[Skips obligatory excuses for not blogging enough]
So there was a challenge for playing boardgames at
Therewillbe.games and although it was silly to expect me to play 10 games 5 times, I thought I should manage to at least once play 10 games that I received/bought over the past few years and were gathering dust on my shelf.
I selected
Secret Weapons of the Third Reich, Gothic Invasion, Bioshock Infinite, Mighty Empires, Quarantine, Bemused, Blood Bowl Team Manager expansions, Who's She? (a kickstarter then still to arrive)
, Mission Red Planet, and
U-Boot (another kickstarter yet to arrive).
Secret Satan then gifted me
5 Cucumbers, Dairyman, CIA vs KGB and
Nyctophobia, which I added to the challenge.
And in that kind of coincidence that isn't really coincidence, I already had a shortlist of painting projects lying around, which I then included into a range of wider gaming goals. So I added a number of miniature games that I wanted to concentrate on playing this year (you'll notice some resemblance with the painting projects):
- a Flames of War 15mm desert campaign with my colleague and his friends
- Dux Brittanniarum AD 789 (Anglo Saxons vs Vikings) at the club
- For Reign or Ruin (15mm fantasy rules) at the club
- Muskets & Tomahawks, French and Indian Wars or American War of Independence at the club
- What a Tanker with friends at home.
In terms of painting I had a few units for my middle war desert Italians for
Flames of War that I bought at Crisis last November and wanted to add to my small army while we are still playing.
Late last year I also had bought a bunch of Footsore's nice Anglo Saxon levies to build up proper fyrd units for
Dux Brittaniarum. The Gripping Beast Frankish warriors that I have used so far are fine, but not based very practically for
Dux.
The Prussians are a small lot that would finish a Fusilier unit that I have sold to a friend participating in
the Great Game: Waterloo Replayed charity multiplayer event in Glasgow next June.
The French and Indian War French regulars are to round off my small French force that I could use for
Muskets & Tomahawks. And the 40K Harlequins are supposed make a basic team for
Necromunda or a similar sci fi skirmish game that I have started on but not finished. These three should not take much time to finish.
Then there's three kickstarters that I supported lately:
7TV: Apocalypse which would combine well with postapocalyptic stuff I already have, the wonderful
Killer Rabbits by the same guy who did the brilliant
Triumph of Death Pieter Bruegel skeletons (shown above) and Galloping Major's
Allies on the Frontier provincials for the French and Indian Wars. All should arrive this year.
And finally there's a bunch of projects that I might take up as I please. Stuff for
What a Tanker would expand the possibilities of what I already have (like some 15mm British tanks to face my Italians). Overall way too many plans to actually finish it all.
I also decided to include my larger gaming projects. First the PolderCon convention I help organising, and second elusive idea that I have which would become an eclectic MODOSG (Multiplayer One Day Offline Skirmish Game) blend of Frostgrave and Warhammer Fantasy Battles. But that's still very vague and will take shape in the second half of the year.
And finally there's the ongoing projects of decluttering (or rather, making room).
Results in January:
Painting
I managed to finish my Autoblindas for the Flames of War desert campaign with my colleague and his friends. They have already seen the elephant as well! My Anglo Saxon fyrd for
Dux Brittanniarum AD 789 are almost done as well, in time for the next game.
Playing
I've now played
Bemused, Who's She?
and
Mission Red Planet. All three fun games to play in friendly setting.
Had interesting conversation on the ladies in
Who's She? with my girl
so that's doing what it is supposed to. My friends loved the premise of
Bemused that to take your adopted virtuoso to eternal fame it is better
to get his competitors to succumb to doubt and dread.
So 3/14 after the first month on this track.
Managed two games of
Dux on one Saturday at the club, 3 games of
What a Tanker and one Italians vs Brits in
Flames of War. That's also gotten me some way towards my goals (which I may have set rather unambitiously, forgetting that you sometimes can get multiple games in a day).
Projects
PolderCon is almost upon us (Sunday Feb 3rd) and it's been a real handful. Some last minute drop outs and the long run up (I've been cajoling hosts since September) leave me a bit deflated, but at least I've got my stuff done. Let's hope it all turns out well.
Decluttering
No real movement on shedding another games, books or miniatures, although I've lent out
King of Tokyo to a friend who has been playing it with his daughters to
great success. So I won't mind if it stays there.
