Mixed progress

No campaign game today, too many players called out and none of the map moves resulted in combat encounters anyway. I missed a Bardia game, worse luck. Work has been tiring (and cold, thanks to the weather) and I failed to pay close attention to my already overwhelming email folder. Also a cat had to visit the vet repeatedly... the discounts due to insurance however provide an excuse to spend the leftover money on more game stuff.d 

The campaign map; I'm on the Spanish team.

Work is inching towards gaming (well, besides the healthy chess club); our new teen librarian is seeing interest and planning a weekly activity that will include something I can help with. He's also a gamer (DnD only, though), and I've spoken with a teenaged volunteer who is interested in 40K but unfortunately will be moving shortly. I did get permission to build a Civil War display for Black History Month which I will try to get his help with - an Olustee diorama.

I finished a medieval murder mystery and am most of the way thru The Illusionist, a biography of pioneer Commando and deception artist Dudley Clarke, who most critically distracted Rommel from the true attack direction at Second Alamein. The book is a bit superficial, but with plenty of anecdotes. It criticizes Operation Mincemeat on the grounds that it nearly gave away the attack on Sicily from which it was supposed to distract, although reportedly Churchill approved it on the grounds that the Germans expected Sicily anyway, so anything was worth the attempt. Next will be a biography of Flora MacDonald, who sheltered Bonnie Prince Charlie after Culloden.

I have not received my order of the Bolt Action starter set, though the shop somehow got a box of metal tools from Warlord Games... Instead I've been messing with Know No Fear, the medium-sized 8th Edition 40K starter set, which I picked up on Ebay.

I still have the Quar to finish, too.

Anyway, that's what little I've done this week. Maybe next will be better. See you then.