Playing solo ...

Despite the lockdown and the working-from-home regime, I didn't find much time to play some solo games, although I tried a few things.

First was a game using Victory - The Blocks of War, an older Columbia Blockgame. The picture below shows the starting position. I played a few turns, but somehow, it feels rather empty.

Then I tried a few turns of Ludus Gladiatorius, but the rock-papers-scissors aspect of that game made me quit after a few turns.

But I still have the plastic model of an old Colosseum set lying around (I had this since I was a kid, and always kept it). Perhaps I should give that a paintjob and try the game again?

Some new acquisitions

I've been working from home for the past 2 months. To break the monotony of endless Skype sessions, video-recordings of lectures, hammering out corona-policies for our Faculty, and constantly feeling like I'm between 3 anvils and 5 hammers, I need some escapist reading material.

So this arrived in the mailbox a few days ago.

Two new units

I finally managed to finish 2 units which have been sitting on my painting desk for quite some time.

The first is a unit of 4 flats, to be used in the 42mm imaginations setting.

The second is a unit of plastic beastmen from the old GW/MB Battlemasters game. I modified them by a few simple weapon swaps and adding a spear+banner using a decal that is from the same time as the figures, almost 30 years old by now ;-)