Reply To: Hobby Weekender 14/04/2019 – Waking up before we get to sleep

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@mage it’s funny but I wouldn’t have picked Lincoln as a CSM player… No coffee for a few days? Congrats on that 🙂 yeah player base is a big blocker for most new games. 40 points.

@limburger still cold over your way? We’re just about to hit the cold season here now so would have thought you would have had a bit of relief by now. Ah the complete Conan, good pickup. Will have to confess it took me about 3 or 4 goes to get more than a few pages in to The Phoenix on the Sword – there was one really terrible line a few pages in – “go into the night creatures of the night” or similar that nearly made me want to throw the book away every time I got to it, but once I got past that one line the rest of the collective omnibus was just brilliant 🙂 Ah yes regrettably there seems to be a lack of future support for a lot of games now. Could be a symptom of the KS age where people feel the need to turn over new games regularly rather than focusing on building up existing ones. 40 points.

@horati0nosebl0wer congrats on finishing the Eldar 🙂 they look really good. I once read someone quipping about painting 6mm that instead of being faster (assumedly compared to 28mm) It’s the same speed just with more squinting. Ah Ticket to ride is my GF’s favourite board game of all time. Mmm new Faderhead. I’m so far behind on the album front. Think I have only bought one album released in 2018 or 2019, and that was actually an EP (Bad Witch – NIN), and that’s still in the shrink-wrap… Really nice work on the bases. You don’t have a Necronomicon? Probably for the best – in this day and age someone would probably just digitise it, convert it to a PDF or ePub and it would appear on every tablet around the globe im hours… Slightly more seriously, I must get round to making a prop Necronomicon one day. Just because it would be awesome. 50 points.

@woldenspoons your comment reminded me of this game from the 80’s. Never played it but I gather it was about as serious as Battle Cattle…

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

I was looking at picking up the KoW Historical supplement at one point but never quite got around to it. I sort of parked my KoW project when my FLGS closed – really should resurrect that after I clear the current batch of projects… 40 points.

@robert nice looking space rats! Warzone?  Is this part of an army or just as a hobby project? Yes I’ve got to confess that minis tend to make me have a second look at a game that I would otherwise pass by, and mean I could be missing some gems simply because they use standees or tokens. Which is a bit of a shame as there are some great game mechanics out there for board and card games, and non-mini games usually have gorgeous artwork by comparison. Ah restic – have had er, ‘mixed’ experience with that stuff in the past. Not too bad once you know what you are working with but on first inspection it can look like regular hard plastic, I think that’s where the angst starts 😉  Great looking Dwarves. Could we impose on you for a size comparison shot or a height measurement? Also, what type of liquid cement are you using for the homemade greenstuff? is it just standard plastic glue? I’m sick of the store bought liquid green stuff drying out on me and the 2 part I find a bit fiddly with my fingers and lack of patience 😉 My plan with a lot of the pre-Napoleonic minis is just to treat them as either mercenary forces or the troops of some small province or Baron so that it doesn’t matter too much about colours/heraldry. Napoleonics would have been a lot simpler if the British hadn’t gone and changed hats at the half time break 😉 😛 60 points.

@sundancer ah the same gaming issues that confront us all 🙂 So you’re picking up both the new bits of SWL kit then? 40 points.

@blinky465 hope the car is OK now. Great progress on the MoTU! Wow, had forgotten half of those characters 🙂 Best of luck getting stuck into painting Greyskull, really keen to see the finished piece in all it’s glory 😉 40 points.

@oriskany sorry I missed the live stream (time commitments regrettably) looking forward to catching up on it. Reminds me that my grandfather collected a series of magazine publications on the Falklands War for me. I was too young to really get the benefit of them when he originally passed them on to me. I think they are in a box in my garage (haven’t unpacked a lot of stuff 5 years after moving in, you know how it goes… 🙂 ) Must have a look for them when I’m next playing packing tetris, would be a handy resource. Yes agree if you know the existing story for a game then getting on board is much easier. And yes, games that hand you a toolbox pretty much guarantee their own future proofing. I personally think that something as simple as providing a ‘points calculator’ for how equivalent values of game components were arrived at would let players put together DIY forces and expand the life of many games. Wow, 80’s flashback music 🙂 50 points.