HMGS' Fall In 2023

 

        Fall In is over. Chicago Matt came in and stayed with us. We only tried to feed him peanuts like 6 times. Tom made it out. We all had dinner with him Thursday night. Tom has not been able to come for 5 years. Dad was still with us then. We would go to dinner the night before every Cold Wars and Fall In. Then straight to the bar to tell lies. Sad to think how much the event has changed and the mates that no long show up.

        The biggest and best Fall In in a long time. Numbers were good with above avg games on Thursday and Friday. The parking lot wasn't full on Saturday. You could find a spot with little to no effort. So HMGS is not back to the good old days yet. At least things are moving in the right direction, numbers wise.

        The HOST was the HOST. Bar service slow and they appeared not to care. The restaurant opened at 8?? There was no beer cart girl. The food was ok, service sucked. No one planned to staff the food locations. Beer was not served at the food locations throughout the day. Some rooms had no heat. The rest of the HOST was in good shape.

        I only bought 3 minis from the vendors. Then I bought everything from a dude selling Warmaster. He had two others pick thru all he had. One got the Dark Elves and another the Keslev. He wanted to unload and sort of knew what he had. I think I could have gotten all of it for 600. I paid 300 for a Chaos army, Elves, Dwarfs, large Undead, 800-1000 points of orks, and large Bretonnian army.

        He had Epic the next day. Mostly junk. Again people were cherry picking whatever they didn't have. The value was in the whole thing. Parted out into detachments I saw looking over a shoulder about 250-300.

        I got a free chessex case. Which was traded for beers.

        Peter Panzeri warrior, author ran Crazy Horse at the Rose Bud. It was easy to pick up and played fast. Crook and Crazy Horse always started with a 6 for command points. The command points also was their initiative number. The other command elements rolled a D6 for initiative. Then you worked your way down 6 to 1. If you had a 4 you were active 4 times rotating through the intitiative levels. I got Crazy Horse killed by Crook in turn 7.

        Pete agreed to lecture and run a game for the Little Big Horn Associates' 2024 conference in Gettysburg. Pete's new book will be out. Get yourself a signed copy. You must be a member to attend. Custer's approach to Gettysburg is the Thursday tour. Friday's tour is Custer chasing CSA after Gettysburg. Staurday is lecture day.

        One last minute drop put us at 13 players for Epic. A new guy found and joined the FB Epic Times. Jon took 1st with Necrons, Dave 2nd with Necrons, Coach had 3rd with Dark Eldar, Eric just cheated down to 4th with speed freaks. Eric play on the championship table.

        I took Traitor Guard. Friday night I got two pre tourney pick up games. I played Chicago Matt's Word bearers. Lost 2-0 TSNP and DTF. I played Shawn's knights. Lost 2-0 TSNP and DTF. Tourney day I sat round two. My kid was going to be the 14th player. Mom dropped her for playing on the phone in the middle of the night. Game one was against Chris' speed freaks. Lost 2-0 TSPN and DTF. 

        In round 3 I played, I can't remember. Won 2-0 TSNP and DTF. In that game I deployed everything I could as garrison. Almost the whole army.

        I gave up 2 points all tourney, got 2 points and took 12th place.

        The Vraks traitor guard list is a mess. The list and QRF is half done. Stuff is missing thru out. I am thinking of taking it over to finish it or pump in some favor.

        Sunday is a dead day at Fall In. Matt and I played Moderns. Cant remember the name of the rules. They are set up as a tourney rule set. You select core groups and upgrade them within a set number of points. Then roll for scenario. It is fast and easy to pick up.

2023

Bought = 321, 6 collections, 5 armies, 4 buildings

Sold = 142, 166 Detachments, 1 Army, 1 collection

Painted = 450

28mm = 75

20mm = 94

15mm = 0

10mm = 0

Epic = 227

Terrain bought = 163

Terrain painted = 59

Printed Terrain = 38

Printed = 30

Games

Games played = 30

Games hosted = 12

Books

Bought = 3

Read = 6

2022

Bought = 1289 + a collection + 3 Armies

Sold = 76, 14 Buildings, 22 detachments + 3 Armies + a game

Painted = 763