As many of the games I play are point based ones (WH40K, Warmachine/Hordes, Flames of War, etc), I felt keeping a current progress set of pages would be better -for me mind you- then lots of little postings.
First up in the chute is my Dark Angels Army. This is made up of Deathwing (1st Company), Ravenwing (2nd Company), and 5th Company. I’ll probably focus on getting them cleaned up and painted (or finished painted in some cases) this year.
However I will take some time to at least organize the chaos that is the rest of my collection. Particularly getting like items with like items. Like getting my French and Indian War miniatures all in one place. I think their in three boxes right now. The I can work on getting them rules.
I still need to text him a link up time -and reread the dang rules- but me and my dad will have a rematch of Kriegspiel this Friday. Hopefully I do better!
So over on my RPG blog, I just wrapped up a month of straight character building and I need a bit of a break from that kind of rush. But I would like force myself to put some effort into this blog as well.
To help kick things off, I picked up a digital copy of Operation Pegasus from Task Forces Games (yeah its old, but I was looking for copies of Nexus Gaming Magazine and tripped over it) for $5. Its usually $8. I’m going to look into getting the map and chits printed (at the very least the map). The plan will be to set it up in and run through a game or two while noting down moves and such. *pause for a software check* Oh wait, Vassal has a module for it. And ebay has cheap copies.
Well shit. I might just run a few of these from within Vassal. Cause they also have Tactics II, Starship Troopers, and Kriegspiel (my dads trying to work through some variant rules over on Board Game Geek). I’m going to see if he wants to try running a few games.
So I poked at Vassal and got my dad on board to try it. Then we played a game of Kriegspiel this past Friday. I got my ass handed to me. But in my defense, he’s been going over the rules for some time now, trying to expand the game a little. If your interested in contributing to the conversation: Boardgamegeek.com.
For our game I flipped on the log file function and saved that once the game ended. I’ll put together a post covering how he banged me up.
So getting to the point: February I’ll be posting more here. I’m not going for a post a day. Maybe a game or two a week (with write ups), a little bit of showing off of my miniature hoardings (no painting just yet), and finally some game theory stuff like my dads doing. I have rotating days off (due to working at a medical facility) so I can’t be tied to something that takes more than an hour or two a day on my workdays. Which for wargames is going to be hard.
Following February, I’ll probably start doing a couple posts here and a couple posts there each month. If I can keep that pace through June, I’ll be happy.
Sorry for the absence. My new career has three shifts: day, evening, overnight, and I’ve never been a morning person and my kiddos have no clue what “Be Quiet” means, so I work nights. Getting familiar with the ins and outs of the medical field has eaten alot of my time up in the last few months.
That said, I’ve jumped back on too WP. As mentioned I don’t have a lot of time most days, and tend to have my iPhone or iPad in use more than my laptop, so I needed a platform that has an in house app. If everything goes well at work, I have about about two hours of just sitting or walking 50ft doing bed checks, before my shift ends, so this’ll give me a chance to keep up. I’ll just dual post for a while, then simply stop posting on Blogger. I also follow a multitude of blogs that are on WP and trying to engage in a conversation with them -or spin off a tangent idea from one of theirs- is all but impossible from Blogger.
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