Nothing Since July?!?!

Haven't made a post in awhile.  BUT I have been playing games.

Played in an escalation "league" of Games Workshop's Middle Earth game.  Overall the game was fun but it was weird having Hobbits fight against Easterlings.

Mainly I enjoyed using it as an excuse to buy more Hobbit models.

A few years ago I bought some Hobbits off of Ebay.  I also had some Rangers that I had gotten from the local game store in an attempt to get my son into miniature gaming.

So when this escalation league started up, comprised of players from West Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland (maybe even Pennsylvania), I picked up some more Hobbits, including the Old Took and Lobelia Sackville-Baggins.

Here she is in the painting process.

And here she is "fighting" an orc.

Basically she's not much good in a scrape, she more or less nags the enemy to death.

Farmer Maggot.  Unlike Lobelia, he's actually fairly effective in the game.

My main problem with the game was the Hobbits are very cheap points-wise, so playing the game tactically generally involved sacrificing your models.  While this makes sense in the game, it definitely bothered me lore-wise. 


Generally I'd say I enjoyed painting up the models more than the actual games.  GW games definitely bring out the, I don't know what to call it, "uber" gamers.  But still fun overall.

Beyond that we are starting up a campaign of Legends of the Old West, another GW game.  A long out of print GW game.

This mainly came about because of my friend Jim.  For years he has talked about playing an Old West game.  I knew that last year he had bought some of the Western buildings from 4Ground.  So one night while driving back home from our weekly board game night, I said let's actually play an Old West game.  The thing is I knew he wouldn't paint his figures, so I offered to paint his for him.

Three months later, we've played about four "training" games, and we start up the campaign December 18.

I was into it from the outset, but what's really got me excited was the set of figures I picked up at Cold Wars.  Basically female gunfighters.  I think they're sold for Dead Man's Hand.  Also bought a figure that's supposed to be Jonah Hex which was packaged for the Dracula's America game I believe.

Anyway, I'll make a more detailed post on the Old West game sometime soon.

And hopefully I'll tell you about the Necromunda campaign I'm in.  Can't really yet since I have violated my usual rule of never playing with unpainted figures.