Hey guys! I have a three hour window with sleeping in and then trying to go back to bed before a twelve hour night shift. I will post answers to questions and my own hobby progress for now and later (since time is a sort of limited commodity with the way my life works at certain times and work) I will give friendly chat and feedback for other posters. At first glance though there is some awesome stuff here!

At least tomorrow morning I am off for two days, including that day.

1. Regale us with an anecdote from a game where you really hadn’t earned the win but it was handed to you by a lucky card or die roll.

It was the first round of a 40k tournament years ago, before my son was born. I had a Chaos Space Marine army with a mix. The idea of the army was that they were an Emperor’s Children warband who had access to a few starships and wore colours similar to their Legion days. Furthermore, I put some tyranid trophies on them and reasoned they were veterans of fighting tyranids. Surely chaos marines fight more than just imperialist pigdogs right?

The army at the time had a Chaos Lord of Slaanesh in Terminator armour, a squad of Chaos Marines with the mark of slaanesh and meltaguns in a rhino, a squad of khorne berserkers in a rhino, a squad of Plague Marines in a rhino, some Obliterators, and Terminators with the mark of slaanesh (and I think a squad of thousand sons in a rhino that I left at home for this game as I was Elites heavy for this edition).

The reasoning behind the force was that the Khorne, Nurgle and Tzeentch worshippers wore one piece of their armour in purple as a sign of deference to the Chaos Lord (be it a loin cloth, shoulder pad or knee plate). The idea was that these guys were either rejects, renegades or outlaws from their own original warbands who had cheesed off the wrong person or just cut a little bit too much off the top for themselves. Due to this they needed transport off world and across space so they threw their lot in with this warband.

The first game of the tournament was objectives with a Plague Marine heavy army. I never played against Chaos Marines much at the time, and this guy knew his list, knew the rules better, and had a solid army that worked well. Moreso than mine. It was a fun game, really fun, especially when a 40k tournament can be so… well overly competitive.

Against the odds though I held my own and took down part of his army piecemeal. The fact that he fluffed some Feel no pain rolls helped.

The mission had random game length and we were tying for objectives, resorting to short range firefights in the middle of the board and resorting to close combat here and there for board control and denial.

It was then my turn, cant remember whose player turn it would end on as it was years ago, but it was random game length. My squad of plague marines, who were newly painted and debuted for the first time at this tournament, were in a rhino from a previous turn. They rushed out the table and burst out of it on top of the objective and held it the end of the turn.

The game ended at turn five.

Now, I know I won, and it was satisfying and glad I did. It was a gamble and a great game? Do I feel I didn’t deserve it, well… no I kind of do feel I did. But did I earn it? Probably not, but it was very poxie!

2. What is one instance where a hobby company has come through with an idea or concept that just blew you away?

Honestly, the Kharadron Overlords and some of the recent new stuff with GW. I know people have their feelings about GW and what they do and how they operate, but I digress. If you look at WHFB it was belvoed and classic, but man everything was derivative of something: Tolkien, Lieber, Lovecraft to a degree, Moorcock, myth, history, folklore and so on and such. However when GW do do their own thing and really get creative and come up with something original, well they do a good job and hit it out of the park: Genestealer cults, Skaven, Kharadron Overlords, Idoneth Deepkin, etc etc.

Especially the Overlords: steampunk, armoured, gun wielding, non-tolkien, airship riding dwarfs7

A new race descends on the Mortal Realms

Tell me that doesen’t give you the shivers?

3. Transformers the Miniatures Game – Could it ever work? Why or why not? Or what about He-man or She-ra or Knight rider or the A-Team or Thundercats? (or any of the other 80’s IP’s that haven’t yet been mined…).

Oh yes, it could, and I will come back to this one as I could write a ream about it, and quite frankly, I’ve spent too long of my three hour window on this!

Ok, gonna directly upload the Mordheim Ogre I finished…