Ok, I’m back — after a test debacle. Don’t you just hate it when university tests have nothing to do with the material that was taught? I’m guessing I failed, but it’s Friday and I don’t care.

Pledge: finish up, and I do mean ‘finish up’ my battle boards. I just need to clean up the ‘cladding’, for lack of a better term, on the sides. I put the plasticard edge on with a glue gun and smoothed it out with a putty knife, but I think I can do better. I pissed around with an iron and managed to melt the glue again on one edge and get it even flatter, so will do the rest the same way so they butt together more seamlessly.

A few pics. I do believe this will answer Question 1.

That’s not even half the scatter terrain; I can pack the table with it if needs be.  I just took a few quick pics of what will likely be the setup for our baptismal Battlesystem throw down. I wanted it more open so we could have a big ruck in the middle, probably by turn 2. None of the players I’ve recruited as PC’s seem to have the patience for manoeuvre, so I didn’t want to complicate things.

There are four more boards (two river ones I’ve already shown, and two more flat boards). The plan when I was commissioned for this was to be able to create two 4′ by 6′ game surfaces.

2. Starter Sets? I only buy starter sets if I can justify the price for the mini’s I want within the set, or if I can trade one faction for more of the other…. i.e. the GW dwarf/goblin box Battle for Skull Pass. I traded the goblins for more dwarfs.

3. A book that translated well into a movie? Blade Runner comes to mind… but there aren’t many. At the other end of the spectrum, Hollywood murdered Robert Heinlein’s classic, Starship Troopers. I liked LOTR, but not because it stayed true to the trilogy. The Hobbit was a bust.

4. Comedy duo’s? Abbot and Costello are up there for me, especially the movies where they were terrorized by almost every Hollywood monster of the day.

Also fond of Cato (Burt Kwouk) and Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) in the Pink Panther movies… before they got lame that is.

I’m at work, so at the mercy of the Classic Rock radio station.

Back to university learnin’.