And What Did Santa Bring You For Christmas?
December 26, 2012 by dracs
Another Christmas has been and gone and hopefully it has left behind plenty of presents for you to get gaming with.
On the first day of Christmas Santa gave to me,
3 Magic card decks
And a unicyle under the tree.
Oh, and the complete series of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.
Yeah, not the most heavily gaming orientated Christmas, but still fun and I got some pretty good cards among those Magic the Gathering sets, including the useful Hypersonic Dragon and the intimidating Isperia, Supreme Judge!
I can't wait to get making some new decks. I can feel the guys at the gaming group shaking in fear already.
But what did you guys all get? Maybe the new Hobbit miniatures game? Or possibly something even cooler. Or maybe its not even a gaming thing at all, but is still enough to make us all green with envy.
Drop us a comment below and let us know how your Christmas went.
My wife got me an O-Scale train to use for terrain in Warmachine/Iron Kingdoms RPG. Going to some conversion work to make it more warmachiney. I got myself a Stormwall Collosal, six SM drop-pods + battlefoam. I don’t of anyone in my area that got the new Hobbit game…purchased or gifted 🙁
Got me a plastic warboss and set of boar boys, now I just have to wait for the rain to stop and I can spray me some feral orks.
I got myself the Fireforge Games foot sergeants…
Same price as GW bretonians, except there’s 48 in a box instead of 16, the sculpt is finer and more dynamic, they have crossbows, and plenty of weapons to choose from !
Romain,
I read your post and could not resist getting the same for my Bretonians. Is it possible that you have some strange power which takes control of my mind and makes me buy minitures. I can only wonder!
It’s called “discernment” 🙂
I never buy a miniature unless I’ve seen it “in the flesh” (not photos !) or unless I know the sculptor does good work.
Use the BoW unboxings, and do not hesitate to ask if a box can be opened in store !
My other half got me the new Open Fire set for Flames of War. You certainly get your moneys worth in it. So much to paint!
My Children got me a decent 10″tablet
Bless them
It is already broken
Got my wife a top of the line iPad4 retina and some ZAGG accessories. It’s the first time I went “techie” and not “shiny”. She didn’t even know what it was and now it’s at least her Pandora/fb/Netflix gadget so I’m happy. Who has any suggestions on apps??? (for a 45 yr old nice woman)
The one thing I never get enough of “TIME”
I’m going to spend it building and painting all the shiny things I bought over the year and never finished. Well that’s the plan.
Nothing gaming for me. Except for the Christmas money I got. I mostly got clothes, money, along with some books, CDs, and a couple of movies.
Only gaming thing I got was the Iron Kingdoms RPG core book. Dreadball arrived at the right time to be a Christmas present, but that would’ve been one I bought myself.
got 4 heavee metulz cds and 2 warpath marauder sets, so I can now try to glue 100 orx whilst headbanging
Super Dungeon Explore and Zombicide. Been painting the SDE minis today
Books, a bookshelf, a tshirt that says “the book was better” and a dalek. Was extremely surprised I didn’t get anything warhammer, though I’m extremely happy with what I got.
The Horus Heresy Book one, plus a few other sundries not gaming related. What a gorgeous book; leather bound, metal corners, full color heavy parchment pages. The content is fascinating too, providing a unique perspective that feels like a behind the scenes look at the war, compared to the novels. My wife clearly both loves and listens to me to pick this as a gift. If anyone has thought about the book but passed because of the price, you should know that it is worth every penny and I never expect to ever field a Heresy army.
Necron Battleforce
Some Warriors
Necron Lord
Necron Codex
6th Ed Rulebook
Now i just need a huge amount of spare time, the one thing i never have
Gaming friend got me a Angron model from forge world, looking forward to putting him together and painting him
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A 1901 Hunter pocket watch, a mug that says I’m a t**t on the underneath and my first Christmas off in eight years wooo.
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Having children makes Christmas so easy 🙂
We got the OpenFire set which I’d vote as the best starter set around. A few other FoW bits and pieces like the armoured train (just for the model doubt I’ll use it), some games like Ticket-to-Ride and a DnD boardgame. And the usual clothes, bottles of booze etc.
Oh and one or two items of GW, we went from a big GW christmas household to minimalist one instead this year and have so much more to show for it 🙂
gaming wise, GW vouchers and dice (yay, more dice 🙂 )
other stuff, chocolate, money chocolate and clothes. did i mention the masses of chocolate? 🙂
Siege of Castellax and Architect of Fate: looking forward to reading those.
good haul Sam, both those will be useful in edh if not constructed, and Romain, I’d love to hear your opinion on the perry miniatures medieval mercenaries and war of the roses infantry in comparison with the fire forge foot sergeants as I was planning on mixing them form my kings of war humans.
As for me I got the bolt action rulebook, star flux, dominion dark age, a seraphim bomber and my brother (Santa in disguise) out did himself and got me Zombicide.
As a side note I’m celebrating my first Christmas without reverencing sock!
A comparison between Perry miniatures medieval infantrymen and the Deus Vult Fireforge range ?
Well, the perry twins win, quality-wise, (although not by much), but theirs are metal miniatures, more expensive and non modular. They don’t have modular plastic infantry yet… Otherwise, as far as I know, it’s the same scale.
Be careful though : the war of the Roses range isn’t quite the same period as the Fireforge foot sergeants, so it won’t mix well. Better get Agincourt or Crusades.
receiving socks, I also got Whiskey.
No mini’s for christmas this year, practicalities first as the wife and I jointly got a new Oven from our parents. No complaints from me though, Dreadball arrived before Santa and hot cooked food is always welcome. Going to spend my time off painting up teams and then assembling the WW2 bolt action plastics I’ve amassed over the last 2 years and done nothing with.
I was a good boy and Santa left me Robin Hobb’s Tawny Man trilogy so I can continue the Hobbsathon embarked on last year.
I got a Glock 17, Vepr, mountain bike, sweatshirt, 1/72 scale Maus, and 12L of beer.