Hey everybody!
It’s Christmas week! I’m not sure if you’re celebrating the season – personally, I’m not religious at all, but embrace the food and candles like there’s no tomorrow! It’s always an exciting time of year because of the stuff on offer, as well – being a shameless consumer, I love getting the big game releases and whatnot. This year, it’s another expansion for Eldritch Horror, Under the Pyramids, which I’m looking forward to immensely! Oh, yes, there’ll be a blog incoming once I’ve taken that through for a couple of plays!
It’s a game that I really love, I must say. Last Christmas we got Mountains of Madness, which I realised I hadn’t played all year, so got round to a game yesterday. Something I particularly like is how well the sideboard is integrated in this game. With Arkham Horror, there’s always something a little off about travelling to the new boards. Of course, it’s exciting and whatnot to see the differences, but I don’t know… There’s something a little more interesting about the new board here in Eldritch Horror.
I’ve actually not played as much Eldritch Horror as I’d like, and I’m working on playing more in the future. For now, at least, I’m really excited to get more Horror for Christmas!
I’ve been spending a lot of time over the last week painting these chaps up – Genesis Chapter terminators! I’ve been sorta working on painting Space Marines for a fair number of weeks now, going for the Ultramarines – eventually, I’m going to get round to a blog on these guys. Anyhow. Lots of blue made me investigate alternative options and, after getting some Deathwing Terminators in the Black Friday deal, decided to investigate a third option with the successor chapter to the Ultramarines – mainly because of the red colour scheme. Every so often I get in a bit of a painting rut, so when stuff inspires me like that I tend to go along with it. Recently I’ve been struggling to stay focused enough to finish models, but at least these guys are going well for now!
I’ve not really been keeping up with the advent calendar stuff this month, but did make the effort to check out the short story Godless, dealing with the ongoing search for Slaanesh following the End Times. It was pretty good, I have to say, easily worth the couple of pounds I paid for it.
While we’re on the subject of Warhammer, have you guys noticed the latest round of Age of Sigmar stuff coming out of Nottingham? Stuff seems to be getting bigger and bigger lately. I do like these new models, I have to say, even though some of them are a little too crazy to look at, such as the Varanguard, with all the armour banding going on there. Archaon is apparently the biggest model produced for the game, and does look splendid, but my goodness, I thought this was a miniature war game! The Everchosen releases do look nice – while I’m not really a Khorne guy, I like the rainbow colours of Tzeentch, and the Gaunt Summoner thing looks interesting. I’ve been thinking about buying the battletome, if nothing else, as I love the background for these things, and feel like I need to get more into the Age of Sigmar fluff, but for now I’m staying my hand!
I’m really hoping they produce some sort of cavalry for the Stormcast Eternals – talking with the manager of my local store recently, he reckons more is to come for the Stormcast to flesh out the other Chambers in the warband. That’d be nice, I think – perhaps more dracoth-like beasts with warriors on top…
I guess we’ll see what the new year brings!
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