HistoriCon 2018 part I

        The host is being fixed up rapidly. The parking lots were a mess as with the main entrances. None of which had people parking across the street. I could always find a spot. My early morning arrival time got spots in the shade and close each day.

         The vendor hall is still down the hill. The way there is still under construction.

         The food stations were down from 3 to 1. The bar was not serving food. The lines for lunch were a mile long. The food selection was shit, burgers, beans, chicken fingers. They used to have great catered food. Some one fucked that up.

         I would say attendance is down again. There were fewer hosted games. Many empty gaming tables. If it was not for the MechaniCon group doing SciFy and all the tournaments, HMGS’ summer event would be dead!
         If you failed to preregister, there were very few available games on the board. Available gaming tickets about equaled canceled games. Saturday saw both morning and noon games for me canceled.

         Moving back to the Host fucked them royal! It should have stayed south of DC. Never did I think I would say that. The trip down 95 to Fredricksburg was a shit show! It should never ever returned to the Host. People hate the host. I would guess next year’s event in downtown Lancaster is going to be the death blow.

 Miles had a great table.

 Some of the regular gaming groups were kicking about.

 Miniature building authority’s table.

 I got to play on it on Friday.

One of the great tables

Same room, same group! They must have a terrain guy.

 My first Friday game, was a run from the Zombies. The dude did not know the rules. The rules changed and he would ask another dude what the rules actually were. The zombies could not hurt you and you killed them just by having a turn.

Warmaster Weekend

Back from HistroiCon. So much to do so little time. The convention AAR will be the next post. I got a training game in with Kal. Poor Kal suffered teaching me the Warmaster way.

We played the fantasy ver. I bought an Undead army, painted, off the Facebook group.  All my mates play so off the bridge I went. They are useless little bastards, but there is a shit ton of them. 

 Just giant block of bones rolling on Kal’s Dark Elves.

 Learned from my 1st game against Karl to grab the hill and sit.

 Pretty sure we kicked up the rules for buildings and fortifications

That lone group failed to the very last turn.

NEAT 2018

NEAT 2018.

         It was a 5 hour drive that turned into 8. Lucky me, there was a store right off the exit that had cold Bud and scotch for 50. I was afraid the Time Machine would be closed. It wasn’t, but all my mates left. So I put their armies on Ebay, pounded 4 beers.

        I got a game of Warmaster in. The magic version. Karl spotted me an army, the rat dudes. And then I got to play Karl, Dave’s ancient Eldar dudes. Karl smoked me.

One of the other Warmaster games.
That was Friday night. Off to the Holiday Inn. Up Saturday for the Epic Tourney.
The tables, most of them. iPhone 6 battery disease worked my photo taking.

My list:

 I was the ass with the Warlord. I went 1-2. It showed I had no practice with the list. Where to drop must be practiced!

Jon’s table
Game 1

 Dino even spotted me a tasty stick. Thanks man!

Game 3

Photos from the day.

NEAT 2018 list

3 tables are coming. Desert, Forest and river, City.
I be running a Warlord titan. Why because AT is coming out and I bought the dam thing years ago. This is a spear tip, all or nothing. 

WARLORD [825] 
1 Warlord Class Titan

THUNDERBOLT SQUADRON [175] 
2 Thunderbolt Fighters

ASSAULT [175] 
4 Assault Units

ASSAULT [175] 
4 Assault Units

STRIKE CRUISER [200] 

TACTICAL [275] 
6 Tacticals, Drop Pods

TACTICAL [275] 
6 Tacticals, Drop Pods

TACTICAL [275] 
6 Tacticals, Drop Pods

LAND SPEEDER [200] 
5 Landspeeder

LAND SPEEDER [200] 
5 Landspeeder

SCOUT [225] 
4 Scouts, 3 Razorback

20mm Colonial bagage

        My little area in the new house is shaping up. Enough that I could sit and paint some stuff tonight.
         Finally back to the 20mm Colonial. Nope, I am still fucking around. (Epic DAs, BAs, Tau, Titans) But while doing so, I ran across Early War minis on FB. Next thing 32 minis are in bound. Hey I don’t have any baggage dudes, nor donkeys humping (not camel hump) artillery. 

No shit right? Come on now. Not that type of baggage. But right?

The fees these poor bastards paid to get their shit humped (camel hump) across the desert? Makes hump day and man love Thursday seem more real.

 I will get these dudes primed up tonight. And painted within a week.

 Got to knuckle down. The 20mm colonials are failing to meet this year goal of a grand painted. I could be close to 100 painted?

 The DAs THawks took a beat down. 15 minutes of glue-ing myself to myself while the parts fall off.

Storage after storage

           Unpacking this mess is like the greatest Christmas ever! As each box vomits treasures long forgotten,  yes forgotten. Thats right forgotten, because I have found multiple, multiple orders of the same thing twice over. eBay and the post master will be busy these coming months.

        As the sun rises over my new empire, it still looks likes the ruins of a once great war gaming mess. Almost everything is unpacked. Far from sorted into proper gaming categories. There is a smallish box of shit for ebay. And at least two full days before I can hit the painting table for some true brush time.

          Last time is was stuck in the garage. It was remodeled but still the garage. This time, I get a work space in the garage and a separate gaming area.

        The over head single crap bulb needs to be replace. Both printers are unboxed. Hell if I can find the filament. I did find all the Forge World Epic masters and molds. I owe Jon some roads.

          I do have a space for a proper gaming table actually in the house. I just need that gaming table to be built. But what size? 6 by 8, 7x 12 is floating around in my head. Hopefully in the 6 feet under style. Lighting changed and a bar added, but the dart machine is up and running. And after 3 years rotting in storage it turned on first time.

The Sudan, FoF, Zombies, Epic, and 28mm ancients have been unpacked and placed in trays. The only the 20mm hummers suffered damage. All the ACW is in piss poor shape. A months work of sorting and basing issues.

Moving

         

         Finally after years storage has vomited out a hidden treasure of minis. All you poor bastards hoping my unit would pop up for auction, haha. No that was a panic trigger the whole time my minis sat in storage. What if it gets some how fubar and I lose it all in an auction. I would wake up at night to check online, ensuring my shit was paid for. 
26 feet of soldiers
        Not exactly 26′ of soldiers. More like 50% soldiers and books. Those heavy ass boxes broke my back. (The rest useless household items like spoons and shit.)

 The garage is half full. Including a new paint station.

 The pile next to the stool is all GeoHex. It like christmas!

 The long line of boxes full of lead, half paint armies, Epic shit for days, and 2 or 3 completed time periods.