Olympus 2012

  

I was at the British national science fiction convention over Easter and guess what, they had members of the cast from Game of Thrones and the Author George R. R. Martin in attendance. Couldn't resist the pose.

With TFL about to bring out a Dark Age skirmish game that promises to be suitable for fantasy skirmishes, I may be tempted. OTOH, perhaps not, given the backlog of painting and my current lack of will to paint anything.

However, I will be ordering the Blue-ray Game of Thrones set sometime soon, but not this month as I'm too pressed with road tax and MOT bills to come.
   

Young MechWarrior

  

Last time I saw my Godson Dylan he asked me to play a game of MechWarrior with him, which I duly did. It is amazing how rusty one gets with even a simple set of rules, but after a couple of turns most of it came back for both of us.

It reminded me how much I enjoy playing games, and how little I get to play them.

I emailed my gang of players asking to tell me dates for the next game that suits them. Not heard anything back yet. I'm also really excited to see that Ogre 6E from SJG is good-to-go too. I see this new edition very much as a Xmas present for me, and perhaps when Dylam comes to visit I will introduce him to Ogre too.
 

Four Months

   
The last four months have been a bit of a drudge.  I'm currently on one month fixed term contracts since Xmas, and I'm struggling at times not to lose the plot.

However, I've started the ball rolling for getting the next campaign game arranged.

I've been looking at my unpainted lead mountain, and it doesn't look too bad.  I'm even looking forward to Justicar's resin Monster MAC mecha arriving in a few weeks.  So, I'm back, and posts will restart.

After all I've got the last planning session to write up, if nothing else, to do.
   

On Being Spammed

   
It seems that this blog has become a target for spam.  I thought the sarcastic comments quite a nice touch too.

"Thank you for this blog.  That's all I can say.  You most definitely have made this blog into something thats eye opening and important.  You clearly know so much about the subject, you've covered so many bases.  Great stuff from this part of the internet.  Again, thank you for this blog."

So I will be switching the moderation for posts feature on, and apologise for this.
   

Late Xmas Salutations

 

Been extra busy, and work has been a bit stressful. Therefore not a lot of action going on. So, let me wish you all a belated very Merry Xmas, and a very Happy New Year, which will hopefully be prosperous and rewarding. 

My Xmas indulgences...

 

All Panzer Depot 10mm prepaints.

No, this is not the start of another period, just an indulgence in tank oddities.

ACAV Huah

 

Still in the acquisition phase of my 10mm Vietnam gaming ambitions, which has meant a lot of inspirational thinking while the shiny toys mature in the their assigned shoebox. However, I couldn't resist showing these lovely models off.

Also, when I was at Warfare last week, Leon at Pendraken reminded me that I promised him some riverine monitors, which I have the parts for, but not yet started work on. Had to apologise profusely for my lack of intestinal fortitude, but I have a new job and I'm still in the probation period, which I am finding stressful.  

Good intentions and all that really.