Pledge : trying to get another update done on my project.
And trying to find a way to get my kickstarter games from the office to my house. Next week there’s a Mythic games kickstarter, not quite sure which one.

1. What hobby related announcement gets you most excited currently? New game/system? New minis for existing game/system? Rules Update? Sale?
   Does the Weekender count ? 😉
   In the past I might have been excited at the prospect of new Eldar minis for 40k.
   These days I’m so dissappointed with the way GW does the rules updates to make their factions work that I have no more fxs to give.
   Purple Haze caught my attention, because it is a solo game first. I hope there is a skirmish level game set in ‘Nam in the future.
2. Have you ever pondered the though of taking a hobby sabbatical? Just put everything on hold for a year?
   Nope. I find it problematic enough to merely think of reducing the number of games/systems I (want to) play/own.
3. Is there anything you’d like to get rid of from the hobby with just a finger snap?
   army lists that don’t even bother with making sure that they match the fluff by removing practically all of the fluff and/or adding silly ‘special’ rules so newbies can’t possibly learn a system by only buying the core rulebook.

technically I did ‘leave the hobby’ once, but that was more down to there not being any shops any more …

I kind of rediscovered it when I found Beasts of War and their ‘Flames of war: for the win’ series

This weeks pledge is to paint a trio of 75mm minis and get the 3D printer up and running again.

1. What hobby related announcement gets you most excited currently? New game/system? New minis for existing game/system? Rules Update? Sale? – New models, as since the pandemic I only paint.
2. Have you ever pondered the though of taking a hobby sabbatical? Just put everything on hold for a year? – But then I’d be a year behind!
3. Is there anything you’d like to get rid of from the hobby with just a finger snap? – Nope. If I don’t like it I can just ignore it. Someone else might like it so why would I get rid of it?

yeah … in the past you had to kitbash, because like you said … there were no alternatives.

Today we don’t have to kitbash, because we got the options to avoid it.
And to be honest … not everyone is in the hobby for the modelling aspect. Some of us just want to play a game.
Preferably straight out of the box.
I suspect that’s why minis with boardgames are so easily funded on crowdfunding platforms.

I do miss not having the options at times, but when I do I also remember why I don’t miss them because I get stuck as I can’t figure out what to build (or which configuration is at least playable).

Ideally I hope there is a balance between both extremes. Games that give you options, but that also provide instructions on how to build a basic squad that works with the game/scenario provided are the best.

I don’t mind monopose figures *if* there’s plenty of variety so my one squad won’t look like a clone army should I decide to add a second squad (or increase the size of the squad itself).

In theory even monopose models can be kitbashed, but the level of skill needed to make that work tends to jump up a few notches which makes it less accessible to beginners.

I think the move towards ‘posed with options’ (which is deff the direction GW is going with the newer releases) has a lot to do with IP protection. You don’t find it much with historicals because…well…you can’t copyright that. But with copyrightable material like, for example, GW, the easier you make it to interchange pieces the more likely you are to find people who will try to take their IP. We can do that back and forth with how good/bad that idea is, but you notice that, again with GW mainly because they are so big, people are trying to limit what 3D printing is ‘allowed’ at official events. In that regard, you don’t really see much rules encouragement in some games for a need to kitbash. I’ll admit, it’s annoying when you have a mini then they release a new one with a new weapon that you thought should have been there the whole time as an option *cough* power sword on an ancient *cough*, but I found a sword hand to kit bash the one I have…just need to paint it now… In that regard, for me I tend to kitbash as a means of saving money these days; I have left over bits, so I’ll use them.

That’s my pledge done, hounds and handlers painted and Core Space played.

Next I’m going to paint a Scorpion bold thrower for my SPQR Roman force.