The last twelve months have flown by and brought a lot of enjoyment with them. Much has happened, but the overarching theme has been about pushing boundaries. The biggest one of those, has been getting a steady flow of blogs posted, and the metrics are looking healthy for it so there’ll be more next year.
Hobbywise I think my greatest achievement was getting an almost full model count Halfling army to Clash of Kings this year. It was a very last-minute decision to go, and an even more last-minute decision to take my Halflings. I’m not someone who gets overly excited about painting, but Clash is a great source of inspiration and motivation, so once I’d decided to go I wanted to do something that was a bit of a personal challenge on the hobby front. That turned out to be filling in the spaces on some sparsely populated bases and finishing an Iron Beast conversion I’d started a few months ago.
In the last couple of days running up to the event I found a cheap picture frame in a charity shop, and a very quick display board was made. I can say, without a doubt, that I ended up having my best Clash so far, by just about every metric possible, qualitative and quantitative. This will definitely feed into next year’s hobby goals.
Obviously, we’ve had the release of Kings of War’s fourth edition. I’m not going to say anything about it here as so far, I’ve only just received my books, not had a game and still have a final third edition tournament to go to. I’ll be taking the rats for this, it’s the one faction I own where things feel like they’ll really be changing in terms of army selection (for me at least) as we move into fourth, so one last hurrah is now mandatory.
The second edition of Burrows and Badgers has been the other big highlight of the year. There’s definitely been an up tick in the number of games I’ve manged to get in over the past few weeks. I’m absolutely loving the new version. So far, I’ve given the Witch Hunters ago and took a Kindred warband out for their first encounter last week. A few new models are definitely going to be required in the coming months as I’d really like to give the Routierres a try as well, but this is quite a complex warband to create so a bit of thinking time is required. I believe my increasing familiarity with the Major Injury Table will help as the warband allows you to upskill warriors, although it comes at the cost of extra injuries.
The other interesting discovery I made towards the end of this year was a Warhammer Fantasy Battle 5th Edition tournament that took place last November called Misfire. Some lovely photos were taken of OG square-based wholesomeness. Given I have a few rats from this era kicking around I think there’s a project kicking around there somewhere, it just needs a bit of shape, and some sort of playing based objective.
All in all, it’s been a pretty full-on year, and a rest has been earned. I look forward to more excitement in the new year.
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