Dice, Bare Metal & 'Stranger Things' Porn Star Mode
Well, it's another year of musing, ranting and sharing my gaming related stuff with you.
I bought a couple of magazines over Christmas, and was amazed to see in Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy a two page - I say, two page article on the etiquette of dice rolling.
Do we really need to be told how to roll dice now?
Much of what I read, could be summed up thus: Use the brains that your parent's having a good fuck, gave you. If you have any doubts, ask for clarification from those you are at the table with.
You'd have to be pretty retarded of just a cheat to use loaded dice (I did see this once at the Nationals in the 80s, but it came to nought)
Likewise, it's pretty obvious that if a dice lands crookedly, you should roll it again or indeed demand that the thrower, rolls it again.
A few throws on the average gaming terrain will teach you that a tray is a great idea.
If someone insists you change dice, agree and swap with them directly. This is particularly good if like you they love their own special dice but are getting sore because your rolls are better than theirs.
If this 'dice etiquette' is more important than having fun with toy soldiers, take a trip to your local golf club.
It's been a somewhat boredom filled Christmas for me... I put static grass on 3 models and started to base coat a couple of 28mm Tabletop World buildings, which fell very short of my targets for 16 days away from work.
However, I did discover that contrary to what Roger called 'The biggest wargames myth', I have a hankering for a 28mm Spanish Napoleonic army, so much so that today I spent £70 on the two volumes from Ken Trotman Books totalling over 500 pages of uniforms and such. You can take it to the bank, that if I spend that on books, the army is a sure fire purchase in the immediate future.
I have decided that this year, I'll be buying 3 projects:
28mm Great Northern War
28mm Spanish Napoleonic
28mm Great Paraguayan War or Carlist War, but I have yet to flip the coin for which (best of 3)
Roger already has a ridiculous Napoleonic collection, and is fielding Swedes against the Russians, but I fear that the third project may be solo. We had a rather splendid exchange of emails, insulting the Russians and Swedes by turn, which is the kind of thing we always did as kids. It's refreshing to see that some things never change.
I am also looking at 1/700 Renaissance naval warfare as one of the best little projects I undertook was Christmas of 1982 or thereabouts, when I whipped up two opposing fleets using 1/1200 galleys and the great little rule set from Navwar, which I still have.
Beyond that, I have few plans, but I genuinely think that it's enough for a year at least, and the fact that I have hit 2020 running bodes well.
I also must confess that the notion of a French or British early Napoleonic army - specifically for Egypt - has taken my eye. I'm still mulling it over at present, however.
I'll leave you with something I found rather funny. My son-in-law gave me a Stranger Things themed ceramic mug, into which I popped my technical pens. As I sat at my desk this morning, I noticed that the representation of Hopper looks, due to colour separations, to be in 'porn star mode' wearing gun belt, hat and gold medallion...
TTFN
I bought a couple of magazines over Christmas, and was amazed to see in Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy a two page - I say, two page article on the etiquette of dice rolling.
Do we really need to be told how to roll dice now?
Much of what I read, could be summed up thus: Use the brains that your parent's having a good fuck, gave you. If you have any doubts, ask for clarification from those you are at the table with.
You'd have to be pretty retarded of just a cheat to use loaded dice (I did see this once at the Nationals in the 80s, but it came to nought)
Likewise, it's pretty obvious that if a dice lands crookedly, you should roll it again or indeed demand that the thrower, rolls it again.
A few throws on the average gaming terrain will teach you that a tray is a great idea.
If someone insists you change dice, agree and swap with them directly. This is particularly good if like you they love their own special dice but are getting sore because your rolls are better than theirs.
If this 'dice etiquette' is more important than having fun with toy soldiers, take a trip to your local golf club.
It's been a somewhat boredom filled Christmas for me... I put static grass on 3 models and started to base coat a couple of 28mm Tabletop World buildings, which fell very short of my targets for 16 days away from work.
However, I did discover that contrary to what Roger called 'The biggest wargames myth', I have a hankering for a 28mm Spanish Napoleonic army, so much so that today I spent £70 on the two volumes from Ken Trotman Books totalling over 500 pages of uniforms and such. You can take it to the bank, that if I spend that on books, the army is a sure fire purchase in the immediate future.
I have decided that this year, I'll be buying 3 projects:
28mm Great Northern War
28mm Spanish Napoleonic
28mm Great Paraguayan War or Carlist War, but I have yet to flip the coin for which (best of 3)
Roger already has a ridiculous Napoleonic collection, and is fielding Swedes against the Russians, but I fear that the third project may be solo. We had a rather splendid exchange of emails, insulting the Russians and Swedes by turn, which is the kind of thing we always did as kids. It's refreshing to see that some things never change.
I am also looking at 1/700 Renaissance naval warfare as one of the best little projects I undertook was Christmas of 1982 or thereabouts, when I whipped up two opposing fleets using 1/1200 galleys and the great little rule set from Navwar, which I still have.
Beyond that, I have few plans, but I genuinely think that it's enough for a year at least, and the fact that I have hit 2020 running bodes well.
I also must confess that the notion of a French or British early Napoleonic army - specifically for Egypt - has taken my eye. I'm still mulling it over at present, however.
I'll leave you with something I found rather funny. My son-in-law gave me a Stranger Things themed ceramic mug, into which I popped my technical pens. As I sat at my desk this morning, I noticed that the representation of Hopper looks, due to colour separations, to be in 'porn star mode' wearing gun belt, hat and gold medallion...
TTFN
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