Reply To: Hobby Weekender 14/09/18 – … but sometimes it is a little early!

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Questions

1) I’ve never sat down and played a tabletop role-playing game but I have played two Star Wars Roleplaying Games via Skype and had a lot of fun. The First was a standard RPG but the second got very dark very quickly, we went from Rebels trying to get some intel to rigging an Imperial School with explosives and brutally murdering anyone that got in our way.

The most I’ve ever had Roleplaying was when I played a Ronin in Legend of the Five Rings. The setting was extremely well done and we had a great GM. I was a Noble Samurai who accidentally killed his brother in a duel so was exiled. A lot of fun when the parents show up as key Diplomats.

2) Any Total War from Medieval 2 to Shogun 2 is fantastic. After that they drop off a little but they’re still good.

3) I consider them different. To me kit-bashing is taking components from your bits box and glueing them on to new minis whereas converting involves some sculpting/advanced techniques.

4) I try to make all my Historical Games Narrative. Even something as simple as “Ok so this the farm belongs to Mr. Smith and we’re fighting over it because we want to set up a forward HQ”

All games should at least have some sort of Narrative (In my Opinion) even something as simple as “This is a crossroad so we need it because it’s WWII and we always need Crossroads”. I highly recommend the Muskets and Tomahawks Side Plots chart for anyone wanting to quickly add some narrative.

I’ve just released the First few turns of our Sharp Practice Campaign if anyone would like to follow along in the projects. I was the GM which was very fun and the Campaign is in two parts so you can choose to “pick a side” and only follow them or see how the whole thing unfolded by taking a look at both sides.

For the Union Campaign

For the Confederate Campaign

5) I’d love to but living on the other side of the planet does make it tricky. Comedian Steve Hughes has a good bit about Australia, Ireland and distance but it’s a bit rude so i won’t post it.

My Pledge this Weekend is to paint 100+ Sudanese Ansar Troops for the Mahdist War.

It’s too late to take a decent picture but they’re this

https://www.perry-miniatures.com/product_info.php?cPath=22_62&products_id=2593