More Content Coming Soon: What's Happening With Me

Life has been a little busy. I finished up one senior thesis, and am in the middle of the data regression for another capstone project, both of which have been keeping me fairly occupied. Now that things will be winding down in the next week, more content will be coming.

Bob's Converted Vendetta

I have gotten a few games in. First, I had a successful match up against Dark Eldar. I was able to use m speed to corner and demech an army that should have been able to explode outward and push me back. Bob, a former winner of TSHIFT and Astronomicon has been in my area recently, and I got a game in against his Black Legion with IG allies. He had not faced the new Tzeentch Daemons, so it was an uphill climb for him, but a ton of fun. If any of you are in the Spokane area, check out his store, “The Gamer’s Haven.” It sounds exactly like the kind of store that creates a great environment for us gamers. I also got in three league games. I took a hard loss to a Necron/CSM list, with two wraith squads walking through much of my army. I had a strong game against triple strike squad Grey Knights, and lastly I played against a seven flier Necron list. There will be a video battle report of this final game.

To be honest though I am not feeling that engaged by warhammer right now. Between real life concerns about life past next May, not having the capital to dive in fully to converting my Chaos, and playing a list that is not “underdog” I am not as devoted to my hobby as I was before. Even reading other blogs and listening to podcasts I am getting increasingly likely to skim rather than study it. This partly could be part of me maturing in this hobby. I have a greater calling to get my army looking good, rather than worrying about beating face all the time. This could be connecting to not needing  to prove myself to the community or as a Tyranid player, or the fact that I have not played in a 40K tournament for a while. I have not even been playing in list building programs or costing out potential armies to purchase (in the contrary I am doing inventory so that I can sell models). If slight hobby apathy was not enough, there is a new version of Total Extreme Wrestling (a pro wrestling business simulator) that was released. I don’t watch wrestling anymore, but I still play this game because it is so good. I have a feeling there will be many a hobby deadline in my future which is not made because of this game.

I enjoy hanging out with the guys, and look forward to when my schedule will be more accommodating toward RTT’s and painting, but am not feeling the same energy as I had this summer when I was playing in competitive events each weekend.