Wanderings

 Yesterday, it was September; tomorrow is nearly Christmas.  I don't think I'm doing this whole "experiencing time" thing right.

Despite having plenty of hobby fire, I lost about two months painting my daughter's house and helping them move.  The last two weekends have been catchup, and this weekend we hope to start our Christmas season; otherwise, we'll have to wait until next weekend?

So, I haven't been completely idle all this time, I have managed to paint or update over 80 Dwarves, and I picked up some 15mm Chieftains and Laffly transports for my Cold War British and WWII French.  And somewhere along the way, I received a bunch of West German infantry, though when I got them is kind of foggy, They just sort of showed up at some point, and have been milling about my painting table for some weeks (or maybe months) now.  In any event, I got big plans.

Over the next couple of weeks, I plan to paint more of the Dwarves, maybe finish off the army of around 160 figs, and get a game or two on the table.  I've also got a modified campaign structure set up for a Star Fleet Battles General War Campaign, implementing a more involved supply and economic system.

It is structured to avoid players from abandoning frontiers to assemble a single "sledgehammer force" aimed at opposing capitols.  It forces the player to maintain supply at base stations, starbases, and planets via a convoy system, and immediate loss of new construction points on their loss or lack of supply.  

This will create the possibility of supply/convoy intercepts, and hopefully force more commitment to protecting both convoys and outposts.  Protecting and pointedly destroying freighters will now matter as well as committing resources to building new freighters.  It does create more record keeping, but I've never been too concerned with that, its half of the fun, right?  I may start up the test run before the new year. 

On the year, I've only player three games or there abouts, nothing since Origins in June, but I have painted over a thousand miniatures. So despite the lack of games and blog posts, I am somewhat back into the hobby.

We'll see if I finally can keep things going through the holidays.  Stay safe out there, and hope you have a great holiday season!