What are you looking for from your game?

Today on Intl' House of Paincakes there was a very interesting article about the search for the perfect game. It got me thinking about my choices in games recently. I myself have noticed that I am tending away from any 28mm game. Partly because of space but also partly because of the rules. I have a FOW Brit force that I have been thinking of doing up that I have about half the models for. About 10k worth of EA/netepic marines that need to be done up. Along with all my DW and FSA armada. Nevermind my upcoming 6mm BP Napoleonic prussian force.

I know for myself I am looking at a few key factors.
1. The ease in which I can learn the rules
2. scale of the models
3. Scale of the games I can play (ie how long and how big)
4. Cost of entry into the game

This has driven a lot of my choices in purchases over the last year. It is also why I have been slowly getting rid of a lot of 28mm stuff. Such as my massive IG foot army I sold a couple months ago. Which leads me to my perfect game.

1. an active community/ support from the company.
2. able to be played in any size/time so from half an hour to 3hours
3. Small scale 15mm or less.
4. ???

This is one of the reasons I love BP and Hail ceaser. I can play it in just about any scale. The community and warlord games itself has done a great job in finding ways to help eachother out. You also get this to a lesser extent in other games. The big one for me is also cost and space. A lot of the games I go for these days can be played on 4'x4' or less. Which is great when you live in Seoul Korea. Space is a premium here and even the only game store is tiny compared to the ones in the USA or Australia I have been to. In fact the gaming areas alone in those countries have often been bigger than the whole store here. Cost is always a big consideration. Most of my smaller scaled games I can have a two decent size forces for less than the cost of 1 normal size force of 28mm. One of the best examples of this is my prussians for BP which I will break down in a future post, either this week or next week.

So what is your perfect game?
Until then
Aruki

An interesting article

Today on one of my favorite blogs http://www.houseofpaincakes.com/ . They were talking about how with systems differentiate in the mentality of owning armies/factions. It is a great read and for myself very true. Living in South Korea you tend to see very few games. The most commonly played are usually 40k and fantasy, then either infinity or FOW. The honestly I have seen more FOW than infinity played. I know part of the reason is that here in South Korea miniature wargaming is still rather rare and the one store in South Korea carries a limited range of games, partly because of the size of the store I think. This is in no way a slam on this great store but it does limit the range of games people buy into. For example I only know of two epic players within an hour or so of me. Don't know of any FSA, DZC, DW and only one ACTASF player. So it can be a challenge to find opponents. But I have found that many people will try a new game if you have all the required models to play it. So next time you see a game you really want to play, I recommend taking the dive and getting two armies going or 1 larger one you can split equally.


That is all

Aruki

Some blogs I love

This post is as the tittle says. There are 3 particular blogs that I often frequent.

First, which is one I look at many times each day is Tabletop fix. I love this blog because it is always introducing new models and games to me but doing it in a way where I don't feel like they are trying to sell them to me. So check it out.
http://ttfix.blogspot.kr/


Next would be Tale of painters. This site I enjoy digging through for their tutorials and reviews. Never mind  the nicely painted models.
http://taleofpainters.blogspot.kr/




The story for Pirate viking painting is the same as the last one. Love the tutorials and the nicely painted models.
http://piratevikingpainting.blogspot.kr/

Finaly, is my most reason find by the chance of actually looking to see what some of my followers do or follow. Coloured Dust, here is once again a tutorial section I like that is well organized and lots of nice models to look at. I plan on trying some of the basing ideas from this website.
http://www.coloureddust.com.pl/

So check these blogs out, also drop me a line if you know any other good blogs. I am trying hard to find some good 6mm, 10mm and tutorial blogs.

Later today, my time, I will post a painting update.
Until then,
aruki