Hunker Down and Hobby. Plus 200 Posts!

So, Hurricane Milton went through, which means I have a three-day weekend though I only caught the edge and there wasn't even any rain. A couple coworkers north of me lost power. Spent Wednesday keeping an eye on the track, watching Boney episodes and Games Workshop videos, and building Quar and Paperboys:

Crusaders, three fire-teams of three plus a Yawdryl (Sergeant).

Coftyrans, in WWII British squad organization - rifle group
and machine-gun group. Though the Crusaders get the Brit helmets.

Pirate-era Spanish.

Also finished reading Wellington's Redjackets, a history of the 45th (1st Nottinghamshire Regiment) in the Peninsular War. Good, if typical of the other period regimental histories I've read. I did enjoy learning more about the South American expedition of 1807, and the 1814 invasion of France, which I was unfamiliar with.

Last blogpost was my 200th.

Among the first Asimov
nonfiction I read.

• In the course of the last hundred, I discovered Very British Civil War, obtained nearly all the sourcebooks and plenty of useful miniatures for the period, and began to experiment with rules for the "period." I also discovered Quar.
• I also got in several programs of miniature painting at work, as well as Paperboy displays and papercrafting activities. I've moved to a branch where I have more kids to work with, but fewer teens, so some of that has been reduced in complexity. I'm effectively in charge of a Chess club now, so I have opportunities to experiment.
• I read dozens of books.
• I went to two HMGS-South conventions. I ran a game of Charge! at one.
• I organized and named my Wofun regiments so as to play Charge! The game I ran provided much useful feedback, so I should be able to play some more soon.
• I even painted a little on my own account, for the first time in quite a few years, and obtained some terrain to play with. (I have got to get a lot more hills and colored patches for forests.)
• I started working through the Charles Grant Programmed Wargames scenarios - so far three.
• I played five Minceheim games solo.
• I played in 10 games at Das Krieg Haus over roughly two years - not bad actually, given that I can only get there every other Saturday. (Some of the available Saturdays, I chose to attend the Virtual Wargames Club instead.) These were nearly all GMed by Oriskany Jim or Mark Ritchie.

What didn't I do? That would be actually finishing, or even seriously progressing on - any particular project. Except for the Jacobite mostly-solo campaign.

I would like to:

• Prep and run Picacho Pass - I have an increasingly enthusiastic partner for it, so I really need to get on that.
• Play more programmed scenarios, with an eye to working through the entire book.
• Obtain more natural terrain to do it with.
• Paint the Quar and start playing it.
• Start playing VBCW, or even running it for the club. It doesn't help that there are numerous rules that would work; I am actually considering Quar: Clash of Rhyfles for small games.
• Do some more library gaming and -adjacent activities. My supervisor has voluntold me to prepare take-and-make crafts for the foreseeable future, so Paperboys are on the horizon. I also ended up with accidental responsibility for a display case that is ideal for miniature displays...

Not too shabby, really. I still think this blog is pushing me to actually do hobby stuff; it's also opened up a community of fellow bloggers whose encouragement is just as invigorating. Thanks, and I'll see you in the next hundred!