Star Wars stuff

Gaming:
I haven't managed to have a game these weekend. But I am planning to read all the X-Wing scenario competition entries on The Metal Bikini . Hopefully I'll find some good missions to play soon :-) Maybe even inspire me to write a mission or two.

Video-games:I was gutted to read that Star Wars: Attack Squadrons has been binned.

Pickups:
I went away over the Bank Holiday weekend. On my travels I managed to pick up a pack of Imperial Aces. It looks a really nice addition:

Mordor Orcs

I think you can never have too many Orcs, so I also did a few Red Eye Orcs. Hopefully I can expand these figures so I can field a reasonable bunch of them:

Uruk Hai:

These are more figures from my Lord of the Rings collection, Orcs of the White Hand! The plastic figures look ok when painted up:

As I got a bit more used to painting them, I added some metal figures. IMHO, these are much nicer figures:

Men of Minas Tirith:

I guess the pictures speak for themselves.. A batch of GW LOTRs figures. I'll post a few images:

X-Wing night!

Geek update:

I managed to get a game of X-Wing in at the weekend. It was a straight dog fight. I played a four X-Wing squad split into two groups of two along each flank. I lost, as I took too long to bring one of the groups into the fight. But it was pretty close. Plus I managed to kill Vader with some lucky dice roles, which almost made up for not winning…

My fleet

I love playing X-Wing. It feels like a an easy game to play (tough to master) and keeps a huge element of fun.

So far I have been using other peoples ships. But I have started a collection  of my own. Listed here in case I ever get round to hosting a game.

1 x Core set - which includes

1 x X-wing
2 x TIE Fighters

WAVE 1
1 x X-wing expansion pack

1 x TIE Fighter expansion pack

2 x Y-Wing expansion pack

1 x TIE Advance expansion pack

WAVE 2

1 x YT1300 expansion pack

1 x Firespray expansion pack

1 x A-Wing expansion pack

2 x TIE Interceptor expansion pack

WAVE 3

1 x HWK-290 expansion pack

1 x Lambda-class Shuttle expansion pack

1 x B-Wing expansion pack

2 x TIE Bomber expansion pack

So still to track down at some point:
Rebel/Imperial Aces
Rebel Transport

I managed to get pretty much all of those before an epic night of unboxing :-)

                                                   

What is it all about?

This is yet another blog from a frustrated gamer.

The main reasons I am doing this is in an attempt to keep in touch with the fragmented group of people I game with. Topics will be varied, but these are my main areas of interest. Expect more posts about:

Space Hulk:
I missed the first edition as in the 1980’s 19.99 was too expensive for me. I missed the second edition as I was out drinking for the last half of the 1990’s. I missed the third edition as I was too slow for limited release.

For a while now I have been collecting bits of junk off the internet. I have almost built up enough pieces to play a game. Just need to do a bit of assembling, gluing, painting and so on.

Star Wars:
I played the West End Games roleplaying game from 1987 to about 1995. Although I have found it hard to get into the spirit of roleplaying games, I have a lot of fond memories of the Star Wars geek nights we had.

Other obsessive Star Wars gaming have included;

• PC gaming for X-Wing vs TIE Fighter
• Table top skirmish with WOC miniature’s, although I have never found a rule set I like 
• I had a half-baked aspirations to play Star Wars table top skirmish games with LEGO figures and started to collect figures…. Seems to cost about as much as WH40k!  
• Star Wars Battlefront on the Xbox, which was a massive thief of time  
• And now, the fantastic FFG X-Wing Miniatures game – plenty more bog entries coming around this one

Lord of the Rings:
I have been a fan of Lord of the Rings since being a kid.

Since the movies came out I have been a part-time collector of the Games Workshop figures and rule sets. I am old enough to have owned a few of their figures in the 80s, but now I only have the Peter Jackson era of figures. I also ‘inherited’ a large stash of figures that I will unbox and paint up at some point.

From a painting perspective, I enjoy paint 15mm figures and will post some pictures on here soon.