And with it, that’s all my Underworlds Warbands painted, kinda gave up after this wave because the prices got too high for the starter sets and haven’t gone back.
I also painted a Mortificator for the Ultramarines, to help manage the heroes of the Legion confined to the chassis of a Dreadnought
I finished Cyberpunk 2077 and played through all the endings, but for one achievement I need to go to a much earlier save and make a different decision, which I will probably do in the new year.
Still streaming Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, I have now finished the main story, still have the Victoria memories to do, and Jack the Ripper, but yeah, its great, apart from the Duleep Singh DLC which was buggy, glitchy and god awful!
Fired up the new Ticket to Ride game, but it’s not got great controls on Steam Deck, so that’s a desktop only game!
What Achievements I Have Unlocked
Cyberpunk 2077 (Steam)
To Bad Decisions!
Complete Kerry Eurodyne’s storyline
07/10/2025
Ten out of Ten
Reach the max level in any skill
08/10/2025
The World
Complete the main storyline
08/10/2025
The Star
Leave Night City with the Aldecaldos
08/10/2025
Temperance
Let Johnny Silverhand keep your body
08/10/2025
The Sun
Become a legend of the Afterlife
08/10/2025
The Tower
Complete “Things Done Changed”
09/10/2025
Ticket to Ride (Steam)
Maiden Voyage
Complete your first game
11/10/2025
No Cancellations
Win a game without any uncompleted tickets
11/10/2025
Trainbow
Win a game using each colour train at least once
11/10/2025
Assassins Creed Syndicate (Xbox)
Cerevisaphile
Sample every beer brand in London
09/10/2025
10G
Language of Flowers
Collect all of the Pressed Flowers
09/10/2025
20G
Student of History
Collect all of the Historical Posters
09/10/2025
20G
A Quarter-Furlong at a Time
Finish first in 3 different Street Races
09/10/2025
20G
A Run on the Bank
Complete Memory Sequence 6
09/10/2025
20G
You Wouldn’t Steal a Policeman’s Helmet
Hijack twenty police vehicles
09/10/2025
15G
A Life in Letters
Collect all of the Royal Letters.
10/10/2025
20G
Guardian Angel
Successfully escort ten friendly cargo shipments
10/10/2025
20G
Godlike
Unlock all of the Secrets of London
10/10/2025
30G
Multitalented
Acquire ten Perks
10/10/2025
10G
Opium Scourge
Affect at least four enemies simultaneously with the Hallucinogenic Dart.
14/10/2025
15G
Look Out Below
Kill three enemies with a single stack of hanging barrels
14/10/2025
15G
All Is Fair in Politics
Complete Memory Sequence 7
14/10/2025
20G
The Joys of Freedom
Complete Memory Sequence 8
14/10/2025
20G
Shall We Dance?
Complete Memory Sequence 9
14/10/2025
50G
What I Am Creating
Just About Tabletop Standard is now done with the publication of the Alpha Legion video!
What I Am Spending
We expanded our server storage space with a 16TB drive, the biggest one we have added, up until now the most we have added is a 6TB drive, so this is a big addition
Twas my birthday this past weekend, and we had a quietish one!
On Saturday we went to Newcastle and I was able to hang out with some of my nephews and share a hot chocolate with them, whilst also popping into Warhammer for a bit of paint and for Lindsay to buy me a present, plus got the model of the month!
Sunday, we went to Megans parents, had a lovely beef dinner and some jam rolly polly!
My presents were nice, and I had a really nice weekend.
This Captain was pulled out of a DOOMBOX and got painted up for the Blood Ravens, was a limited edition Captain, and had to be rebased onto a 32mm base as he was on a 25mm one
And a Tactical Squad of Ultramarines I have had sitting in my pile of shame for well over a decade, they probably don’t have much of a life left in 40K, but hey, at least they got painted!
Grey Knights Librarian and Brotherhood Terminators x 5
Dracosan
Heretic Legion Warband
What Tabletop Games I am Playing
Played my next Combat Patrol League game against Dave and his Arldari, and yeah that was a big loss because the Eldar move very quickly and my dice rolls were terrible
What Video Games I Am Playing
Still deep into Cyberpunk 2077 and I have now put in 84 hours and other than finishing the end of Kerry Eurodynes story, I am about to go to the point of no return!
Also still streaming Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
What Achievement’s I Have Unlocked
Continuing on with this little experiment, which I am finding rather interesting
Cyberpunk 2077 (Steam)
Judgement Day
Eliminate three bosses from the “Increased criminal activity” category
29/09/2025
The High Priestess
Talk with Hanako Arasaka
30/09/2025
Spin Doctor
Complete “Run This Town”
30/09/2025
Dirty Deeds
Complete every Gig in Dogtown
01/10/2025
Breathtaking
Collect all items that once belonged to Johnny Silverhand.
02/10/2025
King of Wands
Take Songbird to the stars
04/10/2025
King of Wands
Take Songbird home
04/10/2025
Bushido and Chill
Watch Bushido X with Rogue
06/10/2025
The APB is Not Enough
Become Dogtown’s most wanted criminal
06/10/2025
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate (Xbox)
The Perils of Business
Complete Memory Sequence 5
30/09/2025
20G
Bartitsu
Learn every Fight Skill as Jacob
30/09/2025
20G
Phantom
Learn every Stealth Skill as Evie
30/09/2025
20G
Treasure Hunter
Complete ten Raids of any type with Jacob or Evie
01/10/2025
20G
Keys to the City
Acquire all of the Gang Upgrades
03/10/2025
20G
Wonder of the Age
Reach Level 10
03/10/2025
20G
Artisan
Craft a Level 10 Item
03/10/2025
20G
Street Sweeping
Conquer all the boroughs in London
03/10/2025
30G
Bedfellows, Strange or Otherwise
Reach maximum Loyalty with any Associate.
03/10/2025
20G
A Broad Base
Reach Loyalty level 1 with all Associates
04/10/2025
20G
Chimney Sweep
Synchronize every Viewpoint in London
04/10/2025
20G
The War at Home
Complete the World War I simulation
06/10/2025
30G
Blade from Above
Air Assassinate twenty enemies from a zipline
06/10/2025
15G
Furious
Destroy twenty vehicles by ramming them
06/10/2025
15G
What I Am Reading
I read By The Horns by Rob Sanders, which really captures the fickle nature of the Chaos Gods and the status of the Dark Prince in the early days of AoS
I have started streaming on the regular again, and I want to keep it up
I have been playing Assassin’s Creed Syndicate which is so far a lot of fun, the two characters are fairly different to each other
Took me a little while to get the setup back and working, but I think we are getting there with it
Had a bit of an issue where despite me telling it to record the streams at 1440p it was insisting on doing them at 720p, but that’s all sorted now thankfully, and they are being recorded in AV1 too thanks to the fantastic encoder in the 9070XT
I am gonna try and keep at it, I don’t want to be a famous streamer or make money from this, it just helps me do something that feels sort of productive!
I really should get a schedule together at some point, but I will discuss that with Lindsay and Megan at some point
Right now I am still dragging my life back together after a terrible summer, so lets get back into a decent situation first eh.
What I Am Modelling
I painted up this Ultramarines Praetor in Saturnine Armour
I am really trying to find some joy in Agr of Sigmar again, I will try and get my Stormcast out of storage and see what’s usable and what’s not, I probably do have a decent amount of Thunderstrike stuff that can be used, and some of my older Liberators can be proxied
So what’s coming up next for my painting table?
Blood Angels Land Speeders
Ultramarines Tactical Squad
Myari’s Purifiers
Tempestus Aqulions x 12
Red Brigade Warband
Death Korps of Krieg Engineers x 5
Dark Angels Fire Strike Servo Turrets x 2
Veletaris x 2
Grey Knights Librarian & Brotherhood Terminator Squad x 5
Dracosan
What I Am Reading
Since last I posted, I have read Final Deployment by R.S Wilt, which was an amazing book with the Tempestus Scions, my favourite 40k army!
We played some DnD with CJ this past Saturday, I knew what was coming up cause Megan, our DM had me print the minis for the baddies, I wanted to tell Lindsay and CJ not to waste their Holy Water on the mummified cats and save it for later, but alas I didn’t
I am enjoying RPGs with this group and for a Christmas treat am tempted to ask them if I can run a one shot of something like Cyberpunk Red, WFRP or Soulbound perhaps
What Video Games I Am Playing
Playing a bit of Hell Let Loose still, me, Chris and Graham have a great time playing that as a tank crew, but only playing the good guys is certainly a disadvantage cause the Tiger is a bugger to kill!
Also getting my way through Cyberpunk and have so far completed all the gigs and scanner hustles and trying to deal with the side stories before I go and tackle the main missions
After a difficult summer, I am starting to get myself back on track, still need to work out a weeks schedule, but I am getting there
The studio is much tidier, I have reinstalled Windows to deal with my glitch gremlins, I am painting more, I am playing more video games, and working on my mental health more.
We have made some good investments in the houses infrastructure, replacing the homelab, getting new hoovers, and an FDM 3D printer, still have a few more things to pay for/pay off but we are getting there.
My next thing to tackle is getting on with some more physical exercise, but lets see how next week goes.
What I am Modelling
I turned my attention to the Blood Angels to get a bunch of them finished off so I can have the Combat Patrol ready to go,
I painted up the Intercessors from the Combat Patrol
On Sunday, I ran the First Blood event at Durham Raiders
We wanted to have the hall available so people could come along and play some games of 3rd edition Heresy to get their head around the rules and figure out the game with all the changes
I took Ultramarines and had these two lists ready, this one for 2000 points
We rocked up at 8am and got the hall set up, and at 9am the players started rolling in, we had 7 attendees plus myself
I started to play a game with Adam and his Custodes, and oh my word they are tasty, very tough to kill with the lack of AP2 weapons in the marines, and the Hawkmen scored 8 points on the first turn, 3 from Vanguard from killing my squad on the objective, 1 for the objective and 4 for First Strike!
We got two turns in before someone else turned up and needed a game, so I let them play out a full game
After that I moistly chilled as others played games, but towards the end I got another two round game with good old Paul, of course he beat me but I learnt a lot!
It was a good day, was hoping for better attendance, but it was fine, I only lost £20 on it!
But a ton of fun was had an we met some new guys which is always great.
What I Am Modelling
I painted up this Heavy Support Squad for the Ultramarines, armed with Autocannons in MKVI Armour
After that I read Glory from Chaos by Chris Dows, which was fine, not the best story he has done, not the worst, it was kind of middling.
What Tabletop Games I Am Playing
Had my first game in the Gamer-At-Hart Combat Patrol League, I am playing with the Astra Millitarium Combat Patrol, Strike Force Gorgonne VI which is a Millitarium Tempestus one.
I played Alex and his Vardenghast Swarm, and they absolutely wreaked me!
What I Am Spending
Technically I bought this last week, but it finally arrived, an Arvus Lighter for the Solar Auxilia
I ordered this on payday, but it has arrived today, an Arvus Lighter to add to the Solar AuxiliaFigure this will be great for getting some dudes into Objectives #Warmongers #WarhammerCommunity #Warhammer30k #Warhammer30000 #HorusHeresy #TheHorusHeresy #SolarAuxilia #ArvusLighter
As Warhammer: Age of Sigmar turns ten, I’ve been reflecting on how much the game has changed. and, more importantly, how much my relationship with it has changed. Somewhere along the way, the joy I used to feel slipped out of reach. I still love the models, I still love the worlds, but playing? That’s another story. And honestly, I don’t want it to stay that way. I want to find the fun again.
I was there on day one. I tried the new rules, I liked the look of the Stormcast Eternals (even if they did get called “Sigmarines” by everyone on the internet), and I stuck with it. The early days were rough, no points, no balance, just arguments about how to make a fair game. It really was the Wild West, and plenty of people hated it. They hated the death of the Old World, they hated the move to high fantasy, they said it looked like a game for kids.
But I kept going. And when the General’s Handbook finally landed, it clicked. Suddenly the game worked. By Second Edition, I was all in. Endless Spells were amazing fun, the Sacrosanct Chamber gave me my favourite models, and the Nighthaunt were some of the best villains we’d seen in Warhammer. Add in writers like Josh Reynolds, and the Mortal Realms felt alive and fresh. That was peak Age of Sigmar for me.
Then came Third Edition. The new Thunderstrike Stormcast were… fine, but they didn’t excite me like the chunky Liberators and Sequitors had. More than that, the whole tone of the game seemed to shift. Competitive play had always been there, but now it felt like the focus. And by Fourth Edition, things just broke for me. My beloved Sacrosanct models — not even six years old — were squatted. Yes, the Stormcast range was bloated, but wiping away entire playstyles in one go? That stung.
I’ll admit it: I was bitter. Very bitter. I didn’t buy the new starter box, shoved my Stormcast into storage, and picked up Greenskins instead. I joined an escalation league, but even then, the magic wasn’t there. The narrative side of the game had all but vanished, terrain felt like a box-ticking exercise, and every match seemed to orbit around the latest “meta” list. I wasn’t showing up to play anymore, I was showing up to hang out with friends, with the games themselves feeling like chores I had to get through before the actual fun started.
The return of Chaos Dwarves should have set my heart racing, after all, they were my very first army in any system, my first love in the hobby. The models themselves are incredible, beautifully sculpted, and exactly the kind of army that should make me excited to get painting and building. And yet… the thought of playing them in the current version of Age of Sigmar just turns me off. It’s not the models; it’s the game around them. The overly competitive focus, the meta-driven play, the lack of narrative feel, all of it saps the excitement I should feel for something so personal. It reminded me that no matter how much I love an army, if the game around it isn’t fun, the joy doesn’t follow and that’s something I need to fix for myself.
And part of that’s on me. Since my brain injury, I can’t hold rules in my head the way I used to. I was sharp once, but now I forget things, I get muddled, and honestly? I lose a lot. I’m used to that. But when the whole culture around the game feels like it’s built for hyper-competitive play, it leaves me feeling like there’s no space for someone like me who just wants to throw dice and tell a story.
But here’s the thing: I don’t actually want to give up. I still love the models. I still get excited when I see a new sculpt, even if I can’t muster the will to buy it. And deep down, I still want to enjoy the game. I just need to change how I approach it.
So here’s my new plan: stop chasing the meta. Stop pretending I care about tournaments. Stop playing like winning matters. Instead, I’m going to lean into the stuff that actually makes me smile. If that means turning up with a weird, suboptimal list, great! If it catches my opponent off guard, even better. And who knows? Sometimes those “bad” lists surprise people, and suddenly you’ve not only given your opponent a more memorable game, but you might even scrape an unexpected win.
That’s the kind of joy I want back. Games where my Orks run around being loud, messy, and hilarious. Games where my Knights crash into things just because it looks cool on the table. Boards that look like real places with varied terrain, even if it’s not ITC compliant. I’ve got 17 boxes of terrain that the competitive crowd says are useless, but they’re going on my tables anyway. I want battlefields that tell stories, not perfectly symmetrical chessboards where people measure gaps for half an hour before rolling a single dice.
I need to play more Heresy, it’s the game I love most. I’ve seen how stepping back from the competitive grind can change the experience. Take Graham, for example. He was once the most cutthroat, WAAC-focused player I knew locally. But since he started playing Heresy more for fun, he’s mellowed out. He still likes to win, of course, but he’s way more relaxed and chill these days. Watching him enjoy the game without stressing about the meta has reminded me that maybe I can do the same, that the joy of gaming doesn’t have to come from trophies or “perfect” play, but from simply loving the game itself.
And maybe I’ll spread my wings a bit more. Try Trench Crusade. Dip into The Old World if I can decide on an army. Play some historical with Bolt Action and maybe even some Napolionics. Explore games that don’t have the same competitive baggage, where the focus is back on narrative, creativity, and having a laugh.
At the end of the day, I don’t care about trophies or titles. I don’t care if I’m not “keeping up.” What I care about is fun. I want opponents who smile when they see my army, not because they think it’ll be an easy win, but because they know it’s going to be a fun game. That’s the whole point of this hobby.
Because let’s be honest: most of us got into this for joy. For the excitement of a new box of plastic, for the thrill of rolling that clutch dice, for the stories we tell after the game’s over. Somewhere along the line, I lost sight of that. But I’m ready to start looking for it again.
And that’s why I’ve started drafting my own little manifesto for fun gaming: a set of rules to keep myself honest and make sure the hobby stays joyful, for me and for anyone I play with.
My Manifesto for Fun Gaming
Play what I love: If I like the model, the lore, or the look, it belongs in my army, meta can go to hell.
Every list needs a curveball: At least one “weird” choice that isn’t optimal but makes me smile, and might just surprise my opponent.
Paint at my pace: If a model sits on my desk for two months, that’s fine. This isn’t a race, it’s a hobby.
Terrain should tell stories: Symmetry is for chessboards. I want tables that look like real places worth fighting over.
Winning is optional, fun is mandatory: A memorable story beats a victory every single time.
Celebrate the silly moments: A goblin felling a gargant with a lucky stab should be cheered louder than a finely-tuned combo working as intended.
Make the game fun for my opponent: If they walk away smiling, it was a success, win or lose.
Keep exploring: Try new games, new armies, or new scenarios if they spark excitement. Stagnation kills joy.
No guilt, no grind: If I’m not enjoying it, I step back, take a breather, and come back when the spark’s there.
Remember why I started: Dice, stories, friends, and toy soldiers. Everything else is optional.
What I Am Modelling
I started out the week by painting this Knight-Draconis, with the scheme of a Blue-Eyes white Dragon which my sister in law, Jane will get a kick out of
I finished The Silent King by Guy Haley, that was a lot of fun and wove together a lot of the novels published since 8th Edition, bringing together the Pariah Nexus and Dark Imperium stuff along with a few other bits I have yet to read
Its a shame the Dawn of Fire series has ended, if they had all been as good as that book, it would have been amazing!
I am now listening to Singularity by James Swallow, only about a quarter of the way through but so far, so good!
Also made some great progress with Era of Ruin as well, and should finish that in the next day or two, on the last story now!
What Tabletop Games I Am Playing
Myself and Megan played Unlock! Game Adventures and went through the Mysterium pack, and that was fine, a little confusing at times however.
I also played a game of Heresy with Graham, and weirdly I won!
I am sadly like far too many PC gamers and will upgrade my rig regardless if it needing it sometimes!
And in all honesty if the RTX 3070 wasn’t struggling with its VRAM in certain games I probably would have kept it as its performance is good, it’s just been hamstrung slightly which is annoying.
Also AV1 encoding is fantastic, and has been really good for my YouTube videos.
But that card is still going to live on in the house as Megan has had their rig upgraded from the GTX 1660Ti to the RTX 3070, which will give her some great gaming performance in the games they play, like Disney Dreamlight Valley and The Sims 4.
Meanwhile her GTX 1660Ti and the Ryzen 5 3600 that used to live in that rig, which I upgraded to a 5600X when I changed my CPU to a 5700X3D, well we have an idea for that!
What I am Modelling
I started off by painting this Command Squad for my Ultramarines in MKIII Armour, 5 guys all armed with Power Swords and Combat Shields
I listened to the next couple of books in the Doctor Who monthly range staring with Live 34 by James Parson which was pretty good, this was followed by Scaredy Cat by Will Shindler which was actually pretty dire.
I then started to listen to The Silent asking by Guy Haley, which is quite good, seems to be weaving together a few more recent threads from the novels of 8th and 9th editions.
It was a great game, but I lost, and that was down to secondaries, Russell got ahead early on, but I was able to catch up, what cost me the game was not having a balanced list to be honest, not enough Line and no Vanguard
The next videos in the Heresy series went up, those being Ultramarines and Death Guard, two legions I have been collecting for a long time as well as the Thousand Sons
I also published the next episode of Edge of Empire
What I Am Spending
I bought a few games, a couple of Humble Bundles starting with this months Humble Choice that got me
We borrowed some already dried blue filament from Paul, the first thing printed, other than a benchy and a poop bin, was some replacement pegs for our Socktopus, using an STL that Lindsay found on the Bambu Handy app
I published the paining videos for the Night Lords, Blood Angels, Iron Hands and World Eaters this past fortnight
And a further Edge of Empire episode!
What I Am Spending
Ok, these next two I didn’t spend money on but rather was gifted, starting out with a Sicaran Venator that someone gave to Gamers-At-Hart to distribute to the community, and this one ended ok with me
Will be making the guys inside as all Power Sword and Combat Shield guys as I have a MKIII banner guy to join them already, but will probably print off a couple of MKVI bodies to make two more Heralds/Banner Bearers
Of course I was saving up for Saturnine, and I picked it up from Gamers@Hart last Saturday
I haven’t been posting for a while, alas a lot of it comes down to going through my usual summer slump and a bit of depression I have been battling, but I am trying to turn myself around.
Giving myself some projects to do, and things to try and keep me occupied, I really think I am missing Company of Legends, it gave me something to focus on, something to look forward to and these last couple of years without it, well I have been doing a bit badly.
But let’s crack on and update you on my last few months, so let’s get into it!
Heresy Camp
This other weekend, I attended Heresy Camp, run by some amazing friends of mine, and how did a not “Company of Legends” weekender go?
On Friday I met up with James at Gamers-at-Hart and we played a warm up game with our armies, my Solar Auxilia and his Sisters of Silence
Aethon Heavy Sentinel Squadron [200 Pts]: • 3x Aethon Heavy Sentinel [65 Pts]: Aethon Missile Battery, Multi-Laser
Malcador Heavy Tank Squadron [350 Pts]: • 1x Malcador Heavy Tank [350 Pts]: Searchlights, Smoke Launchers, Vanquisher Battle Cannon, Demolisher Cannon, Hull (Left) & Hull (Right) Mounted Lascannon, Pintle Mounted Multi-Laser, Dozer Blade, Flare Shield
Malcador Heavy Tank Squadron [350 Pts]: • 1x Malcador Heavy Tank [350 Pts]: Searchlights, Smoke Launchers, Vanquisher Battle Cannon, Demolisher Cannon, Hull (Left) & Hull (Right) Mounted Lascannon, Pintle Mounted Multi-Laser, Dozer Blade, Flare Shield
## Lords of War [300 Pts]
Macharius Heavy Tank Squadron [300 Pts]: Macharius Vanquisher Cannon • 1x Macharius Heavy Tank [280 Pts]: Two Sponson Mounted heavy stubbers, Hull (Front) Mounted twin-linked heavy stubber, Smoke Launchers
After the game myself and James made our way to Moorhouse Adventure Centre where we hung out for a bit, I was going to play Zone Mortalis, but decided to come home that night cause I wanted us to pick up Graham the next morning, but there were some great games being played
The missions and environment rules were fairly punishing with vehicles and dreadnoughts moving within 3” of terrain having to fire on the nearest United friend or foe, which saw me destroy one of own Carnadons and Nick wipe out a Recon Squad of his
Deamon Fulgrim is a beast and basically ate two squads of Lasmen and my Command squad, in the end I lost by a lot!
Game 2 was on table 3 vs Johns Death Guard, which was a mostly infantry list, but damn Death Guard are tough
Combination of Mortaion, who kept healing the wounds I put on him, and a trio of Dreadnoughts just ripped apart my tanks and I was tabled again
Game 3 was against Chris’s World Eaters on Table 4 and I wasn’t tabled, which was a bonus, but his fast troops, and awesome advanced reaction made short work of my tanks.
After the game I had my tea, a lovely Chinese takeaway of chips and fried rice in curry sauce and salt and pepper chicken, after which we had a Heresy Quiz, which I did respectably in.
The next day I played Matthew and his traitor White Scars, which was tough game, the rules were a bit complicated and I was forced to keep my men out of their transports to carry the objective.
Then I painted up a test piece for a new terrain project, this one is going to be for a no man’s land board for Trench Crusade, but is also going to be generic enough that it won’t look out of place in Bolt Action or Warhammer Fantasy Battle
This year I want to finally play some Legions Imperialis, so I painted up the bases to make my Aeronautica models usable, went for a sandstone type scheme
And finally, myself and Graham had an intro game of Bolt Action in which I played the Germans (because I already have a German army) and Graham the British, I think he won, but really we were just figuring the game out
I originally bought it on GOG a few days after release, despite my system at the time only having a 1660 Ti, which wouldn’t have run it well, but I got it for under a tenner due to the very poor reviews of the state it was in at launch.
But my experience with GOG Galaxy and its cloud saves ended up having me buy it on Steam in a sale earlier this year, alongside Phantom Liberty.
I even bought Phantom Liberty on GOG, but losing all my saves in Control when GOG Galaxy crashed, has put me off GOG for anything I really want to invest time in.
So the reason I am only now just playing it now is cause with these kinds of games, I tend to wait until all the expansion are out, and then have a massive big playthough then, and well it took a bit for Phantom Liberty to come out and I was busy with other stuff.
I have still been playing some Hell Let Loose most Mondays at least and often a game on Wednesday nights as well, and the other week we had this score which was incredible!
I have started a new YouTube painting series Just About Tabletop Standard, in which I am going to paint a Marine from each of the 18 Legions from Horus Heresy.
We started out with an episode on the Dark Angels, followed by an episode on the Emperor’s Children
What I Am Spending
The grown up purchase the past few months was a new vacuum cleaner, we ended up getting a GTech AirRam Mk2 K9, and Lindsay is very happy with it, she always gets excited for new vacuum cleaners!
Our new car was also delivered, we got a Renault Mégane E-Tech which is a really nice car, quite a bit more range than our last and a few extra niceties as well, like a pair of USB-C sockets in the back and dual zone air-con
I managed to get all of the issues of Combat Oatrol I wanted, issues 37, 38, 39 and 40, to get me a Helbrute, some Chaos Terminators and some Wraithguard
Whilst at UK Games Expo, I did pick up the Battletech Beginner Box, I really want to play some of this game again, played it as a teenager, and want to relive my youth!
I have finally gotten around to sorting out a new server for the house.
Gone for a Fujitsu TX1310-M1 with a Xenon E3-1226V3 with 32GB Ram and even comes with a 512gb SSD and a pair of 3TB HDDs.
Got it for £130 which I don’t think is a terrible price, but when they went to ship it to me, they found they had lost the side panel and they contacted me to offer a discount of £26, which is accepted, I can always pop a Perspex cover on it.
It came on the Thursday and was delivered by DHL, coming at lunchtime.
So the planning started as soon as I hit buy on as to how best implement this and get it up and running and that started with the decision to run Proxmox on bare metal.
So that was installed and I created a ZFS pool with the two 3TB drives.
The first container I set up was for Casa OS, which would be hosting most of the media stuff, starting with the basics of PLEX and AudioBookShelf.
Once that was setup, I started setting stuff up, but I soon realised that I had a fatal issue, my hard drives with the media on were formatted in NTFS which docker doesn’t play nice with 😭
So I had to transfer data to drives that were being formatted in EXT4 or the ZFS pool, starting with the movies library, and then the slow process of the TV shows which would take some time annoyingly.
In the meantime I set up a second VM running Foundry VTT that me and Chris are going to play around with to see if it will prove a decent replacement for Roll20.
The data transfer took a good long while, there was a lot to transfer.
But alas, in my attempts to be clever I managed to delete the audiobooks and movies meaning I have to restore them from the offsite backups, and that could take at least a month to do that and sort out the metadata properly
But now it’s in place in what’s its permanent home, it takes up a lot less space and is significantly more powerful that what it replaced, I am quite happy with it and in the next few weeks we are going to set up Mealie
What I Am Painting
I spent the weekend at my sister in law’s and painted up the terrain that came in the £75 pack from Combat Patrol
I played a game of Heresy with Graham at Durham Raiders, where I tried out Artillery with the Solar Auxilia, it did not go well, my positioning was terrible and his summoned Daemons ripped me apart
I then played Dave at Hartlepool Gamers, where I lost, badly, but I could have won in turn 2 when all his reserves failed to arrive, but I am lot a dick so didn’t do that
When his reserves did arrive, the Gal Vorbak tore my ranks apart panel by panel
And again at Durham Raiders, I played a simple doubles game with Andrew where we took on Paul’s Iron Warriors and thanks to Andrew’s nasty plasma guns we won!
