It’s been a while (a couple of weeks!) since I’ve posted here. Probably should fix that. A bit active on the gaming front, but unusually slow on the hobby front.
What I’m Working On
A lot of half-done things here, mostly due to post painting grind restlessness. I really powered through finishing off those Flamers of Khorne in time for Madicon. Whenever I do that, I end up a little burnt out and need a break. Work’s kept me too active to really feel like I’ve had that break, though. Anyway, what we have here:
- Another 10 Skavenslaves. 20 total to go (including these). Soo much painting.
- Objective markers for my Khornate Daemons. Stalled due to lack of inspiration, combined with grimness about the playability of my Daemons in a post-Grey Knights world.
- A pink High Elf. I’m still riffing off of the success of Battle for the Cure II and there’s a Fantasy version coming up in a few months. The mood seized me.
Madicon
Madicon went down two weekends ago. Overall, I had a great time. I ran the 40K Tournament and the WHFB “Tournament” (concurrently), played some Dark Heresy and relaxed.
The 40K tournament had 8 people turn out, which was precisely my success/fail metric. Things ran smoothly and most everyone seemed to be having a good time. We did have one guy who was a bit argumentative: at the time, it looked like he’d just been conflating 4th and 5th edition rules. In retrospect, he was probably cheating (as his list seems to have changed between games). That bothers me, but at least he didn’t end up winning anything.
The Fantasy “tournament” gets scare quotes because 60% of the an already light signup list flaked out and no-showed… which left Mike A. and Sean playing three games against each other. They were happy enough to do that, but I’m going to recommend that Madicon not do a Fantasy tournament next year.
While at the con, I also picked up the A Game of Thrones LCG starter; right now I’m hoping to use it as a standalone game, without getting into any deckbuilding. Not sure I have the mental bandwidth for that, you know?
Battle for the Cure
We held our second annual Battle for the Cure at Game Vault just this past weekend.
Something like half of the signups flaked out and no-showed, which infuriates me (much more than the flaking out at the Madicon tournaments.) Despite this, but because of an unbelievable amount of generosity from folks on the internet who donated things for the auction, we were able to raise $2,000 for Susan G Komen. With half the turnout from last year, we were able to raise $600 more. Next year is going to kick ass.
Mike G. did a great job of pulling everything together.
I went 1/3, but I don’t feel bad about my poor showing. Despite having a list that naturally lent itself to the composition scoring (no vehicles), I pretty much looked at every scenario and went, “Wow. I guess I’m not supposed to win this game.” I’ll generously call them woeful. That I did as well as I did makes me feel pretty confident.
I won best painted army, though, which I’m extremely proud of.
The auction was also a huge success. I decided to not offer to paint a unit for the auction, as I did last year, simply because I’m too damn busy and it took me forever to get Mark his Sternguard to him. At the last minute, I relented and offered to paint a single infantry-sized mini. The winner’s still got to get the model to me.
While I was there, AGoT LCG on my brain, I snapped up the Warhammer: Invasion LCG (unfortunately, I did this at the top of the day… well before I won a gift-certificate for the best painted army). Since buying more cards means being able to play Skaven… it’s a safe bet that that might happen in the future.
I Love Hearing About Myself
Yesterday morning, I got a note that I was Blog of the Week on Blunt Force Gamer, so I gave them a listen. Thanks for the kind words, guys!
(Now I feel bad about let Warpstone Pile lay fallow for the past couple of weeks.)
I’m Selling Stuff!
I played the bejesus out of Warmachine a few years ago (just a bit before Superiority came out)… but have since very much lost interest in it. I haven’t pulled my minis out in a couple of years, now, and that’s really not likely to change. So, time to unload stuff.
I’ve got a lot of painted stuff (especially Cygnar). I think I’m asking a reasonable price for the painted stuff… but I’m very open to negotiation, particularly if you’re looking to free me from a lot of stuff. The more you take, the more I’ll give!
A list of what I’ve got and what I’m looking for can be found here. If there’s anything you’re interested in, let me know! If you know anyone who might be interested, pass the list along! Thanks!