How the Tournament went and next steps.

I promised I'd do an update after the team event I was attending, and here it is. Let's say I did absolutely terribly - our team came last and I had the worst results in the team. I left the event having had a great time hanging out with 3 great friends, but feeling really sore about the event for one singular reason. It wasn't the players, they were good people. Even my 'worst' opponent was a decent guy, just a little too fast for me. The organisers did a great job running the event, kudos to them, and coming back from a failure of the scoring system to keep us all playing was a reasonable handling of the situation. The issue for me was the terrain - WTC format to be exact. For reasons of storage and transport it's flat and uninspiring. The boxes and books under blankets that we used as kids felt better. It has to be laid out with more care and precision than new housing development - which is just boring IMHO. The rules about movement and visibility are not intuitive. You can't see through it but you can reduce yourself to molecules and pass through it, and you while you can melee through it (presumably by the same mechanism), you can't shoot through it when you're in engagement range, as shooting requires LoS and it blocks that. On top of that it's so dense - don't bother with vehicles, as after a couple the deployment zone is full, and all the rest park so far back it takes 2-3 turns for them to get to where the front line started. I think if this is the state of competitive events I'm out I'm afraid. Losing is one thing, but losing because you don't play an army with lots of tough hard hitting infantry is a turn off for me - I like taking tanks. There's a reason everyone and his dog was playing Death Guard or Thousand Sons.

So what am I going to do about this? I don't know, I did start working on my World Eaters, but I'm wrapping up the work I'm doing on those because I know I'm not going to get time to finish them. I've packed up my Minotaurs too to clear the desk, and just put some paint on a few heresy models for a last game of v2.0. I don't plan to do much 3.0 as I don't have the time to learn a new system at the moment, maybe in a few months, so in the meantime my Ultramarines and militia are packed up waiting to see if my mojo returns or time becomes freer.

I know Apocalypticon is coming back in 2026 so I'm back on terrain for that which will meet my hobby needs for now - I'll share more details soon. I am very much excited about this, and working on helping run the event rather than playing is a good feeling at the moment.

Getting away from gaming, I took part in a wheelbarrow race this weekend - damn I'm unfit but a solid wheel is a bad choice (it was my mother-in-law's barrow).