Sunday 24 February 2013

Nostalgia's not what it used to be

Inspired by last months visit to my gaming roots (see my earlier post on Battletech), and inspired by the fact that Sue Barker has released this as a free PDF from the WRG site.


I just had to stumble across the 15mm.co.uk website and notice that they had some spiffing deals on HoTT armies, the net result of which is :


and


Yeah, yeah, yeah I know the Orcy chariot isnt painted yet (see my last post on the perils of puppies) but its getting there. :)


Friday 22 February 2013

Not much painting getting done

well, not much of anything really, and here's the reason why


and here's his nibbs enjoying quality time with his big sister


Yeah I know, looks terrifying, but apparently its the way retrievers play, they seem to enjoy it, but a seven week old pup is a whole shedload of work.

Saturday 2 February 2013

WoW its February already

Yup a whole month without a post, I must have been doing something more interesting than wittering on about my hobby. For some strange reason I found myself thinking that its been 25 years or more that I've been wasting my time on wargaming, and bam!!! There on e-bay was the 25th Anniversary edition of Battletech, I've always been an impulse buyer and since it was at a knockdown price of £35 instead of the reccomended £50 I bought it. Well, to say the least the 24 Mechs that it comes with are bloody awful, better than the carboard standups that I remember when I first bought it way back when, but only marginally. Strike one against them is the flash on them if everywhere, strike two is that theyre made of some sort of polythene so getting rid of the flash is a nightmare, strike three is that there are deep holes in them from what I presume to be ejector pins and finally the hex bases theyre cast on dont match the hexes on the map boards. So all in all a whole load of work to be done on the mechs.

The rest of the box contents however have improved a lot in the last 25 years, the maps to start with are a joy compared to the flimsy paper sheets, now on really heavy duty cardstock, the rules are better laid out and nicely illustrated. The 2 "premium" mechs in the package are a delight as well, now this is how the other 24 should have been, to be honest I'd have rather have had even just 4 of this quality than the 24 pieces of garbage, but hey-ho, they'll still end up with a quick paint job and being used.