Reply To: Hobby Weekender 15/03/2019 – The 2000's

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Happy Weekend everyone, hope you all have a good one.

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Again, rugby tomorrow.  Probably only going to watch Wales v Ireland.  Have some family stuff on as well.  I hope to get more organising done (I have models all over the place and if they don’t get sorted into projects now, they’ll never be sorted), but I have also found some Gripping Beast Arabs that need basing and so will try and do that (there isn’t that many) and some might need transfers on the shields as well.  I’ve also started to read the Age of Sigmar rulebook so will keep going at that.

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1. There were a few TV series I thought were very good.  I loved The Wire and Deadwood was awesome (shame they didn’t make anymore).  The return of Doctor Who as well!  Dexter started off stronger, then I got bored with it.  Friday Night Lights was good if not a little cheesy.  Movies – obviously you have Lord of The Rings.  One book series I love was the Shardlake books by CJ Samson.  I’ll add more as I remember them.

2. I got back into hobbying in the late 2000s after a long break, so can’t really answer this as I only really got back into painting to begin with.

3. This is a hard one!  I would say my 5 favourite bands from the 2000s were Primordial, Evergrey, Enslaved, Iron Maiden and Grand Magus or at least these are the bands I remember listening to most.  I’ll drop in more albums or songs I loved from other bands as we go through the weekend.

Primordial

Evergrey

Enslaved

Iron Maiden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx3UPfzGeN4

Grand Magus

4. Another hard one.  One battle I would like to recreate is the Battle of Benburb using Pike and Shotte.  The site of the battle isn’t that far from me and just think it would be an interesting one to recreate.  It was a Scottish v Irish force, the Scottish got their ass kicked badly, but it would be interesting to recreate the battle and see if the Scottish could have won.  Part of Irish history I also know very little about.  Another battle I would like to do are the Battle of Clontarf, which was Irish v Norse and Irish – but given the size of the battle (some estimate that 10,000 men were killed in the one day battle),  a smaller scale might be best.

One alternate history game I would like to play would be Romans (maybe even Julius Caesar himself) invading Ireland – but I am not smart enough to make it 🙂