Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Nemesis 01 - Interrogation Journey

As promised, and after a considerable hiatus, we started playing Warhammer Quest again on the first Tuesday in November (and will hopefully be playing EVERY Tuesday until we finish Nemesis... and... maybe Darkwater... and possibly Blackstone Fortress!?) 

We kicked off the Nemesis campaign for Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - the third and final quest/campaign for Cursed City... 

In the first quest, Ulfenkarn in Peril, eight heroes came together to try and depose Radukar the Wolf, an ancient and powerful vampire. Radukar had worked himself into a position of trust and authority within the city Mournhold, helping the city defend itself from an approaching Chaos Horde. But afterwards he betrayed the mortal inhabitants, slaying their leaders and taking control of the city and renaming it Ulfenkarn! 

At the end of the first quest, Radukar is defeated after each of his powerful minions were deposed... but at the last minute, before he was killed, he turned into a giant Vargskyr and smashed through a window and escaped!? 

In the second Quest, the mortal inhabitants of Ulfenkarn are starting to take their city back, but a dread curse has fallen over the city, plunging it into eternal night (when all the undead beast become more powerful!) and three other vampires try to step into the power void left by Radukar but are never themselves powerful enough to defeat the other two and seize total control for themselves as Radukar had done. The remaining heroes took down each of these vampires one at a time and lift the curse that had fallen on the city... buuuuuuuuut.... at the end of it all, the beast-like Vargskyr-Radukar appears and it turns out he isn't so mindlessly beastly and thanks the heroes for helping put those minion vampires in their place... and he raises them again... and tries to take control of the city again!?

Radukar doesn't FULLY take control of the city, as he had in the past... but he manages to raise ALL of the minions the heroes had worked SO HARD to destroy in the previous two quests (this DOES actually feel just like playing against Soulblight Gravelords in Age of Sigmar!?)... and a spy lets the heroes know that Radukar isn't even interested in fully subjugating the city as he had in the past... he just wants to keep them all trapped there as the city draws ever nearer the edge of The Shyish Nadir! His plan is to effectively sacrifice the entire city into the nadir and with powerful magiks gain incredible power that could rival that of Nagash himself!!

So now the last of the Heroes need to find a way to get all of the citizens OUT of the city... which proves tricky as the city is on a remote island and Radukar still commands many minions and draws more to the city to help keep the population trapped and help him work on the dark ritual he is preparing. 

However, the heroes have learned of a Realm Gate hidden somewhere in the city that could be a way of getting all of the mortal citizens out! They need to discover the location of said realm gate and the only ones that know that... are dead... or, maybe, undead...? The secret was held by the Ven Aliens - Glaurios' family, who were all turned to Vampires! (Except, obviously, Glaurio!) 

So a number of Interrogation Journeys need to be completed, wherein the Heroes invade the estates of the Ven Altens and beat down vampires and try to get information from them!? Four of these journeys need to be completed and to complete them, they have to successfully complete six Interrogation (Major Actions) - which involves one character adjacent to a Vyrkos Blood-Born vampire, discarding MULTIPLE activation dice that total 13+... then they have to roll 8+ on the Quest Die (d12) but get to add +1 for ever point of damage deal to the vampire so far... success means on vampire has been interrogated and destroyed... they have to do this SIX TIMES.... to complete the mission... and then do this mission four times to get enough clues... and then... well... there's a LOT to do in this campaign. It could be another 20 or so journeys (or MORE!) to complete... so this should keep us rather busy until sometime in the middle of next year... 

For this first game, Dan joined us. He finally has a job that allows a little more free time. Hopefully he'll be able to join us from time to time whenever he's in town! Dan took over playing Glaurio Ven Alten. Amanda kept Qulathis the Exile, and Finnegan continued playing both Brutogg Corpse-Eater and Octren Glymscry... 

In addition to the Interrogation Journeys there are two other types of journeys - Secure Journeys that brings the Calamity Level down (which slowly ever ticks up for each of the other types of Journeys completed - or failed!) and Scavenge Journeys - which are very similar to Scavenge Journeys in the original quest - they are an opportunity to TOOL UP and gain some realmstone or one-use magic items and potions and stuff... They seem less important as ALL of the characters currently HAVE both and armour and weapon upgrade (each can only have one...). So... it will likely be Interrogation Journeys until they need to do some Secure Journeys to bring the Calamity level down and possibly the occasional Scavenge Journey if some Crisis or Extraction event causes anyone to lose their armour or weapon upgrades! 

and so.... 

Our heroes kick in the front doors of one of he buildings in the Ven Alten Estates... 

Somehow tired old Octren Glymscry stumbles ahead the rest and blowing up rats and bats and damaging vampires in one of the side chambers! 

Brutogg caught up to the little guy just in time as he was about to be overwhelmed by Vampires. Brutogg laid a beating on the two Ven Altens! 

Glaurio raced forward next and lifted the little old man out of the way and began interrogating his undead cousins... 

Meanwhile, Qulathis, still in the entry chamber... "uh... guys...?" 

Held off another vampire and a swarm of Ulfenwatch. Or... maybe just murdered them all...?

(this is what happens when I write game reports a week later?!) 

Qulathis joins the others (so... maybe she DID just murder them all...!?) 

(or she ducked away from the other vampire to help finish off this batch of baddies... and STAY TOGETHER!!!) 

Everyone returns through the entry chamber to deal with the Vampire and Skeletons coming from the other direction! 

Before they could complete their interrogation of that vampire, however, TWO MORE swooped in from behind and attacked poor old Octren... 

and injured him severely!! 

Qulathis turned and started pin-cushioning the one at the door, filling him full of arrows! 

Then she rushed the vampire and punched him in the head shouting "WHERE IS THE REALM GATE!? WHO KNOWS WHERE IT IS!?!!"

Glaurio stuff one of his pistols into the mouth of one of his cousins and told him "Look, cousing, we can make this painful.... or we can make this REALLY painful...." 

A pack of Dire Wolves arrived... but they were held up by some incredibly slow deadwalker zombies blocking up the narrow passages of the Ven Alten estates! 

Brutogg and Glaurio play a little bad cop, worse cop with one of this other cousins... 

Yiiiikes... 

(this is the initiative track... on this turn I dealt out ALL of the hostile cards first - initiative order begins at the other end... the three remaining heroes going last... luckily Glaurio gets to do a free "Gambit" to try and change his place in the initiative order, and gets to re-roll said gambit... but I think he only got a success, which allowed him to exchange his card with the hostile nearest him on the initiative track - a critical success means he'd get to exchange with anyone - i.e. jump to the top of the initiative order!)

Having brutally gained the information they sought, the gang starts to work their way to the exit... finding it blocked by GIANT BATS and DIRE WOLVES! 

Qulathis killed one wolf and two of the bats... Then Glaurio stepped up and killed a few more wolves... 

Then Brutogg charged in to finish off the pack! 

He even had time to check out on of the mysterious objects and open the exit and light the flares to call in the Adamant for extraction! 

Octren returned! (on the turn end event table - on a 9 or 10 - one character can take a free healing action OR one character that is out of action can return to the table... they still have all their wounds, and a single point of damage would take them out again... but being on the table and escaping means no having to do a survival roll at the end of the game!) 

Before they could all climb aboard the Adamant one more Vyrkos Blood-Born Vampire charged up and attacked the group... but then they were away! 

The new Quest Card for Nemesis - one clue gained, Calamity Level up to THREE!! 

I think each Interrogation Journey raises it by two, whether successful or not, and successful Secure Journeys bring it down by ONE!? (failed secure Journeys increase it by two as well!!) 

It is fun to be back playing this. 

I STILL haven't finished painting ALL of the new models required for this campaign... but I used a few stand-ins (for the Necromancer and the Graveguard that would attend the wight king - not that either of those showed up!?) and I just didn't put the card for the Vargheists into the encounter deck... HOPEFULLY I'll get to finishing them up before the end of the campaign - or before any of the set scenarios/decapitation journeys that specifically call for them!! (maybe I should look ahead and see which those are!!) 

Stay tuned for the next episode - which we are playing tonight!! Hopefully I'll get to posting the report BEFORE next week! 

In the meantime, I will probably continue working on 10mm minis for DBA or HotT... initially that all started out with working on historical English and French armies for the 100 Years War... but my brain has kind of shifted to Hordes of the Things fantasy armies!? 

MOAR Micro Mini Medieval French

This weekend, when I SHOULD have been working on stuff for our Warhammer Quest game, I instead worked on a few more Micro Mini (10mm) Medieval French... or... Pseudo-Medieval French as I only need the ONE element of crossbow for the Medieval French army, so most of these will likely end up in fantastical armies (indeed one of the two has been painted in the colours of Baron (later Duc) Philippe du Lapin - an army that started off as a Warhammer Fantasy Battle Brettonian army... but has been repurposed as a kind-of-french-ish Lion/Dragon Rampant army... which I plan to recreate as one of the fantastical armies I'm going to get out of this box of plastic historical Frenchmans!)

I left the possibly future Bunny Rampant HotT army crossbowman's pavises plain red, thinking I might try to add the bunny rampant device later... wasn't sure if I should do something tiny (like the fleur-de-lis on the other element) or a GREAT BIG RABBIT...?

Two elements of Crossbow

I did want to do these in two ranks... the 40x20mm was barely deep enough to get the first rank on with the pavises, so I went with the deeper 40x30mm bases... they seem okay... 

Also could not get six across the front like I did with the foot men-at-arms, but that was okay, as these didn't need to be quite as dense and the crossbowmen that I'm using for the second rank, that are just kind of standing around, only came in blocks of two or three... so... (I did paint a sixth individual crossbowman for each element, just in case I COULD fit them on... but in the end I didn't think it looked as good with the six... but the outer ones on the line were so close to the edge of the base it would have been difficult to hide the miniatures base...)

There were also individual pavises that the rear rank could have stood behind, but there was no way they were fitting on a 40x30mm base and I just didn't want to go all the way up to a 40x40mm base for these! 

The entire army so far... 

or... at least... all of the elements I have painted, so far... as these likely won't ever be fielded in the same army together. At least not as an historical army.

Rather than painting them on the frame, as I did last time, I tried sticking them down to bottle caps (as my friend Cory had suggested) and this worked out rather well! 

Stocktaking 2026 - Part One - The PLAN

Over the years I have attempted to organize and take stock of all the miniatures I have. Sometimes it's to help plan future painting initiatives. I do like having statistics - all the information - when trying to make decisions. Or, just as often, it's been a desperate attempt to shame myself into NOT BUYING MORE STUFF!? 

Most recently, about a year ago, I spent a few days just looking through all the drawers of miniatures - mostly the ancients, through medieval and renaissance collections. I took some pictures and shared some of the thoughts I was having at the time about reducing some of those collections (which I have yet to do... but that may be coming - sooner rather than later!). I'd planned to do similar some of the other collections... but then didn't. Partly because I worried that sort of looking through MORE boxes and thinking about them too much might either A) get me COMPLETELY distracted from what I was trying to do... or B) get me really depressed... Either way, I kind of just didn't get to it!? you can read about that here:

Thinking About Things... Making Plans...

The most thorough attempt at stock taking was done TEN YEARS AGO (which also happened to be after ten years of blogging!). I mostly just counted the 28mm miniatures - ignoring ignoring all other scales. In the final accounting I found myself to be in possession of 18,908 28mm foot figures, 1011 mounted, 63 guns or other artillery (catapults and the like), and 175 vehicles or big beasties. Overall about 51% of the collection, at that time, was painted (in calculating percent complete I weighted cavalry as being worth two foot and vehicles being worth 5) – breaking that down, I found there to be 10,221 painted 28mm foot (54% complete), 381 mounted (38%), 32 guns (51%), and 48 vehicles (27%). 

You can read ALL of the stats and further breakdowns of what collections were the most painted here:

Stocktaking 2016

Now that I find myself approaching TWENTY YEARS of blogging, I thought it might be time to do it again - a rather thorough accounting of ALL THE MINIS!! (or, at the very least, ALL THE 28mm MINIS!!) 

(I had, in 2021, tried to so something similar to the 2016 Stocktaking, but everything was STILL in a state of chaos and spread out in boxes all over the house - fallout from multiple home renovations over the previous years... which continued for a few more years... including THIS YEAR!? I didn't get to it, but you can read about the thoughts I was having at the time here: Stocktaking 2021 - there are no stats as the post was more about WANTING to do a thorough stocktaking and planning how to do that...) 

Recently, I did a brief calculation (when I was filling out the 14th Annual Great Wargaming Survey!) to determine a rough estimate of the numbers of total miniatures owned versus number of miniatures painted. I took that 2016 stats and added the number of acquisitions to the Grand Totals and added the minis painted each year to the number of miniatures I'd had painted at the time of the 2016 Stocktaking... and I figured I roughly 29,078 28mm foot miniatures (and 1250 mounted) of which 12,926 28mm foot (and 482 mounted!) were painted (around 44% of the miniatures I own)! Which leaves about 17,000 miniatures, unpainted, foot and mounted (and this isn't even counting vehicles... or larger monsters... OR ANY of the stuff in other scales...!?) 

(I do still have a BUNCH of modern stuff in 20mm/1:72 plastic and PILES of "Epic" 40K miniatures and some 6mm moderns and NOW some 10mm stuff!?)

It was also at this time I decided to the large stock-taking to see where everything is at! It felt like a good year to do it, as I haven't been acquiring a lot of new things and don't really have PLANS to acquire much more. Still... I was thinking the ACTUAL stocktaking should happen at the very end of the year, so I have an accurate picture of where things were at, at the END of 2026 - then, going forward, I can just look at the stats I keep through the year (every year) of miniatures painted versus miniatures acquired, to quickly get a sense of exactly where things are at! 

For a while I though maybe I could do it in chunks, as there are collections I was unlikely to touch between now and the end of the year - unless looking through them all and counting them and thinking about them and considering what to do with them completely derails whatever plans I currently have and inspires me to work on... whatever it is I'm supposed to be counting and leaving alone!? Because I AM that SPECIAL KIND OF STUPID!? 

But then September happened and I got completely overwhelmed by school and at this point have realized I'm just NOT going to get to any of that until classes are over and portfolios submitted (11 December 2026)... I WILL still have a Philosophy final after that (I think it's on the very last day of finals around the 22nd or 23rd) but after the 11th I can get started on the counting and cataloguing of miniatures. 

There will be a fair bit of work involved, not just because I have SO MUCH STUFF... but because, as in 2021, there is STILL stuff spread put all over the house! There WAS a PLAN, when I started thinking about this in the summer - that Amanda and I had been discussing - to sort through ALL THE BOXES through the summer and into the fall after the last of the renovations wrapped up... and when that was done, counting might have been a bit easier! But none of that has really happened... yet (though maybe THAT will be happening in December along side all the accounting).

Currently the majority of my collection is housed in these storage drawers in the Game Room, in the basement...  The drawers contain both painted and unpainted miniatures. As miniatures came into the house I have generally prepped and assembled and primed and based all miniatures and then stored them in the drawers that would be their permanent home - partly so I keep in mind that I have them and to NOT go buying more than I can easily store!

These drawers, however, are pretty much at capacity! If I want to acquire new miniatures, I'm kind of going to have to start getting rid or some. Or sort out some other kind of storage solution! 

Some larger things are stored in the display cabinet... 

Other things, that are too tall for the regular drawers, but too numerous to go in the display cabinet, I've started storing on other shelves in the Game Room in clear plastic boxes. (there are loads more on this shelving unit, lower down, but they are currently obscured by boxes of stuff that had to be taken out of the closet under the stairs for the most recent renovation to happen... and they haven't found their way back into the closet!)

A significant portion of the collection is on or clustered around my painting station on the second floor... 

Or on this folding table that was set up a few months back to facilitate oganizing and boxing up of some miniatures that were all over the place... but has kind of become a semi-permanent fixture in the room taking up WAY TOO MUCH space!? 

Still more are collected into boxes on shelves nearby my painting station (the "on-deck" boxes of things I'd ideally like to work on soon... or, at least, sooner than any unpainted miniatures being stored in the drawers in the Game Room!)

MORE of the "On-Deck" boxes... 

And STILL MORE are stuffed into storage boxes in one of the storage areas throughout the house (MOST of these boxes are NOT miniatures... a lot of that is Morgan's fabric... but some of them are filled with boxes of older plastic model kits bought for one project or another... others have been moved into the next room which is just too embarrassingly messy to even take a pictures of... like... even messier than what you've seen so far...) 

Most of these boxes in the living room contain books and papers and random other stuff displaced by renovations that haven't been sorted (or discarded) -but probably contain a few small boxes of minis squirrelled away within the bigger boxes 

Considering the drawers in the Game Room are "at capacity" and I have and these boxes and boxes and boxes of stuff haunting the painting station and storage closets and living room... It is fair to say, I am very definitely BEYOND capacity to store what I have and very much need to start disposing of miniatures... never mind that I only have so much time left on this earth... and I'm just not painting 800-1200 miniatures a year (like I did between 2009 and 2015 - the years leading up to the 2016 stocktaking!) 

Since 2020 I've painted between 57 and 438 28mm foot miniatures per year, the average being about 200 per year. Despite painting 438 miniatures in 2025, I feel like Im not likely to paint more than 200-250 per year, going forward. At that rate, it would take me over EIGHTY-FIVE years to paint just the miniatures I currently HAVE!? I don't know that I'm going to make it to 65 myself, let along live another 75 years beyond that - AND KEEP PAINTING 200 miniatures per year!? 

Mind you, that 200 per year average over the last five years is largely based on painting highly detailed, individual fantasy and Sci-fi miniatures from Games Workshop... Last year I painted double that because I started painting historical miniatures again (all those WW2 minis for Bolt Action!). Even so, if I can realistically paint 200 or 400 miniatures per year, I still have FAR TOO MANY - more than I will EVER be able to paint - whether it's 85 years at 200 miniatures per year or just 42.5 years at 400 per year - I can't possibly ever get them all done 

So I don't want to JUST do a count, I really want to assess what I have, what I want to use if for, and what I can REALISTICALLY expect to get done in an average year... and maybe start getting rid of the stuff I can't imagine being able to finish in the next five to ten years... 

But how many is that!? Even if we assume that two-thirds of the miniatures I paint over the next decade are historical miniatures that I can paint at 400 per year and a third of them are Warhammer Miniatures that I can paint 200 per year... That's going to be about 3300 miniatures. If I have 17,000 unpainted miniatures, that would still mean disposing of nearly 14,000...!? How do you even DO that!? (Honestly, how do I even HAVE that many!?).

Maybe this year end count WILL just be a count... and the assessing will come in the new year...? 

In addition to just getting rid of stuff that I'm NEVER EVER going to get around to painting (so Amanda and my kids aren't burdened with having to do that - and end up just pitching it all in the landfill) I feel like maybe it's time to downsize the overall collection - partly because, despite declarations for DECADES suggesting that she did not want to move again EVER and was going to DIE in this house that she keeps renovating (and will NEVER make back the money she's put into it...), earlier this year Amanda had an extended stay on Vancouver Island with a friend that was house-sitting and came back all determined with a new Ten Year Plan to move us all to the island as she retires!? (WTF!?) Anyway... it might be a good idea to start THINKING about reducing the overall collection in case something like that actually happens... But also, again, considering my own mortality, maybe it would be good to get rid of SOME of this stuff BEFORE I'm gone (again, so Amanda and my kids aren't burdened with having to do that themselves - and end up just pitching it all - included FULLY PAINTED COLLECTIONS - into the landfill)

(I probably need to start thinking about doing something similar with the board games at some point...) 

Micro Mini Medieval French

I kind of did a thing... 

Micro Mini Medieval French!?

I'm not entirely sure HOW I even got thinking about this... but I happened to be looking in on Wargames Atlantic last week... I knew they'd made a few fantasy boxes in this 10mm "Grand Battle Scale" and also Samurai and Ashigaru... but I'd not seen the Agincourt boxes before... and somehow I happened to check on AMAZON of all places and found there was ONE box of the French... listed for LESS THAN HALF what Wargames Atlantic was selling them for... with FREE Prime One-Day Shipping?! 

So... obviously... the very next day (Friday), I had a box of "Grand Battle Scale" French for the Hundred Years War!? 

There are a LOT of miniatures in this box... 

Like... a LOT!!!

There are:

• 351 French Knights/Men-at-Arms on Foot
• 108 French Knights/Men-at-Arms Mounted
• 246 Genoese Crossbowmen
• Casualty figures for every troop type including 18 horse casualties

over 700 wee little 10mm infantry and cavalry....

WTF am I going to DO with all of these...? Well, first of all the plan was to put together a Medieval French army for De Bellis Antiquitatis!  

IV/64c Medieval French Army 1401-1445

• 1x General (3Kn/4Bd)
• 1x Rich Nobles on Barded Horses (3Kn)
• 4x Men-at-Arms (3Kn/4Bd) 
• 2x Archers (3Bw) or Pavisiers (Sp)
• 1x Crossbowmen (4Cb) 
• 1x Voulgiers (4Bd) or Scots Men-at-Arms (3Kn/4Bd) 
• 1x Detached "Gross Varlers" (CV) or Bombards (Art) or Scots Archers (Bw)
• 1x Bidet or Breton Javelinmen (Ps) or Peasant Levy (7Hd) 

The General and Rich Nobles and Men-at-Arms are no problem. Same with the Crossbowmen. The Voulgiers or Scots Men-at-Arms is more of the same... 

The tricky bits are the two stands of Archers or Pavisiers and then the single stand of either Detached "Gross Varlers" or Bombards or Scots Archers... at some point I'll probably also pick up the English Army box and that has just piles and piles of archers which I will steal enough of to make the there elements of Archers. At SOME point I'll probably place an order with Pendraken (who makes 10mm metal minis) and get a Bombard of some sort (just to have that artillery option) and a bag of Peasants to make the Levy and maybe some camp followers? 

Seven elements of Knights assuming I put four (or five?!) miniatures on each base will use up 28-35 of the  108 knights/mounted men-at-arms!? I will only need about twelve of the 246 Genoese Crossbowmen included in the box for the French army and about 72 of the 351 French Knights/Men-at-Arms on Foot!? so what else can I put together with this... 

Enemies of the IV/64c Medieval French Army 1401-1445

• IV/13b Medieval German Army 1151-1439
• IV/61 Itallian Condotta 1320-1515
• IV/62b English Army 1334-1414
• IV/62c English Army 1415-1422
• IV/62d English Army 1423-1455
• IV/64c Medieval French Army 1401-1445
• IV/76 Early Burgundian Army 1263-1471
• IV/79a Later Swiss Army 1400-1424
• IV/79b Later Swiss Army 1425-1477

So... maybe make TWO of these French armies...? PLUS the English...? 

I will need to use 12-15 of the extra mounted for the English army as the English box CONTAINS NO MOUNTED KNIGHTS OR MEN-AT-ARMS!? It's just PILES MORE foot men-at-arms and even MORE archers... 

The Knights/Mounted Men-at-Arms will be the limiting factor... If I did only four on a base I could EASILY make at least FOUR (or five!?) armies out of what I've got here!! Two Medieval French armies and a Hundred Years War English army and the maybe a few purely fantastical armies - to use in Hordes of the Things!? and try to use up some of the spare foot from both boxes!?

Over the weekend I thought I'd try and knock a few out to see how they painted up.. 

This first batch I tried painting on the frame... which... was a bit of a pain in the ass... so I might need to figure out something else. 

But eventually I got them all done and based them up. One frame (of eight in the box) got me the three elements of Knights (with only four on each base) and three elements of Blade (with TWELVE foot on each base!?). 

Three elements of Knights (with four minis per base) 

Three elements of Blade - Men-at-Arms on foot

Three casualty markers - I remember these were handy for making battle reports to show exactly where losses took place in a round and not make the reader go back and forth between photos for comparison to work it out on their own! 

I'm kind of torn about leaving the mounted knights as is with just four on the base or if I should rebase and do all the others with FIVE on each base - to make them look a little more densely packed?! I guess maybe I should try doing ONE element like that and see how it looks. If I looks WAY better I might just do that... if it isn't significantly better... I might just leave them as is... because it will give me more standing armies I can build! 

I'm kind of excited to finish up a couple of armies - if I can put together two out of this box... without SOME other elements I won't be able to put together any actual historical De Bellis Antiquitatis armies... but I could get two 12-element "semi-historical" armies together to play some Hordes of the Things to get started! I do miss playing DBA and HotT! I don't even HAVE any Hordes of the Things armies anymore. I rebased ALL of the fantasy armies onto single bases for use with... other skirmish games or Dragon Rampant. 

I am tempted to just go out and buy the English box... and the Dwarf and Orc and two skeleton boxes... AND the Samurai... 

But that would be silly... 

I REALLY need to see if I can get motivated to get two armies painted out of what I got and see if I can get playing again first!? 

October Games

We played games in October... tried to get a fairly regular boardgame night going on Friday evenings... with... some success! Well... for the first few weeks... and then it kind of fell by the wayside as we got busy doing other things... and it was mostly just me and Amanda... BUT THE IDEA WAS THERE!? 

Friday, 2 October 2026

On Thursday I went out the the Dragon's Den Anniversary Sale and picked up a copy of Finspan. On the Friday evening Amanda and I tried it out.  

It has quite a few recognizable mechanics from Wingspan. 

My sea ares at the end of the fourth round... In game end I was able to play the two fishies in the top left. 

I somehow ended up winning this game...? going for those weekly achievements and converting lots of fishies into schools really helped out! 

It's okay. We'll probably end up playing it a bunch over the next few months and if that gets us playing MORE BOARD GAMES, I'll call it a win! 

Thursday, 8 October 2026

Thursday morning I finally got in my next Blood Bowl league game. This absolutely bonkers game was against the Gnomes - the only team in the league doing WORSE than my goblins... you can read all about the insanity here:

Blood Bowl League: Match #5 - Gnarly Gobbos versus Sakura Blossom (Gnomes)

Friday, 9 October 2026

Friday evening Amanda and I tried Finspan again. 

I thought I was doing rather well for myself - scoring more than I had the previous week... 

but then I had a look over at Amanda's bit of the sea... That first game was probably the first and last time I'd win this game, now that Amanda's figured it out! 

Sunday, 11 October 2026

Vera was in town for the Vera was in town for the (Canadian) Thanksgiving weekend, so we got in a second game in our co-op Stargrave campaign. You can read all about the adventure here:

Stargrave - Hope Eternal - Episode Two - The Great Maglev Robbery

and if you want to check out the campaign page, to check up on the latest status of all the crew members and find more background for them and links to game reports of all the other games, you can find that here: 

Stargrave - Hope Eternal Campaign

Friday, 16 October 2026

We had planned board game night with a friend who was going to teach us Root! But then he had to cancel and... I'm not sure what we ended up doing...? I think Amanda decided to stay late at work and I ended up making pizza and then watching a movie with Morgan...? 

Saturday, 17 October 2026

Originally I'd planned to play in the Beast Feast at the Warhammer Store... but had to cancel as I was just NOT going to get our monsters painted in time... 

Instead I arranged another Blood Bowl League game... but then bailed on that when I realized a project I thought wasn't due for another week was actually due on Monday... WE Tried to rearrange for the following Saturday... but the next weekend I was in a panic about my Drawing and Painting portfolios being due on Sunday and Monday... so I bailed.. AGAIN... and just dropped out of the league... my heart just wasn't in it anymore. It's a long story... 

Friday, 23 October 2026

Amanda wasn't available to play this evening because she was performing at the Rosebud Burlesque Club's Peek-a-BOO(!) Halloween show.... I thought I might still play a game... but then didn't get anything arranged and ended up watching half of season one of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency with Morgan... (The show was two nights, I went on Saturday!) 

Friday, 30 October 2026 

Amanda went away for the weekend to a friends cabin... I thought I might FINALLY try and get in a game of Five Parsecs from Home... but in the end got distracted by... OTHER THINGS!? 

Ah, well... maybe next month...

I did promise the family I'd start running the Warhammer Quest: Cursed City Nemesis campaign on Tuesdays, starting in November! So... stay tuned for THAT... maybe...? 

But also I've been working on things for... a bunch of different stuff... the Five Parsecs from Home: Planetfall campaign... and now, possibly, a Five Leagues from the Borderlands campaign!? (All while I still have a regular Five Parsecs From Home campaign that I started THREE YEARS AGO now and STILL haven't played the second mission!?)