Tuesday, November 18, 2014

A renewed focus, bad paint jobs, and violent-hostile takeovers with MERCS

Well my blog has obviously taken a bit of a backseat to life. I have had a ton of stuff going on that forced me to let my little blog go stale. Oh well.. it just depressed me all this time that my new little blog idea had become clich̩ to so many other blogs out there Рya know by the first few months, you notice that the writer ends up starting a post like this after a 3-6 month dry spell...

<sigh>

Anyhow I am making a valiant attempt at blogging again about stuff.

With work changes and a home on the market I had to give up my tabletop RPG pursuits for now. My schedule was unpredictable enough then throw in 5-10 other people's life schedules, it gets really tough. However – miniature wargaming I am still going strong with (as strong as can be). The nice thing that I have found with wargaming is that I can play on an afternoon and then move on... only committing to a few hours – its seems to be a lot easier to play with less commitment. In fact I have devoted more time to gaming (of the wargaming sorts) than I probably ever have in recent time.

I still do enjoy role playing and I am starting to get the itch again. However mini gaming seems to fit me right now so that is probably going to be the focus on here moving forward. Thanks to my friend Michael, I have also gotten introduced to several new game systems and having a blast – if anything too many minis and not enough time to assemble and paint – I definitely have a good size backlog right now and no lack of things to discuss from a mini standpoint, that is for sure.

Months ago I picked up a Mercs starter set (House 9 FCC faction) and I kinda tipped off Michael to the system he picked up he rulebook and a few other factions. It look like great fun and so did the miniatures... but it collected dust – until recently. :)

Michael and I decided to give it a go after a 40k session in October after son got a chance to see his Necron army fry his Orks. We proceeded to try a basic rules game with my FCC faction vs. his USCR. Even though we didn't play with all of the rules this system proved to be a blast. I suggest everyone give this system a go. The rulebook can be found pretty cheap and the faction starter sets can often be found at a nice discount (sub $50). It is a skirmish game with some really cool twists.



Mercs is not a new game – it has been around for 3 or 4 years now I think, and at launch got a good bit of press. But now has been a bit dormant for a year or two now that the company that created it, MegaCon games have been working on other game projects (Myth, Mercs:Recon, etc) Anyhow – I am a bit late to the party and still have some reading to do but this game is where my attention is right now.

If you'd like more information here are a few links.


Nice fan site/podcast/you tube collective: www.snap2cover.com

Blog that I have just discovered mostly regarding Mercs: http://sync-wargaming.blogspot.com/

Here are some photos of my recent trial game of Mercs and a few shots of my painted FCC.