Sunday 3 May 2015

The transfer window is open

       My first post since Salute, its been that sort of week. I am not going to do the whole Salute review and photos thing as so many other bloggers have done a great job already, and I am not even going to do a picture of my haul, as I forgot to do one before I started building stuff. Suffice to say my trusty backpack was full to the brim and I am going to add at least a couple more labels into my theme bar.
      The one thing I will say about Salute, though, was it was great to meet all the other bloggers, I didn't hang around anywhere near long enough, something I will rectify next year, but putting some faces to random screen names was really worth doing, especially finally meeting the Sir Michael Awdry. It would be nice if the next step for the blogging community was to organise games between bloggers or even a full meet up and game day?

      This post is about the first of my finished Salute purchases; a new Guildball Player for each of my two teams and another version of the Fishermen's guild player Kraken. The two new players were unlocked right at the end of the Kickstarter, because the teams you got as basic were big enough for the biggest size game I decided to hold off adding extra players as the costs were starting to spiral.


Jac - Fishermen's Guild

Tower - Mason's Guild

Kraken (again) - Fishermen's Guild

    There I was on twitter, seeing what was happening on the build up to Salute, and then Guildball tweets a picture of a limited edition model they will be putting on sale at Salute, and for some strange reason my wallet started crying uncontrollably. Here he is though, a stunning sculpt that I expect from this company now, and they haven't fallen into the trap that a lot of companies do with limited edition versions in games that use individual figure cards, they haven't beefed up the stat card at all, this is just a different sculpt, not an uber model. Wargamers are always going to buy limited edition models, we can't help ourselves, but I don't like rule sets where you have to buy them to stay relevant.
     On other news I think I am on the verge of organising a game or two for Guildball, so hopefully I will be posting a game up soon.

    I also need to find out what people prefer to read on blogs, as I have seen lots of different styles online. Do you prefer to have multiple posts in a row on the same project so you can watch it grow before moving onto another one, or do you like posts of what ever has come off the painting desk the most recently? I keep trying to do the first but keep drifting into the second.

Thanks for reading

13 comments:

  1. We've already had a Blog-Con Mike, hopefully there'll be another this year, check out the link to the 1st event in 2013.
    http://onelover-ray.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/blog-con-day-1-badgers-view.html
    And there's a Blog-Con page as well, so get on over and join up!
    http://wargamesblog-con.blogspot.co.uk/
    As for what you should post, just post anything you want to. I rarely post pics of half painted figures myself, but others do. Its whatever feels right for you really??

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    1. That's exactly what I was thinking of! The one thing I have noticed while doing this whole blogging thing is how good the community is at supporting each other and meeting up and having inter blog games just seems to make sense in my head. Love to get involved in a blog con.

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  2. These look super and I love what you've done with the base work. Great to meet you too Mike and as Ray has pointed out above, efforts have been made in the past to meet up and doubtless they will happen again. Posting wise go with what you fancy would be my advice. As you know I'm just running paint table posts in a bid to keep the blog ticking over until the difficulties at work settle down, but I would prefer to post completed miniatures normally, perhaps with a potted history.

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    1. Thanks Michael. Yeah that's what got me thinking about what people like. My blog name tells you everything you need to know about my attention span, but I don't want to bombard with something different every time in case that turns people off. It's my thinking out loud space ultimately, but It's still nice to know other people are interested in what I am up to.

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  3. Actually, there have been two Blog-Cons but I think the second was a bit smaller which might have been due to the location or that the space limited the numbers who could attend (I didn't make it to either). We've certainly discussed doing another and I'd definitely be up for that.

    How you blog is a personal choice. I tend to do a lot of WIP posts, whereas a lot of people just post the finished articles.

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    1. I do regret not being able to chat to you guys for as long as I had meant to, but with a bit of organisation, getting a bunch of gamers together for a day of gaming and getting to know each other (networking?) can't be a bad idea. I am well up for one.

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  4. Yes, the first Blog Con was at the old Wargames Foundry unit in Nottingham (judging by the pictures), the second was at the Yorkshire Air Museum (I think) and was of a more limited size.

    I've spoken to Dave Docherty and Edwin King (two of the current organisers) about another blog con, but the real problem is the logistics of siting the event given that the organisers are based in the North and players and games arrive from all four corners. It was suggested to look into basing an event at the new Foundry location, but with it being well off the beaten track it could prove troublesome and then there's the current ongoing problems within Foundry itself which may prove bothersome.

    I did make a suggestion to perhaps have a larger multi-player game, where all the players built up their own small gang / force / whatever (think Donnybrook or Pirates or Cowboys or VBCW) which they could blog about their preparations and character ideas. This would also keep the cost down for the organiser of the game (basically the umpire, who'd sort out the mission(s) and play the non-player characters). This was only a rough idea, in a bid to create a community buzz to a blog con and game - also, an attempt to help keep costs down for one person.

    As to blogging - blog whatever you like.

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    1. I like the all build a Donnybrook force idea!!!!

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    2. I mentioned it to Clint, when he mentioned he'd bought a set of generic rules a few posts back, on his blog. Clint told me that Donnybrook forces could reach upwards of 60 figures (if memory serves me correct) which I wasn't aware of, but, as far as I'm aware, a force can be built to a smaller size if better quality troops are used?

      At the time of mentioning this idea to Dave and Edwin I suggested 28mm, but given the large options that the Donnybrook time period offers there's enough scope in 15mm to go with that scale instead - also, it should be cheaper. Also, if there was a number of players it might work better in regard the table size and terrain.

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    3. Whoops. Sorry, Mike. I didn't mean to highjack your blog on this topic. Maybe, this should be pushed over onto the Blog Con blog if its something people want to talk about?

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    4. I like nearly all those ideas. I was weak and bought one of the ainsty pirate ships (and a crew for it) at Salute, so if I knew there was a chance to actually use it I would jump all over that!

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  5. Very nice new figures Mike! As for blogging, post what you like, it's your blog.

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    1. Thanks Bob. Yeah that's kind of the decision I have come to, just wanted to stick my feelers in the wind and see what everyone else thought.

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