Game called on account of...

Zoom, Zoom. See you soon.

Holy cow there's been a lot going on. Apparently October is just the perfect month to get married in. We've had 2 weddings of dear friends recently. Our anniversary is coming up this weekend, and then another wedding is scheduled for the weekend after. Influx of July babies inc?Heh. What I do know is I've made myself way less time for hobbying than I should have. I really want to sit and spend a good bit of time focusing on painting and getting some games in but I've only been managing about one a week. Here's hoping November will be a smoother, more hobby filled month for me. Although, with an attempt at NaNoWriMo looming, we'll have to see.
     So, for the interim, and hopefully only until November, I am going on a blog-hiatus. Catch you on the flipside...

* Had to do it. That's got to be one of my favorite hobby pics. Who knew having a hamster could be this much fun.

Minion madness...

     In the excitement following the description of the Journeyman league by Privateer Press, I decided to start a second Hordes faction. With my love of monster movies like Lake Placid, tv shows like shark week and swamp people as well as crocs and gators in general, there really was only 1 other faction it could have been.
Enter the gators....
     I've gotten 4 games under my belt so far at differing points values and I have a 50-50 win loss ratio. Got a battle box game in against Madrak and couldn't put enough pressure on. That's one tough troll. Won a 20 point mosh pit game against pirates and Shae. Lost a 25 point Throw Down mission against the wife and her Cryx. Played it too conservatively and lost track of the 3rd turn control check  while setting up my assassination run. Last but not least, I got the caster kill on Deneghra in a battle box game.
     I'm really enjoying the Blindwater pact and can't wait to get more games in. Just started the local league and will hopefully be getting some games in this Thursday and Friday nights. As it is, I've got a ton to paint and I'm trying to figure out my paint schemes. We'll see what happens...

In the grim darkness of the far future...

There is only this cop-out pseudo review post.
     So, I picked up the new hotness, Space Marine, on the PS3; as did several of my buddies. So far we've played 1 on 1 and 2 on 2 in the multi-player setup. I've also played a few of the levels in the campaign. Can't say enough good things about the game. Multi-player modes are fun, at least with 2+ people per team. One on one is pretty slow. We're going to try to all jump on the same team and join the multiplayer queue as we're in the process of getting headsets all-round so we aren't all conversing via speaker phone.
     The multiplayer is set up in levels. The more you play, the more kills and flag captures you get, the more experience and the further you progress along the track to level 41. As you level up, you unlock new abilities, new wargear and new appearance options. As it is currently, I'm enjoying running around as a Black Templar tac-marine with a plasma gun, but we'll see what happens when I unlock the plasma cannon or lascannon for the Devastator.
I highly recommed you check out the game if you get a chance.
Until next week...

13 Abaddon, really? I can do it in 1...

"Now, this is the story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down; And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, I'll tell you how I became a Daemon Prince of Nurgly Goodness."

Hobby Update...

     Hi. My name's Ryan and I play Circle Orboros.
Hi Ryan.
     Somehow my intro paragraphs always make me feel like I'm in front of a group of  folks telling them 'my story' of how I came to be where I am and/or why I'm here. Something like Gamer's Anonymous I guess.
     Anyway, in keeping with the first line of this mini -post, I play Circle in Hordes. More specifically, I play Baldur (that's him to the left there standing in a 4inch forest template whacking Deneghra with a stick) and boy am I having fun.