Hey Sports Fans,
Needed a break at work, which means you get an update. And by "you" I mean me, since no one else reads this darn thing...except maybe Don..shout out to Don! :)
Okay, so here we are, over a month since the last update. Ouch. I could blame holidays...but I won't. I've just been lazy. That being said, there were the holidays and then some. So I must have done something right? Well as a matter of fact, I did.
I got invited by some local Warmaster players to throw down some dice. I brought my Chaos and Orc armies as they are the best painted that I own so far (neither painted by me of course). I went with Chaos as they hit nearly exactly the point limit we were going for. We played a nice 2v2 game where the forces of chaos were competing to hold multiple points of interested against an unusual orc and empire alliance. Had a great time. My chaos did well for the most part, obeying the majority of my orders. My MVP was a unit of harpies that totally harassed the orcs and goblins for two turns, slowing their advancement. However, I chose to attack when half of my army was still trying to catch up, which led to the destruction of my leading battalions. Oh, and I played the Revolutions rule set for the first time. Jury is out on whether I like it better or not. I have some suggestions. :)
Then, incredible as it may seem, I went to another friend's house and played Bolt Action. I brought my brits, germans, and italians, everything I had ready for the table. Again, played a 2v2 game where my Brits and some American paras faced off against Germans and their Bulgarian allies. This was pretty much a pure infantry game since we were only using 500pts per nation. I went with a MSU style army that ended up with 11 command dice. Whenever the axis went, the Bulgarians seemed to get pulled first, and as such, they got shot to hell by the allies, thus allowing the Germans to advance untouched. However, the sheer amount of pin markers thrown out by the brits soon left the Germans alone to face the American firepower. The allies were able to take out the threats of the advancing axis units, and cross the field to their objective without too much drama. The highlight of the game had to come in the first turn. The US fired a small mortar at a 10 man Bulgarian squad and scored a hit, killing two men. The next die drawn was for the Brits, who also had a light mortar in the area and fired at the same squad. Another hit, and three more deaths. Poor Bulgarians got shelled to hell. No worries though, the dice gods exacted their payment for that luck by causing the Brit sniper to miss every shot. Not fail to wound...no...not even a single hit.
What a day. Yes, that was all in one day (love you wife!). I had a blast. I really enjoy Warmaster and Bolt Action. And the guys that I played with (not against) were great. Fun was had by all! And isn't that how its supposed to be? So...that has left me on a huge Bolt Action kick. I am currently working on my Italians (cuz they are dead sexy) I'm wrapping up assembling the rest of the units for them, adding my pumice to the bases, and then will hopefully have them all primed before my birthday weekend. That weekend, I will hopefully have time to paint the majority of the army with at least a base coat and have the infantry ready for dipping. I will do my best to take pics and post them up next month.
Oh, I also started working on my warmaster empire, but they are on hold until Italians are done. Woot! Until next time folks. Keep gaming.
