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

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Hey @team hope everyone is enjoying their weekend so far (or looking forward to it if it hasn’t kicked off…)

Quick post before bed – will catch up with comments later:

1) Have you ever played a tabletop role-playing game? If so why not, if you do, what do you prefer? How might I change your mind if you arent a fan?

Initiated into the hobby with Heroquest back in the day so that’s a yes 🙂 Used to do D&D (3.5 ed) with maps and minis before we all moved to laptops so I did enjoy that. Really like the feel of it, great for hack and slash dungeon delves or more intense role playing type games. Great fun either way.

2) Recommend me a computer game of some sort. No wrong answer.

Solitaire! Minesweeper! Seriously, I can list every PC game I have installed – Oblivion, Skyrim and ESO from the Elder Scrolls series, Total War Warhammer and Warhammer 40k Armageddon and Battletech for strategy games, and Mordheim and Dungeons and Dragons online. Would I recommend any of them? Not sure, would depend what type of game people were seeking a recommendation on. Most are fairly dated now, I tend not to jump in on new games… As you can see, no FPS on the list… I may have played way too much Doom II head to head back in the day… (if only they had had E-sport type prize money on offer back then…).

3) Is Kitbashing and Converting the same thing or different? Keep this one civil lads!

I’d suggest converting is parts-swapping form within a range or within miniature styles. Kitbashing I would suggest would involve pulling together components form a number of different ranges/styles or even scratch building components. So related but different. Just my .02..

4) Do you do much in the way of narrative play, campaigns or the like? Is there any era, worldwide events or the like that you particularly enjoyed/still do or wish to explore?

Don’t really do much at the moment, hoping to get a lot more in moving forward though. I’m pretty much over list tweaking and power gaming and tourneys so now free to just do ‘fun’ stuff 🙂 Love the idea of asymmetrical games and narrative scenarios feeding off one another and into the next game.

5) Any of you guys go to any of the BoW events or bootcamps, and what would you like to see from one of those events.

Getting to a bootcamp would be a pretty pricey taxi ride from here 😛 So probably no. I don’t know if it would be doable but with 2nd edition Black powder getting released soon it might be a nice opportunity to break out a big studio game of Napoleonics like has been threatened now and then again over the years 🙂

Hobby pledge – GF is in Sydney this weekend running a half marathon so I have a mate coming over tomorrow to do hobby stuff. We were originally looking at playing Tanks but as it stands it’s looking more like a build and paint day. I’m going to aim to get a lot of stuff knocked over this week – will see how I go but as a minimum I am looking to complete:

– Finish my French line infantry (finish painting, dip varnish, matt coat, base minis amd movement tray and touch up).

– Finish my 95th rifles (same as above)

– Dip, varnish and base the Skaven on my workbench

Time permitting I’ll try to get a start made on some cavalry, light infantry and or artillery for Sharp Practice. Also have some D&D minis to paint, Kill Teams to assemble and convert, and a bunch of conversions I’d like to do plus more minis painted for my ongoing Bretonnian project. Plenty more besides if I have time – will post as I go 🙂

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