Resume!

 

New year, new season. same boring blog. 

Is January almost over already?  Damn, that seemed to go fast, but somehow, wasn't long enough maybe? Depends on how you feel about boring wargaming blogs. I know right?  I'm not sure I like them either.

I don't do blogging over the winter.  I get busy and frankly, I just lose the vibe. It's like having seasonal affective disorder but only applied to miniature wargaming.  

But winter is over.  mostly over.  It's over here in California.  Time to rejoin the blogging world and shake off this malaise.    

I'm sure someone, somewhere, while they were unable to sleep one night due to having caffeine too late in the day wondered to themselves.. 'I wonder what that Stew guy is up to, I wish he would post something so I could chuckle at his stupid jokes.  And then he can comment on my blog and we can be the bestest blogging buddies again."  "I mean, as long as it's not still those lame Anteater dudes."

Well!  Here I am again! Whoohoo!  and by 'lame anteater dudes' you meant "awesome Quar." 

And it is more awesome Quar.  See,s like you get a litle good and a little bad.

It's like you rolled a 6/1 on the random outcome table.  

And's that a joke that only Quar players will get, if that. so, eat it.

Quar

I continue to be invested in Quar.  Not only because I like the rules and the miniatures (and because I'm a super slow painter and builder and in general it takes me forever to do anything), but ALSO; because I've somehow gotten myself involved as something like a play tester, or like a promoter, or a like junior volunteer assistant developer looking for college credit.  It's my first time interacting with a miniature wargame as something other than just a consumer.

And it's kinda cool.  

I don't expect to get anything out of it other than my name in the acknowledgments paragraph in the introduction.  Maybe it could be Stewart "really cool nickname" Blain.  

Over the winter break I painted exactly 6 miniatures:

I painted two farmers and some livestock.
The green things are supposed to be some sort of fluffy pig.
The other is obviously some sort of giant beetle.  

And two armed civilian dudes.
technically these are "partisans" but I'll likely use them as armed farm hands.
which is kinda the same thing, I guess.
I'm rather proud of Gilligan hat.

And to start off my wargaming season, the other weekend I had a small game at my house to play test some stuff.  It was last minute, and in the sad commentary of my life I emailed like 8 people just to have 1 be available.  So it is.  I guess I can count myself lucky that I had 8 people to even ask.

Table Set Up:

Two squads of crusaders in the road being ambushed.

Left and Right,
Left an' Rght,
march, march, march.

random in game pics;

All Caught Up

And there ya go.  Now we all caught up with each other.  

Told ya it was boring.  Probably put that guy who drank too much caffeine too late in the day right to sleep.  At least I can say I did some sort of public service. 

Welcome back to the blog of Terrible Loss.  I'll go check out what's been up on your not terrible blogs.