Catch up

Hi all,

Been a couple of weeks since my last post, not from lack of activity, but lack of accessible pictures.  Operation "get the Beloved to take pictures" has been a relative success, but Staff seemed to overlook the implication that all the pictures end up on her camera, and getting them on to my computer involves a few more steps.  Add in a fairly hectic couple of weeks, for a variety of reasons, and the blog fell off the "to do" list.

First of the outdoor games, vs. Tomb Kings.  Lost this one fairly hard - scenario didn't give me much room to manouvre.

That said, I've had a fair bit of activity.  With the good weather finally here (or, at least, as good as it gets in Nova Scotia - it's hammering rain as I write this), I've been able to set up a table outside, and have a couple of friends over to game (one at a time, outside, with good ventilation, and social distancing).  Both were games of Age of Sigmar, in both I ran my Beasts, and so far the goats are running even at 1:1.  The Cub and I also got in some 40k, and are starting up a summer campaign for the launch of the new 9th edition ruleset.  I'm taking advantage of it to get some models painted.

Historicals seem to have taken a back seat for a few weeks.  After the first surge of Flames of War painting, I'm now waiting for the current whimsy of the postal system to deliver a few needed odds and end to flesh out my collection.  There's some 6mm primed and ready, but I haven't felt the must of late, and have learned long since not to push it.  In the meantime, I've been working through some of my GW backlog.  The little ones will return in time.

40k against the Cub.  Big game, we had to call it for time part way through.

The next couple of weeks see the release of both the new edition 40k, and the annual "update" books for both AoS and 40k.  I'll likely need to spread these out a bit, but will likely pick them up.  Both have rules for narrative campaigns and character design / development, and while the interwebs aren't short of either, I'm a sucker for this kind of thing, so will likely succumb.

The Venomcrawler (the spider thing), blew up, taking a good chunk of my army (and wounding my Chaos Lord).  Can't decide if he's earned a paint job - Khorne cares not after all.

As I think I mentioned, 40k is now up to its 9th edition.  This blows my mind, as the Rogue Trader book and the "beakie box" were, as far as I can remember, the first hobby-related things I bought with my own money (from a summer job).  There was a little hobby shop in the "big mall" where I grew up.  I wandered in one day, saw the cover, and was hooked.  While I didn't really start playing until 3rd, I collected, painted, and "blue skied" endlessly.  It's almost disconcerting that the game has been around so long, but then I remember that the Cub now spends a fair chunk of his free time holed up in the (used to be my!) office, puttering and painting.  I guess it has been thirty odd years after all.