January: it’s been magic!

If I do say so myself, it’s been a pretty solid start to the year. The highlight was getting back to Kings of War tournamenting. Putting in a strong performance with my rats at Stanes of Blood was a bit of a cherry on top of an otherwise thoroughly enjoyable day. Right now, I’m working through list options for my next event which will be in March, somewhere in the Midlands. Practice games for March are currently being booked through February and I’m excited to say that the rat ninja scouts, known as scurriers, have made the list (for the moment).

Whilst a lot of Kings of War has been played this year it’s by no means the only game I want to play this year. I tried out Saga: Age of Magic last year and really enjoyed it. I’m fascinated by the battle board concept and could see there was some really interesting elements to the game that I’d like to understand better this year. I also like the really broad approach the game takes to classifying different elements of fantasy armies. It allows for a really creative approach to army building. It’s something that’s quite prevalent within Kings of War, but as Saga is a much smaller scale game it doesn’t take quite so much to get a faction on the table. I already have an army fully painted, but now I want to indulge in a bit of basing and build out some different units. The army primarily consists of Northumbrian Tin Soldier miniatures, but I’ve also brought in my beloved Mantic Phoenix and some Burrows and Badgers miniatures to provide an alternative approach to ogres or trolls.

Painting this month has really been limited to the badger and rebasing my witch for Saga. It’s been quite relaxing, and dare I say enjoyable?

I have a plan for the legendary war machine that is gently simmering away and want to enlist some Mantic Halfling knights to give me mounted hearthguard options. This is definitely a project that has legs.

Amazingly I’ve also managed to get some writing done, and the first two chapters of The Rose through the Void are just about where they should be. In addition to that, in the name of shameless self-promotion I donated a couple of my books to the local community library.

Mostly though January seems to have been a month of admin, which I’m hoping is largely finished for the coming months so I can focus on fun stuff.