It's been almost a month, have I done anything mini related?

Well that depends on your perspective. BobG the dungeon master gave me some figures to paint up for the current D&D campaign we're playing in. I got the D&D players manual and Oriental Adventures to get myself into the D&D realm. I even rolled up a few characters with a little guidance from Grandmaster Jay.

This of course was not good. Now I've ordered the Star Wars RPG for a few reasons. First, it's friggin' star wars! Second, I have approximately 200-300 star wars minis getting very dusty in a bin waiting to be used. And finally while D&D is cool and I'm not abandoning it already, how in the hell could I resist the potential to use the force. So I am eagerly awaiting that book.

In the meantime, I decided to stop buying anything metal for a while until I paint more of what I have and use it some. I have a lot to do, the Hordes starter, the rest of the em-4 samurais, lots of Confrontation that I bought on sale and a unit of Halbediers for War machine that still aren't even fully together.

But I still had a jones for some gaming. So almost a year after it came out. I bought the AT-43 starter set. Because it was pre painted and ready to go out of the box and the figures and rules seemed pretty cool. Because I am a bastard, I got Nat X over to play a game so we could both try it out. Needless to say he's buying the big rulebook and probably some more Therians. He tried to resist before seeing it but I think he enjoyed himself too much to leave it alone. The fact that it's pre painted non collectible has probably sealed the deal. I already had a giant poster size picture frame that I put my star wars maps in and the AT-43 map fit under the plexi glass quite nicely as well. My verdict on the game? Pretty fun. Definitely worth more interest and time in the near future. The Therian strider came broken and I emailed Rackham as they suggested with pictures. Lets see if they really win my business and send me a new strider and take back the slightly broken one. Anyway there are now 4 factions and the UNA and Therians both aren't bad. I'd probably go forward building a bigger UNA army or go communist and devote some time to Red Blok, I like their look a lot. They have a lot more mini striders than the rest. Armor is good!

So Hordes is on hold. I'm trying to get maybe a once a month game night going with some folks but it hasn't happened yet. All of this could take a back seat to Star Wars RPG when it comes in though.