Another year older .... Still no wiser!

So the weekend saw me get a little closer to my half-century, so I headed down to the Ocean city for the annual wargames show ..... With money but no idea of what I wanted and certainly no need for anything...... All I have managed this year making wise is gluing some Chainrasps together!

DK very kindly drove down - requiring a full English stop at Route 5 - nice.p

We arrived vied at the show bang on opening time and headed to the bring and buy (where DK had to register some items for sale) - but managed to pick up a copy of Star Wars: Imperial Assault (with expansions) for a snip! I saw a few things but am trying stop buying stuff I won't use .....

After a brief wander around looking at vendors (to see if I could spend some money) and demo games (for inspiration) - played a couple of round of Sharp Practice (a black power large skirmish game) - a nice set up and some interesting rules to deal with unforeseen events and the order of unit activations. 

The rules seemed easy to pick up and follow - had really good chat with the chap running the game (whose name escapes me, to my embarrassment), about gaming in general. It appeared to be a hybrid game in terms of scale with line troops in units rather than individuals. I could see some fun could be had from these rules, but it would be a new period, so very much on the back burner for now (probably for ever to be honest). I can see the appeal of 28mm for skirmish games, but for mass battle games 10mm or 15mm seems a better bet, so why doesn't anyone make 15mm Napoleonic (or early 18th century or pike & shot miniatures for that matter) in plastic?

Then another wander and DK and I played a demo game of Mantic's Deadzone - a skirmish game played on a grid - squares in 2D and cubes for 3D. This game featured some nice ideas - a minimum of 3 d8 thrown for attacks and saves - but 8s 'explode', meaning you get to role a extra die ....

DK started well with his Enforcers (humans) killing one of my Forgefathers (dwarfs), but this was the highlight of the game for him, as my squats slowly whittling his force down. 

The game ended with the final scores on the doors Morts 12 (or was it 14) and DK 4! It was a good fun game, which I think we could have invested in ...... had we not got into Kill Team.

After another wander I picked up a Steam Tank from Ironclad miniatures which I plan to convert to a Steel Behemoth for my Dwarfs .... Need some shields and dwarf iconography to stick to the front. 

Also planning to put a battering ram/spikes on the front (also replacing the 'metal' barrel on the back with 'wooden' ones). The turret gun will be a 15mm cannon. Hopefully it will look good. 

After this we then we headed back home with our booty (quite a lot for DK and not so much for me).