Reply To: Hobby Weekender 31/08/2018 Thank you very much.

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@woldenspoons thanks for hosting this week 🙂

Kicking off with the questions:

(1) You get the choice of anyone, real or not, to be your regular gaming opponent. Who would it be?

Historical opponent – Howard, Lovecraft or Tolkien, mainly so I could pick their brain… Maybe HG Wells as he kind of kicked off the whole wargaming thing…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Wars

Or Douglas Adams for the humour thing…

Fictional character – Can I pick the Greek god Ares? after a couple of years of high intensity gaming practising against the literal god of war you would really clean up on the tournament scene 😉

Current person – I know Kevin Smith used to play 40k… Joss Whedon could also be a pretty sporting opponent I’d suggest…

(2) Music time! I’m genuinely obsessed with the idea of an album of songs covered by Elvis. A bit like the Jonny Cash one. What song would you like to hear Elvis sing in his own inimitable style? Note I’m not an Elvis fan so no feelings to hurt.

‘Wait and Bleed’ by Slipknot – mainly because it would work 🙂

(3)  It’s Beasts of War Boot Camp time! What are you playing and what are they planning? What would you like for a boot camp? Campaigns, tournaments, specific games. World is your oyster!

Mainly playing Warhammer Fantasy 8th ed, Tanks and Frostgrave presently, but looking to get the ball rolling on Kill Team and messing around a bit more with Dragon Rampant and Sharp Practice. As far as boot camps go, while I would love to see Frostgrave I’m not sure that the game system would really lend itself to a bootcamp environment ,Sure, everyone could knock together a warband and even get base paint down quick-smart, but if you’re playing one off games of Frostgrave then everybody ends up dead – combat is thoroughly brutal. It’s not until you have the campaign system and actual consequences that the game really starts to work properly… Plus a Frostgrave bootcamp would be 4 hours assembling a warband and then everybody spending the next 6 months making terrain 😛 Sharp Practice I think would be great fun due to the narrative element, especially if you could get multiple generals involved in a larger scale free for all…

@biggabum like the Napoleon idea. Especially if you could set up historical scenarios -that way you would always know his next move 😛

@sundancer I was going to say John Cleese for ‘current’ for the very same reason 🙂

@mage Hmm.. doing ‘Stormtember’ accidentally? 😛 Of course that could work for Stormcasts as well as Stormtroopers 🙂 OK, I’ll show myself out now…. Hope the first day of school goes well 🙂 yeah I’m running on little sleep today – it was a bit of a horrendous day but we got through it all unscathed. Keen for the weekend now though 🙂 Coffee sounds like such an appealing idea but I really do need to sleep tonight…

Hobby pledge will be something along the lines of:

– prime and paint road sections for my gaming board

– Consider starting a project log for my terrain

– add a few details to my Warhammer Fantasy orc army

– Progress Skaven project

– Progress Historicals

– Get some wall sections primed and painted

– Sort through my bits box for old Ork parts…

Going to retire for the evening – more coherent input after some sleep and a strong coffee in the morning….