If someone had told me a year ago we would be locked down and couldn't socialise or play our table top games I would have been ..... hold on, they pretty much did. This is bad.
What I find most depressing is just how much I thought I could get done on hobby projects ready for the great day when the clubs , hobby centres and stores reopened, compared to what I have actually achieved. I have only myself to blame. Painting had slowed to the point where I was basically doing the same thing day in and day out - and painting was not on the list. After an initial gush of enthusiasm, "now I will have time to get stuck in to that pile of shame", the realisation hit that I was not going to be going back to the gaming table soon, so why bother? So I went and watched Peaky Blinders instead*.
I'm happy to report this fugue is slowly lifting and I'm starting to paint up some Blood Red Skies models, and that is leading on to me picking up other "stuff" that is lying around. But it is clear with hindsight I miss my gaming. Not the physical dice rolling so much as the socialising and companionship it brings, and that the loss of something apparently so trivial has had a big impact on my mental state - this last year has been a bit of a challenge.
Anyway, hopefully now we are getting vaccinated there will be a return to gaming. Yup, let's hear it for gamers, the slow players, the obsessives, the "long inchers", the smug "oh my dice are hot tonighters", the casual cba to read the rules guys, the Grognards with the Lace Wars fetish and an army from a Dutchy in some Mid German region that only existed for seventeen months, the tournament players who insist that even though what they are proposing is clearly physically impossible they can do it because the rules dont specifically say you can't, the 40K players who don't look beyond GW, the "we play it this way" brigade, and Dave, who paints brilliantly but puts Afrika Korps markings on JagdPanthers. I can't say how much I'm looking forward to meeting up with you all again.
Cheers
*not just Peaky Blinders - why don't we have any PB style figures btw - seems a gap ??
The Pandemic basically sucks .. feel your pain "Keep Buggering On" as a certain gentleman of history once said.
ReplyDelete"Not the physical dice rolling so much as the socialising and companionship it brings, and that the loss of something apparently so trivial has had a big impact on my mental state - this last year has been a bit of a challenge"
I'll be there mate .. bring on those outlandishly large 28mm German Soldiers to the bloodied Streets of Stalingrad ..
Yeah .. party time is to come .. whatever party .. I don't care. It's a party!