Some Weekend Gaming

 On Sunday, most of the usual suspects got together at Wayne's office for some tabletop wargaming. I put Shipwreck on the table - it's been many years since those toys saw the light of day. Wayne put on a Classic Battletech game. Both were good fun.

My game - 1985 Gulf of Sidra. The Libyans vs the US Navy. At this point in the proceedings, the opposing forces have located each other and missiles have just been launched!

Left to right... Ziggy, Aaron, David Mark and Wayne.

Oh oh! Four Harpoons bearing down on one of Z's Nanuchkas!

Still, that's better than six SS-N-9s! 

Both ships actually remained afloat due to some rather effective close range defenses and fortunate damage rolls. Needless to say, neither boat was in fighting shape.

Of course this spelled doom for Wayne. David's boats picked up the USS Scott and let loose twelve missiles her way! 

Wayne did very well to account for 9 of the 12 incoming missiles. The remaining three all hit sending the stricken ship under the waves! Tragedy!

After a couple hours, we had all had a fine time and it was on to Battletech. 

It was a 3 v 3 engagement featuring Marik and Steiner forces. 

The fickle finger of fate! 

Not many pictures of BT, but a fun outing. The Marik side (me, Mark and Arron) got wrecked. Good job Steiner crew!

Thanks for hosting, Wayne. Zig, stay safe... he's off to Germany for a month-long NATO exercise.

Painted Mechs

 The house is finally gone! Two months and my mom's been moved, her house emptied and sold!I'm excited that things can get back to something more "normal." I got four of the metal Battletech minis Wayne gave me finished up over the weekend. The refurb and paint stripping process wasn't too terrible. They're fine additions to my fledgling Marik / Free Worlds League collection.

That an Albatross, Stealth, Huron Warrior and Gunslinger, left to right.

The Stealth is half regular paint, half blue/violet color shift paint... its either cloaking or de-cloaking. 

And the gang so far...

The Easter Egg company. Say whatever you want about the garish color scheme, as I've said on many occasions, as long as it's UNIFORM, it'll look fine.

Name That Mech!

 Wayne has handed off a lot of unloved Battletech minis to me for refurbishment and painting. My Mech Fu is weak and need help IDing these models. Some have become broken over the years but part of my job is to reassemble and make them gorgeous. 

All help is welcome and thank you in advance!

A Few Goblins More

 The next batch of ten Wargames Atlantic goblins made it through the queue over the weekend. They had some stiff competition from a few mechs Wayne gifted me and a major move. The move was that of my mother. She's moved into a retirement facility. Independent living, but downsized, manageable and more social for sure! For us kids that involved sweaty manual labor, sorting through millions of documents to separate the wheat from the chaff, organizing and running a garage sale and trying to sell the house. The stars aligned and everything came together, including finding a buyer for the house during the garage sale. Booya indeed. Pending an inspection, we should close within a month.

On to those gobbos!

Ten more in that box... now, do I just get them done or paint something else as a distraction?