My 2023 in Review

[mikedemana]

I decided to do my "Year in Review" on my Lead Legionaries blog. Hope you can take a moment to check it out. I reduced to the three main threads of my painting, terrain building, and gaming.
http://leadlegionaries.blogspot.com/2023/12/year-in-review-three-threads-for-2023.html

Mike Demana

[Grumpy Gnome]

Brilliant blog post. A real joy to read a summary of your efforts this year. May 2024 bring even more gaming joy!

[syrinx0]

Looks like a good year for gaming as well as hobbying in general.  Nice writeup.

[Spinal Tap]

Great blog, looks like a productive year.

I really like the decoration on the Thracian clothing.

[mikedemana]

Thanks, everyone -- I appreciate it! When it comes to painting an army's worth of figures, I seem to always err on the side of "Who wears the fanciest clothes...?" 

I have had a productive winter break painting and modeling, but I think I will hold off and do one big update rather than "I painted these three figures" for my next Lead Legionaries post. I would love it if more LAF readers visited my blog more frequently... 

Mike Demana

[Burgundavia]

Great review. Wondering about your comments on scifi coop with SSZ - does your group not like coop or just not like SSZ?

[mikedemana]

Good question about Space Station Zero. It was my decision to not pursue it...after spending several months making terrain, boards, etc.! The guys were willing, but I wasn't sure it'd be a good fit. We tend to have 6+ gamers show on our Sunday evenings.

That said, one of the friends who'd gone out and purchased the rules when I was getting things ready for SSZ suggested playing this coming weekend. So, who knows? Maybe we will give it a go after all! With this many players, though, I think we're going to have to play competitive. I can't imagine a coop game with that many figures all falling over each other to kill the robots or shut off the poison gas. What do you think?

I would LIKE to do coop, but not sure how to handle it...unless I make the crew sizes really small.

Mike Demana

[Burgundavia]

Good question about Space Station Zero. It was my decision to not pursue it...after spending several months making terrain, boards, etc.! The guys were willing, but I wasn't sure it'd be a good fit. We tend to have 6+ gamers show on our Sunday evenings.

That said, one of the friends who'd gone out and purchased the rules when I was getting things ready for SSZ suggested playing this coming weekend. So, who knows? Maybe we will give it a go after all! With this many players, though, I think we're going to have to play competitive. I can't imagine a coop game with that many figures all falling over each other to kill the robots or shut off the poison gas. What do you think?

I would LIKE to do coop, but not sure how to handle it...unless I make the crew sizes really small.

Ahh, good to know. I am working on a sci-fi variant of the fantasy coop skirmish game Sellswords & Spellslingers, so am always curious about other people's opinion on coop