Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

2020 Yeah - right, well... what to say that has not already been said about this year? Erm... well... Fishface! No one will have said that about 2020. I had set myself some 2020 goals and they looked like this... X-Wing on Thursday, only ever played 4 games before, and I am so looking forwards to getting these out again. Only one game played. That might be my only Thursday for a long while... Oh the irony of that! MeG Weekends on the way: Burton: Ancients, Yes, did that. Derventio: Ancients, Didn't play, umpired and went and played Mortal Gods with Pete. Warfare: Eastern Themed, Skull Rollers: Open Competition, Campaign: Team event with three periods (Viking Age, Medieval France and Africa), Warfare: Bronze Ages All cancelled, ho hum! Other stuff, no idea, but isn't that the best way to be? Oh wow, this is where things actually got good! Games I actually played : Carcassonne w5 2nd 3 3rd 2 King of Tokyo w4 l4 last 1 Xwing 2 out of 3 MeG l9 w16 d2 1 abandoned Invasion

 Tangent miniatures,, probably in a massive breach of copywrite, have these familiar characters. Do you know how difficult it is to paint plaid dressing gowns and pringle jumpers!!! I've seen it, it's rubbish! He's got an towel and he's mildly worried! Plaid... gah!  Okay, the blazer was fun! Damn, didn't see that flock, sorry! Probably the worst cast of the batch, plus his jacket is covered in gold and silver brocade is a nightmare. Trillian

Last week's game, it was my turn, I had figures sitting round that have not been used yet, so I thought well, let's do something different!  The game was run with a modified 1 Hour Wargames card driven set up for activation and combat (all good guys had to activate at least once card draw, as they were working cooperatively (we hoped). Aces low, face cards worth 11, 12, 13 repectiely, maximum of two draws each before the enemy could then activate, so it was possible for one player to get away with a lot of action before the fourth got their turn. Also, Jokers normally end go, but if they are drawn when a character is attacking/using their abilities, several events could happen). All room sizes were randomly generated (rooms were d12 x d6+1 with d4 doors unless a special room) and monsters were randomly generated on a card pull (some sending me off into speacialist tables I had written, such as undead, goblins, monsters).  Mark, Ralph and Clive joined us remotely from Shropshire