The Nerd's Tale

The month of June was an eventful one. We had in addition to our normal league games, a miniatures swapmeet, a club cookout, and the first annual Interstate Doubles Tournament with the Minnesota Kings of War community.

The escalation league is in full swing!

In the final minutes of the miniature wargaming swap meet I found myself wandering from table to table with cash burning a hole in my pocket. It's ok. It was hobby money, set aside specifically for this event.

I've been playing more than I have been building or painting (or blogging) this winter, and that's not a bad thing at all!

The demos are going great! I have run demo games for five people this fall, and a couple of them are definitely hooked. Teaching is a great way to learn, so I get a lot out of it, too.

The tournament taught me a few things about my Rat army. First off, my army is pretty good at what it is designed to do, which is to be really durable, and to just heal a lot and dominate the center of the table. However...

I'm back from Northern Kentucky, and it was a wonderful time!

In addition to playing as many practice games as I can with my Rats to prepare for the Wildcat Tournament, I have also been finishing my Bretonmark army. All it needed was a unit of foot knights, and a unit of Ogre Palace Guard.

Everything seemed to be going well this month, but then I hit a few financial obstacles: An unexpected illness and very expensive vet bill, a car repair, and some unplanned but very necessary landscaping and fence replacement to make our yard safe for our rambunctious, demolition minded young bulldog. That's life. When things happen, they happen all at once. The first thing to get sacrificed when money is tight is always recreational fun stuff like hobbies. Don't worry, though. I've been through worse financial hardship.

Playing against William taught me a few things about my Undead Army.

This weekend I ran a demo game of Kings of War for my old friend William, whom I have known since the 7th grade. William was my Warhammer nemesis back in our high school years. He was one of the best local players back in those 5th edition days of the late 90's. He played Undead, mostly, but also had Chaos Dwarves.

With the rat army complete and tournament ready (minus the special unit) I finally got the chance to see how the full 2100 pt list works all together.