We then had shifts for the next three days, Lindsay and Megan were on the Crew Room, which was basically covering stuff all over the place, I spent time in a Shop & Drop, Hall 4 and the Crew Room.
My favourite part, someone arriving 3 minutes before entries for the painting completion closed on Sunday, his train had been massively delayed, and he had yet to collect his ticket, so I got to escort him to get his entry in before sending him to get his tickets, just trying to be helpful.
It was exhausting but an awful lot of fun, and I am so glad I was able to be there for it, to be honest if I wasn’t volunteering I couldn’t afford to be there for more than a day.
Plus a few more bits from The Army Painter, Warhammer and AK Interactive for painting, those being a Scrubby Cup, Emperor Gold, Khorne Red, Tyran Blue and a Gold Playmarker Pen from AK Interactive
I played two games of Bolt Action this week, first on Wednesday when I took on Gavin and his Battle of the Bulge themed British
My 750pts list is now
Rifle Platoon
Oberleutnant (Regular)
Heer x 8, LMG, NCO with SMG (Regular) Heer x 8, LMG, NCO with SMG (Regular) Heer x 8, LMG, NCO with SMG (Regular)
Sniper Team (Veteran)
Light Mortar Team (Regular)
Armoured Platoon
Panzer II Ausf C
Panzer I Ausf A
Panzer 38 (t)
The game was pretty hard, he had a Sherman and a Wolverine, the latter of which took out my Panzer 38 (t) on the first turn.
We played the Breakthrough mission and it was a classic game where it came down to three dice rolls
The game was a draw but had I passed at least one of two morale tests, I would have won, and had the game gone to turn 6, he potentially would have won!
David’s M3 Stuart and my Panzer 38 (t) spent most of the game pinging shots off each other
It was an impressive win for David as he made some amazing tactical decisions and had some really great dice rolls that systematically demolished my Germans
He ended up winning the game 8-2
On Sunday I was supposed to be playing in a Warhammer 40K tournament, I went but was quite unwell, and only managed one game against the kid
It was a tough game, I managed to destroy all of his infantry, but I couldn’t touch his tanks, Germans during the Blitzkrieg didn’t have very good anti-tank weapons, my Pak 36 and Panzer 38 (t) were just pinging off his armour for the most part
I did manage to damage the Churchill, and reduce its movement, but the Matilda II was beyond my weapons.
What Video Games I Am Playing
I am really enjoying Over The Top, its incredible fun, and I am trying to play a bit more Darktide.
What Achievements I Have Unlocked
Look Out!
Crush someone with an object
05/06/2026
Single Player
Play a match in Single Player
07/06/2026
Over The Top!
Have the Charge bonus with 15 other people at the same time
07/06/2026
They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance
Kill someone with a rifle at 100 meters or more
07/06/2026
What I Am Creating
I did a video on my Bolt Action 500pts list for the Escalation League
What I Am Spending
It was Humble Choice, so that got me
Diablo IV (annoyingly on Battle.Net)
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
Crysis 3 Remastered (gifted to a nibbling)
Nordhold
Heroes of Hammerwatch II
Rogue Waters
Cubic Odyssey
Mini Settlers
I also bought Heroes of Hammerwatch, seeing as I now has the sequel made sense to get the original
I’ve come to the conclusion that I really dislike the very idea of Konflikt ’47, not just mildly, but viscerally.
That probably needs an immediate caveat: I’m not here to judge anyone who enjoys it. Plenty of people do, and that’s completely fine. We can like different things for different reasons without it needing to become a moral argument.
But for me, Konflikt ’47 just feels… wrong.
I love playing Bolt Action. It’s one of my favourite wargames. However, World War II gaming is already a serious subject. It isn’t just a neutral backdrop for cool tanks and infantry, it represents real human suffering on an unimaginable scale. It carries historical weight, and that weight never really disappears, even in a game.
That’s where my discomfort starts.
Konflikt ’47 takes that same historical foundation and adds zombie soldiers, mechs, occult experiments, and super-science. On paper, it’s alternate history pulp. But in practice, it turns something already rooted in real tragedy into something closer to spectacle.
Enhanced SS units, dieselpunk weapons, and “Nazis with lasers” sit uneasily with me. Not because I think people who enjoy it are endorsing anything, but because the aesthetic draws directly from regimes responsible for very real atrocities. It feels, to me, like it risks turning that history into something stylised, almost consumable, and that’s where it becomes uncomfortable. At times it even feels commercially exploitative, like the imagery is being used because it’s provocative rather than because it’s being meaningfully reframed.
I don’t think anyone who enjoys the game is a bad person, or thinking about it in the wrong way. I just find I can’t reconcile the mix of pulp spectacle with real-world tragedy. Or maybe it’s the idea of extending such a regime into “what if” scenarios that linger too long over history’s worst parts. Either way, it doesn’t sit right with me.
But then there’s the contrast: I really like Trench Crusade.
I’ve thought quite a bit about why that is.
The key difference, for me, is that Trench Crusade isn’t trying to be WWI with a technological twist. It isn’t asking “what if Verdun had mechs?” Instead, it’s a mythic, theological alternate universe where history has already diverged into something fundamentally different.
Yes, there are trenches. Yes, there is war. But it’s not anchored to specific real-world battles or regimes. It’s a gothic horror setting, a fantasy abstraction rather than a reimagining of identifiable history.
In that space, humanity is fighting literal demons of Hell alongside crusader-inspired factions drawn from Abrahamic religious imagery. It’s not alternate history in the traditional sense; it’s religious and mythic horror. That abstraction creates distance, and that distance changes how it feels.
The result is that it doesn’t trigger the same sense of proximity to real-world events. It feels like symbolism rather than substitution.
They just land differently emotionally.
That said, I do have some reservations about Trench Crusade as well. It’s intensely grimdark, almost relentlessly so. Compared to something like Warhammer, it lacks much of the satire or levity that helps break up the tone. I once summed it up in a Bluesky conversation as: “there are no Orks.”
But even with that, it doesn’t produce the same discomfort. It feels like a fully fictional mythos built to explore horror, rather than a stylised extension of real-world catastrophe.
And that, I think, is the distinction that matters most to me.
In the end, this is just my personal reaction to tone, framing, and proximity to history. I don’t think it’s something universal, and I don’t think it should be. People are going to respond differently to the same ideas, and that’s fine.
If anything, it’s a reminder that in games like this, tone matters just as much as theme. What a setting is doing emotionally is often more important than what it is doing structurally.
And for me, that’s where the difference lies.
What I Am Modelling
I started out with a squad of Pioneers for my Early War Germans
I also painted this Panzer III, but it’s a pretty crap model, the details are bad and the print isn’t great, I ended up scrapping the idea of it being for my early war Germans and painted it in dunkelgelb with the idea of giving it to a couple of my nephews as a toy
I also painted some test models for a French army, I am kinda fancying doing to face off against my Germans, and I am quite happy with how it turned out
His detachment negated most of my tough weapons, so stuff that should have been wounding him on 2 was now doing so on a 3 and that made a huge world of difference
Plus the oath of moment rerolls are so very powerful, but it was an excellent list and his played it very well
What I Am Creating
We published the latest epsiode of Edge of Empire
What I am Backing
I have backed the Worlds Beyond Brawl campaign by One Page Rules with a friend, it’s an interesting concept and we fancy a few of the models so why not!
And this Wednesday I managed to make sure to grab two issues of 90 to allow me to make myself a Forgefiend and Maulerfiend for the True Sons Warband of Chaos Space Marines.
He went off his food a little, something that was very unusual for him, but as it was hot and two of the others went off their food at the same time, we thought not too much of it, but a couple of days later and he was eating less and less
Initially we believed he had something up with his teeth as his breath was rather smelly, so away he went to the vets
After an initial examination followed by an ultrasound they discovered that his kidneys were failing, pretty badly and his bloods were really bad
They advised that the kindest thing would be to let him go, and that’s what we had to do, we were devestated
There were options for us, but the vet said these wouldn’t be great for his quality of life, especially given his spiciness when it came to medication
He was a beautiful boy, and we miss him so much, the house is very quiet without him as he was a huge personality
Barrington, Bonnie and Mango all seem a bit down without him around, but are slowly getting used to his absence
We aren’t getting another cat to succeed him, we are going to stick with three cats for the foreseeable future simply because we are just way too sad right now
I miss his cuddles, when he would randomly come to the studio, demand a cuddle and snackies, my nights have been very quiet without his presence
Good night sweet boy
Storage
We have now rented a storage space, annoyingly the only place we could find an affordable one was in Harrogate, which is an hours drive away, which is a ball ache, but we are paying a month, half of what most places wanted a week near us.
What is being stored in there right now is my Warhammer Scenery, 14.5 tables worth, with a couple more boxes going to join it soon, the Edge of Empire PA system and a bunch of Paul’s theatre gear.
This is great for all of us, because we have been struggling with long term storage of some stuff, my terrain has been stored in my in-laws attic, which will be replaced with some armies to clear space in my studio, but they will take up a lot less space.
What I Am Modelling
I started out by painting some bits for my Germans, starting with an officer and escort, these being from the Meuse to Volga project
At one point my Panzerbefehlswagen and Panzer 38 (t) shot all three of their machine guns at his anti-tank gun, and all 12 shots missed!
But still, it’s nice to get a win, although that rules me out for the wooden spoon!
What I Am Backing
We now have everything for Meuse to the Volga, with the delivery of the Sd. Kfz 251 pack, Panzer crew and the terrain.
I backed the German What-If (Prototype) Vehicles of World War II, it will have no value for game play for me, but could be interesting to model, or perhaps for Konflikt ’47, that delivered hella quick and I now have all the STLs.
The models are cool, as I said, more for modelling or for Konflilt ‘47 usage, where the Panther II will fit
Over There Part 2 continues to deliver and the fella who made it is a really cool guy, he is thinking of setting up a Patreon, which I will join!
For the planned DnD digital tabletop, me and Megan bought an old 32” TV which we are going to encase in wood and use for playing RPGs on using a digital tabletop, probably Foundry
I finally got myself the LinusTechTips Screwdriver and I have to say it’s pretty sweet, certainly the best consumer screwdriver I have handled in a long time
I also got the Shaft Extension, a set of Phillips head screwbits, plus a bit of PTM7950, not sure if I will put that in my current PC of hold it back for the next one!
Also got the Precision Screwdriver EndCap set which had to ship separately due to a checkout error
I don’t remember exactly when it happened, but somewhere along the way I stopped getting excited about new codexes for Warhammer 40,000 and started getting excited about the Napoleonic Wars.
These days I’m just as likely to be reading something like French Tanks of World War II by Steven J. Zaloga as I am flicking through Warhammer content, and when I look at new projects, I’m browsing Napoleonics as well as the latest Games Workshop release.
Which led to a slightly uncomfortable realisation:
“wait… am I a grognard?”
The word “grognard” actually goes back to the Napoleonic Wars, where it was used to describe Napoleon’s veteran troops, the grizzled soldiers who had seen enough to justify a bit of grumbling and bitterness.
In modern wargaming, it’s become shorthand for the kind of player who cares about historical accuracy, rules, and whether your unit really should have that equipment. A player who is less about the sci-fi settings of Warhammer 40,000, or the low fantasy of Warhammer: The Old World, and more about systems, structure, and coherence. The kind of person who can open a drawer and have multiple tiny-scale Napoleonics ready to go, with different forces representing different eras of a war.
In other words… the sort of person I may be slowly turning into.
I’ve always been a WYSIWYG player for myself, and yes, I’ll admit it—I sometimes silently judge those who aren’t. Not in a serious way, more in a “hmm… interesting choice” kind of way. Definitely not gatekeeping. Probably.
For example, my Heresy Death Guard don’t really do fragile or complicated weaponry. Very little plasma, no volkite at all. They’re bolters, flamers, meltas, and lascannons. They footslog rather than bounce around with jump packs, and when it comes to vehicles, it’s tracks and wheels only—nothing overly exotic or suspiciously floaty like grav tech.
Even when options were available in earlier editions, I tended to keep things grounded. In 2.0, they all carried chainswords when that was an option, because lore-wise it just made sense: standard kit, used sensibly, no unnecessary faffing about.
That said, I don’t expect anyone else to play like that. That’s important to me. I don’t gatekeep—I just quietly assume my way is correct and move on with my life. (Joking. Mostly.)
It’s the same with painting. Because I have the time, I insist on fully painted armies for myself. I won’t put unpainted models on the table. But I’m not about to enforce that on anyone else. People have jobs, families, studies, and significantly more important things to do than debating whether that shade of grey technically counts as “battle ready”.
What’s slightly concerning is that the same instinct that makes me design sci-fi armies like miniature historical organisations is now pulling me further towards actual historical wargaming.
Bolt Action in particular has started enabling this behaviour. Instead of building lists that are remotely efficient, I’ve found myself constructing early-war Germans as if I’m curating a museum exhibit, very specifically 1940 to 1942, carefully avoiding “just taking the good stuff” and instead focusing on what feels appropriate for the period. Which is a very normal and well-adjusted way to approach a wargame, obviously.
And I am already planning the next army: a French force to counter it, built around artillery, inexperienced conscripts, tough but flawed tanks, and hastily reactivated WWI Renault FTs.
Even outside the tabletop, it’s spilling over. I played Assassin’s Creed: Unity, told myself I was just enjoying the setting, and then suddenly I’m reading about the French Revolution and Napoleon like I’ve got a dissertation due.
So now the hobby doesn’t feel like separate systems anymore. It feels like different ways of scratching the same itch: structure, narrative, and making toy soldiers behave like they belong in a coherent universe rather than a random pile of statistics.
And I think that’s the shift. Not away from sci-fi or fantasy—but towards becoming the sort of person who says things like “coherent force structure” without irony.
As for Napoleonics, I’ve acquired some STLs and I’m just trying to figure out a system to use. Black Powder is tempting, but my friend Ken highly recommends Sharp Practice. Either way, I’m going to be that basic bitch, which, let’s be fair, I am, and play the Grande Armée.
But I am not leaving behind the Games Workshop stuff. The Horus Heresy remains my favourite setting, and the 3.0 ruleset is my favourite yet (although the missions are not great and are really holding the game back).
I like narrative-focused games, which, with the current way Warhammer Age of Sigmar and Warhammer 40,000 are played, is increasingly difficult. Standard terrain layouts make it hard to run asymmetrical, story-driven games rather than simply racking up points.
These games are very meta-driven, and that’s just not me. I want thematic armies, scenario-driven play, and less obsession with having the perfect list.
But these games do allow for a lot of freedom, exaggeration, and creativity, while historicals give me constraint, realism, and interpretation. I’ve realised I don’t have to choose one philosophy of gaming—the hobby, for me, has always been a spectrum, and I’m just expanding it. It doesn’t need to be binary.
I think this is how I’m going to approach things from now on. I want a choice of armies I can use for different systems, and that means focusing on one or two “main” armies per system and putting the rest into long-term storage.
So I need to go through what I have at home, compare it to what’s in storage, and decide what becomes my core collections, then store the rest. That doesn’t mean I won’t add to them, I probably will, because I love having variety to paint.
I’m going to keep Combat Patrols available because that’s such a fun format, but I’ll have one, perhaps two armies (so Megan and I can play together) for each system:
Warhammer 40,000
Warhammer Age of Sigmar
The Horus Heresy
Bolt Action/Achtung Panzer
Some form of Napolionics
Probably something for Sage
Legions Imperialis
Trench Crusade/WWI
Something fantasy, probably The Old World
This will give me some much-needed space and allow me to develop historicals in a way that represents different eras and theatres. For my Germans, I want a collection that covers early war, Afrika Korps, and eventually Normandy/D-Day, giving me a range of matchups. Meanwhile, my sci-fi and fantasy collections can remain more fluid and constantly evolving.
Terrain-wise, I’ve already sorted my fantasy setup, and I think that will work for Age of Sigmar, The Old World, and D&D. My home 40K terrain is probably going to shift in a new direction, I’m thinking a trench-focused set with two building styles: one sci-fi and one more real world. That way it can cover both world wars and Trench Crusade. One larger box of 3D-printed trenches, and two smaller sets of buildings.
So yeah, I’m not leaving behind fantasy and sci-fi, just expanding the hobby and making things at home a bit more organised.
I still love the grimdark of Warhammer 40,000, and I always will. But I’ve also found myself increasingly drawn to the structure, detail, and reality of the Napoleonic Wars and the World Wars.
So maybe the question was never “am I becoming a grognard?”
Maybe it’s simply that I’ve realised the hobby was always big enough for both.
What I Am Modelling
I painted up a Panzer I for my Germans, thinking of doing another one cause it seems like it’s gonna be good at supporting the infantry in Bolt Action
After that I painted up an Sd.Kfz 265 which I need for my Bolt Action escalation list, turns out that my idea of taking a Panzer I as a command tank doesn’t work as it can only be taken in this form as the Panzerbefehlswagen
The game was a loss for my, by a lot, but my army scored a lot more kills than normal, the Demolisher cannons proved their worth and my Malcadors were the MVP of the game
The major problem was that the intelligence of my Solar Auxilia is just not good enough to compete in a Relic mission with the Mechanicum, but the mission was great and I throughly reccomend them
On Thursday we started the Bolt Action escalation campaign and I am starting with this list
Rifle Platoon
Oberleutnant - Regular SMG
Heer Infantry Squad x 7, Regular, LMG, NCO with SMG
Heer Infantry Squad x 7, Regular, LMG, NCO with SMG
Sniper Team - Regular
Light Mortar Team - Regular
Armoured Patoon
Panzerbefehlswagen - Sd. Kfz 265
Panzer 38 (t)
I was playing Ken’s Soviet Workers Milita and it was a really nice army he had painted up
It was a pretty good game, but the game turned when Ken’s Ampulomet took out a squad of Heer, and my other squad attempted to run up the flank, but were wiped out by a combination of a machine gun team and a mortar shot!
I played a second game of Heresy against Russell, I took the list Inplayed against Graham with, just added a Stormhammer as we played 3500 points
The game was just the basic kill the other team scenario, and it was really a lot of fun, but my dice rolling was attribute and I went 2 1/2 rounds without rolling a 7 and thus didn’t hit anyone and I really think that hampered my results
It ended up being a loss of 31-17, which was fine, it was first game and I have learnt a lot, I just took a starter list suggested by one of the fan sites
Learnt an awful lot, and really had a good time!
What Video Games I Am Playing
I played Verdun for the first time, that was kinda cool
More of the From Meuse to Volga, 1940-1942 was delivered, including the vehicles, the pioneers and a bunch of stretch goals, including the PAK 36, which I have printed two of
I fancied watching They Were Not Divided, but couldn’t find it anywhere on a streaming service, so bought it on DVD cheap from eBay to add to the PLEX server
A couple of Sundays ago, myself and Megan played in a doubles tournament at Games-at-Hart, and it was for Megan their first time playing against someone other than me
We took this list, the rules were two armies of 1000pts so we took this list. With me playing the Guard and Megan the Blood Angels
Our first game was against a very serious pair playing Orks and Death Guard with both Mortarian and a Gorkanaught
It was a hard game and I felt I had to be a bit strict with the pair as they tried to control the game in ways that were not friendly such as picking our cards in the app for us, something which is a real faux par and extremely rude
I could not have imagined a worst game for Megan to start with and was a very much we went through the motions to just get through it
The second game was much better, sadly Megan fell ill and had to leave 🙁
Another excellent game and at the end we were 3 losses down, but that’s fine with me as fun was had
The event was brilliant, but there was a degree of the issue I dislike about 10th edition, and that is the problem of armies being built around the best most destructive units with the lists not resembling an army you would see in “reality”
Hopefully something that changes in 11th
What I Am Modelling
I started out with an Anointed with an Anti-Material Gun for the Heretic Legions to use in Trench Crusade
I am a big beliver in the right to repair, but this is the wrong way to go around it, I need 5 different sized allen keys, and there are so many different sized screw!
But I got it done and well its working, I was able to print out some Trench Crusade minis for Leon, but now I have run out of resin and won’t have anymore for at least a week!
What I Am Painting
I started out the week by painting Marshall Drier for the Death Korps of Krieg
And then I added two units of Myrmidon Destructors that I 3D printed for my Mechanicum
Two sets of Myrmidon Destruxtors, one armed with Darkfire Cannons and the other with Converson Beamers, ready to unleash devastation for the Red Planet #WarhammerCommunity #Warhammer30k #Mechanicum #MyrmidonDestructors
Plus dropping some Vanquishers for Demolishers, the Vanquisher is very unreliable in 3.0 whereas the Demolisher is proving to be a lot more able to hit and do damage
On Friday I played a game of 40K against a kid at Hartlepool gamers, using this list
Astra Militarum Grizzled Company Strike Force (2,000 Points)
CHARACTERS
Krieg Command Squad (65 Points) • 1x Lord Commissar ◦ 1x Laspistol ◦ 1x Power weapon • 1x Veteran Guardsman ◦ 1x Laspistol ◦ 1x Power weapon • 1x Veteran Guardsman ◦ 1x Alchemyk Counteragents ◦ 1x Close combat weapon ◦ 1x Laspistol ◦ 1x Servo-scribes • 1x Veteran Guardsman ◦ 1x Close combat weapon ◦ 1x Lasgun ◦ 1x Master Vox • 1x Veteran Guardsman ◦ 1x Close combat weapon ◦ 1x Lasgun ◦ 1x Regimental Standard • 1x Veteran Guardsman ◦ 1x Close combat weapon ◦ 1x Meltagun
Krieg Combat Engineers (60 Points) • 1x Krieg Engineer Watchmaster ◦ 1x Close combat weapon ◦ 1x Combat shotgun • 4x Krieg Combat Engineer ◦ 1x Autopistol ◦ 4x Close combat weapon ◦ 3x Combat shotgun ◦ 1x Remote Mine
Krieg Heavy Weapons Squad (75 Points) • 3x Heavy Weapons Gunner ◦ 3x Close combat weapon ◦ 3x Krieg heavy flamer ◦ 3x Laspistol • 1x Fire Coordinator ◦ 1x Close combat weapon ◦ 1x Laspistol
Krieg Heavy Weapons Squad (75 Points) • 3x Heavy Weapons Gunner ◦ 3x Close combat weapon ◦ 3x Laspistol ◦ 3x Twin Krieg heavy stubber • 1x Fire Coordinator ◦ 1x Close combat weapon ◦ 1x Laspistol
The Cube Mod Carrier delivered and I have printed the first but from it, a mini cube I want to use as a hobby case able to carry my rule books, dice, tape measures etc
I got myself 4 extra copies of issue 77 of Combat Patrol for an extra 4 squads of Cadian Heavy Support Squads, so I will be able to field a squad of each weapon
One purchase had 3 sets and I had ti purchase one as a standalone
It’s been a very very long time since I have GMd, pretty much since my brain injury it’s been very difficult, it leaves me in a lot of pain afterwards due to the metal concentration needed and I get really sleepy after it.
But Megan asked for only one thing for her birthday and that was for me to write and run an adventure for her, no small task
So I set to and and went with one inspired by Nurgle from Warhammer alongside a good deal of grimdark body horror
The party responded to a summons from a village priest for magic users who could help him treat a plague that he felt was just as much an infection of the soul as it was the body
I set up the idea of a moral dilemma, that forced them to kill one of two parties, but Emma, Megan’s sister decided to simply go for the option I thought was gonna be the hardest choice, which unleaded the big bad plague Deamon if the encounter.
I played a game of 40K against my pal Craig at Hartlepool, decided it was time to finally, after many many years, to debut the Death Korps of Krieg on the tabletop
I took this list
Astra Militarum Combined Arms Strike Force (2,000 Points)
Krieg Combat Engineers (60 Points) • 1x Krieg Engineer Watchmaster ◦ 1x Close combat weapon ◦ 1x Combat shotgun • 4x Krieg Combat Engineer ◦ 1x Autopistol ◦ 4x Close combat weapon ◦ 3x Combat shotgun ◦ 1x Remote Mine
Krieg Heavy Weapons Squad (75 Points) • 3x Heavy Weapons Gunner ◦ 3x Close combat weapon ◦ 3x Krieg heavy flamer ◦ 3x Laspistol • 1x Fire Coordinator ◦ 1x Close combat weapon ◦ 1x Laspistol
Krieg Heavy Weapons Squad (75 Points) • 3x Heavy Weapons Gunner ◦ 3x Close combat weapon ◦ 3x Laspistol ◦ 3x Twin Krieg heavy stubber • 1x Fire Coordinator ◦ 1x Close combat weapon ◦ 1x Laspistol
The game was pretty close, and had Ingotten slightly better cards in my last two turns, it may have been a different result, but who knows. Fantastic game and I learned that Logan Grimnar is pretty mean!
I also managed to get hold of the other sprues for the Field Ordnance Batteries, I had tried to get them from Tesco, but I got there just a bit too late and someone else had bought up all the copies, so I had to hit up eBay 🙁
My army was mostly wiped out in turn 2, and at the end of the game, all of Dave’s Dark Angels had been destroyed, and all I had left were ten Lasriflemen, a Line Command Squad and a Legatine Command Squad who were hiding to maintain that LD10 with the Vox Interlinks
I ended up taking a nap in the car after the game cause I was utterly shattered, whilst the others played some more
After we arrived back at the AirBnB, we had a Chinese and played some Dungeons and Dragons together for the first time in person after 3 years of playing together
It’s was a lot of fun, but by midnight we were all utterly shattered and had to go to bed!
The next day after a McDonalds breakfast we headed back to Warhammer World where we did a tour of the Hall of Miniatures, which has changed a lot since last time I was there, I failed to find the Assassin yet again!
I finished listening to Angron: The Red Angel by David Guymer which was ok, but felt a bit of a let down as Angron barely featured at all. Lots of good concepts but also so much missed potential.
After that I listened to Something Inside by Trevor Baxendale, which was ok, but the 8th Doctor getting amnesia is kind getting a bit dull now, I am Paul McGann can really act that very well, but it’s just too used
What Video Games I Am Playing
Not played that much which is disappointing but will try better next week!
Lindsay also backed the Cube Mod Carrier project by Txarli for me, I mentioned it looked cool, and couldn’t afford it and she backed it for me to pay her back later
What I Am Spending
At Warhammer World I bought myself a Leman Russ Strike Tank, some glue, another three painting handles and some pots of paint..
The tank is going to be built as a Demolisher, cause I like Demolisher cannons and they have proven quite useful in both 40K and 30k.
As for the painting handles, well I have a fair few of them already, but I want to get to 25 cause I am far too regularly painting 25 models at a time, this one gives me 24
I grabbed the latest issue of Combat Patrol to hopefully add a couple more Field Ordnance Batteries to the Astra Militarium
When I was at school we saw an advert from the early 60s which had a family sitting down to eat breakfast, and the dad tried to have some cereal, but the milk was off, then he tried to have toast but the butter was rotten, and his daughter just says “dad, don’t you think we should get a fridge!”
And that stuck because the fridge is such a ubiquitous thing that everyone owns and I have always wondered what other things might fit the same narrative, and so far computers and mobile phones have fitted that
I think it’s going to need a model similar to the Bambu A1 Mini to hit the £99 mark for it to happen, but I really can see that coming soon.
The A1 Mini currently sells for £149.99 and I have seen it regularly on sale for £129.99, and it’s a really decent little printer that does what you want really well, and can be upgraded with the AMS Lite for 4 different filament colours/materials.
But why do I think they are going to become so common, well it comes down to the fact I think they are just so helpful, especially the FDM stuff.
So yeah with the above Instagram post, Megan wanted a Skadis door for their Kalax unit, but Ikea stopped making that, so I printed off a couple of bits in PETG to allow a normal Skadis board to be hung on the side of it
Or where we replaced pegs on the Socktopus instead of buying a new one
I completed one of the aims of this year, and sorted out my Stormcast Eternals army into what can be used in 4th editon and it turned out to be a lot more than I though!
I then listened to The Settling by Simon Guerrier, which was pretty good, nice to see something that actually portrays Cromwell as the villain he actually was
And my final game was against Leon, a good friend and his T’au Empire army, I did much better in this game, but my dice let me down, a lot, but I felt it was more even
This past Sunday we held our first Heresy event for the year, we only had 10 people but that was enough to have some fun
The missions were completely rewritten by Graham, apparently my planned ones were pretty bad, but I will keep trying to get something that works, but you can download the ones Graham wrote here
Anyway game one was rather fun, we have some nice pairings and Graham was grudged, although I think James regretted it when Graham shot down his Storm Eagle
For me the moment of the day was when Graham’s Kytan Daemon Engine took on Damian’s Knight-Castigator in combat, and the Kytan beat the knight severely
I played a game of Combat Patrol against Megan, they played Drukhari against my Scions and well I started out ok, but they absolutely hammered me in the end
I have joined a group but to get From Meuse to Volga, 1940-42, a campaign for some early World War II German STLs.
What I Am Spending
We bought a new TV stand, the old one that came with the TV was fine, but these days you really need to have soundbar cause with the thinness of a modern TV, the speakers are total shite
But the current stand with the Soundbar in in front of the TV, results in the IR sensor being blocked and out TV uses that for being turned on, which means we had to do some gymnastics if we sat down and had not turned on the TV, to get the remote in a potion to hit the IR sensor
This one was £26, it’s simple and it’s fine, does the job fantastically!
I also picked up Sniper Elite 3 with its season pass for £2.65
