I generally abhor loot posts, and try to refrain from making them… but this is a pretty substantial haul and I’ve been waiting all summer for it so I’m pretty hyped. It does feel nice having a big stack of toy boxes.
(A few of these boxes have been in the heap for a bit, I’m counting them as part of the haul.)
That’s kind of a mouthful of a post title.
As with Dead Man’s Hand, I’ve neglected to post my painted Cyberpunk minis because I’ve been meaning to post about the game itself and the things I like about it. Haven’t gotten around to it, though, so here we go.
These are the Arasaka minis. I thought I’d try the Vincent Knotley style of painting – contrast, then a couple of highlights. It came out fine, but honestly GW Basilicanum Grey followed by GW Black Templar? I’d get the same results and faster by just painting a normal acrylic black.
How is it I haven’t posted these before? Probably because I keep meaning to write up a post about why Dead Man’s Hand is the platonic ideal for what I want out of a minis game…
I’ve been working on DMH for a couple of months: I’ve painted up a couple of posses for it:
These are Lawmen:
These are either Outlaws or Desperados as one inclines:
Cowboys, but more to supplement either the good guys or the bad guys as needed.
Mountain Men:
“Legends of the West” – Lee Van Cleef (“Best of the Bad”), Jonah Hex, Calamity Jane, some guy who I think looks like Kris Kristofferson (but I think is actually from some Aussie Western), and a Preacher.
Lotta dogs on the terrain sprues, so I had to do a cheeky multibase with my two puppers.
Also spent about a month grinding out some terrain for it. The town’s mostly done: need to paint some livestock and figure out some trees for it. Its name:
Since taking these photos I’ve gotten some furniture painted for the interiors.
I’m pretty happy with how it’s come out.
I posted up the rules for these (blood)suckers but not the photos.
II went to NOVA!
I got there Wednesday, without too much heartburn and only spent about 15 minutes finding a place to park in the Escher-esque hellscape that was the hotel parking garage*. Checked in, chatted with folks, ate dinner in my room.
Thursday I did play in the Infinity tournament and had a blast. The Infinity space probably had the worst (or second-to-worst) ventilation of all of the gaming rooms (by dint of smallness), but it was objectively excellent nevertheless. My air quality monitor reported CO2 levels that were “might as well be outside” and “better than your basement gaming space” for the entire duration.
Just look at that: the red spikes are my drive in to and out of the District. In between is the hotel and Infinity space!
Three good games, executed badly: I only finished all three rounds with one of my games, which isn’t ideal, but I did enjoy all of them and I hope my opponents did, too. My slate went Morats, Invincible Army, Morats.
Obviously I felt great about the space and was ready to sign up to play on Friday as well, but as soon as my third round ended I realized I hurt. Tournaments are physically quite demanding, and I’d forgotten that. And although the point kind of had been to exhaust myself cramming as much Infinity into the NOVA weekend as possible, I don’t think that’s in the cards any more for me… so I decided to head home after Thursday’s event. And, once I started thinking about seeing my wife, my buttsniffers, and sleeping in my own bed I couldn’t get out of there fast enough.
Shopping was minimal! I didn’t need much!
I bought some really nice from Baron of Dice that feel great in the hand and to roll and I think gave me a really great distribution of rolls throughout the day. I’m a convert!
I got a few paints: I’ve had trouble finding Skavenblight Dinge, and grabbed some bright pink speedpaints. I also got a dropper of the Monument titanium white that’s become a kind of cargo cult thing locally (verdict: it’s actually really good! but the bottle is absolute trash!).
Briefly considered some Steel Rift but having some partially painted from two years ago at home kept me from making that mistake. Might have gotten something from Catalyst, but I (FINALLY) got my address verification email for the Mercenaries Kickstarter, and that inoculated me against that. Was ready to make a poor spending decision on Warcrow but talked myself out of it when I realized the bundle was either a really bad deal or the book was insanely expensive (or both).
So: no new minis. I did hop online and, full of renewed vigor for Infinity order a couple of boxes to flesh out my Shasvastii and Morat options. (No need to agonize about paying full MSRP vs online discounts: nobody on-site had them: only Warsenal had any Infinity, and that was just a token selection).
That’s all! No other shopping (good on me)!
* I’m a simple suburban bumpkin. I expect there to be parking spots and for cars to go into those spots. By the time I left, it was a chaos of vehicles shoved into spaces (not necessarily parking spaces): cars double-parked across multiple motorcycle spaces, cars just parked behind other cars, a Tesla SUV just shoved between two pillars it was able to squeeze between (I think the driver had to get out through the trunk). I was more than a little freaked out by the utter anarchy of it all.