So, cleaning the basement and doing a bit of painting… Kind of sad in some ways cleaning up and
packing away a bunch of things. My
Praetorian IG are all back in their ancient Chessex containers, and my Eldar
are back in the GW cases… Sadly, the
Eldar no longer fit in the case, so perhaps a glass cased shelf? Dunno.
Pretty sure it will be a while before I play 40K again so it may be a “deep
storage” for them. My Marines of various
types are assembling in theory… Cleared
off a bunch of room on my painting table, just kind of depressing looking at
all that “stuff” I am just packing away.
Not JUST 40K, I have a FoW force that I was painting up at various times… Some of my old Divisions (8ID, 3AD and 82nd
Airborne), so was mostly nostalgia but it is a pretty solid game system… Just not one I think translates well to “the
tournament scene”… And not a lot of
local players/time for me to actually play so…
Resin Forge World Spartan that is not even a little assembled. Not really sure, I may wind up selling It
off, or putting my Wolves together as a 30K Legion. Works pretty well as I had converted both of
my ancient MKI Land Raiders to what was called the “Spartan” class back in the
90’s, so now they fit in as the “new” early series Land Raiders that the
Legions can get. Gives me 2 “Protos”
class Land Raiders, the Spartan and then 2 of the “New” MKIII Land Raiders
(Crusader and normal). Wound up trading
for a bunch of Terminator suits and picked up some of the Siege Breacher Troops,
so I HAVE a bunch of 30K specific things…
Just not sure if anyone is actually playing the 30K stuff anymore, I
assume that it would be “legal” for 40K play locally at least as it is actually
FAR more balanced than 40K is at this point.
Kind of sad saying that out loud, the previously “silly and OP” branch
is now the one doing the far better job balancing stuff… And with GW going to what I consider a “subscription”
model for their main game, I really do not relish the prospect of keeping up,
and well… I’m not. So, have to make the choice of keeping what I
have or getting rid of some/all of it.
Something to think about as I suspect dumping the lots would not get me
much in return, and the wheel always seems to turn… Guessing that someday I’ll be back playing
40K.
Yeah, kind of silly, but the Mighty Mighty Bosstones are my favorite band, and so...
Speaking of trading, looking at trading off some of my old
Confrontation minis for Privateer Press Rhulic Mercenaries (Dwarves mostly,
some Ogres). Feeling especially silly as
I traded OFF my Rhulic army for 40K and probably Confrontation stuff years
ago. But I wound up with a LOT of the
stuff as people locally left the game and I was the last gamer to move out of a
shared house or two… But starting from
nothing again, and having an excellent trade reputation is isn’t too hard I
think… Will have to ping Dave to see if
there is interest in some of the more interesting cards I found in random decks
from the old “Joe’s Brewery MTG days”… I
had no idea how many more I would find packed away in boxes in the Basement of
Doom ™… But, guessing that I could get a
decent restart that way if the Bartertown route fails… Or if I just decide to get a bigger army
(which is FAR more likely)… Mercs are
not really considered an OP army, but I’ve always had fun playing them, and
seldom felt totally outclassed hitting the field with the Rhulic lads… Toward the end of 1st edition
Warmachine, yes… Things got pretty silly
there with some outright stupid combos that killed any interest I had in
playing the game, and I guess that is why it has taken me SO long to go back… Well, that and the group we played with
evaporated at that time as a LOT of us were just sick of it. So, I moved back to 40K… And the wheel turns again J… Getting out once/week is pretty much the
upper limit with real life and the family having priority of course J….
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