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All right… lets do this!

Hello all, hello @unclejimmy
hi @robert haven’t said hi to you for a while

It has been a while since I joined in, and never while @unclejimmy was around. Anyway, to the point: my Pledge!

This weekend I’ll be working on some 40k stuff: Primaris Marines for the Blades of Vengeance chapter. Photos of the pledge later I’m waiting for them to upload to my cloud storage.

So to the questions:

1. Important stuff to me as a child? In no particular order:
Fighting Fantasy books. They really are one of the hooks that got me into RPG’s and this hobby in general. Between my brothers and my youngest uncle and myself we had a reasonable collection. As well as the actual Fighting Fantasy RPG sourcebooks. I still have some of them.
Our collection of VCR’s recorded from video store hires or (mostly) TV. Especially Labyrinth, Lady Hawk, Willow and the Star Wars trilogy. The best thing to keep this kid entertained when home sick from school or a rainy school holiday day.
Pets. We always had a some kind of pets when we were growing up. Over the years we had various dogs, a cat, a pair of birds and 5 fish, a family of Guinea Pigs. I reckon having pets is an important part of growing up.

2. A good bargain?
ah, this is one of those questions that’ll brew in the back of mind and percolate and eventually something will result. Buying in on the original Kingdom Death kickstarter was a good deal. For the amount I paid then I’d only get the base game at full retail now… I got so much more stuff than that! But a really good deal… I’ll have to think on that one.

3. The “rules”
Learn the rules, play the game. Have the fun.
Don’t let the rules get in the way of the last one. Though I find it depends on two factors: Setting and Game.
Of course it depends on the setting: a tournament situation is significantly different to playing against mates in the garage. But in the later case, play the game, fudge the rules if necessary in the heat of the moment, clarify it later.
The Game is important too: GW games? the hell with it. 4+ it and sort it out later. Infinity? seems much more important to know the rules, or at least the order of operations. Even if you forget what TO camo does, you’ve got to know what to do when your opponent says “as an ARO I fire with my HMG” when you thought your mini was moving out of line of sight of all opposing minis…

As per usual I’ll be back to participate properly as of Sunday night Sydney time. Work all day Saturday, then pick up my daughter. Father-daughter time Sunday then take her home to her mum’s place Sunday night, back to being solo Sunday night.

Music though!

And just for good clean fun: