A whole lot of gaming goin' on...

The main reason for the latest lack of posts is I've been preparing for a big weekend of gaming and then actually playing loads of games! Lenin popped over for the weekend and we managed to get in a record number of miniatures and board/card games including 5150, Warmaster, Triumph of the Will, Afriboria, Gloire, Commands and Colors Ancients, Shogun and Pirate's Cove to name a few. I am currently working up some session reports, a couple of brief reviews and some photos. Lenin also brought over some Brigade figures he has painted for me - so expect a figure review of those soon too.

How time flies...

I could make loads of excuses for the lack of posts but I'm sure noone would be in the slightest bit interested (indeed juding by the almost complete absence of comments I may simply be talking to myself!). Anyway most of my time has been spent at work and when I have had some free time I've been preparing for a big gaming weekend coming up over the Bank Holiday (so more of that after the event - including some reviews, or at least first impressions, of several games).

I did, however, manage to get along to my club this week and had a fun late roman skirmish game using Pax Romana. The result should have been a foregone conclusion since I had Eric (the Spawn of Satan) on my side but his usual spectacular dice rolling certainly wasn't in evidence so I can only assume that Beelzebub has deserted him for a more willing acolyte! In any event we seemed to have done enough to ensure victory when I had to leave a little early (I'm still waiting confirmation of the final result - so if we didn't win I'll blame it all on my colleagues snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!). Bronze, who was running the game, produced some lovely Gripping Beast toys and we're now giving some though to putting our collections together and running a big game - the jury's still out on which rules to use though...

Where's the post?

You'd think with all that spare time over a bank holiday weekend I'd have found some time to post something to the blog. Err...well no not really. It's amazing how much ends up getting packed into three days; however, not much actually gaming (well that's not strictly true as I did get some family boardgaming in but no wargaming I'm afraid). I've had a chance to read the various rules I bought at Salute and am now setting up some test scenarios so that I can put together a full review. I even managed to get another rule set and some other bits but more of that once I've had a proper chance to read them. So watch this space...