Month: August 2012

My cave, work space

When we first bought the house, I was hoping to get a book and a gaming room. That didn’t happen and I was forced into the basement. Well the house sits on a slab, so it’s not really the basement. I did get a room. It is the size of a large closet. All my toys, tools, and house hold repair items are jammed in. It was the original owner’s tool room. Bastard left me a work bench.
Paint brands are Vallejo, foundry, old GW, and P3. I am falling for the foundry and P3 more and more over the others. There are the large crap paint bottles from craft stores. Those are used for bases and terrain. The brushes are craft store junk and a few nice ones from game store closings. I scored another from HM1.  
As you can see I got war gamer’s A.D.D. I need to clean and organize, but then I could find everything I bought over the year. All my tools are stolen from work or work purchased them as consumables. Thanks work.
Next 4 months project, Punic war’s mountain of lead.
Lighting blows. No natural light. Once I upgrade my electrical box and straighten out the mess, the overhead lights will be replaced.

Lesson of the day

Listen to audio books while driving. Audio books are free at the library or via NKO.

           I drive two hours every day to and from work. Wasted time, same songs, retards running their mouths, NPR. I never have time to read the current best sellers or classics. Audio books. I finished I am Legend and The Road this week.
          

Thursday night gaming

We had a solid group and we would throw down every week.  Summer is a rough time.
            Tonight, I have a coworker over for some Net AE. The fan maintained version of GW’s Epic Armageddon. The rules are free and most everything can be picked up cheap on ebay.
He is new to table top wargaming. I choose to break him in with AE because has lots of dice, is easy to learn, and plays fast. We have completed the demo games. (I have removed the Flyers and War engines.) We will be using SM armies in a mirror match. Mirror armies, I hope will reduce the what is this and that bit we seem to go thru in every game. Also to reduce any surprises until he gets use to the units and capabilities.
Step one we reviewed the units and stats, went over the turn sequence, and the 5 objectives. We stuffed our faces and grab a cold one as we set up on the back porch. 
 Why you say? Man it is crazy hot tonight. The porch is screened, there is a large heavy stable table already there, and the baby can’t steal things. Nor will I get bitched at because she thinks dice are food.
 Fred’s set right to left
                                  Whirlwind Det, Speeder Det, and a Tac Det
    Land Raider Det, Assault Det, Tac Det, Bike Det, and Devastator Det with dread
                    Devastator Det with Razorbacks, Tac Det, and Predator Det
My deployment right to left
                                     Land Raider Det, Bike Det, and Tac Det
                          Tac det with dread, Assault Det, Tac Det, and Whirlwinds
            Predator Det, Speeder Det, Devastator Det with Razorbacks and Dread
The plan was to take pictures and a detail account of the action. But the amount of beer consumed is inversely proportional to the amount of pictures taken. So, no pictures from the first turn to the finish. In the end  both Fred and I had a unit fail to activate in the last activations. If either popped tall, the end would have been very different. Time was running out and we still had to go back in at work. Fred had 2 objectives, 1 contested and me with 1 objective and  2 contested.
The two rules questions we had to look up were;
1)      What happens to troops in a transport that was killed?
Answer:  The units must make an Armor Save or a 6+ Cover Save to survive.
2)      Can a Whirlwind move and shoot? Trick question!
Answer:  Yes. An Advance, Double, or Hold action is taken. Target must be in range and LOS.
Answer:  No. A Sustained Fire action is taken and the Indirect Fire rule used. Target must between 30 and 90cm, no LOS required, and a there is +1 to hit.

All answers were found in the ” EPIC ARMAGEDDON COMPENDIUM V2.0” available to download on http://www.taccmd.tacticalwargames.net/

28mm Roman Auxilia

Currently up on the painting table 28mm roman auxilia. Most are from Black Tree Designs. Then some Foundry and Warlord command dudes mixed in.  I always prime white, it is just me. Also like like paying way too much for primer so I use GW’s.
The first run thru was just about finished, around the same time I drained a bottle of Glenrothers.  The initial 9 got the wrong wash and thick as icing. 
Example of the first group completed with the proper wash.
 Next up, they will all get a more Med skin tone, like the dude on the right. Than those on the left in the the first set with the North Africian skin.
I am still thinking on base size? How to base them? In the past everything was on FOG’s system. But since “Cold Wars,” I have been liking Hail Caesar more and more. With Hail Caesar the basing options become more flexible and less static.

Lesson of the day

When dudes watch a war or super hero movie, we do not automatically apply the events in that movie to events in our lives.

When a chic watches a romantic movie or chic flick, any satire no matter how remote in said movie is a direct reflection of their daily life. WTF? Magically some how that movie now becomes my life for the next 2 days, week, whatever.

Lesson; Chicken heads are no longer allowed to watch said movies. Due to the the fact that like a child they can not differentiate the real and unreal.

So the story begins. There I sat minding my own business, while drinking my face off and in she walks.

In the beginning there was man with money and free time. Man meets woman. Then failing to notice the lives of me mates and the trials of his father, matrimony. Ha fool, the young don’t always do as they are told. Cause when I was single, my pockets did jingle. O, but she is beautiful and download teen porn sexy. Yep you guessed, soon with child.

“For no ones cares about poor old dad.” My father would time to time say. Haha I would laugh, never understanding. Now I know. But what a life he had. My father would go off to his library every night after work and read or write until bed. Double Masters, 5 books, literary awards, countless articles, and everyone says “Bruce…..Bruce Bruce, right away sir.” But was it really poor old dad? As the anceint Greeks would comment on his life; he was the richest of men for his sons are arete and he witnessed his grandchildren.

Is it really poor old dad for me? I have my room or something a little bigger than a closet. A wife much like mom, who allows for my hobby and never truly complains about me hiding in my room. Hell, even like my father dragging us to his history conventions. She comes along to the HMGS conventions. (https://www.hmgs-crs.org/home)  And I have a PO box for work in which all my toy soldiers get delivered to!

No it is not terrible, nor ideal. I am like every other mad gamer. It is all we think about and want to do with our free time. This simple blog will exist as nothing more than to prove, that poor old dad is actually rich!