Hello Everyone,
This Blog is a project that I'm creating to help motivate me to finish the many, many miniature projects that I have going on that I'd like to finish. Though actually finishing -all- of my projects would probably cause me to spontaneously combust, it's something that I need to work on. Otherwise, it just makes me a hoarder of expensive items.
So, a little bit about me: I love games. I like pretty much any kind of game, as long as it has some component of skill or strategy; I have issues with games that purely reward luck. I like games that have a lot of moving pieces even better - typically the more complicated the better. It really makes me think and stretches my brain in a pleasing fashion.
I'm a big fan currently of GW games (Warhammer, Warhammer 40k), Warmachine/Hordes, Infinity, Malifaux and Dropzone Commander. I have lots of miniatures and most of them are not painted. I like painting, but as a chronic procrastinator, I tend to only paint when the next event I have coming up looms menacingly ahead.
With my love of strategic, complicated games comes a mild case of competitiveness. I'm not always the best loser, even though I've really tried recently to improve my attitude towards losing. I'm definitely a long way from where I was, but it's a road I'm currently traveling. It's a pretty long road for me, apparently.
Speaking of long roads, I live in Anchorage, Alaska. I went to school in Reno, NV, and there I learned that I really, really like to play in tournaments. It's my favorite thing to do, pretty much period. In Reno, we had a pretty skilled group of players for many games, including both Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40k. Warhammer Fantasy was my best game, and the height of my skill was just before I moved back to Alaska. With a smaller, less skilled community (though it's gotten a -lot- better in recent times), the level of practice that I could maintain went downhill quickly. Even though I don't get to play much, I still try and travel to at least one tournament every year out of state - usually this is Quake City Rumble, in San Fransisco.
This year is the first year that I'm not going alone (though I have lot of friends that I'll meet up with at the event), as my girlfriend C is coming with me. I'm very excited to show her what a big event (100+ people) looks like, as it has an entirely different feel than the local, 10-14 player events are like.
The general plan for this blog is to take a look at doing some battle reports, unit overviews, army list analysis and most importantly, put of pictures of my completed units/armies as I finish them up. My plan is tomorrow to post up some of the Wood Elves that I'm working on for QCR this year.
Thanks for reading!
-Danny
