Forgive me Fathers for I have sinned. It has been several months since my last blog………………

Hello Boys……………………………………

With Great Grand Kids being born, moving into our new house, starting a new build, and moving to part time retirement, life has been very hectic but AWESOME.

I hope to get back to regularly blogging about our weekly games from next week but this will be just a quick update as I get back into the swing of things.

The family is enjoying having five generations on the planet for the first time in about 12 years, but as I said to my granddaughter she might be old enough to be a mother but I certainly do not feel old enough to be a great grandad, although some days I wonder!!!

I didn’t think that moving into a brand new house would be so much work and cost so much money. The priority was of course to get the figures out of boxes and on to shelves and to make sure there was actually a place to use them, followed closely by a place to paint the mountains of lead that hopefully part-time retirement will allow me to catch up on. 

 

Unfortunately I think the “leader of the opposition” has other ideas of what my new found spare time is to be used on.

And so the cat climbing wall (more like cats make me climb the wall) was a priority build.

Not having a lot of time meant some things had to go and it basically boiled down to – do I want to game or do I want to blog about wanting to game. No choice really as I very quickly decided the former.

There was some exciting, hilarious and fun games over the past months and the design and build of our pirate game for the Melbourne Little Wars was a very successful project. The rules worked well with some interesting twists and the terrain was perfect.

A Denisovian attack on the squatters run.

And then there was Ice Age 237 (at least it seems like when the Grandkids visit and want to watch all the vids).

The Great Mamoth migration

Meals on wheels as the cavemen attack.

Denisovians join in.

Settlers preparing for the Denisovian attack. The preacher and the men were useless, but the women were awesome.

Here they come……

Some interesting “what a tanker” games with connected scenarios was organised by Blake, but unfortunately I don’t have any pics.

Finally we got down to playing French Indian Wars using Rebels and Patriots which was another project a long time in gestation. A wargaming house warming weekend was great fun. Although I had planned several ghames we enjoyed Rebels and Patriots so much that was all we played.

 

Battle in the snow.

Can the French and Indians capture the settlers before the British get them back to the fort? Well the answer was no.

The British defend the fort… well at least they tried to.

New PIGS member and junior porker Bucko has been introducing us to Sword and Spear Ancients rules which work well and fill the gap our group needed as we don’t like many of the other Ancients rules out there.

Monday is gaming night this week and I think Bucko will have me attempting to take down Batman and boy wonder again as the Joker!!! Yep I never thought I would be playing that either but it is great fun. Sort of like transporting yourself into the 60’s TV show complete with Zap and powie cards. We take it in turns hosting the game each week and the rule is your place, you choose the game, and we will all play with a smile.

 

Finally for those living near us on Phillip Island we are putting on a display next Sunday 8th of September 2019 at the Big Boys Toys event at the national Vietnam Veterans Museum. Come along and see us.