-up pics once finished?

@mage sorry for the semantics 😛 Just conscious that the word ‘advanced’ can have many meanings. to quote the immortal Douglas Adams:

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons.”
So re Age of Sigmar, the faction books, and the forces of order/chaos etc are all optional? Is there a universal repository for the warscroll data etc then in the hard copy of the rulebook? Sorry I had assumed it was all scattered about in the supplements…

Old Orcs weren’t any particular clan – I had themed them as part of Grimgor’s expedition into the chaos wastes which had become separated and fought their way north for a while before returning home, hence all the looted chaos iconography, armour and the mutations on the savage orcs. Was a good idea in theory but I could never really get the to work effectively on the tabletop.

Ogres look great – highlighting on the skin is just enough to give definition without having them lose the sinister. ono overtones that they had previously. Well done.

@limburger re loss of ‘normal’ skills, a lot of my friends do ‘craft’ styled hobbies (smithing, brewing, tanning, curing meats etc) so while the skills aren’t as widely utilised they haven’t quite been lost at this stage. The running joke is that these hobbies will all come in handy in the inevitable post zombie apocalypse world. Personally I’m just going to kill zombies rather than contribute anything of value 😛 Yes, cheap kill teams is a dangerous thing – it’s like a gateway drug leading to an army of space clowns…

Ok, off to be productive…