Poldercon 2017

Last weekend was the 3rd edition of Poldercon. The first two years I organised a Bolt Action Demo there and that was a lot of fun. (you can have a look at the video here)You get a lot of players to your demo table that are interested in playing the game and you get to go through the game mechanics and rules for 1,5 hours. At the end the players will have a good grasp of the game.

This year I planned on doing the Bolt Action demo again but only a month in advance my employer organised a weekend activity for the whole company. Exactly in the Poldercon weekend…. I was gutted I couldn’t go myself and meet up with the Poldercon crew again but I was able to get two club members from my gaming group to organise the Bolt Action demo for me. One of them already helped me last year so he knew what to expect.

I did manage to make a very quick visit though. I took a small detour on the way home and had half an hour at the show to look around, shake some hands and talk to some people. If you were there and you didn’t see me I’m very sorry.

The tables looked stunning as ever and there were a few that really stood out. Another thing worth mentioning was the Imaginative miniatures stand. These guys have build up there wargaming store from the ground up and it looked really professional this year, well done. Unfortunately I didn’t bring any money so I didn’t buy anything.

Hopefully I’ll be able to make it again next year.

Enjoy the pictures!

   

Emiel Scheier provided a "Gates of Antares" Demo. I didn't get a look at the miniatures unfortunately. GoA isn't really my cup of tea but this table looked like a lot of fun. Emiel knows how to organise a good game and the table looked great. The purple Styrofoam and bright blue painted starfish made it look like a real alien planet.

This was Jan Willem van der Pijl's table. It had a massive tower in the middle and some funky spaceships floating around it. From what I got in the short time I was there was that an evil dictator took hold of the planet's Atmosphere factory and threatened to shut it down killing everyone on the planet.

This was a beautiful Infinity table. I don't know who was running it but it looked really great. The fantastic terrain and scenery really makes it come to life. The little details like "Mexico will pay" had me laughing.

 A fellow blogger, Johan van Ooij from the "20mm and then some" blog was there as well with a cool looking game. I don't know exactly what it was but I think one day I will turn some old toy cars in these cool looking death machines.

Cheers,
Seb

Projects in between

Battle for macragge downed pilot

When you're recovering from a hobby burn out it's nice to pick up some small projects that won't take you too long from start to finish. I have a couple of those projects in a special box and have painted up this model now. Like the other models in the box it is a bit more exclusive model. The downed pilot from the "battle for Macragge" box set. It took me just a couple of hours and it is good to get something finished again. I really like the glowing effect on the model. This was why I wanted to paint up this model anyway. I don't really like the skin tone, too pinkish for my liking.

Cheers,
Seb

Back from the dead!

It's ALIVE !!!

I've been in the wargaming hobby for quite a few years now and it was back in 2010 that I started this blog. I started mainly with Games Workshop models and articles but over the years my interest for other gaming systems grew. On my blog I wrote quite a few articles but in 2014 the number of articles dwindled fast. I also started to post on my facebook page and I also started a new blog to keep my Bolt Action posts separate from my Games Workshop posts.

Now I'm pulling it all back together and I will add more old content from the other platforms and post them here.

The blog now has some post that have bad links and some pictures that are missing. I'll have to go through all the old posts and see if they need fixing. What can't be fixed will be deleted unfortunately.

I have rearranged the blog here and there and I'll add new pages and content over the next few weeks. I have also updated my blogroll. Every blog that wasn't updated in the past 6 months was deleted. If you have a blog and you want to be on the blogroll then please drop a message. I'm also asking other bloggers again if I can be on their blogroll.
With all the patchwork and restoration work the blog will look a bit like the Frankenstein monster but I hope you can forgive me. Hope to get things sorted out soon.

Cheers,
Seb

Kill Team Again. HoR Rules

Played some good ol' fashion 40K kill team this weekend with the Heralds of Ruin rules. Played two games both against Eldar. I was running a Princeling with 16 Purestrains and two with strange mutations. The cult ambush rule was more of a punishment to me than it dit me any good. My forces were spread and only 2 6's were roled over two games and that also the amount of 6's I got on my rending claws. Pretty meh... I kept failing my cover and invulnerable saves. Had a hard time getting to the enemy which were huddled up on the second floor of buildings. I even fell down twice and lost a purestrain when it fell to it's death...Had a really hard time and lost the first match and won the second. I hadn't touched 40K for 3 years but wow, I'm hooked again. This small scale battles are a lot of fun and I'm looking for a new list, something that will fit 250 points with some shooty units in it. C&C/advise is very welcome!

Cheers,

Seb