My weekend

This weekend just hasn’t gone as planed at all. Originally I had planned on getting a lot of painting done (the Gatormen Posse, Squad of Mannikins, Alten Ashley, and the GW hill) but here we are with the weekend almost over and I’ve only dry brushed one Gatorman (at least Jen did get a good base coat on the hill). Keep in mind it’s not like I’ve had a bad weekend, I just didn’t get any of my painting done.


Base Coat on the Hill

Saturday morning was spent playing games with my son. We mainly played video games (Guitar Hero World Tour, Battle Front, and Age of Empires with my father) but we did get in one board game, Battleball. This game is a very simple game that simulates a futuristic version of football. At http://www.boardgamegeek.com/ the game’s background is described as “Global football has moved beyond the restrictive rules of the US Football League. Physical enhancements have made the sport more intense and more deadly. Players have developed distinctive skills to overpower enemy players. Some are fast. Some are strong. All are out to eliminate their opponents.”



Like I said the mechanics of this game are extremely simple but my son loves it. Each game piece’s base color corresponds with the color of a dice that you roll to move and tackle. Each player takes turns moving one guy and trying to score a TD (or just trying to knock the other team of the field). First person to score twice wins. Every time I play this game I really want to play Blood Bowl (especially when you consider Battleball is just a watered down version of Blood Bowl). Unfortunately, my Blood Bowl game is in the very back of the closet of doom (i.e. the closet that is filled up to the roof with my family’s stuff). Anyway, during the first half of the game I knocked the boy’s whole team off the field and scored. After that the dice gods abandoned me. He quickly scored two Touchdowns without much effort.

Today I got ready to paint and then I decided (of course) that I would rather play a game of Hordes. After getting to Decks and Duels, the local shop, it was decided to play a large Circle versus Legion game (1500 points per side). Gilbert and I each fielded 750 points (I had to borrow some of his models) of Circle and John and Kristina each filled 750 points of Legion (Two fracking epic Thagroshs). It was a fun close game (even if the first three of our turns consisted of mowing down the 15 shredders that our opponents fielded... who fields that many little warbeast). Gil’s whole army except for his warlock was wiped out (partly because I was out of position) but then we got an assassination run off on John’s Thagrosh (now forever to be known as Goulash). That left almost all of my force plus Gil’s warlock against Kristina’s Thagrosh, a Shredder, and a Carnivean. So that’s now three straight wins for me with Baldur. Still undefeated Baby!!! What I really learned from this game is that Sentry Stone & Mannikins are absolutely awesome (especially against other Hordes armies).