A couple of weeks ago I was really feeling very low, drifting without aim, and I realised, it was because I finished my current project focus, the early war Germans. At least for now whilst my Saturn 4 Ultra is awaiting a new Z-Axis motor so I can print more.
I had noting new to work on with any overall aim, and that did a real number on my mental health.
Until I realised what was going on, and well, Jason from Gamers@Hart gave me what I needed, a project to paint the stores Old World starter set, in which I am going to be starting off with the Grand Cathy army.
And knowing I need this, I am trying my best to line up projects for the medium term, I am still a hobby butterfly, I always will be, but I think I need a sort of overarching project that I am working on.
Right now I have got the Grand Cathy stuff on my desk, I want to have all the foot infantry done before I go away on holiday, but we shall see how I do on that, but these are my next projects lined up
Grand Cathy G@H Demo Army
Warriors of Chaos G@H Demo Army
Bolt Action Northern France Terrain
Late War Germans
Astra Militarium
Just got to make sure I keep on top and have a few overarching projects on the go!
What I Am Modelling
I started off by painting up the Fire and Jade scenery I got from the Spearhead magazine collection
I got this Airfix Spirfire MK1A for Christmas from Lindsay and Megan, and I decided to give a crack painting it up using the various techniques I have developed since I started painting these things at about 5.
Not talking millitary modelling techniques or owt, well I did use some pencil leaf on the engine, but simple things like recess washes and highlights, you know, Warhammer painting!
I then painted a Kettenkrad for my early war Germans, would have preferred one with a rider, but all the ones I found with Heer riders were very much late war, so this one from Wargame3D will do
And finally I listened to Command by Al Murray, he managed to insert quite a bit of humour into that one, throughly recommended on my part, it’s a weird book in some ways, being a serious (dad) history book written by a comedian, an interesting walk though the war
What Tabletop Games I Am Playing
Played a game of Bolt Action against Graham, now that Lindsay is driving and is able to take me to Durham
Two cans each of Grey Primer and Matt Black from Poundland, which offers the best value for spray primer in the UK, at least in my opinion
I also picked up from Gamers@Hart, a pot of Loren Forest, some Agrax Earthshade and a bottle of Refractive Green
I also picked up a box of German Grenadiers from Warlord Games for my Late War Germans project, originally this was going to be a very Fallschirmjäger project but that’s kinda shifted for reasons
Megan also picked me up some Mr Mark Setter and Mr Mark Softner
Video game wise, I picked up Call of Duty and Call of Duty 2 on sale, dunno why, but I just fancy giving the originals a go again, especially as I cannot find the discs I bought many moons ago for them on Xbox!
I have just finished watching The Great War, the 1964 BBC documentary series about the First World War. It was an important precursor to The World at War, the definitive television documentary series about the Second World War, and is still fascinating to watch more than sixty years later.
I watched a very condensed version of The Great War at school, very, very condensed, so it has been fascinating going back to it properly all these years later.
It is, of course, a flawed series. It only briefly touches on the Eastern and Ottoman fronts and almost entirely ignores Austria-Hungary. Even when it covers something like the Easter Rising, it is very much told from an English perspective.
Despite that, it still mostly stands up remarkably well.
In fact, it has made me want the guys behind The Great War YouTube channel to make their own documentary series in the style of this one. I think they could cover the conflict in a much more balanced way, particularly by giving some of the less-covered fronts and combatants the attention they deserve.
But why am I talking about this amazing piece of influential television history?
There is a theory that most boys pick a period of history to become obsessed with. One of the running jokes is that it will either be the Roman Empire or World War II.
For me, though, the period of history that has become my real special interest is the First World War and the period surrounding it.
In fact, I’d probably stretch it from the Franco-Prussian War through to around 1930.
Because if you only consider 1914–1918, you miss so much of the context.
The causes of the First World War are considerably more complicated than simply Gavrilo Princip shooting Archduke Franz Ferdinand. That assassination was incredibly important, but it was the match that lit the fuse rather than the thing that created the powder keg in the first place.
The build-up had been going on for decades.
The fall of Bismarck and the subsequent realignment of European alliances saw France and Russia become increasingly aligned, while Germany and Austria-Hungary were already closely allied. Britain then increasingly found itself aligned with France and Russia through the Entente system.
At the same time, the Ottoman Empire was continuing its long decline.
And then there was everything else: the Russo-Turkish War, the Russo-Japanese War, the Moroccan Crises, Britain’s emergence from Splendid Isolation, the Italo-Turkish War, the Anglo-German naval arms race, the Balkan Wars, and the various imperial rivalries across Africa and Asia.
Honestly, this list could go on and on and on.
To be fair, you could probably trace some of the roots right back to the French Revolution. But let’s be reasonable, pretty much all history contributes to future history.
What is undeniable, though, is that things such as the levée en masse fundamentally changed the character of warfare, creating the possibility of armies that eventually numbered in the millions.
And that is part of what fascinates me about the period.
Franz Ferdinand’s death wasn’t, by itself, enough to cause a world war.
What mattered was the political situation surrounding it. Austria-Hungary’s fears about Serbian nationalism, Russia’s relationship with Serbia, Germany’s support for Austria-Hungary, France’s alliance with Russia, Britain’s relationship with France and Russia, and decades of diplomatic crises and military planning all turned what could have been a regional crisis into something much, much bigger.
The assassination was the match.
Europe had spent decades building the powder keg.
And that is why my interest in the period extends so far beyond 1914–1918.
The period afterwards is just as important.
Because the war might have ended in 1918, but for many people, especially across Eastern and Central Europe, it didn’t!
The Russian Civil War, the Polish-Soviet War, the Turkish War of Independence, the Greco-Turkish War, the Irish Civil War, the rise of Mussolini, the conflicts surrounding the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and countless other conflicts and political movements all emerged from the chaos created by the First World War.
Even the May Fourth Movement in China was partly driven by the anger surrounding the post-war settlement and the decision to transfer Germany’s former concessions in Shandong to Japan rather than returning them to China.
The aftermath was absolute chaos.
In places such as Ukraine and Poland, you had armies fighting each other that were made up of veterans of the Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian Empires, often wearing the uniforms and using the equipment they had been issued at the end of the war, all mixed together.
The First World War itself is, as many people have said, utterly pointless in many ways.
But it was also a genuine turning point in history, perhaps more so than almost any other conflict.
So many of the world’s later problems can be traced directly or indirectly back to it.
Four major empires disappeared. The map of Europe was completely redrawn. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire helped create the political landscape of the modern Middle East. The United States emerged from the war as the world’s dominant economic power. Communism became one of the defining political forces of the twentieth century. Nationalism and demands for self-determination transformed Europe and much of the wider world.
And you can even trace part of the story of the Vietnam War back to the aftermath of the conflict.
In 1919, Ho Chi Minh went to Paris and submitted a petition to the Versailles peace conference calling for greater rights for the Vietnamese people, and was refused.
And, of course, in many ways the First World War helped create the conditions that eventually led to the Second World War, and all the horrors that came with it.
One thing that always strikes me is that, from my perspective, 1917 is probably the last point at which Russia was really on the same broad political page as the Western powers.
Russia was an ally of Britain and France during the First World War, but the Revolution changed everything.
And even the idea that Russia and the West were simply allies during the Second World War is more complicated than we sometimes remember.
The Soviet Union and the Western Allies ultimately fought on the same side because they had a common enemy, but Stalin’s USSR had already signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany in 1939. The agreement included secret provisions dividing Eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence, and the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland shortly after Germany invaded from the west.
It was only after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa in 1941 that the Soviet Union became an outright member of the Allied war effort against Nazi Germany.
So while they were certainly allies by the end of the war, it was very much a case of the enemy of my enemy being my ally.
And that, again, is why the period fascinates me.
It is all connected.
I think what originally triggered my interest in all of this was a photograph.
It was a photograph of a German cavalryman wearing a gas mask and carrying a lance.
I think I was about six or seven when I first saw it, and something about it just struck me as incredibly odd.
And I think that photograph represents something fundamental about the First World War.
The armies that entered the conflict were, in many ways, still preparing to fight the wars of the nineteenth century. They had cavalry with lances, brightly coloured uniforms and tactics influenced by the Napoleonic era.
Then they discovered what modern industrial warfare actually meant.
Machine guns, smokeless powder, rapid-firing rifles and increasingly powerful artillery destroyed that old way of thinking remarkably quickly.
The French started the war wearing their famous bright red trousers, while their cavalry still looked remarkably similar to the cavalry of the previous century.
Soldiers on all sides were still wearing soft caps that offered virtually no protection from artillery.
And then there is the famous German Pickelhaube.
People often assume it was made from metal.
It wasn’t.
The classic version was made primarily from pressed leather with metal fittings. It looked imposing, but it provided very little protection against modern artillery fragments. By 1916 it was being replaced by the much more practical Stahlhelm.
Technology was advancing incredibly rapidly, but sometimes the solutions looked backwards.
The Stahlhelm, with its distinctive coal-scuttle shape, has an almost medieval appearance. Yet the simple act of putting a practical steel helmet on a soldier represented a huge improvement in protection.
The French had a similar experience.
The first months of the war produced enormous numbers of head wounds, and the French responded by developing the Adrian helmet, one of the first modern steel helmets to be widely issued. It was introduced in 1915 and became an iconic piece of French military equipment.
Camouflage and concealment techniques also began to develop into something much closer to what we recognise today.
The French quickly abandoned their bright red trousers in favour of the much harder-to-spot Horizon Blue. The British and Germans were arguably a little ahead of the curve, having already adopted khaki and field grey respectively.
That combination of old and new is probably one of the things I find most fascinating about the First World War.
It was a conflict where cavalry charges with lances existed alongside tanks.
Men went into battle wearing uniforms designed in the nineteenth century and ended up fighting with machine guns, aircraft, chemical weapons and enormous artillery pieces.
It was essentially the world of the Napoleonic Wars colliding head-on with the industrial age. Never had warfare changed so rapidly in such a small period of time, the battlefield was utterly transformed into an industrial killing field with equipment that in many ways would have been science fiction to most peop in 1914.
So yeah, that’s my special-interest period of history.
And it is one that I want to start exploring more through wargaming.
I now have a rulebook for 1918: A First World War Miniatures Game from Warfulcrum Games, and I think that might be the game I really want to use to explore the First World War on the tabletop.
I think Ken might join me in that as well.
My only issue is that the current 1918: Spring Offensive rules are very specifically focused on , specifically the Kaiserschlacht and 100 days offensive
the final year of the war on the Western Front. The initial force lists cover Britain, France, Germany and the United States.
Which is a shame, because Austria-Hungary and Russia in particular would be great fun to play.
And that’s before we even get to the British fighting the Ottomans in the Middle East.
That said, the designers have said they intend to expand the game to other nations and fronts in future, so perhaps we’ll get there eventually.
I have also bought myself a German army STL pack from W3s Retreat Hell Part 2 and plan to start printing as soon as my Saturn 4 Ultra is repaired.
I think the Z-axis motor has failed, so I am absolutely dreading the repair bill.
Once it’s back up and running, I plan to print up some Germans—especially an A7V—and see if I can get some games on the table.
I wonder what other periods of history fascinate you guys?
And is anyone else here similarly fascinated by the Great War?
As an aside, I keep meaning to revisit the Heugh Battery here in Hartlepool.
I haven’t been since I was a nipper, and frankly, it’s a crime given that I’ve lived in Hartlepool for four years and still haven’t visited the UK’s only First World War battlefield!
The Heugh Battery was the site of the bombardment of Hartlepool on 16 December 1914, when German warships engaged the coastal batteries and shelled the town. It is recognised as the UK’s only First World War battlefield.
So yeah.
I’ve lived here for four years.
I’ve been fascinated by the First World War for most of my life.
And I’ve still never been since I moved here!
I really need to rectify that.
What I Am Modelling
I started out with a Kübelwagen, to give my officers a transport
After that I listed to Ghosts of Cadia by Rob Young, which was a really good book, nice follow up to the previous book
Then I listened to The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers, a book I first read as a child and I enjoy this one a lot, lots of foreshadowing about World War I a good 12 years prior.
And finally I listened to I.D. by Eddie Robson, and well, the first story is very poor, but the second one is very good
What Tabletop Games I Am Playing
Not much, but we did have a game of Forbidden Desert which we won!
Cause servicing the printers is a pain with Allen Keys, I bought a cheap metric hex screw set, I will eventually grab the very good quality on from LTT Store, but for now I am using this
Also topped up my superglue supply, I really like these small tubes, it feels wasteful, but the big bottle just always go bad quickly and I spend more money on them
Currently I am working on developing a table for me and Graham to be playing Bolt Action on, so far it’s mostly 3D printing, and soon I will start the job of painting
But what have we got this far
First off we have 4 large intact houses, one of these has a fully modelled interior and is from Printable Scenery, the others are empty apart form a floor
Then we have a couple of small houses, modelled with interior floors
A few destroyed buildings, including some commercial ones
A couple of barns, on intact and one ruined one with a damaged tractor in in from Eskice
We also have some sheds, but on one the roof does’t sit right, so I am probably gonna glue the roof in place.
I thought a windmill will add some character, so I printed one of these
Most of the stuff there is very civilian so i thought we would add some some more military stuff starting with a bunker, and a dig in position for a panzer, which I got painted at the weekend
Had a cool game of 40k with Brian on Friday, though I admit my head wasn’t in it, we have had a rough few weeks, and I am only really just getting back on my feet
Clash of Eagles has been delivered, the Franco-Prussian War is one whose outcomes reverberated for over a century, so might be interesting to play some games within it
The MakerBot 2.0 project was funded and the files even delivered, which was super quick, that’s probably a project for next year mind!
The German Paratroopers Fallschirmjäger – Crete 1941. Part 1 has fully funded, and I am really looking forward to that for some early war Fallschirmjäger, and when part 2 goes up, there will be some Gebirgsjäger in there for me!
I am now backing The QuesTable, me and Megan think this looks awesome, as well as the Modular Hobby Plate, still searching for a proper solution for paint storage expansion
At the start of the year, one of my hobby goals was to develop my early war Germans for Bolt Action to a nice point where I had a nice collection that allowed me to play a variety of game play styles.
And I am getting closer and closer to that and I think I am basically at the point where the final plan is is place.
The above embedded Google Doc is what I have currently and my current development plans.
The army is supposed to cover 1939-1942, going from the Bzura, to the Meuse and then the Volga.
I think my plans work and will cover up to late 1942, very early 1943 meaning I may, may add a Tiger Ausf H to this list.
I am really enjoying working on this army but realistically with Graham and the other guys playing mostly late war stuff, I am gonna have to develop a later war army, probably sticking with Germans.
But I really want to explore more early war, so I can see myself expanding the French to 1250pts and perhaps some BEF.
I really wanted my next project to be Afrika Korps, but my most regular opponent is Graham and he has gone with a late war British list, and to be fair a lot of players, play late war.
This leaves me at a significant disadvantage with the early war army, so I am having to pivot to building a later war force to stand a chance in these games.
The difference in what you can take in the early war, and what you can take in later war is just unreal.
The above YouTube short demonstrates this issue for me, although the Centurion came into service just after the end of the war, you get my meaning, I hope!
So whilst I have Panzer Is and maybe a Panzer III Ausf H, Graham is rocking in with a Churchill, Sherman Firefly, Matilda II and a Cromwell in his arsenal, and that’s just not something I will be able to easily deal with.
So I have some Fallschirmjäger STLs from RKX and Colonel Muller, and I am gonna get some of them printed off, alongside a few vehicles.
I already have a Stug III, Luchs and Sd. Kfz 222 painted up for it, thinking of adding a Panzer IV Ausf H, Panther and Sd. Kfz 234/2.
But yeah, it is what it is, and next time I have some resin I will start printing them!
What I Am Modelling
I started out with a test model for an English themed New Antioch army
These particular models are form the Empire of Iron and Rust Kickstarter by Studio Historica
This one is a bit different, but I needed a 107mm x 105mm oval base for a Flak 36 for my Germans, but there was no STL for a plain one in the style of Warlord Games, so I kinda modelled it myself.
Its not going to be the start of a career in 3D modelling, that is not something I feel capable of, but its something, anyway you can download it yourself on Cult3D
So what’s up next?
Blood Angels Landspeeders
Ultramarines Saturnine Terminators x 6
Neophyte Hybrids x 10, Primus & Magus x 2
Rat Ogres x 3
Deffkoptas x 3 & Kustom Boosta-Blasta
World Eaters Daemon Prince
Grundstock Thunderers x 5 & Torrk Lennsen
Ultramarines Saturnine Command Squad x 3
Einhyr Heathguard x 5
Skywardens x 3
What I Am Reading
I finally, finally finished Dropsite Massacre by John French, I dunno why the headaches keep coming back, but it is what it is, I enjoyed it, but it did feel, I dunno, not rushed, but there wasn’t a lot of the betrayal in there which was a bit disappointing, but it’s a solid addition to the series.
I listened to Armageddon: Season of Fire by Jude Reid which was very good and a very good concept, I strongly recommend people give it a read, compared to the last new edition launch novel, this was a big improvement.
After that I listened to Memory Lane by Eddie Robson, which was a good concept, but it didn’t quite hit the landing, but a good listen.
Then I hit Butchers Nails by Aaron Denali-Bowden, an audio drama I have listened to before, but a long time ago when it first came out, and it was still really good. I miss Black Library audio dramas 🙁
I also got Kavita working when it comes to sending book via email to my Kindle, which is handy as hell, no more having to go upstairs, and as long as I am sensible and make sure to keep Kavita up to date with my books, it will work
What Tabletop Games I Am Playing
I played Brian in my first game of 11th Edition and it was a massacre!
We also ran a demo day at Gamers-At-Hart and I was demonstrating Bolt Action with some early war French and Germans, whilst others demoed Blood Red Skies, Warhammer 40k, Blood Bowl, Barons War and Trench Crusade
The Blessed Militia of the Martyred Saints has successfully funded and I have paid for that, looks like a really interesting set of minis for either Trench Pilgrims or New Antioch
Paintpal Studio XP successfully funded, I have the other STLs, and this made sense, one day I will actually get round to printing some of it to better store my paints
The Epic Sector – Frontline Project funded, I really want to play some Legions Imperialis, but it needs terrain, I already have the other two Epic Sector projects, so again it’s a one day I will get round to it!
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
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
The chest is feeling better, I am coughing less and I am able to climb stairs without needing my inhaler halfway up.
But the fatigue is another thing, I think I have spent more of the last couple of weeks in bed asleep, than awake, and its pretty annoying.
It having a marked effect on my memory as I am forgetting so much, and I have become a real burden on Megan and especially Lindsay as she has family stuff going on right now.
Hopefully I can push though it, and I will try as much as I can, that’s all I can do right.
What I Am Modelling
I started the week with a Nexus Syphon for my Age of Sigmar terrain box
A couple of games of the 40k league, but the third one I was due to play today, I utterly forgot about cause of the aforementioned issues, utterly unfair on my opponent and I feel like such a dickhead for it.
a bit more of Yakuza 0, its a weird game, but I am loving the story.
I also returned to the Halo Infinite campaign, the last time I had fired it up until last Thursday was the day Mary passed away, so I guess that explains why I didn’t pick it up again, especially as we moved house shortly afterwards.
What I Am Creating
I published the next battle report of Combat Patrol, this episode features the Drukhari taking on the Vangaurd Space Marines of the Ultramarines Chapter!
What I Am Backing
Nowt new, but I realised I forgot to pay for shipping on the Firefly: The Game – 10th Anniversary Collector’s Edition project, so we got that done, and I cannot imagine we will get it until later on in the year and not in the main wave!
Our beautiful boy Sir Douglas T Cat has today crossed the Rainbow Bridge after a short battle with cancer.
We first adopted Doug two and a half years ago from the amazing Yarm Cat Rescue, he was a special cat who had first been found with a shattered pelvis, so bad they thought he might be best off being put to sleep.
But Becky worked hard and helped him heal and learn to walk again, which he did not with a wobble, but a swagger.
He was the kindest, most gentle boy, who as soon as he met someone, would make them his best friend, he loved children, and other animals especially.
He was such a force of nature, with a tail that made him a disaster, but he was always wanting to be with people and hugging them, then demanding fuds!
He was a little lamb, and I am going to miss his scruffy face so much, he was just a perfect little cat, who helped his brother Lord Barrington come out of his shell and become a more friendly cat.
Sleep well my champion lad.
What I Am Modelling
We started out with some reinforcements for my Blood Ravens Infernus Squad
I also had to replace my phone, I had hoped to make my iPhone 12 last 4 years, but its Wi-Fi module on the SOC failed on Friday and it could no longer do any kind of network connectivity at all.
So I ordered an iPhone 15 Pro, the big advantage is that I can now get rid of my Lighting cables and move to just USB-C for everything but my power bank.
I intend to replace the power bank next year with a USB-C one, so once that’s done, I am a totally USB-C man for charging my personal electronics, other than the MagSafe for my watch.
I also ordered a 3D printed stand for my Echo Dot to hang on my pegboard, its been a bit of a chew on to get it, and when I eventually did two weeks after it should have come, it was in entirely the wrong colour!
This is a big update, life has been a bit all over the place and its taken this long to sort out putting out a new blog post, sorry
My dad turned 60 earlier this month so we buggered off to Suffolk for a birthday meal, we were in the county for less than 24 hours which felt too brief as I was unable to get any quality time.
Would have liked to have spent more time with the nibblings, but it was nice nonetheless.
It was a Sunday dinner at the pub and I had lamb, cause I love lamb and so rarely get to have it.
I turned 41 as well, which was fine, but my birthday plans failed and it’s left me somewhat deflated.
I am on the verge of giving up any attempt at celebrating it from now.
I did get a pair of AirPod Pros for my birthday, mostly cause I needed the ANC
This weekend I went to Stirling for a Horus Heresy event runs by some friends of ours, an event with lots of Conpany of Legends DNA, which is really cool cause we never get to play in our own event!
That’s not me saying they ripped us off, we love that they have taken our concept and turned it into their own thing, it’s absolutely brilliant, although we did provide them with Chris’s scoring/pairing spreadsheet.
I am gonna put up a vide with my list next week.
It’s been a really fun event, my first game was against Matts Whit Scars, a beautiful army that I was able to really push and give it a hard time.
The game went rather well for me, I did lose in the end, but it largely came down to a mixture of great tactics by Matt, poor decision making on my part and of course rolling double 1s on Plasma Pistol Chainfire on my Moritat resulting in him dying in his first turn out of the Rhino!
The second game on Saturday was against Chris’s Custodes, and yeah at 3.5k points, Custodes really get to shine as they can take a lot of the nicer toys that 3k kind of stops them taking
I got hammered in this game, my list just struggled to handle the sheer amount of 2+ Armour
Wonderful guy as well and a beautifully painted army, makes me want to get my Custodes out the box!
On Sunday I faced Mark and his Ultramarines, in a very challenging game, for a good part of the game, I was dominant on one flank, distracting him with stuff on the other, but once he had taken care of those units, he quickly wiped out my whole army!
A great weekend and the lads put on an amazing event, really good, absolutely loved my time there.
Insullationgate
Not my name, but it seems apt, on my return Stirling, we were having some insulation work done by the landlord, the contractors said, it was all external, but when they arrived, we were told its actually all internal!
As a result of the insulation, I found a DOOM box of abandoned Warhammer projects and decided to finish as many of them as I could, starting with a resin Big Mek with Shokk Attack Gun, who mostly just needed a few bits and bobs finishing
Then I finished up some Marines that Chris gave me ages ago to supplement my Word Bearers who needed a couple of Marines per Squad to allow me to take them as Tactical Squads instead of Veteran Squads and allow me to build some non Pride of the Legion lists
I also had a couple of bits printed up for my controller board, some black hooks to hang cables and a shelf, to hold a few little bits.
I also finally bought a new monitor for the studio, I just really needed some more screen real-estate for editing Edge of Empire podcasts, cause the setup I had was a bit weird in composition.
Its a Cooler Master GA271 and is really good for the £130 I paid for it, and I mean, really good, far better than it has any right to be, with some HDR and FreeSync too.
