Reply To: 15/02/18 Hobby Weekender – Aaaaargh matey!

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Hi-de-Hi folks … yep, I’m still alive and kicking. 😀

I spent yesterday with my nephew assembling the AoS mini starterset and helping him and his niece through the basics of the game, so that kind of takes care of my pledge for this week. 😀
More on that after these messages …

First questions :

> 1. What board, card or tabletop game would you like to see be made again in print?
I’m not a fan of re-prints myself, because I’d rather see something new instead.
As such I’d vote for ‘Advanced Heroquest’ … the sequel that probably was one of (if not the first) dungeon crawler boardgames with an actual dungeon build out of hallways and rooms instead of a board.
That game would have to be brought up-to-date though. It kind of sucks that hte ‘old world’ it used as a background is dead.

Technically ‘Silvertower’ is its sequel, but that is a different beast.

> 2. What new game or hobby release has you excited?

The Genestealer cult faction … it’s weird. I never considered them, but reading a bit of the sneaky-as-heck rules they’ll have in 8th edition and I find myself tempted.

> 3. That was something new and old in my last two questions. Is there anything different you are doing lately with the hobby which you are enjoying?
I’m trying to convince myself to reduce my mountain of plastic/metal/resin … it’s not working due to GW being soo bloody tempting with their new armies. As a result I was thinking about getting a Gloomspite Gitz army done, when I understand how army lists work in that game.

> 4. What games are you eager to play lately?

Am I allowed to mention ‘Age of Sigmar’ ?

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Anyways … so ‘Stormstrike’ it was.
Assembling is ranges from easy (Sigmarites) to not-so-easy-need-glue (the undead).
I was glad I had packed my plastic glue (Revell contacta professional) and a knife to clean up the minis a bit.
The undead especially suffered from gaps. So ‘easy build’ … I’d say meh.
Beginners will be in for a bit of a shock once they try the ‘normal’ plastic kits though.

The training scenarios are more than a bit unfair to the Sigmarite player, because you need a lot of luck to win them.
Things were a bit less one-sided when we used all of the units (my nephew managed to kill the undead except for one).
The final battle was simple : both forces on opposing sides of the provided map, ‘temple’ in the middle and go ..
In hindsight I’m glad I ignored the ‘rend’ statistic, because the 4+ save helped to keep the stormcast alive.

I think they enjoyed the game, so I hope I can get them to play more in the future.