[unofficial weekender] Changing gears

Pledge: Play some KoW and get familiar with the rules enough to introduce my friend to them this week.  Keep painting, even if it gets hot as I’ve got deadlines to meet 😀

Answer:  I’m generally at the behest of whoever is hosting the game as to what rules are used and whether I’ve played them or not.  We usually play something familiar but not always and I’m used to trying to figure things out as we go.  One of my friends is a collector of rulebooks and he often has a new game he wants to play.  I’ll usually have a go but not all of them are for me.  Their latest crush is Hobgoblin and I don’t really like the mechanics or the small game size, even though the rest of my group are quite taken with it, hence my move to KoW.

I guess I need to get motivated enough to finish 16 metal Japanese troops I’ve primed & base coated . After 50 plus years painting & building plastic kit where you can paint a lot of bits on the sprues , I really hate painting a one piece figure . I have to be in the zone . So far this week I’ve avoided the Japanese  by converting  some of Warlord’s plastic 8th Army troops into jungle Australians by swapping out bare legs to long pants type legs . The metal Oz bush hat heads are on order . I added tools to the 2 new plastic 6 pounders and   I’ve also been tweaking Warlord’s metal 17 pounder gun with detail bits on the trail legs and a proper gunner and gunner’s seat . No need to pick a new game to play , as I don’t any games , I just build plastic army men & tanks

I’m not prone to changing gears on games. Projects certainly, but whole games not so much.

Changing games requires an external pressure for me in the past, I started Dropzone because the group opted to play Dropzone rather than my preferred (at the time) Sparten Games Planetfall… and well that looks in hindsight to have been for the best. But nothings shaken Dropzone as my preferred game since. That said I lost the vast majority of my game group when the club dissolved during The Event, and only a couple of us still live near each other and we all have young kids in the 1-5 range so we play games rarely enough now that none of us could be arsed learning something new.

I think we’ve talked about going back to a regular game night every time we’ve met up and not managed to do it in 6 years. Such is life in the young family stage I think. At least that’s my experience of it. If that ever actually happens, new games might be on the table.

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