Reply To: Hobby Weekender 06/06/19 Now Heresy Free!*

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Hey Team, just dropping in to say hi 🙂

@mage thanks again for doing the heavy lifting on hosting duties of late, @crazyredcoat thanks for hosting this week and giving @magge a break 🙂

Been super-busy with work etc and will remain so for the next few months (Through till mid-September before things normalise a little) so free time has been sporadic at best, Have stolen a bit of time here and there and been putting together a bunch of Perry and Fireforge historicals for a Dogs of War/Bretonnian rank filler/Empire of Mankind force depending on the game system of use. Have also started speedpainting my skaven from the 8th ed WHFB starter box and may also have accidentally a pirate force for WHFB…

Further to the above, just had a prize land in the post – the new goblin puppy launcher mini for KoW vanguard. Such an awesome sculpt, very full of humour 🙂 Really like the standards that Mantic have been hitting of late. So that will be stashed away for my birthday later in the year.

Also had my reaper Bones 4 KS land last week. oh my that is a solid chunk of bonesium. The new material seems much denser than the old bonesium. you could do someone serious damage if you were to wield the stygian barge as a blunt instrument (don’t try this at home kids, I’m a professional idiot and am qualified to do all my own stunts). Had picked up 2 of the Roc minis thinking I could convert them into phoenixes for my High Elf army. heh, not sure how that will work, these things are HUGE, easily dwarf a dragon. Wingspan is over a foot – will take photos and post once I get around to assembling one. should be fun to paint though with that big a canvas.

OK, question response time!

1. How much, if at all, do artworks influence your hobby? Is there a particular piece in a rule book or just online that made you go out and get an army? Something you saw and thought ‘I need THAT in 28mm!’? Even just a paint scheme influence by a painting or even digital art. Share the art, if you can. – Love good art for art’s sake. It doesn’t necessarily drag me into a game. For example, I think the artwork for Dropzone Commander and Antares is fantastic, but I’m not really interested on jumping in on the games personally. I do find that a simple google search for fantasy images, or checking devaintart for a particular topic, will end up firing ideas for RPG scenarios or wargame missions, ot even scratch built terrain so there is definitely a strong influence of art on the hobby, just not necessarily a ‘marketing’ influence if that makes sense?

2. What type of hobbyist are you? Collector? Painter? Gamer? We all know the hobby we’re part of is vast with many games and many more minis, so what part is your favourite? Do you like to play casual, competetive, or somewhere in between? Do you spend days getting the paint job just right, or block in colours for a quick battle ready look for the tabletop? – I’m guessing most of us are a mix of the three categories, but I’m probably primarily somewhere between collector (I have a too big pile of shame waiting to be painted – can we add an extra category for ‘acquirer’? Collector sounds sort of more organised, I’m more of a mini hoarder…) and painter (while detail minis are fun I’m at my happiest batch painting 100+ minis at a go). Although I have been getting a few more games in of late now and then – who’d have guessed joining a gaming club would help out on that front?…

3. What rule would you like to implement in a game, if you had the chance? Any game is fair game, here, but be specific as not all of us know the same games. Who knows, maybe it’ll get someone interested in that game! – Generally happy discussing and implementing things with my gaming opponents (I don’t do tourneys any more so am happy to proceed with common sense or sportsmanship ahead of pure RAW) so we tend to modify thing son the fly or take a pragmatic approach to anything not covered in the rules. I am looking at revisiting and updating the siege rules for WHFB which as far as I can see, were last fully updated circa 2002… There are a few things I think need a little tweaking and some extra rules I’d like to include for sappers, giant monsters etc