* The new 40k League is starting up this week, and they wanted to know if we were playing or not. I wanted to let them know I wasn't in an honest, complete, and respectfully direct way. It also serves as an explanation about my feelings about the Warhammer 40,000 game.
Hey fellas,
Katie and I talked, and we're out on the coming league.
As much as I enjoy the company of everyone, I'm not really much of a Warhammer 40,000 player.
I love 40k, as far as the setting, stories, minis etc go, but the game itself not so much.
I think this is largely due to my own expectations of the game, which are honestly unrealistic.
As a 40k (the setting) player, I like to play out what I've read in the novels, but honestly, the Warhammer 40,000 Miniatures game barely has any resemblance of what is written in the novels. Warhammer 40,000 is a game (meaning the competitive type, with a winner and loser) , and tactics in that game are what helps you win: accurate measurement, falling back a half-inch to deny a charge attempt, using a certain number (even/ odd) of models so the mathematical advantage of fire is greater, meat shields, the appropriate use of specialized gear to negate other special gear. Meh.
My experience in gaming is in RPGs for the most part. What is considered tactics in Warhammer 40,000 is considered meta-gaming in RP. So my expectations are all jacked up for playing the minis game. I tend to enjoy moving little dudes around, using cover, shooting at stuff, and killing bad guys...and really, that's as far in to Warhammer 40,000 (the minis game) tactics as I want to go. I'll never be competitive with guys who know how to use the rules better. I'll certainly never be among the GT players.
The problem is entirely mine.
If anyone wants an occasional goof-off game of 40k, and just have fun moving dudes around, I could go for that.
But a league? It's too competitive and I'm only an occasional player at best.
Sorry guys.
JP
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Work...
Huge interview on Friday.
Good job, heading up the IT department for Pizza Hut in southern Wisconsin.
Good schedule, good location, good pay. Easily fund a move to WA.
I REALLY want this one.
Good job, heading up the IT department for Pizza Hut in southern Wisconsin.
Good schedule, good location, good pay. Easily fund a move to WA.
I REALLY want this one.
Drama on the familial front...
My nephew is being shipped off shortly to live with his grandmother (my mother) in Idaho. Hopefully there he'll have a chance to relax, have a home and unwind. He's seriously wound up now with my sister/ his mother.
Ryan has special needs and Jen simply can't handle him.
A buddy of mine: Eric, is going to haul him and some of Mom's stuff to Idaho from Vancouver WA at the end of the month.
To be honest, the idea of moving back to WA/ OR is scary. I honestly don't know if I want to remove the 2000 mile barrier to the drama. Here we have friends and all that as well. WA is home, but it's also home to a lot of drama. It's a hard decision. My wife is scared to death of moving again, and I can't blame her.
Ryan has special needs and Jen simply can't handle him.
A buddy of mine: Eric, is going to haul him and some of Mom's stuff to Idaho from Vancouver WA at the end of the month.
To be honest, the idea of moving back to WA/ OR is scary. I honestly don't know if I want to remove the 2000 mile barrier to the drama. Here we have friends and all that as well. WA is home, but it's also home to a lot of drama. It's a hard decision. My wife is scared to death of moving again, and I can't blame her.
Friday, June 1, 2007
I highly reccomend anyone with an interest in what's actually going on in the military in Iraq to stop by and read Calm Before the Sand, the Blog of Milo Freeman, SPC USA. It's a heartfelt blog maintained by a soldier in Iraq and his spouse here in the states.
Milo speaks from the heart about his trials and tribulations in the desert. He's opposed regularly by right-wing hawks who actually would prefer his (and ours...those of us who left the military as non-war supporters) death so our lives would have had meaning instead of opposing the Great Patriotic War against the "Bad Guys" in the desert.
I hope he's able to keep speaking and doing what he's doing. He's a light in the darkness for many who would otherwise have no voice.
Milo speaks from the heart about his trials and tribulations in the desert. He's opposed regularly by right-wing hawks who actually would prefer his (and ours...those of us who left the military as non-war supporters) death so our lives would have had meaning instead of opposing the Great Patriotic War against the "Bad Guys" in the desert.
I hope he's able to keep speaking and doing what he's doing. He's a light in the darkness for many who would otherwise have no voice.
Updatey thing...
I've been remiss lately. Getting vehicles squared away, job hunting, etc.
Both vehix are operational again. This by the loosest definition of the word of course...but they do run.
I just started following the blog of SPC Milo Freeman. Good stuff.
My "last army buddy" was slated to go on terminal leave as of the middle of April, but a stop-loss came down days before his departure. Now he's roped in for a trip to NTC and a 3rd tour in Iraq. He's pissed. I'm pissed. He's a Staff Sergeant and has going on 11 years now. He's getting out before his green-card says "INDEF" for an ETS date. Once he's out I'm squaring him away with an LZ and a job to get him started on the civilian-side of life. I'm SO glad I got out.
Speaking of getting out, a week from today is my 8th Anniversary of my ETS. Can't believe it's been so long. 4 years as an Infantryman (aka: 11B20P or "Lawn-Mower-Man") was enough for me. Bosnia, Macedonia and Kosovo were enough of a "war" for me...and that was NOTHING in comparison to Iraq. I'm glad I'm done.
I hate the war in Iraq. I wasn't keen on the idea of Invasion in the first place, but since my friends were there, and it was to find WMDs and oust Saddam...I swallowed it and supported the boys. Now it's an occupation when we should have gotten the fuck out. I've lost 3 friends now including my old mentor, PLT SGT and BC 1SG Garza. Fucker died by falling out of a humvee when the driver swerved...getting mowed down by a truck. Poor bastard. You can't win an occupation, and the US Military is not a police force. Bush/Cheney are fucktards and our government is full of weak politicians who are out for themselves. It feels like the US is Rome circa 410 AD (look it up).
Both vehix are operational again. This by the loosest definition of the word of course...but they do run.
I just started following the blog of SPC Milo Freeman. Good stuff.
My "last army buddy" was slated to go on terminal leave as of the middle of April, but a stop-loss came down days before his departure. Now he's roped in for a trip to NTC and a 3rd tour in Iraq. He's pissed. I'm pissed. He's a Staff Sergeant and has going on 11 years now. He's getting out before his green-card says "INDEF" for an ETS date. Once he's out I'm squaring him away with an LZ and a job to get him started on the civilian-side of life. I'm SO glad I got out.
Speaking of getting out, a week from today is my 8th Anniversary of my ETS. Can't believe it's been so long. 4 years as an Infantryman (aka: 11B20P or "Lawn-Mower-Man") was enough for me. Bosnia, Macedonia and Kosovo were enough of a "war" for me...and that was NOTHING in comparison to Iraq. I'm glad I'm done.
I hate the war in Iraq. I wasn't keen on the idea of Invasion in the first place, but since my friends were there, and it was to find WMDs and oust Saddam...I swallowed it and supported the boys. Now it's an occupation when we should have gotten the fuck out. I've lost 3 friends now including my old mentor, PLT SGT and BC 1SG Garza. Fucker died by falling out of a humvee when the driver swerved...getting mowed down by a truck. Poor bastard. You can't win an occupation, and the US Military is not a police force. Bush/Cheney are fucktards and our government is full of weak politicians who are out for themselves. It feels like the US is Rome circa 410 AD (look it up).
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