Thursday, July 7, 2011

Wargamescon: Get Your Game Face On!

Howdy howdy!

I haven't posted anything in a while; I'd be interested to know if other folks feel the same, but it is a cyclical hobby for me. Play too much and I get burned out for a while, which is where I am now.

So here I sit the day before leaving for WargamesCon, and I haven't touched my army since the last GT I went to. I can't even rightly say that I'm excited about this weekend - is that strange?

In the meantime, a fleet of new venoms are desperately hoping to be finished by tomorrow morning, and the two boxes of warriors haven't been opened. I plan on redoing my warriors since the current ones are a large part of why my paint scores continue to be mediocre.

Given the general lack of enthusiasm at the moment, I don't plan on doing battle reports this weekend - seven games, and the battle reports take longer than the games do. If I lose a game (or multiples) I may make an attempt to recreate it via vassal, but to be honest - I've done enough battle reports with my Dark Eldar that you could plug any random army in against me and expect me to do roughly the same thing, which makes writing them an exercise in small variety to a singular theme.

Wish me luck, say hello if you see me, and hopefully the cyclical hobby antipathy doesn't affect my game face.
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slxiii · 716 weeks ago

D: As a new DE player, your batreps helped me ease into the army. I actually sought out this blog to look for more posts. I totally get the fatigue of the game/ writing batreps, but I really think you ought to keep at it.
If nothing else, shifting focus to another aspect of the hobby might give you a bit of a break. Might be good to "brush up" on your painting skills.
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newtoncain · 716 weeks ago

Take the month of July off and come back with DE A'hole boy tips.
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GreySeerZ · 716 weeks ago

I do love your bat-reps, and the pictures really do help. Even if you didn't list as much tactical information, pictures with captions would be pretty cool. I'm always hoping that you'll find a ladder some day and give aerial shots of the table at the start of each turn (yours and your opponents). I really think that would be the next step in bat-reping, resulting in enough details to know what happened every turn, but not having to take more than one picture each turn. When I finish painting my army later this summer and begin attending tournaments regularly I was actually considering some pole/camera device to do just this. Plus I'd feel that my opponents would be much more satisfied with 1 picture a turn, then taking them throughout.

Anyway. I wish you good luck. Definitely let us know if any armies give you a hard time, or if any new tactics are thrown in there. I also think starting some blogs concerning your painting process would be pretty cool.
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calypso2ts · 716 weeks ago

Just saw you are at table 1 at the end of Day 1, congratulations. Also, I do not play nearly as much as you but I feel the same way in general. Luckily I do not have enough time to play, generally, to get to that point but I find I still get really into playing/painting and then fade back a bit into painting once a week.

Feeling obligated to paint/assemble et cetera for a GT also tends to kill the spark a bit too.
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Gorium · 716 weeks ago

Work on the beast unit to improve the painting score.... I think that units does make you loose some points. Otherwise, keep on winning the games... do you think you will be facing Stelek at some point in these?
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keithb · 715 weeks ago

andrew only goes to events if someone else pays his way for him. He much prefers hurling insults from his cave.

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