Too cold, too bad, two dropped games
There's something wrong with the weather here. It is acting like it is winter. Due to a series of unfortunate events both Friday and Saturday games were not played.
This doesn't mean all activities stopped.
My printer's working again. After several weeks of frustrating attempts to get color from the printer, we finally left b&w Kansas and stepped into colorized Ozz. I decided to use the opportunity of a resource denied for too long and did some printing.
The set of maps for the Reisswitz version of KRIEGSPIEL is now safe in my binder.
As is the delightful companion set of landscape sketches from Too Fat Lardies Dawn's and Departures. Both of these are recommended for the next project that you might have percolating.
Example of sketch
Moving things around in the basement of doom, I found the fighters from two factions of Galactic Knights that need rebasing on the flight stands.
Oh, and I have worked on the USAAF roster for the Blood Red Skies campaign . But that is not very photogenic, so you'll have to wait on the AAR. Cheers!
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I was able to redirect my energy into some of my ongoing projects. I caught myself going down the rabbit hole on a few facets of the hobby I had skipped over in the last few months. The Battle Road project is going to be a big effort for me, and maintaining two "game days " a week will present some problems with my upcoming schedule. Needless to say, my lovely wife said I had the time for hobby activities slotted in, might as well be busy. Support like that, priceless.
After decades of being a HP stalwart for priters, the whole rent your ink scheme HP had gotten into pushed me to another solution. The final straw was replacement cartridges that rivaled the printer price yet only had ten pages of ink in them.
The Epson seriers of the Eco Tank was cheaper by a power of ten with no resulting loss of quality. There is something visceral in topping off a tank.
There is an appealing cheapness, buying only the CYM or black color needed.
I like filling and forgetting the printer except for checking the front gauges every so often, noting that there is still plenty of ink.
I don't know what you need in a printer, maybe the tank printers would help in the ink cost.
Paints are expensive but more fun than something prosaic like printer ink.
although initially bummed, I realized what a dent I could make in some up in the air/neglected projects. All of which leads to more memorable games.
As to printer costs, at least that is one advantage to still being employed - unrestricted access to a Ricoh laser printer in glorious Technocolor!
The rules have been given a short read and a limited, defective first outing. They are different enough for a look in detail, so I will try to document likes/dislikes in an upcoming post.
I will say they look good for what I want, and if the local group agrees they will become the small scale skirmish "go to"set of rules.