Some rambling, but little gaming

So my lack of focus continues - well sort of. I have applied for a number of jobs but haven’t been able to get through the door. All this uncertainty isn’t not good for the painting mojo - although I did get some undercoating done. Black for the last of the 15mm Age of Reason Bavarians ( still have a couple of units of Saxons to complete ) and my first aerosol zenithal on the Valkyries and corsairs. Unfortunately things stopped there. I was going to have a game a couple of weeks ago, but went down with a bug, so had to cancel ….

However I did get out to the moor last weekend - probably the best weather we have had this year. Bright and sunny, but a sharp north easterly wind - ideal walking conditions. 

Some of Saturday’s pictures.

TL - view up from Postbridge, TR - Higher White Tor, BL - Looking over to Longerford Tor, BR - looking SSE to Believer Tor (with pony). 

Sunday

TL - Sunrise from Fernworthy, TR/BL - Row Tor area, BR - Winter Tor. 

A cracking couple of days walking. 

Need to sort out my future, so I can get on with important things like games and painting.

Morts 

Back from the land of the Vikings

The good lady and myself traveled over to Denmark for the Easter weekend. An early morning flight and we were in Copenhagen by 1030am. 

Over the course of the next few days we got in some good steps, a boat trip (well on a water taxi) and a quick visit to the remains of a great hall. 

On the boat trip we passed the Danish naval academy - there seemed to be a number of visiting vessels from Europe there too. We could also see the little mermaid (but been there done that). 

We had a wander around the city - pop over to the royal palace - it was rather overcast the whole time we were in Denmark. We took in a visit to the great hall of allegedly Rolf Krage  - although this just was an outline in a field. Rolf is mentioned in the epic Beowulf. A pleasant walk and I would probably would have liked to pop in to the museums in the area. 

We also managed to get into a few of games - Harry Potter munchkin, we my novice wife won - claiming not to have a clue what was happening and not really enjoying it! I of course was robbed. We - well my brother and nephew played a couple of games of Star Wars - The Clone Wars using the pandemic engine. It plays well with some nice miniatures. I must admit I thought is was a little easy on the first game as we defeated the separatists - we didn’t seem to be getting many blockades - an outbreak in pandemic. We also managed to keep the separatist leader off the board, so a number of her powers didn’t affect us. However in the second game order 66 was activated and the sith won. My nephew was well up on the lore for this game, knowing what named clones were famous for and the actions on different planets. A nice game - I think that used the pandemic engine in an interesting way, with fair replay ability. 

So a good weekend away.

Morts