Kicking it down the line

It seems one of our esteemed bloggers has gotten it into his mind to make some awesome stuff for the hobby.

Please check out what Col Gravis has been up to:

For those of you that follow Col. Gravis, you will hopefully have already seen his Kickstarter project.

For those of you who don't or who have missed it, take a look here.

I've not been asked to post this, and am purely doing it to add more support for the project.

Also, I stole almost all of the text above from The cadian127th and Courtney Hollyoake 

 

and with that, I'm gonna crawl back into my hole.

 

 

 

Packing it All Up

I guess there comes a time in every table-top-wargamer’s life when they consider giving the game up.

It isn’t a lack of time or too many competing interests, but simply a lack of players nearby that shared the same passion for the game. I guess that for the last 4 years I’ve been trying to replicate what I had in the close-knit wargaming community on Okinawa, Japan.  I’ve sadly been unsuccessful.  Not that I put much effort into it, but nevertheless, I cannot bring myself to pack up my mini’s, drive a half an hour and sit around at the local store hoping to get in a game.  And then the chances that I will find a similar player, who desires a narrative game, who wants to ensure both players have fun, who has bothered to paint his army (or has actually made progress since we last met) is quite slim.

So the question becomes, why go forth into near certain disappointment.

Therefore:

It is time for me to pack of my Warhammer 40K stuff into boxes and place them on a shelf. 

And in reality I’m just so disappointed. 

I would have loved to build my Chaos Space Marine warband. 

Allies finally gave me a way to design an Eldar Corsair force (without forge world).

But I’ve lost the spark.

I have all of the tools, I have the creative ability, if not perhaps the exquisite skill with the brush, but I’ve lost the inspiration.  Moreover, for me this is something that cannot be forced.

What do I ultimately plan to do with all of the stuff?  I really don’t know.  I might eBay some of it, but I just don’t care enough to even do that at this point.

I’m not rage-quitting the hobby after my favorite army has been nerfed….I’ve just fallen out of love with it.

So what happens to the blog?  I suppose it gets to stand on its own for a while.  I won’t be pulling It down, but I don’t expect any updates in the near future either.

So, to those of you who’ve read this far, goodbye and thanks for all the fish, er comments.

 

District 11 and a Ruined Manufactorum (side by side)

Just as I finish "District 11" a vile xenos horde appears to have occupied the old ruined manufactorum next door.  The Medusans are called in again to clear the filthy Eldar from the once proud Ad-Mech facility.   You can see I sacrificed a third of the board to ensure there was enough space between the manufactorum and any buildings on the next tile.  Plenty of room to drive a Leman Russ or even a Land Raider through.

 That's a lot of Eldar!

 Notice the penal legion walks in front of the tanks.  Mine detectors are expensive you know...

 The stormtroopers had to spread out over 3 levels.

 The "counts as ratlings" Hive Rats are back and so is the Vet Squad "Work Crew 31" sneaking along the side of the buildings.

 Here are those former miners and factory workers...  I wonder if they knew about this shortcut because some of them used to live or work here?

 

Well, what do you think?

 

 

Bastion with Moat! (now with 32% more water)

Hey everyone!  The "Realistic Water" tm has dried and I am very pleased.  I thought I would liven the pictures up a bit with a few figures, since I figured a few pictures of glossy acrylic wouldn't be very awe inspiring.

I don't know how they made it this far, but they won't get much farther.

Guardians vs a Mortar Squad...

Roll Call:  

-On the Bastion roof, a heavy weapons squad with 3 autocannon teams, 10 ratlings, company command squad with commissar, lascannon team, MoO, and OoF.

From left to right along the wall, Infantry Squad with missile launcher, Penal Legion Squad, Veteran Squad, Mortar Squad

Attacking:

12 Guardians, 11 Storm Guardians, 10 Dire Avengers

Looks like a special weapons team has left the bastion to reinforce the line

 

A close up of the action

A haunting picture as the team moves out...

As the enemy closes, the bastion's weapons get harder and harder to aim...

Thanks for stopping by, I'm thinking I might add a second bottle of  "Realistic Water" to cover some of the debris.

If I was going to do it again, I would cut an inch off of the bottom of the bastion.

By popular demand (100% of commentors requested it...)

The counts as ratlings...