GAME OVER

D’you know what I find interesting?

Everyone who commented here said swapping factions might be worth a go. Everyone who commented on TWF took it as read that I’d be sticking with my Cryx and offered advice for such. I don’t know what, if anything, that signifies, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

However, given that I’ve had the drabs for eighteen out of the thirty months I’ve been doing this blog thing for, a change is probably a good as a rest. Most of the Cryx are now resident with Mr Bandwagon, and his Mercs and Skorne (formerly known as my Skorne) are now with me. This state of affairs will continue until Live And Let Fly in three months’ time, and if neither of us hates the way things have turned out, will become permanent.

Here are a few lists I’m considering trying out. Still quite fond of Morghoul,for playability reasons as well as for all this. I had conveniently forgotten that I got a load of Mark I cards with these originally, never had one for Hexeris and had been subsisting on printouts from the starter set for all my battle box stuff. Will have to look into that.

System: Hordes
Faction: Morghoul – Big Game Hunters
Casters: 1/1
Points: 35/35
Tiers: 4
Master Tormentor Morghoul (*7pts)
* Cyclops Brute (5pts)
* Cyclops Savage (5pts)
* Titan Gladiator (7pts)
* Titan Gladiator (7pts)
Cataphract Arcuarii (Leader and 3 Grunts) (6pts)
Cataphract Arcuarii (Leader and 3 Grunts) (6pts)
Paingiver Beast Handlers (Leader and 3 Grunts) (2pts)
Paingiver Beast Handlers (Leader and 3 Grunts) (2pts)
Bloodrunner Master Tormentor (2pts)

System: Hordes
Faction: Skorne
Casters: 1/1
Points: 35/35
Lord Tyrant Hexeris (*6pts)
* Cyclops Brute (5pts)
* Cyclops Savage (5pts)
* Titan Gladiator (8pts)
* Titan Gladiator (8pts)
Cataphract Arcuarii (Leader and 5 Grunts) (9pts)
Paingiver Beast Handlers (Leader and 3 Grunts) (2pts)
Agonizer (2pts)
Orin Midwinter, Rogue Inquisitor (2pts)

Still messing about with the Mercs; I have the bits for most of these lists, though, so I’m likely to give them a try. Why not?

Also, you’ll doubtless have noticed that there’s a second author ’round these parts. Y’see, I am disconcertingly busy at this time of year anyway, even when I’m not moving house, and I would ideally like to remain disconcertingly busy (because that tends to mean that life is being lived, rent is being paid and fun is being had) after I’ve moved. It’s all part of the ‘less blogging about things, more DOING THINGS’ endeavour, you see.

However, I do want to keep the blog active and regular, like the bowels of a healthy elephant, rather than scatty and infrequent as it was in the early days. Lexington, bless him, has very kindly (with the minimum of devious manipulations on my part, and a poke from a moderately sharp stick at worst) agreed to join me for the duration, and will be taking over every third post to transmit his deviant thoughts and fancies down your word-reading organs.

Well hi-di-hi there. Got me a couple of announcements to announce.

Firstly, if you happen to be after some Cryx, Necron, Lizardmen or Empire models, you can buy some of mine on eBay. Don’t panic, I’m not quitting any games, I’m just selling off some surplus-to-requirements material.

Secondly, if you happen to enjoy my battle reports, or if you happen to be interested in my fiction, I have a Direction for you to follow.

My battle reports, and any fan-fiction I happen to produce in the future, will be living on this community of writers and generally righteous folk. It is at present a small community, but that’s where you lot come in. Go. Read. Join. Comment. Write. Most of you write things, and most of you are quite good at it. Get over there. There’s a button on the right of this post that’ll take you straight to my profile there, and from there, finding content should be easy.

Go. Read. Enjoy.

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Old Stuff Day has rolled around again, and if there’s one thing it’s made clear to me, it’s that I had too much time on my hands this time last year.

Anyway, here we are again, plunging elbow-deep into the foul brown dishwater of the past, rummaging around in a desperate search for the shiny silver spoons that we know are in there SOMEWHERE. I’ve got three, one for each year that the blog’s been going:

The first Meta Gaming post I did, everything within which still holds true. The more things change, the more they stay the same…

My first contact with WFB.8, in which presentiments of doom (and missing my Vampire Counts) are already stirring. I still haven’t decided how I feel about it.

And finally, a post about how I think RPG world-building should work, i.e. don’t weigh it down with encyclopaedic cruft and don’t be afraid to show your work.

Happy Old Stuff Day, folks!

Right.

Let’s consider those New Year’s Resolutions again, in the cold light of day.

GAME OVER will be going onto an ‘every three days’ schedule and I will only be checking YOUR blog, whatever it may be, on days when I’m doing a GAME OVER update.  That frees up the three or four hours (small, of the morning, when my stupid sleep pattern has kicked in) I normally waste on reading blogs to actually Do Hobby.  I won’t necessarily always Do Hobby at five in the morning every morning but I’ll be doing some every day, and to make sure that I actually DO Do Hobby every single day, I’ve signed up for Project 365.  The most recent image will be appearing over there in the sidebar and you should click through it to see the archive if you’re that way inclined.

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Last year, on the recently defunct Year of Frugal Gaming blog, I made something resembling a public commitment to something akin to Resolutions for what was then the New Year of 2011 (the Year of the Free Lance? Our normal custom of giving silly names to years kind of petered out with the Year of the Trouser a while back, although Shiny has seen fit to resurrect it for 2012, of which more later). Here’s what I said:

This year, at best guess, I have probably spent about £500 on gaming. I am going to spend less than £500 on gaming next year. I am not going to set myself a defined figure to feel guilty about, but I am going to spend less.

I’ve got some New Year’s Resolutions to make. I am going to make some buildings to go on that battlefield, and I’m not going to buy any new miniatures until those buildings are done and look good. I am also not going to buy any new miniatures until all the Dark Elves, and all the Skorne, and all the Tyranids, and all the Cryx, are painted, AND I am only going to buy one new thing at a time.

So, in other words, if I buy a new unit for one army, that’s got to be built, painted, used and played out… and I’m not going to rush off and have four projects on the go all at once.

And here’s how it went…

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